He is also co-author of In Harm's Way: Toxic
Threats to Child Development, which discusses the impact of environmental exposures on neurological development in children, and Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging: With a Closer Look at Alzheimer» and Parkinson's Diseases.
Mercury: Coal plants are responsible for 42 percent of US mercury emissions, a toxic heavy metal that can damage the nervous, digestive, and immune systems, and is a serious
threat to the child development.
Not exact matches
In fact, a growing body of evidence suggests that one of the most serious
threats to a
child's healthy
development is neglect — the mere absence of responsiveness from a parent or caregiver.
And while
children are certainly affected by stressors outside the home, like neighborhood violence or abuse by a stranger, it is true that for a majority of
children, the most significant
threats to the
development of their stress - response system come from inside their home.
Growing up in poverty is one of the greatest
threats to healthy
child development.
The 8th week is too baseline period in
child development, therefore one needs
to strive
to protect the
child against any possible
threat.
''... not only is there a preponderance of evidence that there is no academic benefit from retention in its many forms, but there also appear
to be
threats to the social - emotional
development of the
child subjected
to such practices.»
The United States is failing
to seriously address lead poisoning in its low - income communities, a severe public health
threat touching more than 535,000
children a year, Housing and Urban
Development Secretary Julián Castro said Wednesday.
The United States is failing
to seriously address lead poisoning in its low - income communities, a severe public health
threat touching more than 535,000
children a year, Housing and Urban
Development Secretary Julián Castro said.
Iodine deficiency is also a major
threat to the health and mental
development, particularly of preschool
children and pregnant women.
Public shaming, berating, and
threats are harmful
to children's
development, and research tells us that they are ineffective.
Betancourt T.S., Zuilkowski S.S., Ravichandran A., Einhorn H., Arora N., Bhattacharya Chakravarty A., et al. (2015)
Development of the SAFE Checklist Tool for Assessing Site - Level
Threats to Child Protection: Use of Delphi Methods and Application
to Two Sites in India.
Better access
to quality health care can identify and arrest health problems — or prevent them altogether — before they become a
threat to children's
development.
The greatest
threats to young
children occur when key protective systems for human
development are harmed or disrupted.
Children in foster care, as a result of exposure
to risk factors such as poverty, maltreatment, and the foster care experience, face multiple
threats to their healthy
development, including poor physical health, attachment disorders, compromised brain functioning, inadequate social skills, and mental health difficulties.
As trusted authorities in
child health and
development, pediatric providers must now complement the early identification of developmental concerns with a greater focus on those interventions and community investments that reduce external
threats to healthy brain growth.
There also is sufficient research
to conclude that
child care does not pose a serious
threat to children's relationships with parents or
to children's emotional
development.1, 2,9 A recent study of preschool centres in England produced somewhat similar results:
children who started earlier had somewhat higher levels of anti-social or worried behaviour — an effect reduced but not eliminated by higher quality.17 In the same study, an earlier start in care was not found
to affect other social measures (independence and concentration, cooperation and conformity, and peer sociability), but was found
to improve cognitive
development.
It will require a deep investment in the
development, testing, continuous improvement, and broad replication of innovative models of cross-disciplinary policy and programmatic interventions that are guided by scientific knowledge and led by practitioners in the medical, educational, and social services worlds who are truly ready
to work together (and
to train the next generation of practitioners) in new ways.88, 89 The sheer number and complexity of underaddressed
threats to child health that are associated with toxic stress demands bold, creative leadership and the selection of strategic priorities for focused attention.
Dr. Redlener's talk will be followed by a panel discussion focusing on recent opportunities and
threats to providing high - quality health care
to young
children living in poverty and will address policy recommendations and legislative advocacy efforts that can be taken
to help ensure the healthy
development of young
children in poverty.
For example, an eight - year - old
child exposed
to a period of postnatal depression upon the birth of a new sister is less likely
to experience a
threat to her
development compared with an eight year old
child whose mother has had repeated hospitalisations due
to psychotic episodes resulting from schizophrenia.
Anxiety is an emotional disorder involving the experience of fear and danger that is either irrational and / or disproportionate
to the perceived
threat and has a negative impact on one or more areas of
children's normal functioning and / or psychosocial
development (e.g., Fonseca and Perrin, 2011).
[jounal] Dodge, K. / 1987 / Hostile attributional biases among aggressive boys are exacerbated under conditions of
threat to self /
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