Sentences with phrase «thus improving their behaviour»

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Thus, although improving the economic status of families promotes more positive outcomes for children's cognitive development and academic achievement, direct services and therapeutic interventions may be a comparatively more promising alternative for improving children's psychosocial development and reducing behaviour problems.

Thus, although improving the economic status of families promotes more positive outcomes for children's cognitive development and academic achievement, direct services and therapeutic interventions may be a comparatively more promising alternative for improving children's psychosocial development and reducing behaviour problems.

Attempts at improving caregiver sensitivity have been largely through targeting caregiver representations and / or caregiver behaviour during interactions with their children.5 However, while caregiver sensitivity is linked to the organized types of attachment (secure, avoidant, resistant), it may not be as robustly linked to disorganized attachment.6 Thus, attachment - based interventions that target child - caregiver interactions to date may not have focused on the most clinically significant caregiver behaviours to prevent or reduce disorganized attachment.

Thus, given current knowledge, one could argue that an attachment - based intervention that targets caregiver behaviour should focus both on improving caregiver sensitivity (to promote secure attachment and the associated positive socio - emotional outcomes) and on reducing and / or eliminating atypical caregiver behaviours, a known precursor of disorganized attachment7 (to prevent or reduce disorganized attachment and associated negative outcomes).