Not exact matches
The focus of the training, delivered
via professional - development workshops and phone - coaching sessions, was the personal interactions in the classroom between teachers and students; the coaches gave teachers strategies designed to help them build a «positive
emotional climate» and show «
sensitivity to student needs for autonomy.»
They compiled data on the home environment, like how early and how often parents read to their kids, and measured the mother's supportiveness and
sensitivity to their child's
emotional cues
via home video tapes.
However, only very few studies have documented the effect of maternal depression on children's ability to process
emotional expressions and even fewer incorporated measures of observed maternal
sensitivity to further tease apart whether it is the symptoms per se or the associated impact
via maternal
sensitivity that affects children's developing emotion - processing abilities.