The development of effective treatments for use by non-specialists is listed among the top research priorities for improving the lives of people with mental illness worldwide. The purpose of this review is to appraise which interventions for children with intellectual disabilities or lower-functioning autism spectrum disorders delivered by ...
Date Posted: December 20, 2013
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders, Child Development, Intellectual Disability
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All parents want what's best for their children. But not every parent knows how to provide their child with the tools to be successful, or how to help them avoid the biggest adolescent behavior problems: substance use, delinquency, school dropout, ...
Dec 19
Categories: Child Development, Parenting
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Young people whose parents tend to fight with each other or are over involved in their kids' lives are at increased risk of depression and anxiety, according to a new comprehensive review of past studies.
Kids tend to first experience depression or ...
Dec 16
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development, Parenting
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Pregnant women with depression can pass the condition on to their unborn babies, research has found.
A combination of genetic and environmental factors can put children at an increased risk of anxiety and mood disorders.
This is due to changes in ...
Dec 16
Categories: Child Development, Depression, Pregnancy & Birthing
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Parental stress is linked to weight gain in children, according to a new study from St. Michael’s Hospital.
The study found that children whose parents have high levels of stress have a Body Mass Index, or BMI, about 2 per cent higher than those ...
Dec 13
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development, Parenting
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My husband and I are incredibly lucky to be able to give our son what he needs and often what he wants, and we are raising him in a wonderful town in which many families do the same. Yet he’s growing up in a bubble, and that terrifies me. If he ...
Dec 10
Categories: Child Development, Parenting
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Research from North Carolina State University shows that working a job that doesn’t keep 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. hours can hurt the relationships between parents and adolescents, increasing the likelihood that children will engage in delinquent ...
Dec 9
Categories: Child Development, Parenting
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Even with today’s technology, it still takes both a male and a female to make a baby. But is it important for both parents to raise that child? Many studies have outlined the value of a mother, but few have clearly defined the importance of a ...
Dec 6
Categories: Child Development, Parenting
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Children who experience profound neglect have been found to be more prone to a behavior known as "indiscriminate friendliness," characterized by an inappropriate willingness to approach adults, including strangers.
Dec 4
Categories: Child Development, Parenting
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A single dose of the hormone oxytocin, delivered via nasal spray, has been shown to enhance brain activity while processing social information in children with autism spectrum disorders, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in a new study ...
Dec 3
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders, Child Development
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Children should not be kept in orphanages as it compromises their mental health, says a counsellor and foster care specialist.
Mental health counsellor and foster care specialist Lari Baty Cannon said keeping children in orphanages affected their ...
Nov 29
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development
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Body odor conveys a wide variety of cues about gender, age, family, stress, and disease states. Body odors are also believed to direct mating and bonding between individuals. Now, a new study finds that newborn body odor may contribute to building ...
Nov 22
Categories: Child Development, Parenting
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Playing video games can improve mood, reduce stress levels and boost self-esteem in young people, a new study has found.
Researchers from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Australia also found that playing video games as a family ...
Nov 19
Categories: Child Development
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The US researchers found that children who drank more soda were more likely to be aggressive, to have attention problems, to get into fights and to destroy other people’s belongings.
Nov 15
Categories: Child Development
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Shifting the emphasis from gaze to hand, a study by Indiana University cognitive scientists provides compelling evidence for a new and possibly dominant way for social partners -- in this case, 1-year-olds and their parents -- to coordinate the ...
Nov 15
Categories: Child Development, Parenting
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A cognitive-behavioral intervention known as problem-solving education (PSE) may help reduce parental stress and depressive symptoms immediately after their child is diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), according to a study by Emily ...
Nov 15
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders, Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child ...
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