The study aimed at ameliorating the effect of challenging behaviours on children and families using the early impact (EI) programme: an intervention frame work that can be utilized by early childhood professionals, 40 pre-school children age 4-6 years were drawn from 5 pre-schools in Ado town...
The Impact of Environment on Children As far as a child’s growth is concerned, it would be out of the question to identify each and every influence that determines who a child becomes. Our concern is with some of the most critical factors such as genetic features, experiences, friends, fa...
If trauma has been inflicted on a child by their parent(s), their core belief system recognizes that a secure attachment style has not been formed and is deficient in protection, prompting emotional hesitation. A sense of safety and support is paramount in the early years to encourage a child...
A child who grows up in a cult learns to have no needs because she quickly learns that they do not matter. To survive in the cult and gain some crumbs of attention from her parents, she will have no choice but conform to the leader’s demands, try to fit in as much as possib...
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have been implicated in the aetiology of a range of health outcomes, including multimorbidity. In this systematic review and meta-analysis, we aimed to identify, synthesise, and quantify the current evidence linking A
regulation towards avoidant responses during approach-avoidance conflict situations. This adaptive regulation is believed to increase the likelihood of survival in adverse environments. However, it can also hinder exploratory behaviour making it difficult to identify sources of reward in new environments [...
Pitteuchar East Primary School in Glenrothes, Fife, tells the story of shifting its language, replacing the common phrase “challenging behaviour” with “distressed behaviour”. Children 1st tells the story of discovering just how many adults in its organisation had suffered childhood trauma, in th...
Evaluating decision-making during youth is a complex area of research. Multiple factors influence the young person’s subjective decision-making at this stage of development. Sub-optimal decision-making can have lifelong consequences. Longer adolescence,
The aims of this project are to (i) to identify the range of interventions for children on the Edge of Care or those in care aimed at either promoting or restoring family unity and improving child outcomes, (ii) investigate the cost-effectiveness of in...
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