Children
Thursday, December 04, 2008
Financial Concerns Top List of Holiday Stressors for Women, Families With Children
As reports about the extent of the recession in the United States are released this week, a new poll from the American Psychological Association (APA) finds that more than eight out of 10 anticipate a stressful holiday season and that the economic crisis is impacting women and families most.
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Saturday, July 05, 2008
Stress During Childhood Increases Risk Of Allergies
Moving house or the separation of parents can significantly increase the risk of children developing allergies later on.
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Family Stress And Child’s Temper Extremes Contribute To Anxiety And Depression In Children
Small children who grow up in a family where the mother has psychological distress, the family is exposed to stress or is lacking social support, are at higher risk of developing anxious and depressive symptoms in early adolescence. Girls are more vulnerable than boys, and very timid or short-tempered children are more vulnerable than others to develop emotional problems.
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Looking Inside Kids’ Minds Can Open the Future
Two million American children have been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. It’s so common now that one child in a classroom of 25 or 30 will have the disorder. But parents often struggle a long time to figure out exactly what’s going on in their child’s head. Dr. Fernando Miranda, a neurologist at the Bright Minds Institute in San Francisco, says diagnosing children with behavioral disorders like ADHD and autism without looking at their brains is like trying to diagnose heart problems without actually looking at the heart.
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Spillover Effects Of Family And School Stress Linger In Adolescents’ Daily Lives
Teenagers today face increasing pressures and demands from school and home. New research has found that stress at home affects adolescents’ school life, and vice versa. What’s more, that stress lasts for two days and affects academic performance across the high school years.
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Low cortisol levels found in kids whose mothers show signs of depression
A new study of young children living in extreme poverty found that those whose mothers showed symptoms of depression had low levels of cortisol, a hormone activated during times of stress, compared with children whose mothers did not exhibit depressive symptoms.
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Mother’s Prenatal Stress Predisposes Their Babies To Asthma And Allergy, Study Shows
Women who are stressed during pregnancy may pass some of that frazzlement to their fetuses in the form of increased sensitivity to allergen exposure and possibly future asthma risk.
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Monday, March 24, 2008
Stressed Parents Equals Sick Kids
Stressed parents aren’t just damaging their own health - they may also be making their children more vulnerable to illness.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
How to help kids keep test anxiety in check
You can’t dismiss the fear of test-taking, says Dr. Robert Rees, director of education and humanities for HeartMath, a nonprofit institute that has developed a program to help people manage test and other anxiety. “Test anxiety is an almost universal experience,” Rees says. Even students who are well-prepared, he says, sometimes “have so much anxiety that they can’t function cognitively.”
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Friday, February 22, 2008
Family context influences stress hormone
Continuous production of the stress hormone cortisol is affected by growing up in difficult situations, a study in Canada found. The study, published in the Archives of General Psychiatry, found 40 percent of differences in cortisol production were genetically determined, but growing up in difficult family circumstances overrode this genetic effect.
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Monday, February 18, 2008
Study shows stress affects brain growth
Children who suffer deprivation in early life show altered patterns of brain growth by the time they are teenagers, according to research that documents for the first time measurable physical effects of poor parenting and unstimulating home lives.
Saturday, February 02, 2008
Happy in care: it’s in the hormones
Children from loving homes are stressed when placed in poor quality child-care centres, new scientific evidence reveals. But children from disadvantaged families are better off in child care even if the quality is substandard. The Australian study measured the levels of cortisol - a hormone produced in response to stress - in 156 children attending 16 centres.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Mothers’ stress may increase children’s asthma
Children whose mothers are chronically stressed during their early years have a higher asthma rate than their peers, regardless of their income, gender or other known asthma risk factors.
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Sunday, January 13, 2008
Study links preschool teachers’ stress to student expulsions
Preschool teachers who are highly stressed because of classroom conditions, depression or other factors are far more likely than their colleagues to recommend expulsion for children with behavioral problems, according to a study released Thursday.
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
For women, marital distress means less relief from stress
That’s the suggestion from a new UCLA study that tracked levels of cortisol, a key stress hormone, among 30 Los Angeles married couples involved in one of our age’s trickiest juggling acts — raising kids when both parents work full time.
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