A preschool enrichment program that helps boost social and emotional skills pays off during middle and high school, according to a new study.
Researchers find that students attending Head Start preschools that implemented the Research-based, Developmentally Informed (REDI) program were less likely to experience behavioral problems, trouble with peers, and emotional symptoms like feeling anxious or depressed by the time they reached seventh and ninth grade.
Karen Bierman, a psychology professor at Penn State, says she was encouraged that the students were still showing benefits from the program years later.
“The program had an effect on internal benefits, including better emotion management and emotional well-being, as well as external benefits, such as reduced conduct problems,” Bierman says. “So not only did the program result in fewer distressed adolescents, but it also resulted in less distress for their teachers and peers, as well. It’s an important finding to know we
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Children struggle to discern emotions for mask-wearing faces, though masks are unlikely to dramatically impair their everyday interactions.
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Article Title: Children s emotion inferences from masked faces: Implications for social interactions during COVID-19
Funding: SDP was supported by the National Institute of Mental Health (R01 MH61285) and a core grant to the Waisman Center from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (U54 HD090256). ALR was supported by an Emotion Research Training Grant (T32 MH018931) from the National Institute of Mental Health. Funders did not play any role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
NICH executive director requests Rangers picket
Move came while doctors and others staff at the NICH continued to protest
National Institute of Child Health executive director Professor Jamal Raza requested the Sindh Rangers director general on Tuesday to set up a picket on the hospital premises.
The move came while doctors and others staff at the NICH continued to protest for the second consecutive day the assault they had been subjected to by the family of an infant girl who died at the health facility.
With respect to the protesting doctors’ demand of hiring the services of a new security company for the hospital, Prof Raza said the facility had signed a contract with a new security company and the number of guards at the hospital had also been increased.
Researchers included 127 pregnant women who were admitted to Boston hospitals during the spring in the study. The researchers looked at levels of the coronavirus in respiratory, blood and placental tissue samples and the formation of maternal antibodies and how well those antibodies traveled through the placenta to the fetus.
Of the 64 who tested positive, 23 of the women were asymptomatic, 22 had mild disease, seven had moderate disease, 10 had severe disease while two of them had critical disease. The study included 63 pregnant women who tested negative and 11 women with COVID-19 who were not pregnant for comparison.
Detectable virus loads were found in respiratory fluids such as saliva in the pregnant women who were positive for SARS-CoV-2, but no virus was found in the bloodstream or the placenta, according to the National Institutes of Health, which funded the study.