The construct of this inquiry had been drawn from the lensing developmental progression children in College Human Ecology Nursery Development Center. This work sought at presenting an index showing how perform basic tasks expected them terms motor, self-care, and play skills using development checklist. Results showed that majority were observed to have performed milestones despite absence cert...

There is considerable evidence that psychosocial treatments benefit younger adults with schizophrenia. However, no studies have been undertaken of such interventions for older patients with schizophrenia. This report describes the development of a novel integrated treatment combining cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and social skills training (SST). This intervention is designed to address th...

EDRS Price MF -$025 HC -$055 Descriptors -Caucasian Students, *Childhood Attitudes, Early Experience, Emotional Development, N..egro Students:Perceptual Motor Learning, *Personality Studies, *Reading Rea&ness, Socioeconomic Status Identifiers -Childrens Self Social Constructs Test, Metropolitan Readiness Test The relationships between noncognitive factors and reading readiness in elementary sch...

Fine motor skills are very important for children’s overall functioning. Their development is necessary for many everyday activities such as dressing, feeding, holding objects, etc. Moreover, fine motor skills are also correlated to the childrens’ academic success at school. Recent research suggests a close relationship between motor skills and intelligence. Given the relative paucity of litera...

The present study investigated the associations between social skills, friendship quality, and happiness, and tested a mediational model positing that friendship quality would mediate the relationship between social skills and happiness among American and Malaysian college students. Although American students reported significantly higher levels of psychosocial well-being than Malaysian student...

A striking relationship between visual spatial perspective taking (VSPT) and social skills has been demonstrated for perspective-taking tasks in which the target of the imagined or inferred perspective is a potential agent, suggesting that the presence of a potential agent may create a social context for the seemingly spatial task of imagining a novel visual perspective. In a series of studies,...

BACKGROUND Individual Social Skills Training (ISST) is a short term, individually delivered intervention (8-10 sessions) that promotes social skills in children with emerging or existing conduct problems. This study examined the effectiveness of ISST immediately and 6 months after the termination of the intervention. METHODS The participants were 198 children (3-12 years) who were randomly as...

mental health plays an important role in ensuring the dynamism and efficiency of every community. since human resources have crucial role in the cultural, social and economical developments of communities, students also are the brilliant segments of society and creators of future of each country therefore, assessing of their mental health is of utmost importance. the aim of the present study is...

INTRODUCTION One major goal of developmental neuroimaging is to identify the functional and structural biomarkers that are predictive of development of cognitive skills, such as executive functioning and general intelligence. Univariate analysis has revealed early insights into the nature of childrens’ intellectual abilities and its relation to neuroanatomical between-subject variations (Shaw e...