Preschoolers’ Biological Response To Stress Can Be Altered By Early Family Intervention

Children with older delinquent siblings are at high risk for becoming juvenile delinquents themselves. Researchers have been studying family interventions that prevent young high-risk children from following in the footsteps of their older siblings. Now a new study shows that a non-medical early family intervention that improves caregiving also results in important changes in children’s biological response to stress. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Anxiety on October 5th, 2007