Sentences with phrase «as adolescents become»

As adolescents become more independent, conflicts often occur between parent and child, and commu..

Sorenson points out that, «As adolescents become more autonomous from their parents, their romantic relationships increasingly become a source of emotional support.»

«What's especially important is the finding that around 1.5 percent of boys aged 10 - 18 are on antipsychotics, and then this rate abruptly falls by half, as adolescents become young adults.»

Not exact matches

And in his book, Children of the Great Depression, Glen Elder wrote that adolescents who experienced hardship in the 1930s became especially adaptable, family - oriented adults; perhaps, as a result of this recession, today's adolescents will be pampered less and counted on for more, and will grow into adults who feel less entitled than recent generations.

A counselor who relates well to adolescents can often «get through to them» when parents can't, simply because adolescents need to fight their parents as part of the process of becoming free to grow up.

Novelist Mary Gordon, a perceptive interpreter of Catholic women's experience, affirms that Mary's submissive obedience has become «a stick to beat smart girls» («Coming to Terms with Mary,» Commonweal, January 15, 1982) Warner painfully recalls her own adolescent realization that the symbol of Mary as a model of chastity actually denigrates women and humanity, an understanding that transformed her perception of the church.

Hayat's enthusiastically developing faith soon becomes more complicated, however, when his boyhood crush morphs into a confused adolescent longing for his aunt and catechist, just as she becomes romantically involved with Nathan, a Jewish colleague of Hayat's father.

As often happens with youthful alcoholics, booze became the formaldehyde in which his adolescent hang - ups were preserved.

The result was a report titled «Teaching Adolescents to Become Learners,» published in June 2012, which for the first time represented noncognitive skills — or «noncognitive factors,» as the report called them — not as a set of discrete abilities that individual children might somehow master (or fail to master), but as a collection of mindsets and habits and attitudes that are highly dependent on the context in which children are learning.

Plus, every parenting book I read as my kids became adolescents themselves talked about the changing role of a parent — you become less of a manager and more of a consultant.

These adults should be aware that, as children become adolescents, they typically reduce their physical activity.

A place to build parenting skills that help parents to discipline kids from toddlers to teens as well as to encourage children and adolescents to feel positive about themselves and to become the winners they were meant to be.

While energy drinks have become extremely popular among adolescents and young adults in recent years, with many young athletes seeing them as a quick and easy way to maximize athletic performance, many groups, including the National Federation of High School Associations (NFHS), recommend against their use for re-hydration and warn that consumption may hurt not help athletic performance by causing side effects as bloating, abdominal cramping, diarrhea, light headedness, and impaired sleep.

We view it as a breaking away to become an independent adult, and although it often causes much strife when adolescents are more influenced by peers than by parents (rebellion, poor decisions, impulsivity), we rarely question the motivation for teens doing so.

As a parent, it's good to be aware that some intersex conditions could appear around the time your child becomes an adolescent.

As children grow older and become adolescents, they may start structured weight programs.

As your child becomes an adolescent he will have great difficulty establishing a sense of self because he will have no sense of his true history or heritage.

Over the years, I've had a chance to see how his parents handle situations with their adolescent and adult children, and listened to them talk about parenting issues, particularly as they've become grandparents.

Given the relatively young ages of children at follow - up assessment, longer term evaluations of these cohorts will be important to see if these findings remain as children enter the more behaviourally challenging late middle childhood and adolescent years when emotional and behavioural problems often become more pronounced.

The report highlights several areas where new findings from neuroscience are becoming misinterpreted by education, including brain - related ideas regarding early educational investment, adolescent brain development and learning disorders such as dyslexia and ADHD.

The number of adolescents who had problems related to marijuana — such as becoming dependent on the drug or having trouble in school and in relationships — declined by 24 percent from 2002 to 2013.

As an adolescent, I became involved in gang violence.

Conversely, adolescent mice with increased eIF2α activity in the brain became more resistant to the effects of cocaine, as seen in adults.

«On the immediate horizon is a look at the effects of some things that become more common during adolescent years as kids hit a high - risk time for substance and alcohol abuse and other problems that often co-exist with clinical depression.

While fewer than 1,000 teens have the surgery in the U.S. each year (versus 200,000 to 250,000 adults), it is becoming more common among adolescents as obesity rates continue to rise.

NOAH BAUMBACH: Well at different points in my life it's been different people and I — as an adolescent, I sort of had that experience in movies that Walt had with Pink Floyd, this kind of vicarious, sort of collaborative feeling in that listening or watching became sort of a work in progress: a journey you were taking along with an artist to create something new.

D.A.R.Y.L. is mostly recommended as an adolescent adventure, although it will entertain adults that are interested in 80s science fiction stories that have intriguing possibilities, even if they are never really explored sufficiently before becoming an action pic.

It was only as I matured and expanded my movie viewing beyond what my adolescent self, that I became aware of his immense talent.

Just when you think Red Dawn's plot is about as far - fetched as it can get, the movie becomes even more of an adolescent boy's fantasy by turning the six young men and a pair of new female additions (Lea Thompson, Jennifer Grey) into capable defenders of America.

A sparkling script and charismatic cast injects a new burst of life into a genre that's become pallid and toothless thanks to blood - sucking franchises and adolescent fantasies and, together with Neil Marshall's recent Byzantium, resurrects the vampire as an entirely adult anti-hero.

Research shows that obese children and adolescents are more likely to become obese adults and also develop various diseases such as type 2 diabetes, and a worrying 30 per cent of children in England are now classed as overweight or obese.

She added: «Ideally, building healthy and supportive teacher - student relationships would become part of the curriculum in teacher training and intervention programmes as a way of improving adolescent well - being.»

The ASD Nest Program high school model specifically helps adolescents and emerging adults with ASD learn how to function well academically, behaviorally and socially, and become ready to attain their full, unique potential as competent, independent and happy adults.

As an adolescent, I became interested in the field of psychology.

As they muddle through middle school and high school, Miles and Hector become an adolescent American variation on Holmes and Watson, with the help of a kind, handsome private eye, Ben Orion.

As an adolescent, your cat will likely become a precocious predator.

The importance of the come command can not be stressed enough, especially as your dog reaches his adolescent stage and the outside environment becomes more and more interesting.

Daily socialization to a wide variety of human infants, toddlers, preteens, adolescents, adults, as well as other dogs will ensure the development of a calm, confident dog unlikely to jump, bark, bite, spook or become aggressive around other dogs or people.

As an adolescent and a young adult, Marshall wandered the halls of Los Angeles museums and devoured books in his neighborhood library; through this education, he became acutely aware of the artistic language of the Dutch masters, the French Impressionists and the American Abstract Expressionists, but also the absolute absence of people of African descent in any of these works.

But what's worse I think than our being trapped in this adolescent species evolutionary level, is that we got here, to this point as thinking human beings standing upright (most of the time) via an evolutionary path that made it useful to have the brain keep getting bigger and bigger, and more wired and wired, and better wired and better wired, to the point where we humans became so smart that some of us, the brilliant ones, invented things like bows and arrows, carving tools... fast foward to... the model T, trains, planes, ships, nuclear weapons, air conditioners, windows!

• Discursive processes that transform Ashley Smith into a mental patient once she becomes recuperatively represented as a «good» girl raise serious questions about the statistical discrepancy between the putative criminal offending rates of adolescent girls and boys.

As a result, there is a risk that the adolescent may either withdraw into the family situation or become prematurely independent.

Adolescents and teens are particularly vulnerable to drug abuse and it's become evident that substance abuse counseling in schools is vital to protecting and educating this age group about the dangers of drugs and alcohol, as well as providing prevention and intervention services.

But in an opinion piece for the Courier Mail, Dr Rachael Sharman from the University of the Sunshine Coast worried that mental health might be becoming a fad, or something to be celebrated, in adolescents; writing that the programming by the ABC seemed to paint a picture of mental illness as a normal, temporary blip on the radar of successful individuals.

In sum, high - quality comprehensive sexuality education needs to be recognized as essential for the healthy development of adolescents and their transition to adulthood, and needs to become institutionalized within national systems of education if it is to be delivered at scale on a sustained basis.

We report on the development of the evidence base by examining the ACE survey scores in relationship to the established clinical measures of clinical severity, global function, and problem severity collected routinely for children and adolescents referred and accepted for treatment.29, 30 Systemwide implementation of the ACE survey, as a first step, positions CAAMHPP to become an evidence - based, trauma - informed service organization, because ACE survey scores necessarily must relate to clinical outcomes in order to evaluate the effect of trauma - focused interventions in clinical practice.

At a time when external systemic forces peer groups and mass culture are at least as powerful in defining the adolescent's world as the internal family system, the old primary family system, once figuring so dramatically in therapy, has become a shadow of its former self, often exerting less pull on the teen's heart, mind and hormones than the second family of the peer group.

Adolescents whose parents are not as overwhelmed by survival issues as Walter's mother may not become casualties of «the streets.»

Childhood - and adolescent - onset cases differed on temperament as early as age 3 years, but almost half of childhood - onset cases did not become seriously delinquent.

These behaviors can acquire special meaning for the children and adolescents who use them and, as a result, often become ritualized.