Sentences with phrase «adolescent children alone»

However, Lord Sumption and Lady Hale in Re LC (Children) also said that the question of a child's state of mind can not be confined to adolescent children alone.

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Other possible symptoms of depression in children and adolescents include difficulty with peer relationships, such as an inability to get along with friends; separation anxiety manifested as school avoidance or school phobia; and changes in home relationships and interactions, such as losing interest in family conversations, and a desire to be alone most of the time.

It is difficult to determine exactly what proportion of those losses are due to maternal malnutrition, but recent research indicates that 60 percent of deaths of children under age 5 are associated with malnutrition — and children's malnutrition is strongly correlated with mothers» poor nutritional status.17 Problems related to anemia, for example, including cognitive impairment in children and low productivity in adults, cost US$ 5 billion a year in South Asia alone.18 Illness associated with nutrient deficiencies have significantly reduced the productivity of women in less developed countries.19 A recent report from Asia shows that malnutrition reduces human productivity by 10 percent to 15 percent and gross domestic product by 5 percent to 10 percent.20 By improving the nutrition of adolescent girls and women, nations can reduce health care costs, increase intellectual capacity, and improve adult productivity.21

I applaud her efforts to address the social challenges that youth face because of their weight, such as teasing and bullying, and to provide support to children and adolescents who often face these battles alone.»

If you are looking at the adolescent in your home and wondering what happened to the affectionate child they used to be, you're not alone.

For the first time the efficacy, acceptability, tolerability and suicide - related outcomes of pharmacological and psychological interventions, alone or in combination for depressive disorder in children and adolescents will be comprehensively assessed in a NMA.

The protective presence of family is similarly noted by Arroyo and Eth (1996) who found that children and adolescents remaining in nuclear families were less likely to receive a psychiatric diagnosis than those who lived alone or were fostered.

Drawing similar conclusions, Arroyo and Eth (1996) found that those children and adolescents in nuclear families were less likely to receive psychiatric diagnoses than those who lived alone or were fostered.

To determine whether the addition of a parental monitoring intervention (Informed Parents and Children Together [ImPACT]-RRB- alone or with «boosters» could enhance (either broaden or sustain or both) the effect of a small group, face - to - face adolescent risk reduction intervention Focus on Kids (FOK).

We see children and adolescents alone to help them with emotional disorders, behavior problems, and life skills.

[21] Research on the children of depressed mothers indicates that having a father who is also depressed is associated with worse outcomes for children and adolescents than those accompanying maternal depression alone.

For children and adolescents with co-occurring sadness and oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), 46 % had ideation and 21 % had attempts (vs. 6 and 2 % for ADHD alone).

Studies of family intervention include those in which the intervention targeted family members, primarily parents, and did not focus on outcomes in children, adolescents, or parents alone.