"Adolescent girls" refers to young females who are in the stage between childhood and adulthood, typically between the ages of 10 to 19.
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A pilot study of attachment style and emotional experience
in adolescent girls with loss of control eating.
Other recent work has also focused on the development of intervention models
for adolescent girls in the juvenile justice and child welfare systems.
Seeking Safety therapy for
adolescent girls with PTSD and substance use disorder: A randomized controlled trial.
These findings suggest that clinicians should particularly focus on mood symptoms in
adolescent girls who present physical aggressive behaviors.
Negative cognitive style in the interpersonal domain was positively related to depressive symptoms in both girls and boys, except in early
adolescent girls reporting few stressors.
Prior to beginning my graduate studies, I provided direct care and supervision for troubled
adolescent girls at a therapeutic boarding school.
Further research is needed to determine how families can support physical activity among
older adolescent girls.
They also concluded that 33 % of
adolescent girls whose parents divorced became teen mothers, compared to 11 % of girls from continuously married families.
They are investing time and resources to accelerate the participating ventures to better serve and deliver to
adolescent girls living in poverty.
Furthermore, only a very small minority of female gamers played violent games, and even if
adolescent girls played violent games, they spent much less time on them than boys did.
Is it the societal expectations for
young adolescent girls or the way in which young girls are socialized that places them at risk for interpersonal stressors?
This group is specifically designed to
support adolescent girls ages 13 to 18 in successfully navigating common stressors and developmental issues.
Like a
dreamy adolescent girl who has already chosen the colours for her wedding, I knew what I wanted and figured it really had nothing to do with the man in question.
One recent longitudinal study examining the relationship between family support and physical activity among
adolescent girls confirms this positive relationship [13].
Pregnancy is a leading cause of death for
adolescent girls worldwide — nearly 70,000 die every year from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth.
Regarding within - person differences, using active coping more than usual was associated with higher waking cortisol the following morning, which may help to
prepare adolescent girls for perceived daily demands.
Thus the thoughts that follow are largely informed by my 20 - odd years of experience
treating adolescent girls and their families.
She has also worked within a residential treatment center, providing counseling services to
adolescent girls who had been victims of abuse or neglect.
They also concluded that 33 %
of adolescent girls whose parents divorced became teen mothers, compared to 11 % of girls from continuously married families.
Several smaller projects have been developed from the primary studies, including the development and implementation of an eating attitudes intervention program (Able To Eat) for
early adolescent girls.
The rates and patterns of eating problems in this sample confirm that eating problems pose a serious health problem
for adolescent girls, many of whom are still growing.
The donor organization is pushing # 14 million into addressing gender - based violence especially
on adolescent girls in Ghana.
Future preventive interventions for adolescent dating violence victimization should target deviant peer groups, as well
as adolescent girls who display a risky lifestyle.
Annie Silverstein and Andrea Arnold both earned attention at the Cannes Film Festival for these coming - of - age stories
about adolescent girls growing up in tough economic circumstances and learning to confront the sexual power wielded by men.
Comparison of eating attitudes
between adolescent girls with and without Asperger syndrome: Daughters» and mothers» reports.
In line with previous findings, the vast majority of
adolescent girls showed neither signs of excessive nor pathological gaming (e.g., Griffiths et al. 2004).
This programme initiated by the Ghana Health Service will be run in phases with the first phase targeting about 360,000 in -
school adolescent girls and close to 600,000 out of schoolgirls in four regions.
Nandalike K, Agarwal C, Strauss T, Coupey SM, Isasi CR, Sin S, Arens R. Sleep and cardiometabolic function in
obese adolescent girls with polycystic ovary syndrome.
Meanwhile asthma, hay fever or eczema in mid adolescence associated with greater internalizing problems in
late adolescent girls only [7].
The supportive, encouraging nature of the Techbridge program serves as a much - needed antidote to the pressure many
adolescent girls feel to «be cool,» which can often mean anything but excelling at science and technology.