Mental health professionals can broaden their interventions that aim to improve
adolescent psychological functioning by either focusing on the quality of the parent - adolescent relationship or adolescent self - esteem.
Not exact matches
He is contracted with Five Acres and conducts
psychological assessment of children and
adolescents to determine mental,
psychological, academic, and neurocognitive
functioning, and provides recommendations to the caregivers, Five Acres clinicians, and the school system to better help and treat the client.
Financial resources, parent
psychological functioning, parent co-caregiving, and early
adolescent competence in rural two - parent African - American families.
He is particularly interested in the effect of stress on immune
function in children and
adolescents with chronic medical conditions such as asthma and inflammatory bowel disease, and in the effectiveness of multidisciplinary family therapy on the
psychological and health outcomes of children and
adolescents with functional pain complaints.
I am skilled at
psychological assessment as well, and I am able to provide comprehensive evaluations for children and
adolescents, measuring intellectual, behavioral, emotional, and personality
functioning.
The impact of severe congenital heart disease on physical and
psychological functioning in
adolescents
The socioemotional
functioning of children living in poor families seems to be mediated by the
psychological functioning of parents and the level of distress in family interaction patterns.23 Maternal rejection of early
adolescents is closely correlated to the occupational status of the family.24
Complex interactions among biological (neurodevelopment, genetic vulnerability),
psychological (trauma, mental illness, learning disability) and social (family and peer dynamics) domains are seen as contributing to
adolescents» impaired
functioning, substance use and failure to advance developmentally.
It has been suggested however that the level of mindfulness moderates
psychological functioning in
adolescents (Marks et al. 2010).
Simon Brett looks at a recent study in
Psychological Medicine which suggests that
adolescent friendships predict later resilient
functioning across psychosocial domains in a healthy community cohort, whereas family support does not predict later resilience.
Headache and
psychological functioning in children and
adolescents.
Anxiety disorders are among the most common mental disorders during childhood and adolescence, with a prevalence of 3 — 5 % in school - age children (6 — 12 years) and 10 — 19 % in
adolescents (13 — 18 years); 1, 2 and the prevalence of anxiety disorders in this population tends to increase over time.3 Anxiety is the most common
psychological symptom reported by children and
adolescents; however, presentation varies with age as younger patients often report undifferentiated anxiety symptoms, for example, muscle tension, headache, stomachache or angry outbursts.4 According to the standard diagnostic systems, there are various types of anxiety disorders, for example, generalised anxiety disorder (GAD), social phobias (SOP), social anxiety disorder (SAD), panic disorder (PD), overanxious disorder, separation anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), obsessive - compulsive disorder (OCD).5 Anxiety disorders in children and
adolescents often occur with a number of comorbidities, such as autism spectrum disorders, 6 depressive disorders, 7 conduct disorder, 8 substance abuse9 or suicide - related behaviour.10 Youths with anxiety disorders experience serious impairment in social
functioning (eg, poor school achievement; relational problems with family members and peers).11, 12 Childhood and
adolescent anxiety disorders can persist despite treatment, 1 and they are associated with later adult psychopathology.13, 14
«I specialize in
Psychological Testing with children,
adolescents and adults to evaluate Cognitive, Adaptive, Behavior and Personality
functioning.
We examined the impact of maternal depression and parenting behaviors on
adolescents»
psychological functioning in Romania.
Adolescents»
psychological functioning at school and in sports The role of future time perspective and situation - specific self - determined motivation.