Sentences with phrase «adolescents about their relationships with»

Our results systematically showed that perceptions of adolescents about their relationships with parents and friends were positively associated at the age of 12 as well as at the age of 16.

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The interview format used by the Oliner team had over 450 items and consisted of six main parts: a) characteristics of the family household in which respondents lived in their early years, including relationships among family members; b) parental education, occupation, politics, and religiosity, as well as parental values, attitudes, and disciplinary approaches; c) respondent's childhood and adolescent years - education, religiosity, and friendship patterns, as well as self - described personality characteristics; d) the five - year period just prior to the war — marital status, occupation, work colleagues, politics, religiosity, sense of community, and psychological closeness to various groups of people; if married, similar questions were asked about the spouse; e) the immediate prewar and war years, including employment, attitudes toward Nazis, whether Jews lived in the neighborhood, and awareness of Nazi intentions toward Jews; all were asked to describe their wartime lives and activities, whom they helped, and organizations they belonged to; f) the years after the war, including the present — relations with children and personal and community — helping activities in the last year; this section included forty - two personality items comprising four psychological scales.

For six years, suspicions persisted about Kenneth Phillips» relationship with his adolescent students at Jupiter Middle School and his seeming infatuation with bare feet.

I am passionate about working with adults and adolescents struggling with relationships, ongoing emotional disturbance, feelings of depression and / or anxiety, trauma (past or present), and difficult life transitions.»

Anne Lamott's beliefs confirm what I have learned through my own work with adolescents: that teaching kids about anger management, relationships, and self - esteem do not have to be separate courses or programs delivered in little pieces apart from their real lives.

The transition to adolescence and the emergence of problem behavior The transition into adolescence has been defined by physical changes of puberty, school changes from an elementary to a middle or junior high school environment, cognitive changes with increased ability to understand cause and effect and think about the future, and changes in family relationships as adolescents seek more independence from parental supervision.

«If you are feeling depressed, lost or confused about your life, relationships, children or job, I have experience and a specialty working with couples, vocational choices, alcohol and substance abuse, adolescents, special needs and adoption.

The study confirmed the finding that the environment not shared by siblings was by far the largest (in many cases, the sole) nongenetic contributor to the adolescents» behavior and adjustment, but it eliminated all of the following as possible sources of nonshared environmental influence: «differential marital conflict about the adolescent versus the sib, differential parenting toward siblings, and asymmetrical relationships the sibs construct with each other» (Reiss, 2000, p. 407).

The aims of the study are 1) to investigate differences in the topographic distribution of white matter integrity between adolescents with IAD and healthy controls without IAD, making no a priori assumptions about the location of possible abnormalities, and 2) to determine whether there was any relationship between white matter integrity and neurophysiological measures in IAD subjects.

Grossman's current research focuses on adolescent sexual risk and prevention, evaluation of preventive programs, teens» communication with parents and extended family about sex and relationships, and how that communication influences teen sexual attitudes and behavior.

Parental separation may also expose children to loss of social, economic and human capital.4, 14 Other explanatory factors may derive from characteristics typical of separating parents such as lower relationship satisfaction and higher conflict levels also before the separation.4 The rising numbers of children with JPC have concerned child clinicians as well as researchers on the subject.20, 21 Child experts have worried about children's potential feelings of alienation from living in two separate worlds, 20 — 22 increased exposure to parental conflict12, 22 and other stressors that JPC may impose on a child.22 Such daily stressors may be long distances to school, friends and leisure activities, lack of stability in parenting and home environment and a need to adjust to the demands of two different family lives.12, 22 The logistics of travelling between their homes and keeping in contact with friends has been stated as a drawback of JPC in interview studies with children.23 — 25 Older adolescents, in particular, indicated that they preferred to be in one place.23

Many things can go wrong as adolescents, young adults and their families struggle with many issues related to this difficult transition including: separation and individuation issues, needs for closeness vs autonomy, attachment and relationship challenges, identity exploration, confusion about goals and direction and concerns about education and career.

Add Health includes an 11 - item parent connectedness scale (Sieving et al., 2001) for which adolescents reported on the quality of their relationships with their parents and the extent to which their parents care about and support them.