Sentences with phrase «as an adolescent from»

He was rescued as an adolescent from a rural shelter that was being closed down, and all the dogs were at risk of being euthanized.

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The decree also calls for research into all the potential health benefits of marijuana, as well as programs that prevent children and adolescents from having access to marijuana and programs for those who develop addictions.

To date, results from several longitudinal studies indicate that e-cigarette use among nonsmoking youth increases the likelihood of future use of conventional cigarettes.5 — 10 Specifically, the pooled odds ratio (OR) in a recent meta - analysis of studies of adolescents and young adults (aged 14 — 30) indicates that those who had ever used e-cigarettes were 3.62 times more likely to report using cigarettes at follow - up compared with those who had not used e - cigarettes.11 This finding was robust and remained significant when adjusting for known risk factors associated with cigarette smoking, including demographic, psychosocial, and behavioral variables such as cigarette susceptibility.

Smith and Denton have an urgent message: stop defining adolescence as «a social problem» and adolescents as «alien creatures, strange and menacing beings, perhaps even monsters driven by raging hormones, visiting us from another planet.»

From the statistics, and after analysis from the American Linacre Centre, Lawler reports that: «Faced with that statistic, some analysts began to say that what had been seen as a crisis of paedophilia was really a matter of ephebophilia», a term meaning the sexual attraction of men towards adolescent bFrom the statistics, and after analysis from the American Linacre Centre, Lawler reports that: «Faced with that statistic, some analysts began to say that what had been seen as a crisis of paedophilia was really a matter of ephebophilia», a term meaning the sexual attraction of men towards adolescent bfrom the American Linacre Centre, Lawler reports that: «Faced with that statistic, some analysts began to say that what had been seen as a crisis of paedophilia was really a matter of ephebophilia», a term meaning the sexual attraction of men towards adolescent boys.

(18) Our Adolescent's inner Parents are different from those of our Child simply because our parents responded differently to us as teen - agers than they did to us as children.

The concern for wholeness arises from his situation as an orphan, an agnostic adolescent, and a functionally stateless adult.

Implementation and feedback from the Stanford Survey of Adolescent School Experiences to serve as an initial needs assessment and benchmark of the change process.

Perhaps I should also explain that as a psychologist, I see far too many clients (children, adolescents, and adults) who came from pretty good homes (and some who didn't) who suffer from a range of anxiety related or depression related issues.

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.

As a former child and adolescent therapist, I have heard these quotes about spanking from parents so many times before.

Having a Strong Community Protects Adolescents from Risky Health Behaviors Children who grow up in poverty have health problems as adults.

The adolescent transition period from childhood to adulthood is one marked with independence, individual thinking, motivation for peer acceptance and having the capacity to make more important decisions - such as wanting to eat less animal foods and follow a vegetarian diet.

Children are as well somewhat more likely than adolescents to suffer from physical symptoms (e.g., stomach aches and headaches), hallucinations, agitation, and extreme fears.

As our baby develops through the various stages, from birth to baby stage, toddler to preschool, school age, puberty and through the adolescent development stages, the child's developmental milestones are marked and usually celebrated.

A study of Spanish adolescents found that kids from permissive homes were as well - behaved and well - adjusted as were kids from authoritative homes.

The Adolescent Development Lab at UCLA exists to generate knowledge about the development about youth from diverse ethnic and immigrant backgrounds, and to understand the interaction between social and biological development as it relates to behavior.

According to Dr. Ginsburg, a well - known physician of adolescent medicine, professor and author, parents should be lighthouses for their children, visible from the shoreline as a stable light or beacon.

A recently published report from the Committee on Nutrition and the Council on Sports Medicine and Fitness recommended that children avoid sports and energy drinks during meals, snacks, and as a replacement for low - fat milk or water because they increase the risk for overweight or obesity in children and adolescents (12).

The psychosocial outcome receiving the most attention from researchers is problem behaviour, with most studies finding perceived negative reactivity in infancy to predict problem behaviour in childhood33, 34 and adolescent.35 Specifically, infants prone to high levels of fear, frustration, and sadness, as well as difficulty recovering from such distress, were found to be at increased risk for internalizing and externalizing problem behaviours according to parental and / or teacher report.

Boys whose fathers engaged in physical play but without excessive direction were rated as more popular by their teachers.48 Effects of fathers may vary across children's ages, with fathers of adolescent sons frequently playing important roles in those son's transitions, as seen among Arnhem land Australian aborigines.49 Among the Aka hunter - gatherers of Central African Republic, males of varying ages report that they predominantly learned subsistence and social behavioural norms from their fathers.50

A variety of studies suggest that fathers» engagement positively impacts their children's social competence, 27 children's later IQ28 and other learning outcomes.29 The effects of fathers on children can include later - life educational, social and family outcomes.1, 2,26 Children may develop working models of appropriate paternal behaviour based on early childhood cues such as father presence, 30,31 in turn shaping their own later partnering and parenting dynamics, such as more risky adolescent sexual behaviour32 and earlier marriage.33 Paternal engagement decreases boys» negative social behaviour (e.g., delinquency) and girls» psychological problems in early adulthood.34 Fathers» financial support, apart from engagement, can also influence children's cognitive development.35

The Department of Pediatric Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (also known as Physiatry) at Floating Hospital for Children treats children and adolescents with neurological, neuromuscular and musculoskeletal disorders and injuries, from mild to severe, to improve their function so they can enjoy fulfilling lives.

When researchers questioned 231 young adolescents about their cultural values and experiences with peers, they found that kids from authoritarian homes were more likely to have experienced bullying — both as victims and perpetrators (Georgiou et al 2013).

Approximately 175000 cancer cases are diagnosed annually in children younger than age 15 years worldwide, 1 with an annual increase of around 0.9 % in incidence rate in the developed world, only partly explained by improved diagnosis and reporting.1, 2 Childhood cancer is rare and its survival rate has increased significantly over the years owing to advancement in treatment technologies; however, it is still a leading cause of death among children and adolescents in developed countries, ranking second among children aged 1 to 14 years in the United States, surpassed only by accidents.1, 3 Childhood cancer is also emerging as a major cause of death in the last few years in Asia, Central and South America, Northwest Africa, and the Middle East, where death rates from preventable communicable diseases are declining.2

The paper «Identifying Best - Practice for Increasing Breastfeeding Initiation Rates Among Adolescent Mothers» was a group effort, and as such the inspiration stemmed in part from the combination of interests and experiences of the four authors: Eliana Roshel, Sarika Downing, Maria Mendez and me.

The clean and durable design provides for years of use as a child grows from the toddler years into pre-school and beyond to their early adolescent years.

Do No Harm, published more than four decades on from that outpouring of adolescent angst, is his account of a medical career which has seen Marsh recognised as one of the country's most accomplished brain surgeons.

As New York enters a «golden age of yogurt» — Greek yogurt, to be exact — the dairy treat is evolving from its adolescent infatuation with sugar - laden fruit flavors to a perhaps more mature phase that skews toward savory and Middle Eastern flavors.

The document describes the reform as part of a «comprehensive plan» concerning its treatment of adolescents (16 - and 17 - year - olds) that includes «intermediate consequences for misbehavior, and steps designed to pre-empt incidents from occurring.»

What's more, a 2015 study in the Journal of Adolescent Health found that transgender youth are two to three times as likely as their peers to suffer from depression and anxiety disorders, or to attempt suicide or harm themselves.

«Finally, as they strive to separate from their parents, the peer group takes on enormous significance; early adolescents are very invested in «being popular,» desperately wanting to fit in and be admired by their peers.

Analyzing data from 6.9 million adolescents and adults from all over the country, Twenge found that Americans now report more psychosomatic symptoms of depression, such as trouble sleeping and trouble concentrating, than their counterparts in the 1980s.

Lead author Ramesh Raghavan, PhD, associate professor at the Brown School and of psychiatry at the School of Medicine, examined Medicaid records from 36 states for 1,921 children in the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well - Being, whom caseworkers had identified as having been maltreated, and who had received Medicaid - funded services.

Researchers from Warwick Medical School found that adolescent cannabis use is an independent risk factor for future hypomania — periods of elated mood, over-active and excited behaviour, and reduced need for sleep that are often experienced as part of bipolar disorder, and have a significant impact on day - to - day life.

Researchers found that adolescents aged 11 to 17 spent over an hour less each day on average in their neighborhoods if residents there were very fearful, compared to kids from areas perceived as being safer.

Newly released findings from Bradley Hospital published in the Journal of Sleep Research have found that acute illnesses, such as colds, flu, and gastroenteritis were more common among healthy adolescents who got less sleep at night.

As a follow - up to this study, our current grant from the NCI supports testing a tablet - based self - persuasion intervention to address the needs of different subpopulations at Parkland — adolescent girls and boys, Hispanics, and African - Americans,» said Dr. Tiro.

Published in the October Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, this is the first large - scale, multi-site study aimed at identifying specific social - communicative behaviors that distinguish infants with ASD from their typically and atypically developing high - risk peers as early as 18 months of age.

As a research partner of an $ 11.7 million Autism Center of Excellence (ACE) grant from the National Institutes of Health to the George Washington University Autism and Neurodevelopment Disorders Institute, the Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders at Children's National will continue investigations into sex differences, and aims to develop self - reporting measures for adolescents and adults that better capture additional populations — including females and non-cisgender males.

Their guidelines for gender appropriateness are found in a set of Adolescent Insider Masculinity norms that describe masculinity as the ideal that men are cool, heterosexual and tough, shy away from «sissy stuff» and embrace activities, behavior and mannerisms that are typical of «guys.»

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.

«While we found adolescent exercise to be associated with lowered risk of death from cancer and cardiovascular disease as adults, some associations were attenuated after adjusting for adult factors that may influence mortality later in life, such as exercise, diet, body mass index [BMI], socioeconomic status, and a history of chronic diseases.

Researchers from the University of Missouri have conducted the first study analyzing the perspectives of adolescents with autism to identify challenges as they «age out» of services.

After analyzing the medical records of more than 1,000 women who gave birth between the ages of 15 and 24, investigators from the University of Michigan conclude that physicians caring for adolescent women should use BMI before pregnancy as a strong predictor of whether a young mother will gain too much weight during pregnancy, a risk factor for later obesity.

Women who participated in exercise as adolescents had a reduced risk of death from cancer and all causes in their middle and older ages, a new study shows.

«We know from a previous study based on OSDUHS data that as many as 20 per cent of adolescents in Ontario said they have experienced a traumatic brain injury in their lifetime,» said Dr. Robert Mann, senior scientist at CAMH and director of the OSDUHS.

After adjusting for socioeconomic factors in adult life, women who participated in team sports as adolescents had a 14 percent lowered risk for death from cancer, and a 10 percent lowered risk for death from all causes.

In data collected from a cohort study, they assessed whether certain adolescent sexual behaviors linked with unintended consequences such as adolescent pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections [STI] are associated with gambling behaviors.