Sentences with phrase «as substance use»

Most of these programs focus on combining positive youth development with the prevention of typical problem behaviors such as substance use, precocious intercourse and disruptive or delinquent behavior.

Some programs teach students to apply SEL skills to prevent the occurrence of specific problem behaviors, such as substance use, interpersonal violence, bullying, and school failure.

For example, access to services — such as substance use disorder treatment, mental health care, and parenting classes — necessary for child welfare practice is often more difficult in rural counties than in urban communities.

His primary research interests include the development and prevention of child antisocial behavior and related problem behaviors, such as substance use and abuse, academic failure, and high risking sexual behavior; Coercion Theory; the development of preventive interventions for incarcerated parents, their children, and the caregivers of their children; early childhood education and intervention; youth mentoring; preventive interventions for physical health problems; and the development and prevention of adjustment problems during adulthood, including substance abuse, intimate partner violence, and suicidality.

Group discussions aim to increase parents» understanding of their role in protecting their adolescent from risky behaviors, such as substance use and unsafe sexual behavior, and to facilitate parental investment in the adolescent's worlds.

Hence, apart from the two above associations which were somewhat stronger for females than for males, the paths to APP in young adulthood from disruptive behavior problems in early childhood and internalizing problems as well as substance use in adolescence were the same for boys and girls.

teach children to apply social and emotional skills to prevent specific problem behaviors such as substance use, violence, bullying, and school failure, and to promote positive behaviors in class, school, and community activities; and

The concept of resilience and closely related research regarding protective factors provides one avenue for addressing mental well - being that is suggested to have an impact on adolescent substance use.8 — 17 Resilience has been variably defined as the process of, capacity for, or outcome of successful adaptation in the context of risk or adversity.9, 10, 12, 13, 18 Despite this variability, it is generally agreed that a range of individual and environmental protective factors are thought to: contribute to an individual's resilience; be critical for positive youth development and protect adolescents from engaging in risk behaviours, such as substance use.19 — 22 Individual or internal resilience factors refer to the personal skills and traits of young people (including self - esteem, empathy and self - awareness).23 Environmental or external resilience factors refer to the positive influences within a young person's social environment (including connectedness to family, school and community).23 Various studies have separately reported such factors to be negatively associated with adolescent use of different types of substances, 12, 16, 24 — 36 for example, higher self - esteem16, 29, 32, 35 is associated with lower likelihood of tobacco and alcohol use.

Professor Prinz argues that the parenting - focused aspects of child maltreatment prevention can extend beyond the original goal, including the prevention of childhood social, emotional, and behavioural problems; the reduction of risk for adverse adolescent outcomes (such as substance use, delinquency and academic failure); and parental engagement for school readiness.

First, many of these instruments applied vastly different conceptual approaches based on addictions, such as substance use or gambling, or other cognitive, behavioral, or impulse - control models.

There are global (broadband) scales that may screen for several conditions, and there are domain - specific (single - condition) tools are most useful for screening for a specific problem, such as substance use or adolescent depression and suicidality.32

I have also worked with children and adolescents with depression, anxiety, as well as substance use in the past.

I am also licensed as a Substance Use Disorder Program through the Iowa Department of Public Health.

However, readers should note that primary insomnia with no comorbid conditions, such as substance use or personality disorders, is relatively rare.

She provides individual, couples and family therapy for children, adolescents and adults as well as substance use and abuse assessments and treatment.

Occurs on its own, rather than as part of the course of another mental health problem, such as a substance use disorder, depression or bipolar disorder

The model, the researchers said, was particularly adept at «predicting life outcomes such as substance use, political attitudes and physical health.»

Cases are assessed with consideration of an individual's unique life circumstances and related underlying concerns such as substance use disorders, mental health issues, unemployment, homelessness and other variables related to poverty.

Social psychologists focus on societal concerns that have a powerful influence on individual wellbeing as well as the health of society as a whole, including problems such as substance use, crime, prejudice, domestic abuse, public health, bullying, and aggression.

Katie Lee Salis, PhD, is a clinical fellow who has extensive training in the treatment of mood and anxiety disorders (such as depression, OCD, and social anxiety) as well as substance use disorders in adults and adolescents.

Writing in a linked Comment, Alyssa Rheingold from the Medical University of South Carolina in the USA says, «Research suggests that risk factors among patient victims such as substance use, low socioeconomic status, type of psychopathology, and engagement in behaviours that increase risk could be targeted.

Patients are eligible if they are enrolled in Medicaid and have two or more chronic conditions such as substance use disorder, asthma, diabetes or one single chronic condition of either HIV / AIDS, serious mental illness or serious emotional disturbance or complex trauma.

These agencies offer a vast array of services to adults and children in our community with mental health conditions as well as substance use disorders.

Adolescents with divorced parents are more likely to engage in risky behavior, such as substance use and early sexual activity.

Her study of 39 such fathers offers insights around the young fathers» feelings about separation from their children, and around other issues such as substance use and violence.

Not exact matches

Investigators believed the company's reviews over whether to supply customers more controlled substances were not meaningful and were used as a sales tool; customers were granted threshold increases for reasons, like the 4th of July, or the closure of an area pharmacy years earlier, that the government considered less than compelling.

As a result, the number of people who say they have used heroin in the past year jumped by more than 50 percent between 2002 to 2011, according the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

Soon after he started developing and marketing a product known as a «derma - filler,» made from naturally occurring substances in the human body, cosmetic surgeons use it to eliminate facial wrinkles, Khoshbin began receiving unsolicited orders from all over the world.

Hence companies using EAPs, which are dedicated to personal problems such as financial issues and substance abuse.

This Boston - based company, started by a team of MIT scientists and launched out of Y Combinator, has developed a technology that uses yeast as a base to make all kinds of substances, including perfumes, cosmetics and sweeteners, from microbugs.

The program will be offered to patients with chronic conditions such as type 2 diabetes, heart and gastrointestinal disease, depression, eating disorders and substance use disorders.

During the former Heisman Trophy winner's 11 season career, he received quite a bit of criticism, both for his unapologetic marijuana use (which resulted in multiple suspensions for violating the NFL's substance abuse policy) and for his demeanor, which was described as «aloof» and even «weird.»

The bot's mechanical arm is fitted with nozzles that can spit out any number of substances used in building construction, such as concrete or insulation.

Words such as «will,» «access,» «focus,» «deliver,» «work» «continue» or the negative of such terms or other variations thereof and words and terms of similar substance used in connection with any discussion of future plans, actions, or events identify forward - looking statements.

At the federal level, marijuana remains classified as a Schedule I substance under the Controlled Substances Act, where Schedule I substances are considered to have a high potential for dependency and no accepted medical use, making distribution of marijuana a federaSubstances Act, where Schedule I substances are considered to have a high potential for dependency and no accepted medical use, making distribution of marijuana a federasubstances are considered to have a high potential for dependency and no accepted medical use, making distribution of marijuana a federal offense.

As the government moves toward legalization, it also faces the enormous challenge of combatting the widely held mistaken belief that marijuana is harmless, according to a number of medical organizations and substance use experts.

Accompanying such developments as we have noted in the substance of Biblical prayers, an even more profound change was in process: praying, employed at first as a means of persuading a god to do man's will, grew to be used as a means of releasing through man whatever was God's will.

Gender differences make an enormous difference in the reasons and substances individuals determine to use as well as the outcomes.

The benefit of this arrangement is particularly evident in the Lochner exchange: Arkes brilliantly defends this misunderstood case, but for all the skill of his revisionist argument, he is, as Donald Drakeman convincingly contends, unable to distinguish the interpretive approach of Lochner» using the due process clause to invalidate a statute because of disagreement with its substance» from Roe, which Arkes has rejected elsewhere.

Dewey calls this value «quality,» but by the term he means neither mathematical nor secondary qualities; he uses the term to refer, first, to the wholeness or deeper reality, in some aspect of the world, often as that wholeness is presented in a work of art. 24 If this were called the objective locus of quality, the subjective locus would be the emotional intuition of the objective quality; this subjective quality gives the experience itself the unity which makes it that particular experience.25 It is this empirical discernment of quality which provides the substance of the derivative and propositional resolution of the conflict between the individual and its environment.

I do nor think there is any compelling reason for the word «substance» to be used in this context, and do not myself find it wholly appropriate, in that Bergion would have been more likely to call it an energeia as opposed to an ousia, a view which resonates deeply with Ernst Cassirer's critique of substance which was being written at nearly the same time.

Both Sartre and Merleau - Ponty build on Bergsonian along with Husserlian foundations and succeed in answering, to a significant degree the questions surrounding this first concern.77 The second aspect is the metaphysical issue of the concrete relation of the vital and the inert (or being and non-being, if you prefer a traditional vocabulary), including the role of consciousness treated as «a substance spread out through the universe,» to use Merleau - Ponty's description of Bergson.78 In the first aspect we ask what consciousness does and what it experiences or «knows» as a result, while in the second we ask about the relationship between what consciousness is (in relationship to everything else that is) and what that has to do with what it does.79

The models often used to describe this have been unsatisfactory, to be sure: talk of «substance» has led to much confusion and misunderstanding, as has talk of the union of wills or the association of divine / human consciousnesses.

So bountiful hath been the earth and so securely have we drawn from it our substance, that we have taken it all for granted as if it were only a gift, and with little care or conscious thought of the consequences of our [ab] use of it; nor have we very much considered the essential relation that we bear to it as living parts in the vast creation.159

At no point are they sickness» [«substance addiction begins as the sin of drinking or using drugs, progresses to the greater sin of excessive use (abuse), and ends as a sinful habit» — a view Clinebell attributes to rescue missions].

It is not merely to be used for the actualization of certain accidental perfections which serve as ornament for human nature; it is for the constitution of the very substance, the very meaning of man.

Actually, that's not true, salt like all other compounds under goes changes as it is used and reacts and is combined with other chemicals and substances in mixtures.

This term, which is commonly translated as «emptiness,» is used to express a condition in which there is no ontological substance in the process of becoming, and no reality independent of a language system.

Yes, baptism and communion can resemble magic rites, almost as if we wear certain articles of clothing, use certain substances, say certain words and so on, something magic will happen.

«Substance» is often used as the equivalent of «nature», yet substance denotes what remains the same in accidental change, e.g., although a man changes in size, weight, position, age, etc., he remains substantially the Substance» is often used as the equivalent of «nature», yet substance denotes what remains the same in accidental change, e.g., although a man changes in size, weight, position, age, etc., he remains substantially the substance denotes what remains the same in accidental change, e.g., although a man changes in size, weight, position, age, etc., he remains substantially the same man.