Sentences with phrase «because early adolescents»

Indeed, because early adolescents with depressive symptoms are at great risk for developing major depressive disorder, the identification of elements that can be used in preventing depressive symptoms is an important goal.

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Hence, we need to pay attention to meal timing, and to start at an early age because children and adolescents who skip meals have a higher risk of developing health issues, including higher BMI, more belly fat, higher serum insulin and blood glucose.

Bullying occurs more often in the middle school and early teen years because kids are transitioning from being a child to an adolescent.

«It would be worthwhile to examine these relationships among older adolescents and young adults with food allergy who are at the peak of risk for depression onset, especially because early anxiety is associated with increased risk for subsequent onset of depression,» said Jonathan Feldman, PhD, professor of Psychology at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University.

Because intervening early may help prevent or treat depression, «obtaining the family history of depression in children and adolescents beyond two generations is now clearly important,» Fornari believes.

Adolescent users should avoid nicotine because it hampers growth of the prefrontal cortex in those under 25 and use of the drug early on increases risk of cognitive impairment later in life.

My earliest and most enduring research efforts have revolved around improving the social side of schools — perhaps because, during my days as a social studies teacher, I was so much more interested in the adolescents I taught than the content that I taught them.

The role of early television viewing is particularly provocative because of the emphasis in the existing literature on television viewing among older children, such as 9 - year - olds or adolescents.

Prenatal home visiting programs such as the NFP or the doula ¶ are also particularly appealing, both because they reach at - risk families as early as possible and because they intervene at the same time on children and adolescent mothers by affecting those traits still amenable to change during adolescence.36

Rates of adolescent depression appear to be rising1, 2 with the 1 - year prevalence suggested to be between 2 — 4 %.3, 4 Early treatment is important because adolescent depression has high levels of future morbidity including further emotional disorders, suicidality, physical health problems, substance misuse and problems in social functioning.4, 5

Despite the evidence base for the effectiveness of CBT for adolescent depression, 10, 14, 15 adolescents often avoid face - to - face therapy because of stigma.16 Given their affinity with computers, treatment accessibility may be improved by the availability of computer - administered CBT (CCBT) which could be provided at an earlier stage of illness, 17 particularly for those with a high degree of familiarity with technology.18 CCBT represents an autonomous form of therapy delivery with the potential to provide a realistic alternative, or potentially preventative, intervention.

The intervention sought to reduce specific empirically identified risk factors for adolescent health and behavior problems: persistent physically aggressive behavior in the early elementary school grades,9 - 11 academic failure, 12 and poor family management practices including unclear rules, poor monitoring of behavior, and inconsistent or harsh discipline.13, 14 Because being raised in poverty increases risk for crime, school failure, and school dropout,15 - 17 effects of the intervention on children from low - income families were of particular interest.

«Early childhood mental health is almost surprisingly important in the early years, because it's a foundation for so much of what constitutes emotional health and social wellbeing thereafter,» says Dr Nick Kowalenko, Consultant Infant, Child and Adolescent PsychiatEarly childhood mental health is almost surprisingly important in the early years, because it's a foundation for so much of what constitutes emotional health and social wellbeing thereafter,» says Dr Nick Kowalenko, Consultant Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychiatearly years, because it's a foundation for so much of what constitutes emotional health and social wellbeing thereafter,» says Dr Nick Kowalenko, Consultant Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist.

Anxiety, disruptive, eating, mood, and substance use disorders were assessed during adolescence and early adulthood using the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children.36 The parent and offspring versions of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children were administered during the adolescent interviews because the use of multiple informants increases the reliability and validity of psychiatric diagnoses among adolescents.37, 38 Symptoms were considered present if reported by either informant.

Yes, peers are important, but parental influence is seen as primary because early experiences with parents supposedly influence later relationships with peers (Sroufe, Egeland, & Carlson, 1999; Vandell, 2000, pp. 703, 705), and the right sort of parenting can supposedly keep an adolescent from joining the wrong sort of peer group (Lykken, 1997; Steinberg, 1997).

She has served as a senior member of the Preventive Intervention Project research team at Judge Baker Children's Center, which compares two family - based prevention programs for early adolescents at risk for depression because they have a parent with a depressive disorder.

These outcomes were chosen because of their relevance for a child's development and functioning in the school period and because they have all been found in earlier studies to be predictive of adolescent and adult functioning and adjustment [5, 6].

Because adverse childhood experiences are common and strongly associated with smoking initiation, preventing their occurrence56 and early identification and treatment of children exposed to them may reduce smoking initiation among adolescents.

An early study in this area found that loneliness was associated with greater sleep problems in early and middle adolescents but not in later adolescents (Mahon 1994), perhaps because of the increasing prioritization of friends as sources of peer support in early / mid-adolescence (Helsen et al. 2000).