Sentences with phrase «early adolescent development»

Regular Papers (RP): Original research and theoretical papers from around the world that present the latest findings and insights on early adolescent development (30 - 35 pages).

This course is recommended for health care professionals, especially psychologists, counselors, social workers, and nurses who seek knowledge about early adolescent development and ways to assist parents in raising their young teen.

The authors discuss ways teachers could work more effectively with parents to facilitate healthy early adolescent development.

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ADHD affects not only early childhood development but adolescent development too.

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

Primary care physicians are critical in identifying children and adolescents who have thyroid disorders and early identification and treatment helps to optimize growth and development.

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.

«Although teen dating violence is typically viewed as a problem related specifically to adolescent development, our findings indicate that the risk for aggressive behavior and involvement in dating violence are related to stressors experienced much earlier in life,» says Jennifer A. Livingston, PhD, senior research scientist at RIA and lead author of the study.

For adolescents with a history of early and prolonged adversity from peers, programs should be implemented that bolster the development of adaptive stress responses, the authors suggest.

«Although teen dating violence is typically viewed as a problem related specifically to adolescent development, our findings indicate that the risk for aggressive behavior and involvement in dating violence are related to stressors experienced much earlier in life,» said study author Jennifer Livingston.

Keiffer, who won the Spencer Dissertation Fellowship last year, also received an 2010 Exemplary Dissertation Award for his dissertation, The Development of Morphological Awareness and Vocabulary Knowledge in Adolescent Language Minority Learners and Their Classmates, which examines two specific English skills considered to be important in LM learners» language development during early adolescence - morphological awareness (i.e., understanding of complex words as combinations of meaningful units) and vocabulary knowledge (i.e., knowledge of wordDevelopment of Morphological Awareness and Vocabulary Knowledge in Adolescent Language Minority Learners and Their Classmates, which examines two specific English skills considered to be important in LM learners» language development during early adolescence - morphological awareness (i.e., understanding of complex words as combinations of meaningful units) and vocabulary knowledge (i.e., knowledge of worddevelopment during early adolescence - morphological awareness (i.e., understanding of complex words as combinations of meaningful units) and vocabulary knowledge (i.e., knowledge of word meanings).

85, Ed.D.» 89, is on a multicountry life - cycle journey using her engagements with early childhood education, health and nutrition, adolescent development, and media sectors to educate and communicate for development.

«One of our key hypotheses is that early in high school, when students are developmentally younger, we might see more peer socialization as the driving force behind adolescents» ethnic - racial identity development, but then as students get older, we may see more selection processes, with students being more likely to befriend those who are more similar to them with respect to their sense of ethnic - racial identity,» said Umaña - Taylor.

Participants in this two - day on - campus program will work with renowned thought leaders, including Laurie M. Brotman, Bezos Family Foundation Professor of Early Childhood Development, Department of Population Health, and Professor, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, NYU School of Medicine; Lyrica Fils - Aime, Community School Director of Children's Aid and Director of Clinical Services and Training at OmPlay; Carla Shalaby, Postdoctoral Fellow with TeachingWorks at the University of Michigan and author of Troublemakers; and Amanda Williford, Research Associate Professor at the University of Virginia, and one of the creators of the innovative Banking Time program.

Middle school educators stress development of school environments in which early adolescents can belong to a nurturing group and have consistent access to adults who know and care about them (George & Shewey, 1994).

Both groups also understand that there is great variability in the academic, social, emotional, and physical development of the early adolescent group.

Suggests that early childhood development focus on play, elementary school gear the curriculum toward learning how the world works, middle schools create programs that develop the young adolescent's social, emotional, and meta - cognitive growth, and high schools emphasize preparing students to live independently in the real world.

ASCD releases its first professional development video, Designing a Middle School for Early Adolescents.

If you have taken special courses such as Adolescent Psychology or Early Childhood Development note them.

Among the limits of the present study, it is possible to point out the necessity: 1) to replicate this investigation with a large number of Italian healthy adolescents for the representativeness of the sample; 2) to adopt the double analysis both for positive and negative affect, considering that literature review seems to indicate these two aspects as separate but equally important variables; and, finally, 3) to carry out a longitudinal study, from early adolescence to young adulthood, in order to emphasize the change in these aspects of youth development.

* Indicates the revised version of the scale with modified number of items (see Footnote ii); EATQ - R, Early Adolescent Temperament Questionnaire — Revised; FTI, Feeling and Thinking Index; HKS / MDI, Healthy Kids Scale / Middle Years Development Index; MSLSS, Multidimensional Students» Life Satisfaction Scale; QSL, Quality of School Life; PDSS, Pediatric Daytime Sleepiness Scale; PLEQ - C, Psychotic - Like Experiences Questionnaire for Children; SDQ, Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire.

We have also found, as we chart girls» development across the adolescent decade, that girls with early problems often develop full - blown disorders; these are the girls who might benefit most from early detection and intervention.

Intervention with Adolescent Mother — Child Dyads and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood: a Meta - Analysis.

Effect of adolescent substance use and antisocial behavior on the development of early adulthood depression.

Adolescence is a critical period for the development of depression with prevalence rates rising sharply from childhood to early adulthood.1 Many adult depressive disorders have their first onset in adolescence2 with longer episode duration being the strongest predictor of future problems.3 In addition to increasing the risk of later mental health problems, adolescent depression is associated with significant educational and social impairment and is a major risk factor for suicide.1 Providing effective early interventions to shorten the duration of episodes and potentially reduce the impact on later life is therefore important.3 This study explores this question and compares the effects of...

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The primary studies conducted under the aegis of the Adolescent Study Program include the Cross-Sectional Adolescent Girls» Study, the Early Adolescence Study, the Late Adolescence Study, the Mother — Daughter Interactions Study, the Bone Density Study, and the Girls» Health and Development Project.

Houck has been principal or co-investigator of many research studies, including several focusing on affect management for early adolescents and the development and evaluation of risk prevention interventions for at - risk early adolescents.

This is where the pressure begins for girls and by early adolescence (from 10 - 11) the unique brain changes that are a normal part of adolescent development can create havoc with how girls see themselves.

Before joining MDRC, Sengal led qualitative and quantitative data collection for the National Science Foundation - funded Early Adolescent Cohort project at the Center for Research on Culture, Development and Education in New York University's Steinhardt School.

Scholars at the Wellesley Centers for Women have conducted research studies and evaluations on issues related to child and adolescent development, including issues around race, ethnicity, immigrant status, and identity; the effects of early child care; the value of physical activity; preventing depression; examining unique family dynamics; and exploring sexuality and evaluating sex - education programming.

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The Positive Youth Development Program was combined with an earlier version (called the Yale — New Haven Social Problem Solving Program) to create a broader program called the Social Competence Promotion Program for Young Adolescents (Greenberg, Domitrovich, and Bumbarger 2001; Weissberg, Barton, and Shriver 1997).

Development during the prenatal period, infancy and childhood is known to influence lifelong health, 1 — 4 and the link between early - life health and adult outcomes is strong and economically meaningful.5 Promotion of optimal child development and well - being comprises early detection and treatment of whole families, and it can potentially prevent the development of behavioural and emotional problems in children and adDevelopment during the prenatal period, infancy and childhood is known to influence lifelong health, 1 — 4 and the link between early - life health and adult outcomes is strong and economically meaningful.5 Promotion of optimal child development and well - being comprises early detection and treatment of whole families, and it can potentially prevent the development of behavioural and emotional problems in children and addevelopment and well - being comprises early detection and treatment of whole families, and it can potentially prevent the development of behavioural and emotional problems in children and addevelopment of behavioural and emotional problems in children and adolescents.6

Adolescence is an important decade in a child's development, marking the period of transition from childhood to adulthood.7 Adolescents are a particularly vulnerable group, experiencing a third of all new HIV infections worldwide, 8 high levels of violence, lower school attendance and enrolment than primary schoolchildren, early marriage and higher levels9 of sexual abuse victimisation.10 Furthermore, adolescence is a time where the intergenerational transmission of poverty, violence victimisation and perpetration, gender inequalities and educational disadvantage manifest themselves.9

Assessment of Mindful Parenting among Parents of Early Adolescents: Development and Validation of the Interpersonal Mindfulness in Parenting Scale [PhD thesis]

Home visiting, evidence - based parenting programmes and multicomponent interventions have been shown to be effective in other parts of the world.45 Given the wide number of contexts in which abuse occurs, these services should be integrated with education, family health services such as maternal health, early childhood development, immunisations and adolescent health services as suggested by a recent Child Maltreatment Readiness Assessment in South Africa.46

The association between early pubertal timing and internalizing symptoms among girls has gained substantial support in the adolescent development literature.

Abbreviations CP: Conduct problems; Conduct Disorder (CD); SDQ: Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire; DAWBA: Development and Well Being Assessment; EOP: Early - Onset Persistent; AO: Adolescent - Onset; AL: Adolescence - Limited; CL: Childhood - Limited; ASB: Antisocial Behaviour; CBCL: Child Behaviour Checklist

Given those developments and the findings concerning the link between depressive symptoms and self - efficacy, this study was to our knowledge, the first to investigate the mutual influence between depressive symptoms and academic, social and emotional self - efficacy in a large adolescent sample, spanning 2.5 years over a period of early to mid adolescence.

The award is intended to recognize an early career psychologist who has established a program of empirical research that has had a major impact on the field «s understanding of psychopathology, prevention, assessment, treatment, or public policy relative to child and adolescent development or mental health.

Understanding adolescents, particularly immature ones, often necessitates a deep understanding and appreciation of the impact of early childhood on development.

Affiliations: [a] Centre for Social and Early Emotional Development, School of Psychology, Deakin University, Victoria, Australia [b] Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Parkville, VIC, Australia [c] Social Development Research Group, School of Social Work, University of Washington, WA, USA

Your Adolescent: Emotional, Behavioral, and Cognitive Development from Early Adolescence Through the Teen Years David Pruitt, M.D. and AACAP

For over 30 years, The Journal of Early Adolescence (JEA) has provided researchers and practitioners in developmental psychology, educational psychology, human development and family studies, psychiatry, public health, social work, and sociology with the latest work concerning original theoretical work, empirical research as well as science - based practices regarding the early adolescent developmental period (10 through 14 years of Early Adolescence (JEA) has provided researchers and practitioners in developmental psychology, educational psychology, human development and family studies, psychiatry, public health, social work, and sociology with the latest work concerning original theoretical work, empirical research as well as science - based practices regarding the early adolescent developmental period (10 through 14 years of early adolescent developmental period (10 through 14 years of age).

Dr. Clark developed the widely used Parent - Child Early Relational Assessment (PCERA), and the Mother - Infant Therapy Group Approach for Postpartum Depression (M - ITG), was a major contributor to the Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Development Disorders of infancy and Early Childhood (DC: 0 - 3) and to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Practice Parameters for the Psychiatric Assessment Infants and Toddlers.

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 results of this project may aid in the identification of the maltreated adolescents most likely to engage in early - onset alcohol use and the development of more effective preventive intervention services to reduce early - onset alcohol use in maltreated adolescents.

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].

Parenting interventions that are delivered during this developmental period are necessary in order to capture the groups of youth and families (i) currently experiencing problems, but who did not receive an intervention during early childhood; (ii) those who received an intervention in early childhood, but who continue to experience problems and (iii) those who are not currently experiencing problems, but are at risk for developing problems later in adulthood.7 In Steinberg's 2001 presidential address to the Society for Research on Adolescence, a concluding remark was made for the need to develop a systematic, large - scale, multifaceted and ongoing public health campaign for parenting programmes for parents of adolescents.8 Despite the wealth of knowledge that has been generated over the past decade on the importance of parents in adolescent development, a substantial research gap still exists in the parenting literature in regards to interventions that support parents of adolescents.