Sentences with phrase «early adolescent prevention»

The findings have implications for early adolescent prevention strategies and promotion of healthy intimate relationships.

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Impact: The fat subtype composition in adolescent diet may be important in early breast cancer prevention.

The study, which was scheduled to be released early this week by the House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families, finds that there are significant financial, cultural, and institutional barriers that hamper efforts to provide AIDS - prevention education and services to adolescents.

Early in his career, Steven sought ground - level experiences, working as an HIV / AIDS prevention educator for adolescents, case manager for recently arrived gay and bisexual Latino immigrants, and volunteer associate director at the Brazilian Rainbow Group.

Second, it is more difficult to reduce excessive weight in adolescents and adults once it becomes established; therefore, it may be helpful to initiate obesity prevention interventions during early childhood.16 There is a growing consensus that the appropriate period to target obesity prevention interventions is the early years in a child's life.17 The aim of the present review was, therefore, to examine the evidence for environmental influences on dietary determinants of obesity, focusing on younger children (birth to 8 years).

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.

«Current approaches to violence prevention emphasise primary prevention and early intervention to encourage respectful and equitable relationships, highlighting the importance of promoting healthy relationships to children and adolescents.»

Although most mental health practitioners are actively involved in child, adolescent, and adult psychotherapeutic treatment, a major theme of the latter chapters is that the field now needs to more seriously attend to the problem of early intervention and prevention.

Her current adolescent research is culturally adapting and evaluating an evidence - based early substance use prevention program for youth and their families in a Northern Plains reservation community (R01DA035111, Whitesell, PI).

Claire has 30 years of experience in the areas of child abuse intervention & prevention, home visiting program design, adolescent parenting, program consultation structures, and early childhood education.

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.

[jounal] Hawkins, J.D / 1992 / Risk and protective factors for alcohol and other drug problems in adolescent and early adulthood: Implications for substance abuse prevention.

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.

Rapee et al. (2009) found small but significant effects for a universal anxiety prevention program, with stronger effects for children versus adolescents; while Neil and Christensen's (2009) review indicated efficacy for both universal and targeted school - based anxiety prevention programs; however, indicated interventions, i.e., programs that are delivered to groups or individuals who exhibit early symptoms of psychological disorders, have shown more promise (Feldner et al., 2004).

At the same time, neural plasticity makes adolescents especially receptive to prevention and early intervention efforts.

Findings were discussed regarding the need to identify developmental precursors of dating violence in early adolescence and to focus prevention efforts on components (e.g., social skills, coping strategies) necessary to prevent the onset and escalation of adolescent dating violence.

These results suggest that universal prevention programs implemented in early elementary school that target selected risk factors may be helpful in reducing future adolescent mental health problems, specifically depressive symptomatology.

Depression prevention for early adolescent girls: a pilot study of all girls versus co-ed groups

The purpose of the present study was to conduct a test of acceptability of a new model for family - focused drug prevention programs for families of early adolescents.