Sentences with phrase «emotionally vulnerable youth»

Unlike previous generations, emotionally vulnerable youth — with poorly developed coping skills — can not avoid bullies after school and on weekends.

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Conventional wisdom used to hold that it was the changing sex hormones that made kids «crazy,» but scientists now understand that puberty kicks off changes in the brain that make youth more emotionally sensitive, more sensitive to their social world, more willing to take risks, and more vulnerable to mental illness and addictions.