Sentences with phrase «engage young adolescents»

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Among those students, adolescents and young people who relied on gist measures of online risk - taking were more «protective» when asked about their intentions of engaging in future risky online behavior.

Adolescents who have engaged in past risky online behavior are much more likely than older young adults to repeat the behavior in the future, according to a new study by researchers seeking to understand the psychological mechanisms contributing to young people's online risk taking.

She practices evidence - based relational strategies to engage adolescents in intervention and empower young people in reaching their goals.

The curriculum and extra-curricular programs in such schools are challenging and engaging, tapping young adolescents» boundless energy, interests, and curiosity.

The American Red Cross's Partners for Youth program matches a major service organization with Philadelphia middle schools to provide an opportunity for young adolescents to explore goals, values, and community needs as they engage in...

The Social Dimensions of Young People's Bedtime Rest and Routines,» via Education Week, 1 in 5 adolescents routinely wake up during the night to engage with social media sites.

They describe her as tolerant of the young adolescent dogs and will play with any dog that engages her.

The ARC Family Options study will further promote family - based intervention as a means of engaging young people and addressing family - based risk factors which both precipitates and perpetuates risk for adolescent depression.

The Center for Healthy Teen Relationships promotes healthy relationship skills as a way to prevent adolescent relationship abuse and sexual assault by engaging and educating young people, parents / caregivers, and adult influencers, promoting positive social norms, and policy to create sustainability.

Suicidal behaviour in adolescents is common, 1 and suicide is the leading cause of death in young Australians.2 More startling is the number of young Australians who deliberately self - harm, with adolescent females engaging in substantially more acts of deliberate self - harm than males do.3

Enhancing connection and trust: eHealth provides practitioners with an entry to build relationships and trust with their young patientseHealth enables practitioners to be more engaging with adolescents and increase their readiness to look at personal health issuesTechnology can extend times when and venues where practitioners are available

«In rural South Carolina a survey of 564 adolescent young women revealed that «being from a two - parent family increased the likelihood of not engaging in premarital sexual intercourse.»

Men and women rated kissing on the lips as being more intimate than cuddling, hand holding, hugging, and massaging.2 In a study of adolescents and young adults, those who engaged in more frequent kissing had higher levels of relationship satisfaction.3 One reason for this satisfaction boost was because conflict with a romantic partner was easier to resolve when there was more affection, like kissing on the lips, in the relationship.2 Kissing promotes emotional closeness, and partners report that kissing after sex strengthens their bond and that they desire to kiss each other after orgasm.1 This makes sense because kissing may increase levels of oxytocin (aka the «love» hormone), a chemical that promotes bonding.4

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.

Depression, reflected in prolonged sadness and feelings of despair, is associated with less engaged, stimulating and proactive parenting, and with a range of social and cognitive problems in young children during infancy, toddlerhood and the preschool years.4 Because young children are so dependent on their mothers for cognitive stimulation and social interaction, they are more likely to be vulnerable to the impact of maternal depression than school - age children or adolescents.

I highly recommend this book to graduate students and mental health practitioners searching for innovative ways to therapeutically engage and connect to young children and resistant adolescents.

Adolescents are generally more likely to engage in risky behaviors compared to younger children or adults.

The relationship between early age of onset of initial substance use and engaging in multiple health risk behaviors among young adolescents

An entertaining and informative addition to a staff - training day or conference, where Michael engages the participants in an informatiove and entertaining series of sessions on what workers with young people need to know about the latest developments in adolescent psychology.

Laura engages in a compassionate therapeutic approach with adolescents, young adults, adults, elderly, and couples.

African - American adolescents in the sample were younger, reported less supportive friendships at both waves of measurement, reported higher levels of parent connectedness at both waves of measurement, and were less likely to engage in sexual risk behavior at Wave 2.

For instance, adolescents and young adults who discuss sexuality more normatively with their friends (i.e., in line with notions of healthy and pleasurable sexuality) may be more inclined to internalize these notions as their own norms, and may thus be more likely to engage in responsible and healthy sexual behaviors.

In this large, nationwide cohort of adolescents / young adults, we observed that adolescents / young adults from families with high family functioning and high - quality of mother - and father - adolescent relationships were less likely to have overweight or obesity and less likely to engage in unhealthful weight - related behaviors, although the pattern of these associations differed by sex.

Results indicated that the youngest age group (early adolescents) reported to engage more frequently in negative behaviors with their siblings with ASD than the two older age groups (middle adolescents and young adults).