MONDELLO: Turning on a dime emotionally -
a fact of adolescent life seen here through a specifically female gaze.
Not exact matches
Having worked with late
adolescents most
of my career, I am inclined to think that sexual confusion is as much a
fact of life as sexual determination.
Toddlers need simple answers, preschoolers
live in a world
of fantasy and reality simultaneously, school - aged children are more prone to desire
facts, and
adolescents are starting to form a moral compass
of their own.
In a 12 - month period, only 20 percent
of children and
adolescents 6 to 17 years old who were defined as needing mental health services received such services, most commonly in school.80 This is despite the
fact that early intervention is key to building resiliency, improving school performance, and reducing the risk
of harm later in
life.81
Fact:» [T] he mere presence
of a father in one's
life, here operationalized by
adolescents» own identification
of someone who fulfilled a father role, was not linked to girls» well - being.
This translates to over one million adults who
live with serious mental illness, and almost half a million children with serious mental health conditions.2 Even more alarming is the
fact that about half
of adults and two - thirds
of adolescents with mental health needs in California do not get treatment.3
Fact: «Nonresident fathers showed slightly lower levels
of involvement when their
adolescents did not
live with their biological mothers, supporting previous work that suggests a pattern
of mothers pulling nonresident fathers into parenting (Harris & Ryan, 2004), rather than gatekeeping to limit contact with the
adolescent.»