Sentences with phrase «for early adolescence»
* Planning Programs for Young Adolescents, Center for Early Adolescence, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1987
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She has taught for 13 years and achieved National Board Certification in 2011 for Early Adolescence Science.
The report, prepared by the Massachusetts Advocacy Center and the Center for Early Adolescence at the University of North Carolina, attempts to merge what its authors say have until now been two mutually exclusive areas of research: effective middle - school practice and dropout prevention.
The DeWitt Wallace - Reader's Digest Fund has awarded a three - year, $ 1.1 - million grant to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Center for Early Adolescence to help improve the preparation and training of teachers and staff members in the middle grades.
The three - year «Project on Adolescent Literacy,» conducted by the center for early adolescence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, examined efforts by school districts and community agencies to combat illiteracy in that age group.
Not exact matches
A girl in early adolescence, says family life educator Kay Crowe, needs a father who «makes her feel she is a budding woman with great possibilities for the future.»
In the recorded life of Jesus not a word has been preserved, for example, about his years of adolescence and early manhood.
Gary Bauer, undersecretary of education and chairman of a White House task force on the American family, has been quoted as saying that his group's goal is «to tell children [that premarital sex] is wrong and explain why it's bad for them — not to teach them so much about sex that they can engage in it in early adolescence.»
Abernethy (2005) found that child athletes who participated in a variety of sports and specialized in adolescence tended to be more consistent performers, experienced fewer injuries, and were involved in sports for a longer time than their early - specializing peers.
Over a 35 - year period, the Minnesota Longitudinal Study of Risk and Adaption (MLSRA) revealed that the quality of the early attachment reverberated well into later childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, even when temperament and social class were accounted for.
As evidence, she pointed to a 2011 study in the United Kingdom which found that three - quarters of the 6,000 young adults ages 18 to 22 years interviewed about their experiences in sports earlier in adolescence reported at least 1 incident of emotional harm playing sports, one third of whom identified their coach as the main source of harm, and to a 2005 study - one which I cited in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage (Harper Collins), and in articles adapted from that book for MomsTEAM.com - finding that 45 % of children reported verbal misconduct by coaches, including name - calling and insulting them during play.
Georgie helped create and coordinate the Loma Linda University Play Therapy Certificate Program, and she now specializes in play and creative arts therapies for children from the early years to adolescence.
She now specializes in play and creative arts therapies for children from the early years to adolescence.
Boys in early adolescence would speak candidly about those friendships to Dr. Way and her researchers, acknowledging the importance of having a best friend who was both repository and guard for their most private feelings.
For better or worse, parents play an important role in supporting their child's involvement in competitive sports, especially during early adolescence.
And, finally, how we interpret our children's behavior in the early years sets the stage in a very real way for how we will interpret their behavior in adolescence.
Studies published in The Lancet earlier this year confirmed what we have long believed, that babies fed exclusively on breast milk for at least the first 6 months have the best chance of thriving through childhood and adolescence.
Longitudinal research using these techniques shows that although genetic factors primarily account for developmental continuity, some evidence can be found for genetic contributions to change, especially during the transition from early to middle childhood (Fulker, Cherny, & Cardon, 1993) and perhaps from middle childhood to late adolescence (Loehlin, Horn, & Willerman, 1989).
Early Exposure to Parents Relationship Instability: Implications for Sexual Behavior and Depression in Adolescence.
«To tackle overweight and obesity effectively we need to adopt a life course approach — from pre-conception, through pregnancy, infancy, early years, childhood, adolescence and teenage years, and through to adulthood and preparing for older age.»
«Adolescence is a critical risk period for initiation of alcohol use, and earlier onset of drinking is associated with greater risk of developing alcohol abuse and dependence,» said Dr. Gale Burstein, Erie County Commissioner of Health.
Also, the findings could help improve the tools available for early detection of risk for schizophrenia and psychosis, which are typically not diagnosed until late adolescence.
Although schizophrenia symptoms typically appear in late adolescence or early adulthood, genetic mutations affecting early neurodevelopment could embed risk for future behavioral changes.»
Tics are at their worst for people with TS aged between 11 and 14 years old, but for the majority begin to improve throughout adolescence and into early adulthood.
Young women with ADHD who have been exposed to abuse, neglect or other traumas in childhood and adolescence are at greater risk for self - injury, eating disorders and suicide than those with ADHD who were not mistreated in early youth, according to new research from UC Berkeley.
University of Texas at Arlington researchers have found that low attention control in early adolescence is related to a genetic risk factor for four different anxiety disorders.
The study suggests that disparities seen in adolescence and adulthood start earlier in childhood and that school doesn't close the gap in working memory for children ages 10 and above.
Socioeconomic adversity during childhood increases the likelihood of both depression and higher body mass index (BMI) in early adolescence, which can worsen and lead to illness for young adults, according to a new report in the Journal of Adolescent Health.
«This paper examines early adolescence as a risk period for health outcomes in young adulthood.
We know from other research that the period between early adolescence and young adulthood is a sensitive period for weight gain that has adverse effects on cardiovascular health later in life.»
«They also point to middle childhood and early adolescence as a critical period for implementing programs that foster socio - emotional learning skills before long - term trajectories of peer victimization or maladaptive stress responses have been established.»
«From a risk and prevention perspective, difficulty forming close relationships early in adolescence may now be considered a marker of risk for long - term health difficulties,» Allen explains.
«Given the solid epidemiologic evidence supporting a link between cannabis exposure during adolescence and schizophrenia, we investigated whether the use of cannabis during early adolescence (by 16 years of age) is associated with variations in brain maturation as a function of genetic risk for schizophrenia,» said senior author Tomas Paus, MD, PhD, the Anne and Max Tanenbaum Professor and Chair in Population Neuroscience at Baycrest, University of Toronto, and the Dr. John and Consuela Phelan Scholar at Child Mind Institute, New York.
Specific risk factors for anorexia include: being female, age (early - mid adolescence is the prime time for onset), perfectionism, high parental conflict, highly demanding parents, and concerns about shape and weight (and subsequent dieting).
According to Professor Colver, «Clinicians should intervene early in childhood to ameliorate extremes of pain, psychological problems, and parenting stress, for which effective interventions are available... Attention should be directed to helping children with cerebral palsy, especially those who are more severely impaired, to maintain friendships with peers, and to develop new friendships as they move into adolescence
«Early adolescence is an important time for youth, who are undergoing a variety of biological, psychological, and social changes,» said study author Elise Cappella, associate professor of applied psychology at NYU Steinhardt and director of NYU's Institute of Human Development and Social Change.
Dr. Malaspina continued «I think three of the interesting factors that have been linked to the risk of schizophrenia are severe stress in a stress - sensitive person who has underlying genes for schizophrenia, traumatic brain injury in those with underlying genes for schizophrenia, and, very importantly, cannabis exposure in early adolescence.»
«On a night following sleep deprivation, we'll have significantly more slow - wave sleep to compensate for the loss,» study author Jordan Gaines... said... «We also know that we lose slow - wave sleep most rapidly during early adolescence.
The plot, as simple and primal as a fable, serves as a delivery system for sensations: Phillip and Treat have made it out of adolescence all on their own; Mom died and Dad ran off early on, and perhaps as a result, the brothers are mentally and emotionally stunted, respectively.
Not only was he a child star appearing in movies alongside his father Rance Howard, but he made a name for himself throughout his childhood, adolescence and early adult years as the co-star on shows like The Andy Griffith Show and Happy Days, not to mention films like American Graffiti.
We know the onset of adolescence is a peak time for bullying, when power relationships start to be established and particularly when this change is associated with transition from primary to secondary education and earlier friendships break up and social groups change.
Maybe there's that one teacher who is amazingly talented at what she does; or the teacher's aide who serves as a de facto grandmother to half the student body; or the chess club leader who manages to keep young boys engaged in school through early adolescence; or the superstar math teacher who seems solely responsible for a middle school's stellar math scores.
During the forum, the editors and authors of the Harvard Education Press book, Improving the Odds for America's Children, reflected on many of the issues facing our children, not only in early childhood education but well into adolescence and beyond.
The center will use the grant, announced this month, to develop educational resources for teachers, disseminate information on curriculum developments, and establish a national advisory board of early - adolescence experts and education leaders.
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 word meanings).
There are several policies (proposed, underway, or in place) by the Obama administration that broaden the focus on reading and academic development, increasing attention to knowledge building and language growth, from early childhood through adolescence — and those expansive policies may be especially beneficial for EL learners.
One of the fundamental concepts we describe is that, while the foundation for these skills is laid in early childhood, they continue to develop actively throughout adolescence and into early adulthood.
My goals in coming to the Ed School were threefold: expanding my knowledge of how people, early childhood through adolescence, develop moral and ethical behaviors; creating strategies, systems, and tools that educators can use to best preserve and promote moral and ethical growth in the students they teach; and refining the leadership and research skills necessary to further my role as a teacher leader and reformer for the future.
«People may not believe that it's the right thing or that schools should be responsible for kids» behavior, but kids go to school,» says Assistant Professor Stephanie Jones, whose current research is on the effects of poverty and exposure to violence on social and emotional development in early childhood and adolescence.
A National Board certified teacher in the area of early adolescence social studies / history, Max has authored nine resource books for teachers in the fields of social studies, health, and math.