Sentences with phrase «group of adolescent boys»

On the other hand, if I were commissioned to find a teacher for a group of adolescent boys and if, by some miracle, I could secure either Socrates or the latest Ph.D. from Teachers College, with his equipment of the latest technologies and techniques of teaching, with all due respect to the college that employs me and to my students, I am fairly certain that I would jump at the chance to get Socrates.

THE MAZE RUNNER In this adaptation of James Dashner's best - selling YA novel, a group of adolescent boys whose memories have been erased live in a kind of orphanage.

Researchers first caused decreased fluoride elimination in a group of adolescent boys from a fluoride - endemic area by supplying them with defluorinated water.

Not exact matches

For this study, conducted at 52 ambulatory care sites in 15 countries, five groups were enrolled: (1) girls ages 9 to 14 years to receive 2 doses 6 months apart (n = 301); (2) boys ages 9 to 14 years to receive 2 doses 6 months apart (n = 301); (3) girls and boys ages 9 to 14 years to receive 2 doses 12 months apart (n = 301); (4) girls ages 9 to 14 years to receive 3 doses over 6 months (n = 301); and (5) a control group of adolescent girls and young women ages 16 to 26 years to receive 3 doses over 6 months (n = 314).

«We know that high rates of depression have been reported among adolescents in juvenile detention and correctional facilities (e.g., 11 % in boys and 29 % in girls),» said Dr. Rongqin Yu, lead researcher at the Forensic Psychiatry Group at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom.

In a study comparing adolescent soccer players to swimmers, cyclists and a control group of boys not involved in regular sport, scientists at the University of Exeter found soccer led to significantly better bones after one year of training.

With an eye toward projected demographic trends such as these, the group exhibition The Future of America at the Hudgens Center for the Arts through April 28, brings together work by seven lens - based artists documenting various communities and subcultures among American teenagers and children: black cowboys and cowgirls, boys wearing fatigues and armed with paint guns, adolescent girls in their bedrooms.

The recent trend among early adolescents is for boys and girls to socialize as part of a group.

In response to this problem and with a real desire to explore whether some of the benefits of group psychotherapy could be achieved in an alternate group format, we designed a sports group of aggressive adolescent boys in our long - term psychiatric hospital.

A group for aggressive adolescent boys was designed in a long - term psychiatric hospital, with the purpose of identifying, exploring and releasing aggression by team sports.

The current study examined the joint contributions of pubertal maturation, parental monitoring, involvement in older peer groups, peer dating, and peer delinquency on dating in a sample of early adolescent boys and girls.

Validation is one of the many skills we teach in our DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy) Skills Groups for Adolescent Girls, Boys and Adult Women.

In this evaluation of the Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care — Adolescents (MTFC — A) program conducted by Chamberlain and Reid (1998), 85 boys referred for community placement in the juvenile justice system were randomly assigned to either MTFC — A or Group Care (GC).

He works in treatment of at - risk adolescents at Boys Republic in Chino Hills, CA where he facilitates peer groups, family groups and individual counseling.

Parenting is a proximal variable in the causal pathway to adverse outcomes in childhood and adolescence, of which material disadvantage and economic hardship are distal variables.32 Behavioural problems and temper tantrums among young children have been shown to increase as a result of parenting changes associated with economic hardship.33 Economic deprivation has also been associated with decreased respect for the father and increased dependence on peer group for adolescent boys, and lowered feelings of self adequacy and reduced goal aspirations for adolescent girls.15 Economic hardship appears to have direct and indirect effects on adolescent functioning.

An at - risk community sample of 203 early adolescent boys in the Oregon Youth Study, a multimethod / multiagent study, was divided into the following groups at Grade 6: (a) co-occurring conduct problems and depressed mood, (b) conduct problems only, (c) depressed mood only, and (d) neither problem.

The early to middle adolescent group consisted of 311 boys (54.1 %) and 264 girls (45.9 %).

The finding that pathological gaming only affects physical aggression among boys does not diminish its importance because adolescent boys are generally the most devoted group of violent game players and most susceptible to pathological involvement.

Girls and boys differed in the distribution across the problem groups, but the associations between temperament and psychopathology were comparable for both genders.This research is part of the Tracking Adolescents» Individual Lives Survey (TRAILS).