When working with high and
moderate risk adolescents, implementing these age - appropriate, developmental strategies is an important ingredient to properly meeting adolescent needs.
Not exact matches
Conversely, many researchers have observed a greater
risk of overweight in children and
adolescents who had not been breastfed compared with those who had16, 17 or who were breastfed a shorter rather than longer duration.18 — 25 On the basis of a review of 11 studies, Dewey26 concluded that «the evidence to date suggests that breastfeeding reduces the
risk of child overweight to a
moderate extent.»
Four to six family therapy sessions are recommended for low - to
moderate -
risk adolescents and up to 20 sessions for
moderate - to high -
risk offenders within a residential, outpatient, or home - based setting.
Gagné, Lavoie, and Hébert (2005), in a survey of data with 917 female
adolescents, they reported that violence experienced outside the family was established as a stronger
risk variable for re-victimization in romantic relationships than family violence, insofar as it presented itself as a
moderating variable between experiences of violence in the family of origin and the affective - sexual relationships of
adolescents.
Gender and age are further factors
moderating the relationship between
risk factors and the development of
adolescents.