Sentences with phrase «most of his adolescent life»

Born and raised in South Carolina, Dr. King spent most of his adolescent life in Charleston; he has come to love the lowcountry and considers it his home.

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.

Though parents should be involved in most aspects of their adolescent's life, there are four key areas you should pay special attention to.

Most babies lose a few ounces in the first few days of life, but they tend to return to their birth weight by the time they are 2 weeks old, according to the Ennis Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care Center website, and this is another positive sign that your baby is well - nourished.

We meet children, adolescents, teens and their families at the most challenging times of their lives and help them overcome some of life's most difficult circumstances: child abuse and neglect, complex emotional and behavioral issues, and family crisis.

The NYT: «New York lawmakers are balking at a bill submitted by (Cuomo) to raise the age of criminal responsibility to 18... But legislators in Louisiana, which imprisons the most citizens per capita and has the worst record in the country for meting out life sentences to adolescents, are giving a similar bill a warm, bipartisan reception.»

«This study tells us more about which children are most vulnerable to symptoms of PTSD and emphasizes the importance of limiting media exposure for all children and adolescents following life - threatening events such as acts of terrorism,» said senior author Dr. Margaret Sheridan.

Vast inequities within and between countries mean that the poorest, most disadvantaged women, children, and adolescents often miss out on life - saving health services and experience serious violations of their human rights.

«This is one of the most comprehensive analyses of smoking risk in adolescents as it relates to family life,» he says.

Lieberman and colleagues analyzed the running styles, or gaits, of five groups of people — U.S. adult athletes who had always worn shoes, Kenyan adult runners who grew up barefoot but now wear cushioned running shoes, U.S. adult runners who grew up wearing shoes but now run barefoot or with minimal footwear, Kenyan adolescents who have never worn shoes, and Kenyan adolescents who have worn shoes for most of their lives.

Sexuality is a healthy element of adult life at all stages of our maturity and senior citizens are simply just as capable of such inside their romances as your most randy adolescent, at the same time perhaps being a good deal extra cautious.

The story is a vague, world is ending and we need to save it mess, and it does have that old time standard of characters involved in massive, life altering events who seem oblivious to the scope, instead focused on the mundane and adolescent interactions that most characters have.

As a reviewer, I usually need to use my memories of adolescent or twenty - something life to relate to most of what is playing on the big screen.

Though it's been rightly celebrated for its guerrilla shoots and nomadic production history — depicting an adolescent's maturation from six to eighteen by reassembling the cast once a year, more or less in secret, for a few days at a time — Boyhood might be most impressive as a reflection on the impossibility of fully capturing what happens in all those «and thens» that constitute a life.

One wonders what sort of alternative universe the so - called education leaders live in these days — most whom only taught a year — if they taught at all, and who most likely never bothered to lower themselves to take one of those silly courses about child and adolescent development.

The Lowcountry Montessori School Secondary Program (middle and high school) represents and integration of South Carolina core standards and educational requirements, the most current research on the developmental needs of adolescents, the Montessori approach to education, research - based learning theory and teaching methods, and the predictions of the skills needed to lead a productive life of continuous learning and cooperation.

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

The story is a vague, world is ending and we need to save it mess, and it does have that old time standard of characters involved in massive, life altering events who seem oblivious to the scope, instead focused on the mundane and adolescent interactions that most characters have.

«For over 16 years I have been working with some of the most difficult and challenging things that adolescents and their families face in their lives.

More data are needed that focus specifically on the 10 — 14 age - group; on young adolescent males» experiences and needs; and on the most marginalized or vulnerable groups of very young adolescents, including refugees and other displaced people, LGBTQ adolescents, out - of - school adolescents, adolescents exposed to transactional sex, those living with HIV and those with disabilities.

«In a study of 254 African - American male adolescents, boys living with both biological parents were most likely to cite their fathers as role models (96 percent), compared to only 44 percent of those not living with their fathers, and were more likely to stay in school.

If the effect of neighborhood disadvantage is cumulative, lags, or is most salient early in life, as recent evidence suggests for adolescent mental health (25), moving out of that context in adolescence may not provide the best test of the causal effect of the social environment.

Adolescence is characterized by major biological, psychological and social challenges and opportunities, where interaction between the individual and environment is intense, and developmental pathways are set in motion or become established.2 — 4 Furthermore, adolescent psychopathology can have important consequences for education, relationships and socioeconomic achievement in later life.5 — 7 These characteristics of adolescence do not only set high demands for cohort studies aiming to capture the most salient aspects of developmental pathways, they also ensure a great gain in empirical knowledge and an invaluable source of information for public health policy from such studies.

While most of the children had a father with an AUD (N = 68), six offspring came from families with an alcoholic mother, and two adolescents lived in a family with both parents having an AUD.

Given the age of our sample at W7, some adolescents had moved away from home and were no longer living locally (most of those who relocated did so to attend college).