Sentences with phrase «of adolescent males»

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) The study evaluated the effectiveness of Positive Peer Culture (PPC) for the treatment of behavioral problems and delinquency in a sample of adolescent males in residential treatment.

Table 1 shows the point prevalence (1 year) of adolescent males and females.

Event history analysis was used to test a developmental model of the timing of first sexual intercourse in the Oregon Youth Study sample of adolescent males at risk for delinquency.

Furthermore, the office continued its traditional civil rights work by, for example, conducting a multi-year investigation into the treatment of adolescent males at Rikers Island and filing Americans with Disabilities Act cases against leading New York City institutions like Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center, while simultaneously bringing new and innovative cases under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act.

Sandusky's sexual assaults of adolescent males eventually led to an effective life sentence for Sandusky, along with unusual NCAA sanctions (later revoked) against the school and three former PSU admins being sentenced for child endangerment.

Maybe not worth it for a giant group of people, like a gigantic gaggle of adolescent males who will eat you out of house and home.

The controversial finds, which date to between roughly 3,900 and 3,700 years ago, may provide the first archaeological evidence of adolescent male war bands described in ancient texts.

Then came Angelina Jolie, decked out and padded to resemble the video game's steely object of adolescent male desire.

In previous novels like Winger and Grasshopper Jungle, Andrew Smith has demonstrated - often to hilarious effect - that he totally gets the mind of the adolescent male.

Every pod in the Pacific had a similar band of brigands made up of adolescent male dolphins aged between three and five years.

The Pathways program is designed for the intensive residential treatment of adolescent male sex offenders.

Putting practice into research: Personality - based typology of adolescent male sexual offenders with implications for etiology, risk prediction, and treatment.

Not exact matches

NAMBLA takes the position that the Greek erotic ideal is the adolescent or young adult, that sex between the young male and his mentor is a thing of beauty and spiritual exaltation that ought not to be prohibited by law.

He confirmed that «The John Jay report has revealed clearly that the crisis in the Church is not one of paedophilia, but of homosexuality,» and that «the primary victims have not been children, but adolescent males.»

The loneliness and lack of male confidence from the adolescent stage of life that lead to same - sex attractions to teen - age males can be resolved with no further homosexual acting - out behaviours in highly motivated persons.»

Most adolescent males will wholeheartedly affirm a connection between the availability of contraception and sexual activity, and scientific data supports that link.

A 1980 survey in a wide range of countries showed the proportion of adolescents reported to have experienced premarital intercourse varied from about 35 per cent (in France) to 80 per cent (among Kenyan males).

Helping adolescent males to delay fatherhood may also be important from a child health perspective: research that controlled for maternal age and other key factors found teenage fatherhood associated with an increased risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes, including preterm birth, low birth weight and neonatal death (Chen et al, 2007).

Miller - Johnson et al (2004), in a prospective longitudinal study of 335 African American males found childhood aggression (particularly when stable across 3rd to 5th grades) significantly predicting reported pregnancies during adolescence, with adolescent substance use and deviant peer involvement adding incrementally to the prediction.

• For white adolescent males in America, non-resident father involvement was found to buffer the negative effects of living in a lone - mother family on delinquency, heavy drinking and illicit drug use (Thomas et al, 1996).

Boys whose fathers engaged in physical play but without excessive direction were rated as more popular by their teachers.48 Effects of fathers may vary across children's ages, with fathers of adolescent sons frequently playing important roles in those son's transitions, as seen among Arnhem land Australian aborigines.49 Among the Aka hunter - gatherers of Central African Republic, males of varying ages report that they predominantly learned subsistence and social behavioural norms from their fathers.50

The March 1997 Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine described one young person's horror on learning that «she» had been born a normal male, but that a circumciser had burned his penis off when he was a baby.60 Many other similar cases have been documented.61, 62 Infant circumcision has a reported death rate of one in 500,000.63, 64 · Circumcision harms mothers: Scientific studies have consistently shown that circumcision disrupts a child's behavioral development.

Reduced cortical thickness: Hong and colleagues found reduced cortical (the outermost part of the brain) thickness in internet - addicted teen boys (Hong 2013), and Yuan et al found reduced cortical thickness in the frontal lobe of online gaming addicts (late adolescent males and females) correlated with impairment of a cognitive task (Yuan 2013).

«HIV - infected young males have higher rates of bone loss than females: Study suggests macrophage activation as possible reason for differential bone loss in adolescent males.»

The study included 51 Southern California adolescents — 27 females and 24 males — between the ages of 12 and 18.

Adolescents with same - sex partners, regardless of being male or female, reported more internalizing problems such as being withdrawn or being anxious and / or depressed.

In the trial, 110 white male and female adolescents were given varying levels of vitamin D3 supplements, while some were given a placebo supplement, for a 20 week period during winter.

As a research partner of an $ 11.7 million Autism Center of Excellence (ACE) grant from the National Institutes of Health to the George Washington University Autism and Neurodevelopment Disorders Institute, the Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders at Children's National will continue investigations into sex differences, and aims to develop self - reporting measures for adolescents and adults that better capture additional populations — including females and non-cisgender males.

Mice in booze camp In the new study, performed on adolescent male mice, ethanol alcohol exposure seemed to enhance synaptic plasticity in the ventral tegmental area (VTA), a part of the brain that plays a critical role in the reward pathway.

After playing a violent, sexist game, these male players reported lower levels of sympathy and compassion (compared to those who played games without a sexist component) when shown a photo illustration depicting an adolescent girl who had been physically abused by an adolescent boy.

Male adolescents are the top fructose consumers, deriving between 15 to 23 percent of their calories from fructose — three to four times more than the maximum levels recommended by the American Heart Association.

The study found that more than 25 percent of boys and 50 percent of girls ages six to 11 and more than 50 percent of male and 75 percent of female adolescents ages 12 to 19 had not met the WHO recommendation.

For almost 2.5 years, the researchers observed a community of more than 30 wild bonobos in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Salonga National Park, keeping a close eye on the adult and adolescent males — nine in all.

In a study of currently incarcerated male adolescents, physical neglect during childhood arose as the strongest predictor of violent behavior, said William McGuigan, associate professor of human development and family studies at Penn State Shenango.

The study indicated that while physical abuse is a significant contributor to violent behavior, physical neglect alone is an even stronger predictor of male adolescent violence than physical abuse, or even physical abuse and neglect combined.

The paper, entitled: «Longitudinal Adaptations of Bone Mass, Geometry and Metabolism in Adolescent Male Athletes.

As a result, many adolescents developed anxiety disorders, with females reporting a greater number of PTSD symptoms than males.

A research team led by Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) and the University of California, Davis, reveals that childhood gunshot injuries, while uncommon, are more severe, require more major surgery, have greater mortality and higher per - patient costs than any other mechanism for childhood injury — particularly among adolescent males.

Doherty, J.M., Frantz, K.J. (2011) Heroin self - administration and reinstatement of heroin - seeking in adolescent vs. adult male rats.

Doherty, J.M., Frantz, K.J. Attenuated effects of experimenter - administered heroin in adolescent vs. adult male rats: physical withdrawal and locomotor sensitization.

Because of low intakes of vegetables, fruits, beans and whole grains, the total daily intake of dietary fiber in teenagers is approximately 13 grams, well below the recommended 38 grams and 26 grams for male and female adolescents, respectively.

While an element of the unexplained variability will likely have arisen though measurement error, it is more likely that the variation occurred primarily through variation between performances within individuals, as snatch, clean and jerk, and total 1RM varies by around 2.3 — 2.7 % in elite Olympic weightlifters (McGuigan & Kane, 2004), although test - re-test reliability of the 1RM power clean is nearly perfect in adolescent male athletes, with ICC = 0.98, a standard error of measurement (SEM) of 2.9 kg and a smallest worthwhile change (SWC) of 8.0 kg (Faigenbaum et al. 2012).

There's a concern that this issue is growing among the young male segment, with as many as 43 % of «normal - weight» adolescent and college - age boys believing themselves to be underweight and reporting a desire to increase muscle mass through weight training.

In a high quality seven day, randomized, crossover study conducted by Sunehag et al. (2002), twelve healthy, non-obese adolescents (six males, six females) were maintained at home on prepared, isocaloric diets containing 60 % carbohydrate, 25 % fat, and 15 % protein, with 10 % or 40 % of the carbohydrate (6 or 24 % of dietary energy) content provided by fructose (low fructose or high fructose diet, respectively)... The total amounts of fructose ingested in the low and high fructose diets were estimated to be 36 and 133 g / day in females and 40 and 136 g / day in males.

(Kevin is one of those perpetually adolescent males who plays video games and tosses around kitchen knives.)

It's just a collection of male adolescent daydreams that puts the emphasis on «This looks cool» rather than «This is worth caring about.»

«Deadpool 2» will be arriving this summer too, thirsty to please its adolescent - minded male audience with its exhaustive (and exhausting) brand of smug lewdness.

Hollywood firmly believes in superheroes who fulfil male adolescent fantasies of aggression and violence, but there are other ways to be a hero

In essence, Snyder directs five extended length music videos (nearly each significant scene contains a cover of a well - known pop hit to ham - handedly provide the thematic meaning of it) featuring sexy girls in tight clothing unleashing a god - awful lot of violence against undead, fantasy and mechanical villains (remember, got ta keep that PG - 13 rating to appeal to that all important adolescent male target audience).

Fret not: Such high - mindedness has little diminished MacFarlane's appetite for locker - room humor, gross - out sight gags and bounteous pop - culture in - jokes, which should make «Ted 2» the season's go - to attraction for arrested - adolescent males of all ages, and continue Universal's beary good summer box office.