Sentences with phrase «period of adolescence»

Bulimic symptoms, in contrast, might be more stable over this period of adolescence.

For example, a concurrent negative relation between self - care and metabolic control would show that as metabolic control deteriorates, so does self - care across the period of adolescence examined.

Individual differences in emotion regulation and their relation with the development of psychopathology become especially relevant during the developmental period of adolescence.

As preadolescents enter the period of adolescence, changes in parenting behaviors are necessary to facilitate adolescent autonomy development (Baumrind, 1991b; Holmbeck, Paikoff et al., 1995; Steinberg, 1990).

In future research a longitudinal design that covers the entire age period of adolescence would be preferable.

This is unfortunate, considering that early onset is one of the strongest identified risk factors for substance use problems in later life (Breslau et al. 1993; Chen et al. 2005; De Wit et al. 2000) and these personality predispositions may play a particularly important role in explaining risk behavior and receptivity for substance use during the period of adolescence (e.g., Carver et al. 2009; Malmberg et al. 2010b).

This is particularly true during the period of adolescence when the brain undergoes a substantial remodeling of its neural circuitry to increase the linkages between the prefrontal cortex (important in self - control) and the brain's limbic system (important in processing of emotional information).

Through the NPP for Parents and Their Adolescents (12 weeks), families learn nurturing communication strategies, how to recognize each other's needs, how to understand the period of adolescence, and ways to build their own personal power, self - esteem, and self - concept.

While no specific moral statement is offered, the work clearly underscores that frustrating period of adolescence when a teenager's naturally expanding sexual appetite is confronted by a society which demands Victorian behavior.

10 In this, Hicks and others draw on the wisdom of Dr. Price's research with isolated and modernized societies around the world, summarized over seventy - five years ago in Nutrition and Physical Degeneration.11 In his comprehensive treatise, Price drew particular attention to the «sensitiveness of the body during the period of adolescence» (which not coincidentally is also the period of greatest susceptibility to dental caries).

During that time frame, study subjects will pass through the high - risk period of adolescence.

«Only a limited number of studies have investigated the interplay between specific robust genes associated with the development of alcohol dependence and environments during the critical developmental period of adolescence,» said Bierut.

This is the «forbidden fruit» atmosphere which can be especially dangerous for young people who are in the rebellious period of adolescence.

The developmental periods of adolescence and young adulthood are characterized by significant changes in various domains (Arnett, 2000; Lerner & Galambos, 1998; Steinberg & Morris, 2001).

Not exact matches

But it could make adolescence a rougher time for everyone: children confronted with two equally legitimate images of adult sexual roles would be rudderless for many years, and no one knows what personal or social toll would result from this prolonged period of sexual confusion.

Trafford found, in conducting hundreds of interviews, that «my time» begins with a transition period similar to adolescence.

The normal problems of adolescence are exaggerated and compounded in a period of lightning - fast social change such as ours.

Stage five, adolescence, is the period of the identity crisis when a youth struggles to gain a firm sense of who he is as a person, separate from his parents.

The period between the two seasons reminds me of... well, my entire adolescence.

I think there are also periods of time when parents don't like their child because of a certain stage their son or daughter might be going through — adolescence, for example.

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.

Age 9 signals the start of the tween years — that transitional period between childhood and adolescence.

The period we call «adolescence» is a stage of development rather newly identified by child development researchers.

Adolescence marks the period of transition from childhood to adulthood.

Secondly, he believed that this confidence is forged during a critical period of development, during the years of infancy, childhood, and adolescence.

«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.

The grandsons most affected were those whose grandfathers experienced plenitude during the so - called slow growth period, just before adolescence, which is a key stage for the development of sperm.

This is thanks to the long period of infancy, childhood, and adolescence that humans enjoy,» Tottenham says.

«We are interested in how a human brain constructs over time to become the adult brain,» says Nim Tottenham of Columbia University, whose work focuses on identifying sensitive periods of brain development from childhood into adolescence.

There are six pathways into and out of gangs, which include three that occur during adolescence, two that are maintained over a long period, and one that starts late in the teenage years and continues into adult.

«Adolescence is an important period of growth,» said Subhash C. Pandey, Ph.D., professor and director of the Alcohol Research Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

However, nightmares over a prolonged period or bouts of night terrors that persist into adolescence can be an early indicator of something more significant in later life.»

«This is very exciting as the study of the adolescence period is vital in human development.»

«Adolescence» refers to the gradual period of behavioral and cognitive transition from childhood to adulthood, where adult behavioral abilities are acquired, and the boundaries of this period are not precisely defined.

Finally, while puberty and adolescence are overlapping time periods, with puberty being a part of adolescence, the terms can not be used interchangeably.

Adolescence is the period of psychological and social transition between childhood and adulthood.

[Morikawa's team] trained and tested their animals during adolescence, a period associated with greater reinforcing effects of drugs.

«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.»

Adolescence is the key period for bone development, and poor development at this stage is linked to reduced peak bone mass (the amount of bone mass at the end of the skeletal maturation, around age 30), increased fracture risk and osteoporosis later in life.

«It's been known for some time that regular high doses of THC during adolescence, a period when our brains are still developing, is potentially harmful for memory function.

The risk is even greater during periods of growth such as infancy, pregnancy, childhood, adolescence and when undergoing a muscle - strengthening program.

As it happens, both young men and women experience a growth spurt in adolescence that is second only to the rapid growth that occurs in the first year of life.2 With the onset of puberty come increases in height, weight and bone mass; cognitive changes; and reproductive maturation.3 Adolescent boys gain more in bone size and mass than adolescent girls.3 To support this intensive and multifaceted period of growth, the total nutrient needs of adolescents are higher than at any other life stage.

Taïa's film revisits two periods from his life, beginning with his adolescence in Morocco, where he pines for the attention of his cultured older brother and discovers his own homosexuality, before jumping forward a decade to his post-college years in Geneva, where he struggles to find a home, both literally and metaphorically.

Adolescence is such a volatile period of insecurity that kids often create -LSB-...]

But where Moonrise was awash with wistful nostalgia in its take on adolescence, romance and scouting, Anderson's latest mines its period setting in service of a broadly comical tale which enjoys frequent diversions into both black and off - colour humour even as a body count amasses and the Second World War threatens to intrude on the borders of the titular hotel's fictitious homeland....

Building community also means connecting with kids, so United for Success starts and ends each school day with an advisory period, during which a small group of students meet with a particular teacher, creating an in - school family of sorts to support students academically and personally as they navigate the rough waters of adolescence.

It's long been known that adolescence is a period of extreme physical change, psychological growth and social adaptation.

But in her new book, sociologist and educator Sara Lawrence - Lightfoot reimagines adolescence as a period when deeper learning can begin, learning that can extend through the rest of our lives, as our now - adult children can transform us, emotionally and even...

Developmental neurocircuitry of motivation in adolescence: A critical period of addiction vulnerability.

Adolescence can be a tumultuous period of increased risk taking and addiction.