Sentences with phrase «rates of adolescent girls»

• Discursive processes that transform Ashley Smith into a mental patient once she becomes recuperatively represented as a «good» girl raise serious questions about the statistical discrepancy between the putative criminal offending rates of adolescent girls and boys.

Not exact matches

The disease, which affects about 0.5 to 0.7 percent of adolescent girls, has one of the highest suicide rates of any psychiatric disorder.

Among adolescent girls, infection rates fell from 11.5 percent of sexually active girls in 2006 to 5.1 percent in 2013, says the study's lead author, Lauri Markowitz of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

«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 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).

In summary, although many American children (80 %) are regularly active, rates of inactivity among adolescent girls, non-Hispanic blacks, and Mexican Americans are cause for concern.

Regardless of whether increased arrest rates represent a true increase in violent behavior among female adolescents compared with males or a policy shift toward arrest rather than alternative treatment of violent females, it is indisputable that the juvenile justice system is handling a rapidly growing share of girls.

The rates and patterns of eating problems in this sample confirm that eating problems pose a serious health problem for adolescent girls, many of whom are still growing.

Rates for having a Major Depressive Episode range from 7 % to 10 % of all adolescents, with girls being about twice as likely as boys to have a depressive disorder.

In this article, we briefly discuss the rates and nature of eating, depressive, and body - image problems for adolescent girls.

A review of twenty studies on the adult lives of antisocial adolescent girls found higher mortality rates, a variety of psychiatric problems, dysfunctional and violent relationships, poor educational achievement, and less stable work histories than among non-delinquent girls.23 Chronic problem behavior during childhood has been linked with alcohol and drug abuse in adulthood, as well as with other mental health problems and disorders, such as emotional disturbance and depression.24 David Hawkins, Richard Catalano, and Janet Miller have shown a similar link between conduct disorder among girls and adult substance abuse.25 Terrie Moffitt and several colleagues found that girls diagnosed with conduct disorder were more likely as adults to suffer from a wide variety of problems than girls without such a diagnosis.26 Among the problems were poorer physical health and more symptoms of mental illness, reliance on social assistance, and victimization by, as well as violence toward, partners.

Across the country, the use of LARCs among adolescent girls has been increasing even as teenage pregnancy rates have been falling, according to Heather Boonstra, director of public policy at the Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit advocacy organization for sexual and reproductive health issues.

However, study results are conflicting as to the relative rates of depression in prepubertal boys and girls, and it is not clear whether the rates in adolescent boys rise, fall, or remain steady.