Sentences with phrase «serious psychological risk»

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In today's cultural and political climate, however, to suggest that the current stampede to accept claims that a decade ago would have been regarded as signs of serious psychological disturbance — and that are still regarded as such by eminent psychiatrists — is to risk being shamed and cast to the margins of society as a bigot.

In addition to the serious psychological and behavioral issues just mentioned, young people are also at risk for reproductive challenges such as prepubescent menstrual cycles, premature sexual activity, unwanted teen pregnancy, single or repeated abortions, single parenthood, and / or giving birth to an unwanted child.

And, as if the bodily changes that take place during perimenopause weren't uncomfortable enough, they can also increase the risk of a number of more serious concerns: depression or other psychological disorders, severe headaches, bone loss, cardiovascular disease, and metabolic syndrome.

where a lawyer believes upon reasonable grounds that there is an imminent risk to an identifiable person or group of death or serious bodily harm, including serious psychological harm that substantially interferes with health or well - being... where it is necessary to do so in order to prevent the death or harm.

The test requires: (i) that there is evidence to conclude that there is a significant risk of the defendant committing further offences of the kind which might give rise to physical or psychological damage; and (ii) that there is a significant risk of his causing serious harm by so doing.

Courts appear largely to have equated the standard of «serious harm» in s. 23 of the CLRA with the standard of «grave risk [of] expos [ing] the child to physical or psychological harm or otherwise plac [ing] the child in an intolerable situation» in art. 13 (b) of The Hague Convention.

Although the dynamic interplay between various risk and protective factors in refugee psychological health is not fully understood, there is widespread agreement that of those pre-migration factors that pose serious risk, trauma exposure is the single most identified (Berman, 2001).

A behavioral concept developed in the late 1960's, often cited in child custody cases suggesting a condition that infants and young children are at risk of developing serious psychological problems as an older child and adult if time away from the primary caregiver is prevented, impaired or disrupted for more than a few hours at a time; the legal effect of which denied access to the non-custodial parent.

The risk factors include abuse, neglect, domestic violence, poverty, substance abuse, history of maltreatment in parents» childhoods, depression and other serious psychological disorders of parents.

A possible explanation could be that we focused on delinquency including at least some serious offences, while Barber et al. (1994) focused on delinquency that included a relatively limited range of minor delinquent acts.4 Nevertheless, our findings clearly indicate that psychological control, including keeping the child dependent and the use of guilt to control the child, elevates the risk for delinquent behavior.

It described the finding as «consistent with emerging evidence that serious psychological stress contributes to a range of health problems and may be involved in the development of risk factors for metabolic syndrome, including raised blood glucose».