Sentences with phrase «take on adolescence»

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....

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The tree gives and gives and gives, and the boy takes; and, as he grows, he continues to take, right on through adolescence, manhood, and old age.

During adolescence the father's role as provider takes on a new significance as children's demands for material goods increase.

She's trained in Nobody's Perfect parenting, Hand in Hand Parenting, Expressive Play Therapy and continues to take courses on child development, trauma, birth and adolescence.

Nicole is always learning and updating her skills she has completed her Placenta Encapsulation training, Expressive Play Therapy Certificate and continues to take courses on child development, trauma, birth and adolescence.

Kidney failure later in life can be predicted based on measurements taken in adolescence, according to a study by Swedish researchers at Örebro University published in the November issue of the American Journal of Kidney Diseases.

A hilarious and touching animated masterpiece that takes a gloriously imaginative, sometimes scary leap into the mind of a girl on the cusp of adolescence.

With the movie due to premiere at Sundance, Wain has also released a typically witty director's statement: «After having already made world - changing cinematic statements on adolescence (Wet Hot American Summer), religion (The Ten), service (Role Models), and community (Wanderlust), I teamed up with Michael Showalter to take on a topic that (to our knowledge) has yet been seen in the movies: ROMANCE — particularly heterosexual romance between two white people.

A scientist who is inspired or mad, depending on your point of view, creates a child of sorts, and as the child grows into adolescence and adulthood, it starts to take on a life of its own, unsettling and threatening its creator to the point where it eventually seems to be telling the «parent» what to do, and even how to evolve.

Lady Bird takes you on a trip through a girl's last year of adolescence and as you go with her you will start to see traits of yourself along the way.

And Michael Haneke's cautionary parable about disaffected, medium - cool adolescence is as much a reference point as Paranormal Activity and its sequels; here, the malevolent ghost in the machine is the spirit of Laura, who decides to take revenge on the classmates who she believes drove her to death one year ago by posting an unflattering video online.

Breaking the Sound Barrier: A Director's Take on Movies, Music, Adolescence and Politics Article by Olivier Assayas in The Village Voice, August 24, 2004 [translated by David Ng].

The crux of the story takes place during Jude's adolescence, as he lives with his mom in boring Vermont while his frequently absent father calls New York City his home, where he carries on a long - term relationship with a well - to - do Manhattan widow named Diane (Emily Mortimer).

It properly identifies a certain period in adolescence as grand drama and surreal dreamscape — when everything takes on magnified import both romantic and Romanticist — and paints that world in rich, velvet strokes.

There's always been a lot of focus on adolescence because it's a time of risk, when young people take risks and they get in trouble with the law, and they compromise their health in various ways — so there's also been a bit of a focus on adolescence in one way or the other.

The full study has been published in the Journal of Youth And Adolescence, and we'll put the links to that on our site with this podcast, but can you take us through the «highlights» if you like?

Isabelle's private school, which has until now taken the extraordinary step of allowing her to complete her assignments from home, is on the verge of expelling her, forcing her parents to confront the possibility that what once seemed a quirk of adolescence, a phase, is perhaps a lifelong transformation, a swift and total retreat from which their daughter may never emerge.

Q: You've taken on some of the biggest questions of the human condition in this book, and yet you've approached them through very familiar experiences: parenting fears, breastfeeding, board games, children's literature, adolescence, etc..

Players take on the role of Scarlett, an older sister going through adolescence and slowly growing apart from her younger brother Finn.

Kahraman's paintings take on themes of violence and involuntary migration as she processes her childhood in the war - torn country of Iraq and her adolescence in Sweden as a refugee.

It's because I am focused on taking action on my other priorities — like a healthy planet that supports healthy people and helping my kids get through school and adolescence.

Compared to non-LD peers, youth with LD frequently report feelings of loneliness, stress, depression and suicide, among other psychiatric symptoms.15, 16 For example, in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, the LD sample was twice as likely to report a suicide attempt in the past year.16 Longitudinal research on risk - taking indicates that, compared to non-LD peers, adolescents with LD engage more frequently in various risk behaviours.17 Therefore, the presence of LD in childhood appears to confer a general risk for adverse outcomes throughout adolescence and into adulthood.

In line with the theoretical framework on the impact of risk - glorifying media exposure on risk taking inclinations of Fischer and colleagues [21], we hypothesized that higher passive exposure to risky driving movie depictions during early adolescence will predict reckless but not inattentive driving.

Moreover, it is suggested by some authors that during early adolescence the peer relationships take on increased importance (Furman and Buhrmester, 1992).

Adolescence is a developmental period in which rapid changes take place, adolescents» self - efficacy is still developing and might also depend on the events that adolescents encounter, as was found for adults (Yeo and Neal 2006).

Given their typical age of onset, a broad range of mental disorders are increasingly being understood as the result of aberrations of developmental processes that normally occur in the adolescent brain.4 — 6 Executive functioning, and its neurobiological substrate, the prefrontal cortex, matures during adolescence.5 The relatively late maturation of executive functioning is adaptive in most cases, underpinning characteristic adolescent behaviours such as social interaction, risk taking and sensation seeking which promote successful adult development and independence.6 However, in some cases it appears that the delayed maturation of prefrontal regulatory regions leads to the development of mental illness, with neurobiological studies indicating a broad deficit in executive functioning which precedes and underpins a range of psychopathology.7 A recent meta - analysis of neuroimaging studies focusing on a range of psychotic and non-psychotic mental illnesses found that grey matter loss in the dorsal anterior cingulate, and left and right insula, was common across diagnoses.8 In a healthy sample, this study also demonstrated that lower grey matter in these regions was found to be associated with deficits in executive functioning performance.

This study examined the moderating role of timing of first discussion of sexual intercourse with mothers and fathers on the relationship between the amount of sexual communication and sexual risk - taking behaviors in late adolescence.

Compared with prior research, our study significantly expands inquiry in this area by broadening the range of social participation indicators examined, increasing the external validity of findings, focusing on the under - studied developmental stage of adolescence, and taking an ecological approach that included many potential correlates of social participation.

In summary, compared with prior research, our study significantly expands inquiry in this area by broadening the range of social participation indicators examined, by increasing the external validity of findings, by focusing on the under - studied developmental stage of adolescence, and by taking an ecological approach that included many potential correlates of social participation.