Sentences with phrase «very young adolescents»

As of 2016, an estimated 545 million very young adolescents aged 10 — 14 live in developing regions.

As of 2016, in the majority of developing countries, more than 80 % of very young adolescents are in school.

Therefore, primary school is a valuable setting for the provision of comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) to very young adolescents.

More data are needed that focus specifically on the 10 — 14 age - group; on young adolescent males» experiences and needs; and on the most marginalized or vulnerable groups of very young adolescents, including refugees and other displaced people, LGBTQ adolescents, out - of - school adolescents, adolescents exposed to transactional sex, those living with HIV and those with disabilities.

Primary school may be a particularly valuable setting for providing comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) to very young adolescents: In most developing countries, more than 80 % of 10 — 14 - year - olds are in school.

Nevertheless, the opportunity to reach very young adolescents during the very years when sexual and reproductive health behaviors lasting a lifetime are being developed is frequently missed, the Institute for Reproductive Health researchers note.

In «Investing in Very Young Adolescents» Sexual and Reproductive Health» published online in the peer - reviewed journal Global Public Health, in advance of print publication in issue 9:5 - 6, the Institute for Reproductive Health researchers advocate the investment of resources to lay foundations for future healthy relationships and positive sexual and reproductive health, identifying specific approaches to reach these very young adolescents.

The paper notes that preventive reproductive and sexual health services designed to suit the needs of very young adolescents are virtually non-existent in lower - and middle - income countries and that worldwide, family life education, youth centers, and youth - friendly health services with programs specifically targeted to 10 to 14 year olds rarely exist.

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It is also important to keep in perspective the very real problems that beset our society in other respects, including adolescent depression and the terrible cost it can extract on young lives, on families and on all of us.

Adolescents or young adults with an FASD and who never received services or were older when diagnosed can be at very high risk for psychosocial issues, such as dependent living conditions, disrupted school experiences, poor employment records, substance use, and encounters with law enforcement.

Schürmann added: «Since methylation of the gene already occurs very early, well before a fatty liver has developed, it would be conceivable to use this knowledge to better assess the disease risk in adolescents and young adults.

This was especially true for adolescents who started having sex at a very young age, and for females.

Lead author Kate Daine, a postgraduate researcher from the Centre for Evidence - Based Intervention, said: «There are no known online interventions to date that specifically target young people at risk of self - harm or suicide and yet we find that adolescents who self - harm are very frequent users of the internet.

The primary aim of the study was to determine if there was an association between these fine particulates and ALRI in very young children, with a secondary objective of finding the same associations for older children, adolescents and adults.

It found that ageist stereotypes in children and adolescents generally decrease around ages 10 to 12, and that young people who say they have very good contact with their grandparents have the lowest levels of ageism.

University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital is one of a very limited number of children's cancer centers in the U.S. that offer certain experimental therapies to children, adolescents and young adults with recurrent illness (relapse), those whose disease has not responded to traditional treatment, and those with a diagnosis that has no reasonable cure.

Most studies of self - control development have focused either on very young children or adolescents, but there is a lack of research on children in kindergarten and primary school, a transition period that requires children to regulate their behaviour.

As an adolescent and very young adult, I had some but not extreme acne.

Kids under the age of 18 are particularly vulnerable to images of high - wattage stars smoking cigarettes on the big screen, partly because adolescents, similar to very young children, are prone to mimic behaviors they see others trying, Sargent says.

As adolescents begin their acquaintance of experience the youngest girls they do not know, what to expect, and not very high standards is sad to speak.

Their journey — physical and metaphorical — takes them to some very dark places, and though the film has elements of gentle humor that leaven the proceedings — and two fine performances from Jay Duplass («Transparent «-RRB- as Nick and Linas Phillips (Young Adolescents) as Conrad — we can never get away from the uncomfortable fact that writer / director Davis (editor on Duplass's documentary Kevin) has made a conscious decision to put a mass murderer at the center of his story.

Bresson's Mouchette, a very young, utterly disenfranchised girl who is both sexually precocious, sexually abused, and suicidal, was likely a template for many of Breillat's own tortured adolescents.

But, once the trip is under way, along with Millie (Carly Schroeder), a young girl who likes Sam, things go horribly wrong, and the adolescents must deal with a very distressing situation.

«The goal of Pride is to help young men navigate through not only school, but also through being an adolescent male with the obstacles that they're facing, and then trying to lead them through college, add reinforcement outside of the classroom, and give them very clear insight as to what to expect in college,» says Dion Steele, Urban Prep, Englewood Campus» principal.

«Many schools already provide their own support on site, and do a very good job despite limited resources, but they often face serious difficulties in referring young people to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services.

that for two adolescents, Christine and David handled the typical vicissitudes of young love very well.

Most importantly, Francesca is passionate about educating the public and all pet parents and lovers to the very basic socializing needs of puppies and young adolescent dogs.

Puppies and adolescents tend to be very annoying to senior dogs — I often see young dogs bullying seniors and their owners looking baffled when the senior dog snaps and lets them know he's had enough.

Cayte attended another Surviving Adolescent class and did very well playing with the young puppies.

Like most puppies and adolescent dogs, young Pyrs are very active.

Very young puppies almost never need a reducing diet, but adolescent youngsters that get pudgy may benefit from diet tips for fat puppies.

There are several reasons to buy life insurance, however, someone aged 60 or older is going to have a very different set of needs and wants than a young, married couple with adolescent children.

Thus, very few adolescents and young adults meet the DSM - IV criteria for alcohol dependence (Baer, Kivlahan, & Marlatt, 1995).

Some attention was paid to adolescents but none to infants and toddlers, because there was an insufficient number of studies focused on these very young children.

I work with very young children, ages three and up and adolescents up to age eighteen and their families.

I am in private practice and very much enjoy devoting my time to Latinos, Adults, Young Adults, and Adolescents.

This can be a very emotional time in a young teen's life and sometimes young people struggle with issues that adults view as small or minor but they're huge to an adolescent or teen.

I'm confident she'll provide the strategies and stabilization that your child, adolescent, young adult, whole family, or very own self is looking for.

With adolescents, negative self - talk may start to form or it may have already started at a very young age.

Children, even very young children, can become depressed although depression is less common in children than in adolescents and adults.

Observational learning has been proposed as an important explanation for the fact that adolescents» and young adults» sexual behaviors and attitudes toward sexuality are often very similar to those of their friends.