Sentences with phrase «young adolescent girls»

Brief report: effect of menarcheal status and family structure on depressive symptoms and emotional / behavioural problems in young adolescent girls

Is it the societal expectations for young adolescent girls or the way in which young girls are socialized that places them at risk for interpersonal stressors?

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Diane Tanaka, Adolescent Medicine Physician, explains what young girls need to know about having sex with other girls.

The report said that in the 2016 UN Political Declaration on Ending AIDS, countries committed to reducing the number of new HIV infections among adolescent girls and young women from 390 000 in 2015 to below 100 000 in 2020.

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«Our qualitative data suggest that adolescents and young adults identify a pervasive sexual double standard in which boys are rewarded for sexual aggression and girls are shamed for sexual agency,» Rodgers said.

Of the 1,518 participants (753 girls [average age, 11.4 years]; 451 boys [average age, 11.5 years]; and 314 adolescent girls and young women [average age, 21 years]-RRB-, 1,474 completed the study and data from 1,377 were analyzed.

For this study, conducted at 52 ambulatory care sites in 15 countries, five groups were enrolled: (1) girls ages 9 to 14 years to receive 2 doses 6 months apart (n = 301); (2) boys ages 9 to 14 years to receive 2 doses 6 months apart (n = 301); (3) girls and boys ages 9 to 14 years to receive 2 doses 12 months apart (n = 301); (4) girls ages 9 to 14 years to receive 3 doses over 6 months (n = 301); and (5) a control group of adolescent girls and young women ages 16 to 26 years to receive 3 doses over 6 months (n = 314).

At 4 weeks after the last dose, the researchers found that HPV antibody responses in girls and boys given 2 doses were noninferior to HPV antibody responses in adolescent girls and young women given 3 doses.

Professor Abdool Karim is a member of the UNAIDS Scientific Expert Panel and Scientific Advisor to the Executive Director of UNAIDS, Scientific Advisory Board member of the US President's Emergency Pan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), Chair of the PEPFAR Adolescent Girls and Young Women Expert Working Group, a member of the HIV Centre Strategic Advisory Committee and the NIH OAR Microbicides Planning Group.

Prior to that, she was the Director of Co-Investments at the Nike Foundation's Girl Effect, where she led a $ 210 million partnership between the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to reduce new HIV infections in adolescent girls and young women.

There was a significant link between amount of alcohol consumption and further increased risk of getting benign breast disease as young women in adolescent girls having a family history of breast cancer.

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 lAdolescent 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 ladolescent 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.

Someone with early stages of iron deficiency may have no symptoms, so it is important for at - risk groups (such as adolescent girls, pregnant women, and young children) to be screened.

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.

An adolescent girl left to care for her younger brother after their parents» death is convinced by some unscrupulous acquaintances to seduce and help rob a blind, aging B - movie star.

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.

Another character, Vic, is central to the book: he appears as an awkward adolescent fixated on unattainable older girls, as a young man coping with the legacy of his father's alcoholism and abandonment, and as a middle - aged man unable to come to terms with his past.

«With this partnership, we are putting the right conditions in place to realize progress across the 2030 Agenda, to harness ICTs for quality learning, and to empower adolescent girls and young women with the confidence and skills they need to lead productive lives and shape a better future for themselves, their communities and nations.»

From legislative frameworks to classroom practices, gender - sensitive curricula, sexual and reproductive health information, education and services, and data collection, the new Joint Programme will provide a coordinated and collaborative response to the persistent gender gap in education — with a specific focus on adolescent girls and young women between the ages of 10 and 24.

«We know increasing the education of adolescent girls and young women carries impact across generations,» said Irina Bokova during the launch event.

Among the cases Stevenson cites: a 14 - year - old condemned to death for killing his mother's abusive boyfriend and a mentally ill adolescent girl condemned to life in prison for second - degree murder for the death of young boys killed in a fire she started accidentally.

The Girls finds an adult Evie looking back on a pivotal adolescent summer in the 1960s, when she fell in with a group of young women obsessed with a Manson - like cult leader.

The show also features Mann's photographs of adolescent girls on the cusp of womanhood from the series At 12: Portraits of Young Women.

Sheridan also captures the thoughtful states of mind of his subjects (an adolescent girl in each one) in paintings known as The Whale Watcher and Young Girl by the Seashore, both of which take place on the begirl in each one) in paintings known as The Whale Watcher and Young Girl by the Seashore, both of which take place on the beGirl by the Seashore, both of which take place on the beach.

Police from the state of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil's southeastern region have arrested two leaders of a sex trafficking ring that sent adolescent girls and transvestites, some as young as 16, to prostitute themselves to the workers building the Belo Monte Dam in the state of Pará.

I wonder how contemporary discursive figurations of the girl, how we talk about adolescent young women, continue to affect the agencies of variously situated adolescent young women in their experiences with criminal and quasi-criminal legality.

Emerging Young Leaders Program, Collin County, TX 2006 to Present Chair of start - up program for middle school girls Pearls and Ivy, Plano, TX Chair of organization for African American Adolescent Girls 2006 to Present Houston Association of Black Psychologists, Houston, TX 2003 to 2005 Chair of the organizations» Student Circle Expectations, Houston, TX 2003 to 2005 Program Advisor of a University of Houston student driven mentor program Girls Scouts of San Jacinto Council, Houston, TX 2003 to 2005 Troop Lgirls Pearls and Ivy, Plano, TX Chair of organization for African American Adolescent Girls 2006 to Present Houston Association of Black Psychologists, Houston, TX 2003 to 2005 Chair of the organizations» Student Circle Expectations, Houston, TX 2003 to 2005 Program Advisor of a University of Houston student driven mentor program Girls Scouts of San Jacinto Council, Houston, TX 2003 to 2005 Troop LGirls 2006 to Present Houston Association of Black Psychologists, Houston, TX 2003 to 2005 Chair of the organizations» Student Circle Expectations, Houston, TX 2003 to 2005 Program Advisor of a University of Houston student driven mentor program Girls Scouts of San Jacinto Council, Houston, TX 2003 to 2005 Troop LGirls Scouts of San Jacinto Council, Houston, TX 2003 to 2005 Troop Leader

Depressive problems were less common in the young adolescent and young adult periods, with about 17 % to 18 % of girls having a serious problem.

It has generally been accepted, however, that as many as 20 % of adolescent girls and young women experience serious eating problems that do not meet all diagnostic criteria.

In fact, at each time of assessment, during young adolescence, mid-adolescence, and the transition to adulthood, over a quarter of the adolescent girls we studied could be categorized as having a serious eating problem4.

The results of this study indicate that participation in club sport among both younger and older adolescent girls is strongly positively associated with the SES of both their neighbourhoods and their households, particularly in metropolitan areas.

Depression and Behavioral Problems Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women Employees of the Textile Industry in India.

Parenting is a proximal variable in the causal pathway to adverse outcomes in childhood and adolescence, of which material disadvantage and economic hardship are distal variables.32 Behavioural problems and temper tantrums among young children have been shown to increase as a result of parenting changes associated with economic hardship.33 Economic deprivation has also been associated with decreased respect for the father and increased dependence on peer group for adolescent boys, and lowered feelings of self adequacy and reduced goal aspirations for adolescent girls.15 Economic hardship appears to have direct and indirect effects on adolescent functioning.

Dr. Elders» work in endocrinology is what first piqued her interest in adolescent sexual health — some of her young patients, such as young girls with diabetes, would face serious health risks if they were to become pregnant.

This study is a longitudinal prospective study that follows 164 adolescent girls who were involved in a randomized clinical trial of Treatment Foster Care of Oregon (TFCO) to young adulthood.

It is important to note that the prospective studies of Hankin et al. and Stone et al. were conducted with middle to late adolescents, whereas other studies that found support for the interaction only in girls examined younger samples (e.g., Abela and McGirr 2007).

In the prediction of suicidal ideation, peer support was significant among girls and younger adolescents only, whereas peer conflict was significant among older adolescents only.

This two - wave (3 month interval) longitudinal study of 268 young adolescents (48 % girls; M age at Time 1 = 11.84 years) examined the psychological concomitants of other - sex crush experiences (having and being viewed by others as a crush).

We assessed the continuity of adolescent disorder by following girls in a complete birth cohort who at age 15 were depressed (n = 27), conduct disordered (n = 37), or without a mental health disorder (n = 341) into young adulthood (age 21) to identify their outcomes in three domains: mental health and illegal behavior, human capital, and relationship and family formation.

Young adolescents (N = 93; 49 % girls; mean age = 12.9) and their parents took part in a problem - solving task in which adolescent disclosure, parental advice giving, and intrusiveness where observed.

Psychopathic traits are found to be present in a wide range of youths (i.e., high - risk as well as general population sample, young children as well as adolescents, boys as well as girls) and are related to delinquent behavior.