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An adolescent from an inner city or a crime-driven neighborhood is more likely to be exposed to an environment that can be detrimental to their development. Adolescence is a sensitive period in the development process, and exposure to the wrong things at that time can have a major effect on future decisions.
Adolescent health, or youth health, is the range of approaches to preventing, detecting or treating young people's health and well-being. [ 1 ] The term adolescent and young people are often used interchangeably, as are the terms Adolescent Health [ 2 ] and Youth Health.
The profoundly important Child to Adolescent Transition Study, recently published in Lancet Psychiatry — the first long-term study of its kind — revealed depression and anxiety in close to two ...
Adolescent medicine, also known as adolescent and young adult medicine, is a medical subspecialty that focuses on care of patients who are in the adolescent period of development. This period begins at puberty and lasts until growth has stopped, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] at which time adulthood begins.
This is one of Aguirre’s areas of expertise. As founding director of McLean’s adolescent DBT program, called 3East, he put together an array of DBT programs to target reducing self-endangering ...
While the cause for these declining trends in girls’ health is not entirely clear, Dr. Lonna Gordon, chief of adolescent medicine for Nemours Children’s Health in Orlando, Fla., tells Yahoo ...
Adolescent sexuality in the United States relates to the sexuality of American adolescents and its place in American society, both in terms of their feelings, behaviors and development and in terms of the response of the government, educators and interested groups.
Preadolescence is a stage of human development following middle childhood and preceding adolescence. [1] It commonly ends with the beginning of puberty. [2] Preadolescence is commonly defined as ages 9–12 [3] ending with the major onset of puberty.