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Emotional autonomy is defined in terms of an adolescent's relationships with others, and often includes the development of more mature emotional connections with adults and peers. [202] Behavioral autonomy encompasses an adolescent's developing ability to regulate his or her own behavior, to act on personal decisions, and to self-govern.
Emotion regulation is a complex process that involves initiating, inhibiting, or modulating one's state or behavior in a given situation — for example, the subjective experience (feelings), cognitive responses (thoughts), emotion-related physiological responses (for example heart rate or hormonal activity), and emotion-related behavior ...
Puberty is the process of physical changes through which a child's body matures into an adult body capable of sexual reproduction.It is initiated by hormonal signals from the brain to the gonads: the ovaries in a female, the testicles in a male.
Veteran journalist Abigail Shrier breaks down the causes -- and impacts -- of the mental health crisis currently impacting America's young people. Nora, 16, is a fairly typical teenager. A...
Here's when to intervene if you notice red flag behaviors in your teen, and what to look for. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ...
Hormones is a word that gets thrown around a lot, and it gets a bad rap for causing everything from weight gain and acne to mood swings. But there's a lot more truth to hormones, and how they ...
Testosterone is one of the hormones controlling libido in human beings. Emerging research [53] is showing that hormonal contraception methods like oral contraceptive pills (which rely on estrogen and progesterone together) are causing low libido in females by elevating levels of sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG). SHBG binds to sex hormones ...
Emotional dysregulation is characterized by an inability to flexibly respond to and manage emotional states, resulting in intense and prolonged emotional reactions that deviate from social norms, given the nature of the environmental stimuli encountered. Such reactions not only deviate from accepted social norms but also surpass what is ...