Because teen-agers are often sullen, irritable, prone to mood swings and desire distance from their parents, depression can be difficult to differentiate from " normal " adolescent development.
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Self-mutilation and suicide among girls 10 to 14 more than doubled nationally over the past dozen years, according to a report by the Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development.
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The proposed changes to the Massachusetts child labor laws will help ensure that the work experience will be safe and will promote, rather than interfere, with healthy adolescent development.
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"There's a hillside with pine trees behind the cave, " said the boy's therapist, Sebastiano Santostefano, director of the Institute for Child and Adolescent Development, which commissioned the garden.
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In recent conversations, three dozen urban planners, architects, environmental psychologists and sociologists, and experts on adolescent development agreed that specific community planning and special places for teen-agers are missing.
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"It's a real mistake not to give a teen input into this, " says psychologist Anne Petersen, who specializes in adolescent development at the W . K . Kellogg Foundation.
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The U . S . model is an effort to blend the science of adolescent development with the practice principles of positive youth development to design interventions for justice-involved youth.
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With a basic understanding of these two concepts, self-esteem and self-compassion, it becomes evident that adolescent egocentrism and personal fable have important consequences and affect many aspects of adolescent development.
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These small groups are approached and discuss issues of late adolescent development, study skills for slavery, transition from school to work or tertiary study and other issues of importance to students.
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He is the founding editor of " New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development " and editor-in-chief of " The Handbook of Child Psychology " ( 1998 and 2006 editions ).
