• METHODS: The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Division of Adolescent and School Health (CDC/DASH) has advanced school-based approaches to STI/HIV and pregnancy prevention through surveillance, research and evaluation, and program partnership and collaboration for over 3 decades. (cdc.gov)
  • They may be in the process of developing protective skills and behaviors, or may lack knowledge about how and where to seek help for their health concerns. (wikipedia.org)
  • In addition to intervention on young people's knowledge around the risks of health-related behaviors, it is crucial to acknowledge that adolescents under the legal age of majority are often occupying an idiosyncratic legal, economic, and social state, where their rights to access confidential medical services, or to consent to preventative medical care is highly dependent on the laws and practices of where they reside. (wikipedia.org)
  • An emphasis on individual risk behaviors may obfuscate the role of institutional barriers to performing protective health behaviors. (wikipedia.org)
  • and facilitate discussion about factors that lead to involvement in health-risk behaviors. (researchgate.net)
  • It is not just about filling out a health form (which we certainly do) but, more importantly, to renew our relationship, update immunizations and laboratory tests, and screen for any physical or psychosocial problems or health-risk behaviors that may need attention or anticipatory guidance. (medstarhealth.org)
  • Findings from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Youth Risk Behavior Survey highlight concerning levels of violence, poor mental health, and suicidal thoughts and behaviors among adolescents. (uwosh.edu)
  • Review key risk behaviors and experiences challenging the adolescent population in the U.S. (uwosh.edu)
  • Preventive health services can have a significant impact on an adolescent's immediate and life-long health by reducing risk behaviors and preventing negative health outcomes. (cdc.gov)
  • Youth who feel sad and hopeless are more likely to engage in behaviors that put them at risk for HIV, STDs, unintended pregnancy, violence, substance use, poor grades, and potentially life-long health problems. (cdc.gov)
  • Chi-square tests and logistic regressions were used to investigate associations between coerced first intercourse and selected reproductive health behaviors and outcomes. (guttmacher.org)
  • BACKGROUND: School health education, including sexual health education, plays a crucial role in shaping adolescents' protective health behaviors, experiences, and outcomes. (cdc.gov)
  • Adolescents need functional knowledge and skills to practice, adopt, and maintain healthy behaviors for preventing sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and unintended pregnancy. (cdc.gov)
  • Preventable health risk behaviors are often established during adolescence and continue into adulthood. (cdc.gov)
  • Just as schools are critical to preparing students academically and socially, they are also vital partners in helping young people take responsibility for their health and adopt health-enhancing attitudes and behaviors that can last a lifetime. (cdc.gov)
  • This book provides an overview of risk and protective factors for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) youth and emerging adults to inform the clinical practice of mental health professionals who work with this population. (rowman.com)
  • Grounded in multicultural, intersectional, and positive youth development frameworks, this book emphasizes holistic health perspectives, integrated care approaches (of mental health with general health service delivery), and interdisciplinary team efforts targeting both the psychological and physical health needs of children, adolescents, and emerging adults. (rowman.com)
  • Mental health professionals and educators at any stage of their career who want to expand their knowledge base and improve their skill level for working effectively with LGBTQ+ children, adolescents, and emerging adults will find this a thought-provoking and illuminating resource. (rowman.com)
  • The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study suggests that ACEs are common, and are predictive of adverse physical health outcomes (ischemic heart disease, cancer, chronic lung disease) in adults. (wikipedia.org)
  • Young people have specific health problems and developmental needs that differ from those of children or adults: The causes of ill-health in adolescents are mostly psychosocial rather than biological. (wikipedia.org)
  • At the same time, adolescents as an age group do not have the same economic power as adults, and may be unable to pay for or transport themselves to medical screening or treatment, whether for physical or behavioral health issues. (wikipedia.org)
  • Because chlamydial infections are common among adolescents and young adults throughout the United States, health-care providers and other agencies serving these groups should become more involved if a sufficiently large proportion of the chlamydia-infected population is to be reached. (cdc.gov)
  • Chlamydia trachomatis infections are common in sexually active adolescents and young adults in the United States (CDC, unpublished review). (cdc.gov)
  • Adolescents and young adults are at substantial risk of becoming infected with chlamydia. (cdc.gov)
  • MIPE is focused on creating an integrated behavioral health system of care that promotes social-emotional learning (SEL) and fosters resiliency among adolescents and young adults. (clarku.edu)
  • The increased burden due to drug abuse among adolescents and young adults was shown by the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study in 2013 [ 2 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Some adolescents or young adults may experience more serious developmental or emotional difficulties that require further in-depth evaluation and treatment. (medstarhealth.org)
  • Since adolescents and young adults often acquire HIV through sexual activity, they are excellent candidates for intervention and prevention programs that have been implemented. (medscape.com)
  • Guidelines for Use of Antiretroviral Agents in HIV Infected Adults and Adolescents Table 24a-f. provide further information on drug interactions. (medscape.com)
  • The medical center provides inpatient mental health services for adults age 18 and older in Los Angeles. (211la.org)
  • These events are mirrored by data from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and multiple research studies that reveal the unique factors associated with agricultur al disease and injury and their unwitting victims - children who deserve protection and supervision by adults. (cdc.gov)
  • Teens in the United States are less likely than younger children and adults to receive recommended preventive health services. (cdc.gov)
  • The brief provides a summary of the challenges that adolescents face in gaining access to health and nutrition services and maintaining their health, nutrition and economic wellbeing - these barriers include stigma and discrimination, dependence on support from others and adolescents falling between the services designed for children and those designed for adults. (ennonline.net)
  • Over the past several years, there have been significant changes to the immunization schedules for children, adolescents, and adults. (netce.com)
  • This course will focus on the immunization schedules for children, adolescents, and adults, with an emphasis on vaccinations that are routine for most healthy persons. (netce.com)
  • Because adolescence represents a life stage of increasing psychosocial independence, but one of limited legal and social rights (for those who have not reached the legal age of adulthood where they reside), adolescent health exists at the intersection of many forces often outside of the control of individual young people. (wikipedia.org)
  • Adolescence has been described as a time of intense emotional reactions and a peak in a significant number of mental health issues. (alliedacademies.org)
  • Many adult health problems have their origins in adolescence and young adulthood, so discussions about smoking, alcohol and drug use, sexuality, mood, nutrition, sleep, and exercise are among the important subjects we review. (medstarhealth.org)
  • Poor mental health is associated with health risks during adolescence and into adulthood. (cdc.gov)
  • As adolescents with more severe depressive symptoms are at greater risk of developing clinically diagnosed depressive disorders in adolescence and beyond, our results have important implications for prevention and intervention strategies. (ucdavis.edu)
  • The Adolescence, Mental Health and Developing Mind initiative is a £35million UK-wide programme funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and led by the Medical Research Council (MRC) with the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). (ncb.org.uk)
  • To mark World Mental Health Day, Gill Attrill - Director of the UKRI Adolescence, Mental Health and Developing Mind initiative - shares her thoughts on how the programme is exploring how mental health needs emerge in young people, what makes some more resilient or vulnerable than others, and how we can promote positive mental health and wellbeing by intervening early. (ncb.org.uk)
  • Children and young people who experience multiple Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are at heightened risk of developing mental health needs in late adolescence and adulthood. (ncb.org.uk)
  • Overview of Mental Health Disorders Children and Adolescents Several important mental health disorders, such as depression, anxiety disorders, and eating disorders, often start during childhood and adolescence. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Introduction to Problems in Adolescents For most children, adolescence is a period of good physical health. (msdmanuals.com)
  • MedStar Health has expert adolescent medicine physicians who offer specialized, routine, and acute medical care to adolescents ages 12 through 22-all within a trusting and compassionate environment. (medstarhealth.org)
  • Health-risk behaviour is a leading contributor to morbidity and mortality among children, which are established during childhood and extend into adulthood [10] . (researchgate.net)
  • All these factors are crucial to helping young people develop their full potential and attain the best health in the transition to adulthood. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Pediatric depression in the form of childhood and adolescent major depressive disorder (MDD) is a relatively common psychiatric condition that can continue episodically into adulthood. (medscape.com)
  • Not only do we address our patients' physical, developmental, and psychosocial health needs, we also promote the health and well-being of young people through educational outreach to the community, including families, schools, and other health professionals. (medstarhealth.org)
  • Children and adolescents with depression frequently have poor psychosocial, academic, and family functioning. (medscape.com)
  • While the evidence base is still nascent, this report looks at the impacts of disasters and past epidemics - such as Ebola, HIV, SARS/MERS and Zika - on child and adolescent mental health and psychosocial wellbeing, and examines how these insights can guide policies and progammes to support children, their families and communities during the current pandemic. (unicef-irc.org)
  • due to the complex interactions of societal, social, and individual factors, interventions to prevent or reduce adolescents' substance consumption are difficult to design, implement and evaluate [ 19 , 20 ]. (springer.com)
  • 22 ] that included 12 randomized controlled trials not assessed in Foxcroft and Tsertsvadze's study, 7 of these 12 additional reviewed interventions were more effective than control groups. (springer.com)
  • Participants will learn several simple interventions that can be taught to adolescents at home, school, or in clinical settings. (uwosh.edu)
  • Interventions to improve adolescent women's reproductive health should directly address the issue of sexual coercion. (guttmacher.org)
  • Documenting this evidence is important as it can potentially inform comprehensive interventions and treatment programmes that are targeted at adolescents and their parents in these settings. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Interventions to address these adverse impacts include rapid screening, parenting programmes, community and school-based programmes, and using digital tools and platforms. (unicef-irc.org)
  • Accelerator interventions" that combine interventions with other health care services and through common delivery platforms, such as schools, can address multiple aspects of children's mental health simultaneously and reap benefits beyond the sum of those achieved through individual interventions. (unicef-irc.org)
  • These children and adolescents should receive particular attention through screening and targeting of interventions. (unicef-irc.org)
  • Ireland's Model of Care for the Management of Overweight and Obesity outlines a plan for treating adolescent and child obesity (CO). However, engagement with key stakeholders is required to support its implementation and improve health services. (frontiersin.org)
  • Themes were mapped to the CFIR framework to identify the type of implementation gaps that exist for treating obesity within the current health and social care system. (frontiersin.org)
  • The majority were female (91%), among which 54% reported conducting growth monitoring with a third (32.6%) giving a diagnosis of paediatric/adolescent obesity as part of their clinical practice. (frontiersin.org)
  • Survey findings will now inform a qualitative study to explore implementation barriers and facilitators and prioritise actions to improve child and adolescent obesity management. (frontiersin.org)
  • Recent data suggest that young people under 19 years of age are increasingly affected by obesity, which represents a significant global public health issue ( 2 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • According to the World Health Organization (WHO), nearly 400 million children and adolescents worldwide were estimated to be living with overweight or obesity in 2016 ( 3 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • Overweight and obesity affect nearly one in three children in the WHO European Region ( 4 ) and between 16% and 25% of children and adolescents in the Republic of Ireland (ROI) ( 5 - 7 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • Due to the impact of obesity on child health and development both in the short and long term, an Ireland National Health Service Executive (HSE) model of clinical care was developed to establish plans for the management of obesity in this population ( 8 , 9 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • Severe obesity affects the health and well-being of millions of children and adolescents in the United States and is widely considered to be an "epidemic within an epidemic" that poses a major public health crisis. (aap.org)
  • A developmen- sity from a developmental perspective combines social tal perspective recognizes the cumulative effects of factors context and biological influences with individual behav- that contribute to eating behavior and obesity, including ior (4,5). (cdc.gov)
  • Although a person is at risk for During gestation, risk factors for obesity include maternal obesity throughout his life, we focus on specific develop- diet, overweight, and smoking. (cdc.gov)
  • Another study found pregnancy has been associated with low birth weight, a that smoking during the 12 months before birth of a child marker of risk for obesity and other metabolic disorders was associated with adolescent overweight (21). (cdc.gov)
  • There is a need for effective health promotion programmes targeting in-school children in Oman, as well as regular monitoring of lifestyle behaviours associated with overweight and obesity among the younger populations. (who.int)
  • Young people often engage in health risk behaviours that reflect the processes of adolescent development: experimentation and exploration, including using drugs and alcohol, sexual behaviour, and other risk taking that affect their physical and mental health. (wikipedia.org)
  • To earn a CAMS minor, you must complete at least 5 courses (minimum 18 credits), of which Child and Adolescent Psychopathology (CAMS-UA 101) is a required foundational course. (nyu.edu)
  • To complete the CAMS minor, you must take an additional three courses selected from the CAMS course offerings, one of which must be Child and Adolescent Psychopathology (CAMS-UA 101). (nyu.edu)
  • She has experience working with LGBTQ+ couples, families, and individuals across the life span in community mental health centers, residential settings, social service agencies, and private practice. (rowman.com)
  • As a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner at Wellspring Therapeutic Partners who provides medication consultation and management, along with other mental health services, I enjoy treating the underlying causes of symptoms and concerns, and often implement nutritional, behavioral, and lifestyle modifications as part of my practice. (psychologytoday.com)
  • Demonstrate several mindfulness contemplative practice techniques to help adolescents and ourselves improve executive functioning and agency in coping, and reduce stress, anxiety, and aggression. (uwosh.edu)
  • Topics include confidentiality and information sharing in inter-professional contexts, balancing issues of control, empowerment and education, developing critical reflexivity, and appreciating the complexities and dilemmas inherent in youth work practice. (concordia.ca)
  • NCB will be working with the 7 project teams until 2026 to help ensure that the learnings from these projects have an impact on policy and practice, and ultimately improve the system of support for young people with mental health needs. (ncb.org.uk)
  • Specialized tracks include mental health, child and adolescent, gerontology, criminal and forensic practice, and community and policy practice. (sunyjcc.edu)
  • d) evaluate the MPAI-4 implementation outcomes including the degree of integration of the MPAI-4 into clinical practice and (e) explore participants' experiences using the MPAI-4. (bvsalud.org)
  • Given that the practice context plays a critical role in health care professionals' competencies, stakeholders from all sectors (education, practice, and policy) should work together to address those contextual characteristics that can adversely influence practice. (bvsalud.org)
  • The family context seems to be the place where most of the cases of such violence, whose practice in most cases, involves people who play the role of caregivers of children and adolescents. (bvsalud.org)
  • Most recently known for being a national public health issue, teen pregnancy seemed to be the one topic nearly every adult in America agreed to label as a negative outcome for young people. (siecus.org)
  • Establishing May as Sex Ed for All month also reflects an acknowledgement that sex education is so much more than just preventing pregnancy among heterosexual adolescents. (siecus.org)
  • Girls are less likely than boys to complete secondary education (Chart 3), often due to child marriage, adolescent pregnancy, and domestic work. (imf.org)
  • Dropout rates are expected to increase, especially for adolescent girls at an elevated risk of child marriage, adolescent pregnancy, and domestic work (Azevedo, et al. (imf.org)
  • The possibility of pregnancy should be discussed with all adolescent females. (medscape.com)
  • One way to prevent HIV, STDs and unintended pregnancy among teens is to increase their access to and use of SHS, including HIV testing, contraceptive counseling, gonorrhea and chlamydia testing and treatment, and Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination. (cdc.gov)
  • Schools have an opportunity to dramatically improve the health and well-being of their students each day-including playing an important role in HIV, STD, and pregnancy prevention. (cdc.gov)
  • The outcomes of this review suggest a complex interaction between a multitude of factors influencing adolescent drug abuse. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Concern over the issue of coerced sex among adolescent women has been elevated by a growing body of research-much of it from developed countries-that has reported significant associations between coerced sex and a range of negative health and reproductive health outcomes for women of reproductive age. (guttmacher.org)
  • These include (i) how systems can specifically support adolescents, (ii) specific measures to improve nutrition, including through community entry points, (iii) how information environments can promote stigma-free access to services and (iv) measures to address and transform gender inequalities in health and nutrition outcomes. (ennonline.net)
  • Transgender and gender variant (GV) youth experience elevated risk for poor health and academic outcomes due mainly to social experiences of stigma and discrimination. (cdc.gov)
  • The neurological effects included impaired cognitive ability and IQ deficits in children. (cdc.gov)
  • A Cochrane review [ 21 ] of the effectiveness of universal alcohol abuse prevention programs for children and adolescents found that less than half of the included studies (43.4%) reported significant beneficial results. (springer.com)
  • Review individual, family, and environmental factors that predict health-risk behavior among children and to propose parent-child communication processes as a mechanism to mediate them. (researchgate.net)
  • Assessment strategies to identify youth at risk for health-risk behavior are recommended and community-based strategies to improve communication among parents and children need development. (researchgate.net)
  • Secondly, to design a health risk behaviour prevention program which adequately equips senior primary school children with the necessary life skills to alter risk behaviour engagement. (researchgate.net)
  • It is now widely accepted that as many as 8 to 11% of children and adolescents suffer from anxiety that affects their ability to get on with their lives. (mentalhealth.org.uk)
  • The world of young children can be a frightening and uncertain place, as can that of adolescents, who are facing a time of rapid physical and emotional change. (mentalhealth.org.uk)
  • The Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Program at MedStar Health provides comprehensive outpatient evaluation and treatment for children and their families. (medstarhealth.org)
  • We hosted the 2001 Stueland Symposium on ''Examining Rural Environments for the Health and Safety of Children. (cdc.gov)
  • Save the Children UK and Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Youth Leaders recently released a brief making the case for prioritising adolescent health and nutrition and setting out recommendations for governments to implement a gender-transformative, adolescent-responsive approach to health and nutrition. (ennonline.net)
  • 29 July 2021, FLORENCE) From the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, concerns about its impact on the mental health of children and young people were widespread. (unicef-irc.org)
  • Too many children and young people, rich and poor alike, in all four corners of the world are experiencing mental ill health as we have never seen before. (unicef-irc.org)
  • The review finds that children and young people are at elevated risks of anxiety and depression, trauma, loneliness and isolation, suicide, and loss, which can have acute and long-lasting effects on child and adolescent mental health. (unicef-irc.org)
  • As is often the case, the most vulnerable children and adolescents are likely to be hardest hit by mental health impacts. (unicef-irc.org)
  • There is substantive evidence that COVID-19's biggest impact on children is on their socioeconomic environment, including access to social services, household poverty, and mobility restrictions. (unicef-irc.org)
  • The review notes a paucity of evidence on youth mental health, particularly for younger children. (unicef-irc.org)
  • It's pretended to contribute to the efectivation of the children and adolescents' rights, giving elements to the structuration of combat to the intrafamiliar violence networks, and the capacitation on its professionals. (bvsalud.org)
  • It is classified as violence against children and adolescents in four ways: physical abuse, neglect or deprivation of care, the psychological and the sexual. (bvsalud.org)
  • The two conditions that affect mental health the most frequently are depression and anxiety. (alliedacademies.org)
  • Nearly 50% of all mental health issues, such as anxiety, aggression, and depression, appear to begin before the age of 14. (alliedacademies.org)
  • Our physicians specialize in the treatment of conditions such as anxiety, depression and bipolar disorder and have over 30 years of experience in psychiatry and mental health. (psychologytoday.com)
  • We are committed to providing services to clients who suffer from any emotional or mental health issues -- depression, anxiety, trauma, obsessions, addiction, among other issues. (psychologytoday.com)
  • While adverse childhood circumstances, biologic processes, and genetic factors all play a role in the development of depression, the final common pathways to depression involve neurochemical changes in the brain. (medscape.com)
  • Research on depression in adolescents in recent years has focused on how the physical brain and social experiences interact. (ucdavis.edu)
  • A new University of California, Davis, study, however, shows that adolescents with large hippocampal volume were more, or less, susceptible to feelings of depression depending on how unsafe - or conversely - protected they felt in their home and community environments. (ucdavis.edu)
  • Traditionally, research has shown that a smaller hippocampus is implicated in depression, but this study showed that a larger hippocampus may indicate a greater ability for adolescents to take advantage of the support in their environments and overcome fear, anxiety and depression. (ucdavis.edu)
  • The study , "Hippocampal Volume as Amplifier of Effect of Social Context on Adolescent Depression," is co-authored by faculty from the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain, and the departments of psychology and human ecology. (ucdavis.edu)
  • Our aim is to educate tomorrow's leaders about child and adolescent emotional and behavioral health issues and to help address the ongoing shortage of pediatric mental health practitioners. (nyu.edu)
  • We are committed to helping all of our patients have a smooth transition from pediatric to adult health care. (medstarhealth.org)
  • Hence, this systematic review aimed to determine the risk and protective factors of drug abuse among adolescents worldwide. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Our aim is to conduct a systematic review, exploring the determinants and associated factors that influence adolescent substance use in Africa. (biomedcentral.com)
  • A recently published systematic review found that the overall prevalence of 'any substance use' among adolescents in sub-Saharan African is 41.6%, with alcohol and tobacco being the highest prevailing substances (i.e. 40.8% and 45.6%, respectively) across the continent compared to any other substance use [ 12 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • To our knowledge, there is no systematic review that provides an accurate understanding of the determinants of adolescent substance use in Africa. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The lack of positive effects highlights the need for policy-makers and public health officials need to carefully consider and evaluate prevention programs in order to ensure that they are worthwhile from school, health, and societal perspectives. (springer.com)
  • Despite a societal mind shift to educating the public on the prevention of health risk behaviour, behavioural change is not progressing at the rate needed to influence health risk behaviour positively. (researchgate.net)
  • Dr. Haddock's areas of expertise include SEL, child and adolescent behavioral health, and school-based prevention and intervention. (clarku.edu)
  • Therefore, successful adolescent drug abuse prevention programs will require extensive work at all levels of domains. (biomedcentral.com)
  • He studies the prevalence, prevention, and treatment of mental health and substance use disorders in adolescents, service members and veterans, and minority populations. (rand.org)
  • He has conducted research on suicide and suicide prevention including environmental scans of suicide prevention programs, epidemiologic studies on risk factors for suicide, qualitative research with suicide loss survivors, systematic reviews of the role of firearm availability, storage, and policies on suicide, and evaluations of suicide prevention programs. (rand.org)
  • This is an important era for people working in public health and injury prevention. (cdc.gov)
  • Each report that reaches our office generates responses among our staff that include investigative curiosity, provocative discussions, challenges to social norms, increased commitment to searching out effective prevention strategies and, occasionally, intense frustration. (cdc.gov)
  • Students have the opportunity to develop, and apply within the classroom, knowledge and skills related to addictions and mental illness prevention, assessment and intervention, and mental health promotion. (concordia.ca)
  • The opinions expressed by authors contributing to this journal do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the US Department of Health and Human Services, the Public Health Service, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or the authors' affiliated institutions. (cdc.gov)
  • National Prevention Information Network Connecting public health professionals with trusted information and each other. (cdc.gov)
  • Talk sexual health services with other STD prevention professionals. (cdc.gov)
  • The World Health Organization 'Global standards for quality health-care services for adolescents' include: Adolescents' health literacy Community support Appropriate package of services Providers' competencies Facility characteristics Equity and non-discrimination Standard Data and quality improvement Adolescents' participation Youth Health includes adolescent medicine as a speciality, along with other primary and tertiary care services. (wikipedia.org)
  • The World Health Organization defines domestic violence as "the range of sexually, psychologically and physically coercive acts used against adult and adolescent women by current or former male intimate partners. (guttmacher.org)
  • We will search the following databases (from January 2000 onwards): PubMed, the Cochrane Library, African Journals Online (AJOL), Google Scholar, ScienceDirect and the World Health Organization (WHO) African Index Medicus. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Licensee: World Health Organization. (who.int)
  • Many U.S. schools already have healthcare service infrastructure in place, including school-based health centers (SBHCs) or school nurses, and can play an important role in providing adolescents access to information to help reduce their risk and to services if they are needed. (cdc.gov)
  • Gender power inequities are believed to play a key for example, showed "pervasive male control over almost role in the HIV epidemic through their effects on women's every aspect of [women's] early sexual experiences," power in sexual relationships. (cdc.gov)
  • ABSTRACT This study investigated the attitudes of Omani adolescents towards gender roles and women's empowerment in taking household decisions, and the determinants of their positive attitudes. (who.int)
  • In recent years, women's health has be- tion in the labour force in future come an increasingly visible and important generations. (who.int)
  • Organization (WHO) issued its first gender to investigate the attitudes of Omani adoles- policy statement, acknowledging the gen- cents towards gender roles and women's der issue as important in its own work [ 2 ]. (who.int)
  • Coerced first intercourse is an important social and public health problem that has potentially serious repercussions for young women's reproductive health and well-being. (guttmacher.org)
  • The substances that are used most by adolescents are alcohol, nicotine (in tobacco or vaping products), and cannabis. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Commentary from additional public health, medical, and laboratory practitioners also was considered in developing these recommendations. (cdc.gov)
  • Through education, screening, partner referral, and proper patient care, public health workers and health-care practitioners can combine efforts to decrease the morbidity and costs resulting from this infection. (cdc.gov)
  • To address this gap, we have created a curriculum to encourage college students interested in pursuing careers in social work, education and special education, nursing, public health, psychology, and psychiatry to consider a career in the field of child and adolescent psychiatry. (nyu.edu)
  • In light of this, preventing adolescents from starting to use alcohol or other substances, or delaying the onset of use, is a fundamental task for public health work. (springer.com)
  • Background Health risk behaviour among South African youth is a significant public health concern. (researchgate.net)
  • and public health approaches to combatting violent extremism. (rand.org)
  • He holds a Ph.D. in psychiatric epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a B.A. in economics from the University of Chicago. (rand.org)
  • Negative messages were developed by organizations within the public health and nonprofit industry. (siecus.org)
  • Announced during Clinton's 1996 State Of The Union speech , a predominantly white adult task force was created to develop public health initiatives and marketing campaigns, using images of young Black and Latinx mothers to galvanize national support and reframe young and single parenthood as, "bad life choices. (siecus.org)
  • The Symposium is offered in cooperation with the UW-La Crosse Department of Public Health and Community Health Education, UW-La Crosse Graduate & Extended Learning and the UW Oshkosh Division of Online and Continuing Education. (uwosh.edu)
  • Staff maintained involvement and leadership roles in national organizations, including the American Public Health Association, the National Institute for Farm Safety and the American Society of Agricultur al Engineers. (cdc.gov)
  • Experience based co-design will be used to co-create a public health resource and a serious game. (ncb.org.uk)
  • Adolescent substance use continues to be a growing major public health concern in Africa. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Those guidelines highlighted the prevalence and morbidity of chlamydial infections and stressed the need to include antibiotics effective against chlamydia when treating patients for urethritis, mucopurulent cervicitis, and pelvic inflammatory disease. (cdc.gov)
  • Prevalence has been highest ( greater than 10%) among sexually active, adolescent females (CDC, unpublished review). (cdc.gov)
  • 2 However, comparatively few studies from developing countries have explored the prevalence of sexual abuse and coercion specifically among adolescent women. (guttmacher.org)
  • Recent studies infer an overall estimated prevalence of 42% among adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa. (biomedcentral.com)
  • About 14% of the total health burden in young men is caused by alcohol and drug abuse. (biomedcentral.com)
  • A review of 158 studies confirm key accelerating measures for improving mental health: interpersonal skills, emotional regulation, and direct alcohol and drug education. (unicef-irc.org)
  • Not surprisingly, substance use is common as adolescents get older, and many adolescents will try alcohol before high school graduation. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Alcohol use is common and is the substance most often used by adolescents. (msdmanuals.com)
  • NYU Langone's Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry offers an undergraduate minor in child and adolescent mental health studies (CAMS) for students enrolled at other NYU schools or colleges. (nyu.edu)
  • The U.S. Federal Bureau of Health Workforce has named child and adolescent psychiatry the most underserved of all medical subspecialties. (nyu.edu)
  • There are approximately 8,300 practicing child and adolescent psychiatrists in the United States, but more than 15 million youth in need of their expertise. (nyu.edu)
  • This study looked at the relationships between the PIU, mental health issues, the strength of the parent-child bond, and adolescent-parent conflicts in teenagers [ 3 ]. (alliedacademies.org)
  • These findings clarify the relationship between the PIU, the strength of the parent-child bond, adolescent-parent conflict, and mental health issues. (alliedacademies.org)
  • CFIR mapping identified several facilitators and barriers including time for clinical encounters, suitable materials and equipment, adequate training, perceived professional competency and self-efficacy, human equality and child-centredness, relative priorities, local attitudes, referral protocols, and long waiting times. (frontiersin.org)
  • The United Kingdom is currently living through a crisis in child and adolescent mental health, with rates of probable mental disorders having doubled since 2017 and remaining at elevated levels since the Covid-19 pandemic. (ncb.org.uk)
  • With additional education after you graduate from JCC, you'll be able to work in roles such as social worker, case manager, counselor, clinician, policy analyst, policy advocate, and child protective care worker. (sunyjcc.edu)
  • A new report by UNICEF Innocenti, ' Mind Matters: Lessons from past crises for child and adolescent mental health during COVID-19 ', reviews the impact of past crises (such as natural disasters and the HIV epidemic) on youth mental health with the aim of informing responses to the current crisis. (unicef-irc.org)
  • By studying the Statute of the Child and Adolescent - (Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente ECA), it is noted in its article 13, that "suspected or confirmed cases of abuse against a child or adolescent must be reported to the Tutelary Council of the respective locality, without prejudice to other legal action" 5 . (bvsalud.org)
  • Studies about young people's access to healthcare have identified major barriers including concerns about confidentiality, practitioners attitudes and communication style, environment, availability of services, cost and the developmental characteristics of young people. (wikipedia.org)
  • There are many factors that increase vulnerability to addiction, including developmental stage, exposure to early life adversity (ranging from abuse and neglect to and bullying), drug exposure, and genetic predisposition [ 13 ]. (springer.com)
  • In modern Western society, substance use is an easy way for adolescents to satisfy the normal developmental need to take risks and seek thrills. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Since decolonization, Sub-Saharan Africa has made great progress on human capital-the knowledge, skills, and health that people accumulate throughout their lives, enabling them to realize their productive potential. (imf.org)
  • 2018). Furthermore, sub-Saharan Africa is the only region of the world where the percentage of out-of-school adolescents rose recently, from 35.9 percent in 2018 to 36.6 percent in 2020 (UNESCO, 2021). (imf.org)
  • 5 These quantitative results have been reinforced by qualitative findings from Sub-Saharan Africa that underscore the important role that coercion frequently plays in compelling young women to engage in sexual intercourse. (guttmacher.org)
  • This review will describe the range of determinants and associated factors found to significantly influence adolescent substance use in Africa over the last two decades. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Adolescent health, or youth health, is the range of approaches to preventing, detecting or treating young people's health and well-being. (wikipedia.org)
  • Youth health is founded on collaborative approaches that address social justice. (wikipedia.org)
  • Youth development approaches include youth empowerment and youth participation. (wikipedia.org)
  • We will explore e-cigarettes, their evolution, trends in use, associated health harms, and clinical approaches to preventing initiation and treating addiction. (uwosh.edu)
  • There has been less attention on how schools can improve youth health services despite evidence for promising approaches. (cdc.gov)
  • The brief calls for adolescent-responsive health and nutrition systems and gender-transformative approaches. (ennonline.net)
  • Gender-transformative approaches attempt to promote gender equality by (i) fostering a critical examination of inequalities and gender roles, norms and dynamics, (2) recognising and strengthening positive norms that support equality and an enabling environment, (3) promoting the relative position of women, girls and marginalised groups and transforming the underlying social structures, policies and broadly held social norms that perpetuate and legitimise gender inequalities. (ennonline.net)
  • The digital world, perhaps the biggest change to human culture since the industrial revolution, presents both opportunities and risks for young people's development, mental health and wellbeing, and involves all aspects of their lives. (ncb.org.uk)
  • It highlights the increasing de-prioritisation and reduced investment in adolescent health and nutrition in this critical period when adolescents face increasing health risks and gender inequities further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. (ennonline.net)
  • To supplement the growing evidence on health risks encountered by transgender/GV youth, we identified factors theorized to be protective for these youth across all four levels of Bronfenbrenner's socioecological model (individual, relationship, community, societal). (cdc.gov)
  • Adolescent health also encompasses children's and young people's sexual and reproductive health (SRH). (wikipedia.org)
  • The Human Capital Index, which measures children's future productivity relative to a benchmark of full health and complete education, increased in nearly all sub-Saharan countries from 2010 to 2020 (Chart 1). (imf.org)
  • National Children's Center for Rural and Agricultur al Health and Safety: 2001 year in review. (cdc.gov)
  • We are pleased to report highlights of the National Children's Center during 2001, including: The National Adolescent Farm worker Occupational Health and Safety Advisory Committee released its final report. (cdc.gov)
  • The term adolescent and young people are often used interchangeably, as are the terms Adolescent Health and Youth Health. (wikipedia.org)
  • This global brief was created in recognition of the multiple commitment-making moments in 2021 and beyond (including the Nutrition for Growth Year of Action, the Global Financing Facility Replenishment Event, the UN Food Systems and Lives in the Balance Summits, Family Planning 2030 and the Generation Equality Summit) and the opportunity these moments present to further adolescent health and nutrition. (ennonline.net)
  • Various community youth development models are explored in-depth with practical applications for community-based youth programs, including life skills, assets, resiliency, and ecological models. (concordia.ca)
  • Prosocial behaviour and adolescent-parent disputes were predicted by disclosure and positive quality relationships, whereas problems and adolescent-parent conflicts were predicted by negative quality relationships. (alliedacademies.org)
  • Participation in risk-taking behaviour such as substance use decreased physical activity, and risky sexual behaviour practices usually make their debut during adolescents and thus have primarily been studied during that phase of development [11]. (researchgate.net)
  • Other questions included demographic data, risk behaviour lifestyle, proxies to mental health and social environments expected to predict attitudes towards gender role. (who.int)
  • Health and illness are determined by complex interactions between social and economic factors, the physical environment and individual behaviour [ 14 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • We know that many distinct challenges exist in adolescent and young adult health care. (medstarhealth.org)
  • Under HIPAA, medical providers are no longer permitted to discuss health issues with you without express consent from your now young adult. (medstarhealth.org)
  • This is important to keep in mind when trying to call for health questions when your young adult is away at college. (medstarhealth.org)
  • Factors for drug abuse include a variety of protective and risk factors. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The research represents a significant step forward to better understanding the complex interactive role of biological and environmental factors in both risk and resilience to depressive symptoms, the study found. (ucdavis.edu)
  • The risk of poor mental health is not equally distributed amongst young people, and certain groups are at heightened risk of developing mental health problems. (ncb.org.uk)
  • The Programme consists of 7 individual projects focusing on adolescent mental health in a specific target group known to be at higher risk of developing mental health problems. (ncb.org.uk)
  • These products put adolescents who do start using substances at higher risk of developing both short- and long-term consequences. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Social, cultural and environmental factors are all important areas of focus in adolescent health. (wikipedia.org)
  • The purpose of the study was to determine whether experiences of being bullied or cyberbullied are associated with mental health issues and whether these associations are influenced by gender and perceived social support. (alliedacademies.org)
  • The online survey includes questions about mental health challenges, perceived social support, and bullying victims. (alliedacademies.org)
  • We tested whether perceived social support and gender had any moderating effects on the links between bullying, cyberbullying, and mental health issues. (alliedacademies.org)
  • It could originate from a variety of places, including one's family, friends, instructors, community, or other social groups to which one belongs. (alliedacademies.org)
  • According to multiple regression analysis, problems and adolescent-parent disputes were significantly predicted by excessive Internet use and its social benefits. (alliedacademies.org)
  • Les autres questions comprenaient des données démographiques, le mode de vie associé à des comportements à risque, des indications indirectes liées à la santé mentale et l'environnement social qui devraient permettre de prédire les attitudes à l'égard des rôles attribués aux hommes et aux femmes. (who.int)
  • In 2019, several leading national organizations, including SIECUS: Sex Ed for Social Change, Advocates for Youth, Answer, Healthy Teen Network, Power to Decide, and Planned Parenthood, finally heeded the call from NoTeenShame and other on-the-ground advocates from across the country. (siecus.org)
  • The region's progress is, in large part, a result of improved access to services and narrowing gender gaps in education, health, nutrition, and social protection. (imf.org)
  • This breakout session will explore the latest research from Jon Haidt and Jean Twenge on the negative effects of social media, digital devices, and lack of play on adolescent mental health. (uwosh.edu)
  • Services provided in these units include assessment, individual psychotherapy, pharmacological services, adjunctive therapy and social work support. (211la.org)
  • Schools can provide social, physical, behavioral, and mental health services and build an environment that provides a sense of safety and connection for all students. (cdc.gov)
  • Unfortunately, this phenomenon is not adequately documented across many settings in the continent despite known negative health and social consequences on affected individuals and their communities. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Actual fertility remains above desired fertility as adolescent girls and women lack fully realized reproductive rights and access to quality, affordable reproductive health care. (imf.org)
  • Although there is increasing recognition of the scope and significance of sexual coercion experienced by adolescent women in developing countries, evidence on its consequences for reproductive health remains limited. (guttmacher.org)
  • To accomplish this, the MIPE team is innovating in the creation and delivery of technology-enabled behavioral health services responsive to the needs of youth and their families and communities. (clarku.edu)
  • The brief provides model commitments for advocates, governments and donors and calls for governments to increase their commitment to invest in gender- and adolescent-responsive, integrated health and nutrition services. (ennonline.net)
  • An adolescent-responsive approach is a systems approach that integrates adolescent services into each building block of the health and nutrition system and adapts policies, procedures and programmes to respond to the unique and diverse needs and preferences of adolescents. (ennonline.net)
  • The brief identifies the core components of adolescent-responsive and gender-transformative minimum services. (ennonline.net)
  • Helping adolescents make healthy choices requires the involvement of families, communities, and many other sectors of society-schools are an essential part of that effort. (cdc.gov)
  • It uses programme evidence and experience from SUN Youth Leaders to demonstrate barriers and opportunities for adolescents in nutrition and health and provides an evidence-informed resource demonstrating the links between gender equity, girls' empowerment and health and nutrition. (ennonline.net)
  • G. Nic Rider , PhD, LP, is an assistant professor at the Institute for Sexual and Gender Health at the University of Minnesota Medical School and director at the National Center for Gender Spectrum Health. (rowman.com)
  • Gender power inequities play a key role in the HIV epi- and HIV-preventive practices in the developed world, pri- demic through their effects on sexual relationships (3-5). (cdc.gov)
  • It's an important effort to re-center the fact that sex education's primary role is to promote healthy sexual development and skills for navigating healthy relationships throughout all people's lives. (siecus.org)
  • This new observance is an acknowledgement that any sexual health program that neglects to recognize and address the lived experiences of its students-or worse, actively shames them-is failing. (siecus.org)
  • Schools can play a critical role in facilitating the delivery of needed health services to teens, including sexual health services (SHS). (cdc.gov)
  • CDC/DASH's approach to effective health and sexual health education in schools has changed dramatically over the past 30years and must continue to progress. (cdc.gov)
  • The district-provided supports appeared to contribute to improved teachers self-efficacy in delivering sexual health education. (cdc.gov)
  • This annual gathering of educators, youth workers, educational administrators, community leaders, and health and human service professionals advances key topics in the areas of health education and adolescent wellness. (uwosh.edu)
  • The programme runs until 2026 and will explore how mental health needs emerge in young people, what makes some more resilient or vulnerable than others, and how we can promote positive mental health and wellbeing by intervening early. (ncb.org.uk)
  • Such an effort is now possible because of a) expanding educational efforts stimulated by the epidemic of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and other sexually transmitted diseases, and b) the availability of chlamydia tests that are easy to use, economical, and accurate, thereby allowing health-care providers to diagnose and treat infected persons and their sex partners. (cdc.gov)
  • In the United States, published studies of sexually active females screened during visits to health-care providers indicate that age is the sociodemographic factor most strongly associated with chlamydial infection. (cdc.gov)
  • Adolescents who are undergoing their growth-spurt period (ie, Tanner stage 3 in females and Tanner stage 4 in males) should follow the adult dosing guidelines. (medscape.com)
  • California, USA of questions on related issues was included. (cdc.gov)
  • The likelihood of mental health issues and decreased engagement rise with the presence of a neurodevelopmental disorder (NDD). (alliedacademies.org)
  • We looked into the patterns of participation and mental health issues in adolescents with NDD and contrasted them with patterns in peers without NDD. (alliedacademies.org)
  • Investigations were also conducted into the connections between participation, mental health (well-being), and mental health issues [ 2 ]. (alliedacademies.org)
  • The annual checkup is an excellent time to discuss a broad range of health issues and have a complete physical examination. (medstarhealth.org)
  • Mental health issues have been reported in up to 70% of perinatally infected youth, potentially complicating treatment and adherence. (medscape.com)
  • Topics include supervisory relationship and process issues, self-care, ethical and professional considerations, leadership and mentoring relationships, multi-disciplinary teams and teamwork, managing change, debriefing in response to a crisis and developing, implementing and monitoring effective and collaborative case plans with young people and their families. (concordia.ca)
  • This is one in a series of stories produced for Mental Health Awareness Month illustrating how UC Davis plays an active role in research, treatment and recognition of mental health issues. (ucdavis.edu)
  • We use alternatives methods that bring the eastern and western knowledge of health care together to accomplish your goals. (psychologytoday.com)
  • NLA is comprised of a specialized team of mental health providers with expertise of alternative methods that are holistic and traditional providing optimal care. (psychologytoday.com)
  • Our holistic model encompass other methods to heal mental health from the inside out. (psychologytoday.com)
  • Quality assessment was done using Mixed Methods Appraisal Tools (MMAT) version 2018 to assess the methodological quality of the included studies. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Marginalised young people can have greater difficulty accessing health services and need support to navigate the health system. (wikipedia.org)
  • Proven school-based programs can offer the support young people need to prevent and reduce the negative impact of violence and improve mental health. (uwosh.edu)
  • However, why some young people develop mental health needs after suffering numerous ACEs, and others do not, is not well understood and results in many young people not receiving the more effective support. (ncb.org.uk)
  • Faced with a potential "pandemic within a pandemic", evidence-informed responses are urgently needed to support mental health. (unicef-irc.org)
  • h mental health youth leaders to learn what they think is needed to better support youth mental health. (unicef-irc.org)
  • In Ethiopia, the fertility rate for adolescent girls fell from 116 births per 1,000 in 1960 to sixty-three in 2019 (UNFPA, 2020). (imf.org)
  • Cristina L. Magalhães , PhD, LMHC (she/her), is professor of clinical psychology, director of the Clinical PsyD Program, and coordinator of the Rockway Certificate in LGBTQ Mental Health and Human Services at the California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP) at Alliant International University, Los Angeles. (rowman.com)
  • Drawing upon decades of experience, RAND provides research services, systematic analysis, and innovative thinking to a global clientele that includes government agencies, foundations, and private-sector firms. (rand.org)
  • The agency provides health services for people of all ages who live in the Pasadena area. (211la.org)
  • The agency provides mental health services for people of all ages who live in Claremont, La Verne and Pomona. (211la.org)
  • The center provides health services for girls and women of all ages in the San Gabriel Valley area. (211la.org)
  • Schools can help increase student access to health services. (cdc.gov)
  • Schools have direct daily contact with more than 15.4 million students attending grades 9-12 in 2020, making schools vital partners in connecting teens to health services. (cdc.gov)
  • School districts can help teens access health services either through provision of on-site school services or by referrals to youth-friendly health care providers in the community. (cdc.gov)
  • CDC recommends actions that school districts and schools can take to ensure students have access to key SHS through on-site services at schools, or off-site referrals to youth-friendly, community-based health service providers. (cdc.gov)
  • One of CDC's key programmatic strategies is to improve schools' capacity to increase adolescents' access to key preventive SHS either by providing on-site services or making referrals to adolescent-friendly community-based health service providers. (cdc.gov)
  • and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Analysis. (ucdavis.edu)
  • 5Directorate General of Health Services, Al-Buraimi, Oman. (who.int)
  • RÉSUMÉ La présente étude a examiné les attitudes des adolescents omanais à l'égard des rôles de l'homme et de la femme et de l'autonomisation de la femme dans la prise de décisions au sein du ménage, et les déterminants de leurs attitudes positives. (who.int)
  • 1675 filles des écoles secondaires a rempli un auto-questionnaire comportant deux indices : les attitudes des adolescents à l'égard des rôles de l'homme et de la femme et les attitudes des adolescents à l'égard de l'autonomisation de la femme. (who.int)