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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Adolescence and Adulthood"”.
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Understanding Social Role Contributions to Antisocial Behavior in Adolescence and Adulthood: A Genetically Informed Approach
Social role transitions (including marriage and parenthood) are putative factors thought to predict desistance from antisocial behavior. However, it is difficult to distinguish whether these social role transitions cause a reduction in antisociality or if individual differences in antisocial …
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Immediate and enduring effects of corticosterone administration during adolescence and adulthood on anxiety and depressive behavior in male rats
… hormone corticosterone can increase depressive and anxiety-like behavior in rats as well as dampen the HPA response to a novel stressor (Kalynchuk et aI., 2004; Johnson et aI., 2006). Several studies have also shown that adolescence is a period of increased sensitivity to the negative effects of …
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Marmoset emotional regulation during adolescence and adulthood, with a particular focus on risk-taking and the role of the subgenual anterior cingulate cortex in motivation and affective biases
Adolescence is a critical period during animal development, characterised bywidespread neural and behavioural changes, including increases in exploratory behaviour and risk-taking. These behavioural and neurobiological changes are particularly evident in primates, where social groups and …
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A Lesson in Art: Understanding and Questioning Distraction, Play, and Human Nature
<p>In making artwork using stuffed animals and video performance, I have been able to construct visual means of questioning society and its focus on interaction in nature and adolescence and adulthood. The videos in the body of artwork seek for the viewer to question the repetitive, distracting, …
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Wilson and Labor, 1912 - 1916
… the dramatic relationship between Woodrow Wilson and labor led me into a field, rich in historical implications—a veritable harvest inviting the proverbial gleaner. Being a solitary, though willing, gleaner, I paid my obeisance to necessity which demanded that I limit my horizons. As Wilson’s …
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The White gap in culturally relevant pedagogy towards integrity: An autoethnography of White racial identity
… has changed in the lives of Black students and students of color. Across the literature, researchers revealed many White teachers lack awareness of self and others. This qualitative analysis utilized the narrative form and process of autoethnography to examine how my White racial identity …
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The Short and Long-Term Effects of Chronic Ketamine during Adolescence on Object Recognition Memory in Rats
… ketamine causes deficits in object recognition and location memory following both acute and chronic administration (Pitsikas & Boultadakis, 2009; Venãncio et al., 2011). Although it is well established that abuse of many different kinds of drugs during the critical developmental period of …
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Effectiveness of manual gesture treatment on residual /r/ articulation errors
… /r/ articulation errors, presents a unique and confounding clinical challenge as "therapy resistant" residual errors persist into adolescence and adulthood in many cases. Finding paucity of empirical research for /r/ treatment, evidence-based practice (EBP) exploration in motor-related …
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Adolescent Transformation In the Short Stories of Carson McCullers
… neglected short stories "Sucker", "Like That", and "The Haunted Boy" depict stark adolescent crises. Her character analyses dramatize important elements of many theories of adolescent psychology. Each of these stories depicts what happens when something goes horribly wrong in the course of an …
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Improving routines : self-monitoring by adolescents diagnosed with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
… to present with problematic symptoms through adolescence and adulthood (Barkley, Fischer, Edelbrock, & Smallish, 1990; Young & Amarasinghe, 2010). Despite the number of adolescents suffering from ADHD and the detrimental effects the symptoms can have on their lives, there is a paucity of …
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Challenging behaviors in autism spectrum disorders : differences across childhood and the relationship with autism symptomatology
… with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) and can have a number of severe consequences. While it is believed that CBs reach their peak in childhood followed by a general abatement throughout adolescence and adulthood, the exact trend of CBs during childhood is unknown. Furthermore, the …
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The Effect of Early Childhood Attachment on Delinquency and Behavior and the Continuance into Adulthood.
… bonding is an important aspect in a child's life and must be nurtured to assure that antisocial tendencies do not erupt. Many theorists have linked criminal behavior to ineffective parenting styles. These styles usually left the child insecurely attached, with no one to talk to when stress and …
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Pakartotinai įkalintų asmenų gyvenimo eigos ypatumai /
… that manifest in repeat offenders in Lithuania and to identify the aspects that influenced the onset and continuity of criminal behavior by examining the life histories of individuals. The developmental life-course approach and Moffitt's theory are used. Developmental and life-course criminology …
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Influence of Sex, Adolescence, and Aging on the Rat Basolateral Amygdala
… an exploration of normative effects of sex, adolescence, and aging on the rat basolateral amygdala. Study one was a neuroanatomical Golgi study that examined dendritic material in adult and aged male and female basolateral nucleus, and found significant age-related increases in dendritic …
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Young women's narrative accounts of experiencing social aggression in adolescence
… seen a rise in research on social, relational and indirect aggression, with a burgeoning focus only recently on the psychosocial consequences of being a target of such behaviours. It is widely understood that experiencing social aggression can trigger internal distress for children and …
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IMPROVING THE LONGITUDINAL ASSESSMENT OF ADHD IN PEDIATRICALLY AND PSYCHIATRICALLY REFERRED SAMPLES
<p>The assessment and diagnostic process for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is beset with complications relating to the subjectivity of symptom reporting, the nonspecific and dimensional nature of inattention, impulsivity, and hyperactivity, the high prevalence of psychiatric …
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The Behavior Assessment System for Children Third Edition (BASC-3)’s Classification Accuracy for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in Young Adults
… children with ADHD had persistent symptoms into adolescence and adulthood (Resnick, 2005). It was estimated that the percentage of college-aged students with ADHD ranged somewhere between 2 and 8% (DuPaul et al., 2009). Assessing for an ADHD diagnosis determination in college student-aged …
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Mothers’ trauma histories and their infants’ social-emotional development
<p>Difficulties with emotion and physiological regulation (i.e., the ability to modulate or regulate arousal and physiological experiences) in infancy have been linked to significant social-emotional problems in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. Mothers play a critical role in helping their …
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Using the Coaching Approach Behavior and Leading By Modeling (CALM) Program to Examine Attachment and Parental Behaviors in Childhood Anxiety
… child anxiety include the child’s temperament and behavioral inhibition, insecure attachment, parental over-controlling behaviors, parental anxiety, and the impact of adverse life events on the child. Targeting these risk factors early on has the ability to lead to a decrease in anxiety …
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