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Transition of Health Care For Adolescent Patients With Neurofibromatosis Type I: Parent Perspectives
<p>Transition is a critical time for adolescents and young adults living with a genetic disorder. During this time, an adolescent faces the demands of having to gain a more complete understanding of his or her disorder and its clinical features, learning how to effectively manage his or her medical …
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Staff Support Worker perceptions of adolescent patients diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder: an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
Background: Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) patients are considered among the most challenging groups to work with, being associated with impulsive risk-taking behaviours and difficulties engaging in the therapeutic alliance (Bender, 2005; Black, Blum, Pfohl, & Hale, 2004; Cruz & Soriano, …
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Art Therapy Based Outcome Study for Assessment of Adolescent Acute Care Treatment: A Progrtam Designed for Acute Care Adolescent Patients
… can be used as a less threatening way for patients to communicate feelings and explore their</p> <p>internal process.</p> <p>This outcome study will use an art based assessment and a verbal self-report to measure the effectiveness of art therapy as a salient tool for emotional expression. …
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Challenges encountered by frontline professionals in care for adolescents who self-harm. A qualitative study conducted on an inpatient unit implementing Adolescent Mentalization-Based Integrative Treatment (AMBIT)
Research: The prevalence rate of self-harm among adolescents is high and rising. This is a worrying trend, considering that self-harm is associated with poor mental health and an increased risk of suicide. However, research literature suggests that adolescents rarely seek help and that caring for …
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Sibling Relationships in Adolescent Eating Disorder Treatment
… of sibling relationships amongst a sample of adolescent patients receiving treatment for an eating disorder. Despite the importance of siblings in adolescents' lives and the utilization of family-based treatment (FBT) as the gold standard treatment, sibling relationships are often overlooked. …
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Factors influencing the psychological adjustment of young patients with Type 1 diabetes in the first year after diagnosis
… the psychological adjustment of children and adolescents with Type 1 diabetes such as metabolic control (McDonnell et al., 2007), maternal functioning (Schmidt, 2007) and protective parenting (Mullins et al., 2004). Parenting factors may have an impact on young children (Whittemore et al., …
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Die Veränderung neuroendokrinologischer Parameter und neuropsychologischer Funktionen bei adoleszenten Patientinnen mit Anorexia nervosa vor und nach Gewichtsrehabilitation im Vergleich zu gesunden Kontrollprobandinnen
… parameters and neuropsychological functions in adolescent patients with anorexia nervosa before and after weight recovery. Studies with adult patients suffering from eating disorder point to an impairment in executive functions, sustained attention and cognitive flexibility as well as in …
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Adolescent adherence to orthopedic brace wear: A behavioral assessment of high risk factors
… challenge physicians encounter when treating adolescent patients with moderate scoliotic curves is that the adolescents may not wear the brace as prescribed or long enough for the brace to be effective. The present investigation used electronic monitoring and temperature probes to investigate …
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Changes in Integumental Dimensions of the Face Following Orthodontic Treatment: A Long-term Study
… Charles H. Tweed collection, where orthodontic patients were recalled 10 or more years after treatment with an average time out of treatment of about 15 years. The availability of frontal facial photographs from this collection provided us with an uncommon opportunity to longitudinally quantify …
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A Survey of Treatment Characteristics in a University-based Graduate Orthodontic Program
… few reports characterize actual orthodontic patients and their treatments. The purpose of this study was to describe the patients and their treatment at a university based orthodontic department, namely the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis. The goals of this study are: …
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Adolescent Health Care and Health Risk Screenings
It is well documented that adolescents are at risk for participating in high-risk health concerns. Few studies have examined health risk factors that are screened for by health care providers. The objective of this study was: to identify the high-risk health factors that were being screened for, …
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An evaluation of the psychotherapeutic milieu therapy programme of the William Slater Centre for Adolescents and Young Adults
… increasing recognition of the turmoil of the adolescent developmental period. This has primarily been the result of research demonstrating high morbidity, and at times mortality, for this age group. With the acknowledgement of adolescent mental health problems, and adolescent depression in …
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IMPROVING ORAL HYGIENE IN ADOLESCENT ORTHODONTIC PATIENTS WITH SBIRT-BASED INTERVENTION
… intervention on improving oral hygiene in adolescent orthodontic patients with fixed appliances. Methods: A prospective, randomized trial was designed to evaluate the effectiveness of an SBIRT-inspired strategy aimed at improving oral hygiene. Subjects were recruited from patients …
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Messy boundaries: the lived experience when younger children’s nursing students are required to care for young people
… that caring interactions between younger, adolescent student nurses and young adolescent patients could precipitate particular difficulties and concerns for both parties during their journeys toward successful self-identity. The research undertaken identified two key dimensions: that of …
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Menstruation and Contraception Patterns of Female Adolescent Transplant Patients
… guidelines support the use of contraception in adolescents on immunosuppressants, however, there is no data regarding base knowledge and attitude toward contraception in this particular patient population. Our study addresses this gap by collecting information from adolescent female transplant …
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National Practices, Attitudes, and Training Surrounding Long-Acting Reversible Contraception Procedures for Adolescents
BACKGROUND: Primary care for adolescents in the United States is predominantly provided by pediatricians. For these patients, sexual health and contraception are important parts of primary care. Despite this, pediatricians are often less comfortable providing contraceptive counseling and lack …
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An outcome evaluation of the psychotherapeutic milieu therapy programme of the William Slater Centre for adolescents and young adults.
… and at times, mortality for this age group. Adolescent depression has received much attention, since a significant proportion of adolescents have been found to suffer from depressive disorders or clinical levels of depressive symptomatology. This has led mental health professionals to develop …
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Neurocognitive Mechanisms of Learning and Decision-Making in Adolescent-OCD: A Computational Approach
… literature and found that strikingly, young patients do not show impairment on features that are considered both hallmarks of adult OCD and tightly linked to disorder symptomatology, such as response inhibition and cognitive flexibility. Among the characteristics that are thought to be …
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The emergency care of young people who self-harm: an exploration of attitudes towards young people who self-harm and the care they receive from practitioners working in pre-hospital and hospital based emergency services
… emergency care work is the rapid assessment of patients’ needs, categorisation is an essential element of this work. This thesis therefore also draws on the sociological theories which have examined the categorisation of patients as ‘good’ or ‘bad’, as earlier sociological work has clearly …