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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Refugee Adolescents"”.
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Building Social Self-Efficacy: Investigating How Refugee Adolescents Cultivate School Readiness Through a Summer Youth Readiness Program
Each year, as many as 80,000 refugees are permanently resettled to the United States, 35-40% of whom are individuals under the age of 18 (BRYCS, 2009). The period of resettlement can be extremely complex for refugee adolescents who are faced with additional stressors inherent to this developmental …
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The Effects of Refugeedom on Adolescents in Greece and the UK: Negative Responses, Resilience and Adversity-activated Development.
Adolescent refugees may endure multiple adversities, experiencing pain and suffering and occasionally more severe psychological distress or psychopathology as a response to their circumstance. At the same time, they may prove incredibly resilient or develop positively exactly because of these …
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Southeast Asian refugee adolescent friendship preferences and functions in public high schools
Southeast Asian Refugee Adolescents (SARA) were studied in two Illinois public high schools to determine whether SARA friendship preferences affect academic achievement. There were 148 students in the sample: 121 SARAs and a control group of 27 White American Adolescents (WAA). Three data …
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Rethinking Psychosocial and Energetic Influences on Cortisol, Testosterone, and Hormonal Coupling among Jordanian, Syrian, and Indigenous Qom Adolescents
… impact the pace of development for children and adolescents. Evolutionary theorists suggest that early life stressors may accelerate or suppress pubertal development due to high psychosocial stress, nutritional disadvantage and shortened life expectancies. A key mechanism by which puberty may be …