For the first time in the U.K., a large-scale study led by the University of Roehampton and published in The Lancet: Child & Adolescent Health has revealed that school-based humanistic counseling is effective and should be ...
Jan 21, 2021
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The World Health Organization has marked significant improvements in some aspects of adolescent sexual and reproductive health. Young people are having their first sexual encounters at a later age and are more likely to use ...
Dec 7, 2020
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The monoclonal antibody secukinumab is approved for the treatment of moderate to severe plaque psoriasis in children and adolescents from the age of six years who are candidates for systemic therapy. The German Institute ...
Dec 4, 2020
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New research reveals that some primary school-aged children have self-harmed, prompting calls for intervention efforts to start earlier.
Dec 1, 2020
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The high rate of adolescent motherhood across developing countries isn't shifting, with reductions either modest or absent in some regions and rising in others, according to University of Queensland-led research.
Nov 25, 2020
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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), mental health illness and substance use disorders are key contributors to disability in young adulthood, and disparities in substance use persist along levels of academic ...
Nov 23, 2020
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A 10-year-old girl was living in a small village in southeastern Sierra Leone during the country's decade-long civil war when the rebels arrived. "They said they were going to take the girls and boys," she said. "I was the ...
Nov 23, 2020
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The COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated widespread social isolation, affecting all ages of global society. A new rapid review in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP), reports on the ...
Nov 19, 2020
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Early life risk factors in the first 1,000 days cumulatively predict higher obesity and cardiometabolic risk in early adolescence, according to new research led by the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute. The study is the ...
Nov 16, 2020
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Parental concerns about child's weight and encouraging their child to diet increase the likelihood of weight-based teasing by family members, according to a new study from researchers at the UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy ...
Nov 9, 2020
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