17 Jun 2008
A unique new study from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institute (KI) suggests that the attitude of families and the public have little impact on if adults decide to have sex with persons of the same or the opposite sex. Instead, hereditary factors and the individual’s unique experiences have the [...]
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18 Apr 2008
A child’s innocence and vulnerability presents a target for a sexual predator’s abusive behavior. University of Missouri researchers are beginning to understand the communication process by which predators lure victims into a web of entrapment. This information could better equip parents and community members to prevent, or at least interrupt, the escalation of [...]
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15 Apr 2008
When young people dress according to the customs of their own ethnic group, they may be less likely to have mental health problems later in life.
Adolescents are especially prone to mental health problems, and often, their identities are displayed in clothing and in their choices of friends. As a result, it is valuable [...]
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American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
The Bill of Rights:
1. Treatment must be family- driven and child-focused. Families and youth, (when appropriate), must have a primary decision-making role in their treatment.
2. Children should receive care in home and community-based settings as close to home as possible.
3. Mental health services are an integral part of a [...]
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08 Apr 2008
University of Minnesota School of Public Health researchers have found that older adolescents who have a bedroom television are less likely to engage in healthy activities such as exercising, eating fruits or vegetables, and enjoying family meals. They also consumed larger quantities of sweetened beverages and fast food, were categorized as heavy TV [...]
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27 Mar 2008
Maybe when we were their age, we walked five miles to school, rain or shine. So why don’t most children today walk or bike to school?
It’s not necessarily because they’re spoiled, lazy or over scheduled. According to a University of Michigan researcher, concerns about safety are the main reason that less than 13 [...]
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26 Mar 2008
Students who bully others tend to have difficulties with other relationships, such as those with friends and parents. Targeting those relationships, as well as the problems children who bully have with aggression and morality, may offer ideas for intervention and prevention.
Those are the findings of a new study that was conducted by scientists [...]
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Nationally Representative CDC Study Finds 1 in 4 Teenage Girls Has a Sexually Transmitted Disease
– 3.2 Million Female Adolescents Estimated to Have at Least One of the Most Common STDs –
– Other Studies Featured at 2008 National STD Prevention Conference Show Missed Opportunities for STD Screening and Innovative Solutions for STD Prevention and Treatment –
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Though the favorite metaphor to describe the Web has long been a highway, or for some, a “series of tubes,” the man credited with inventing it all thinks of the Web more like the human mind.
“Lots of people are doing research around the Web…and there are interesting results, but a lack of a core curriculum [...]
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Kevin Marks, a Google engineer and Technorati veteran, said in a talk about the company’s OpenSocial project and Social Graph APIs that e-mail is a “strange legacy idea.”
“E-mail has died away for a group of users. For the younger generation, they don’t use e-mail,” he said, talking about the young Web users who have started [...]
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