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PubMed2001

The family as a protective asset in adolescent development.

Adolescents are considered at high risk for engaging in such negative health behaviors as drug and alcohol use, unprotected sexual intercourse, and violence. Conventional wisdom has long upheld the belief that the peer group exerts the strongest influence on adolescent behavior. However, recent research has shown that in fact the family remains a strong factor in moderating teen risk behavior. Holistic nursing acknowledges the crucial relationship between environment and health; the environment is composed of everything that surrounds the individual, which by definition includes the family. The purpose of this article is to examine the evidence supporting the concept of the family as a protective external asset in adolescent development, to explore the way the family helps defend young people from risk, and to review briefly the implications for nursing research, practice, advocacy, and education.

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PubMed1993

Priorities for research on adolescent development.

Research on the development of adolescents has made significant progress in the past 10-15 years, but is not yet fully mature. Future research must (a) deepen the recent work in understanding normal adolescent development, particularly among American youth from understudied racial and ethnic minority groups and through more longitudinal studies; (b) balance pressures to implement urgent preventive interventions for adolescents with the need for systematic evaluations that will lead to improvements in these approaches, including those that promote healthy patterns in all adolescents and target clusters of health-compromising behaviors rather than single ones; and (c) identify specific features of the range of settings in which adolescents participate that do or do not foster healthy development.

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PubMed2006

Adolescent development and SLE.

Adolescence is a time of profound biological and psychosocial change. The management of a complex chronic condition such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) during this period is a challenging but rewarding task for the clinician. Early diagnosis and optimal disease control is essential in order to facilitate normal adolescent development and minimize long-term disease sequelae. Current treatment regimens are associated with significant toxicity in young people, and there is a need for new, less toxic regimens. There are currently no controlled therapeutic studies in adolescents with SLE. Those involved in the care of these young people must ensure that they have appropriate access to specialist medical services while ensuring that their specific needs as adolescents in the health-care system are addressed.

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PubMed2004

Regulatory processes, risk, and resilience in adolescent development.

This article highlights the potential of developmental psychopathology as a useful integrative perspective for the challenging task of linking the study of brain development and adolescent behavior in context; it considers clues from behavioral research on resilience on the nature of regulatory processes as risks and assets, or vulnerabilities and protective factors for the development of competence and psychopathology in adolescence; and it advocates more integrative neurobehavioral research on risk and resilience in adolescent development.

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PubMed1990

Distinguishing healthy from disturbed adolescent development.

Distinguishing healthy from disturbed adolescent development facilitates accurate diagnosis and timely intervention for troubled adolescents. This distinction needs to take account of (1) ample evidence that normative adolescent development is adaptive rather than tumultuous and (2) reliable indications that certain kinds of symptom formation signal emerging psychopathology rather than normative variations.

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PubMed2001

Social information processing in adolescents: data from normally developing adolescents and preliminary data from their peers with traumatic brain injury.

OBJECTIVE: To assess aspects of social information processing in naturalistic conversations, using online videotape tasks. DESIGN AND PARTICIPANTS: The tasks were administered to 60 normally developing (ND) subjects ages 13 to 21, and 10 adolescents with traumatic brain injury (TBI). SETTING: University. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE: Task accuracy scores and measures of reliability and validity. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: ND group scores were generally high, without significant differences by race, sex or age. TBI group scores were significantly lower than ND group scores for both emotion recognition and detection of conversation skills. The results are discussed in light of the evaluation of pragmatic competence in adolescents with TBI.

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PubMedDate not supplied

Covert parental control: parent-adolescent interaction and adolescent development in a Chinese context.

Although there are well-known theories of adolescent development in the West, there is a notable lack of theory and empirical support for understanding the process of Chinese adolescent development. This paper investigates the parental attitudes and practices of Chinese-Canadian immigrant parents and the reactions of adolescents in an effort to elucidate the pattern of parent-adolescent interaction and the process of adolescent development in the Chinese-Canadian cultural context. A qualitative study approach was used to explore the experiences and views of 19 adolescents and ten of their parents. The findings indicate that Chinese parents and adolescents co-construct the dominant theme of "covert parental control" in the adolescent development process. "Covert control," in this context, refers to a form of parenting characterized by parental guidance, family teaching, coaching, and monitoring, Parents, through "tact" and "skills," successfully influence and guide their adolescent children. Adolescents, motivated by their sense of loyalty to family and the concepts associated with parental guidance, reinforce their parents' covert control and the indigenous concept of "guan" in the practice of Chinese parenting.

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PubMed2005

An existential view of adolescent development.

In clinical work with adolescents there is a stark similarity between what they experience and the concepts of existentialism. However, surprisingly very little has been written in terms of how the concepts of existentialism can or should be applied to this age group. Rather, existentialism seems to be a concept reserved for its application to the adult population. In fact, a search of the literature included in PsychINFO under "existentialism" and "adolescent development" results in only 5 hits. Perhaps by avoiding the use of these ideas as they might apply to adolescents, for various reasons a disservice is being done. Drawing on ideas posited in existential literature will not only benefit adolescents, it will assist caring adults in their work with them and encourage professionals to expand on existing ideas when conducting research and developing theories that apply to this age group.

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PubMed1999

Adolescent development: setting the stage for influencing health behaviors.

Adolescent development is viewed as the overarching framework for approaching disease prevention and health promotion. This chapter is a review of salient developmental issues in adolescence, identification of the potential effects of adolescent development on health behaviors, identification of conceptual and theoretical frameworks to address the behaviors, and suggestions for the timing and tailoring of interventions to prevent health risk behaviors and promote health.

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PubMed2006

Adolescent development in interpersonal and societal contexts.

In this chapter we review theoretical and empirical advances in research on adolescent development in interpersonal and societal contexts. First, we identify several trends in current research, including the current emphasis on ecological models and the focus on diversity in and relational models of adolescent development. Next, we discuss recent research on interpersonal relationships, with an eye toward identifying major research themes and findings. Research on adolescents' relationships with parents, siblings, other relatives, peers, and romantic partners, and adolescents' involvement in community and society is reviewed. Future directions in research on adolescent development are discussed.

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PubMed1994

[Adolescent development].

The specificities of the adolescent period are completion of somatic, sexual, emotional, cognitive, intellectual and social maturation. After having coped with this "existential crisis", the adolescents is able to accept new roles, a new identity. Offer described and characterized in detail three types of normal development of adolescents: continual development, accelerated development and precocious development. From the aspect of child and adolescent psychiatry all three described types of development are found in mentally healthy subjects who take life as an open chance.

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PubMed1998

Adolescent development: challenges and opportunities for research, programs, and policies.

The basic process of adolescent development involves changing relations between the individual and the multiple levels of the context within which the young person is embedded. Variation in the substance and timing of these relations promotes diversity in adolescence and represents sources of risk or protective factors across this life period. The key risk factors of the contemporary American adolescent period are discussed. Behavioral risks involve drug, alcohol, and substance use and abuse; unsafe sex, teenage pregnancy, and teenage parenting; school underachievement, failure, and dropout; and delinquency, crime, and violence. Poverty among youth exacerbates these risks. The features of youth programs effective in preventing the actualization of risk or in promoting positive adolescent development are discussed, as are the characteristics of public policies that may enhance the life chances of the diverse youth of America and the world.

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PubMed1997

Control of endogenous norepinephrine release in the hypothalamus of male rats changes over adolescent development.

In order to evaluate mechanisms that could contribute to the effect of adolescent development on the in vivo utilization of norepinephrine (NE) in the hypothalamus, the depolarized release of endogenous norepinephrine (using 50 mM potassium) was measured in vitro in hypothalamic explants from male rats over late juvenile (28 days) to young adult (70 days) ages. Depolarized release, expressed as a percent of the total endogenous pool, was significantly greater in juveniles than in either adolescents (42 days) or young adults. Incubation in the presence of idazoxan, an alpha 2-adrenoceptor antagonists, increased the depolarized fractional NE release in adolescent and young adult rats; however, the same drug decreased depolarized release in juveniles. Inhibition of norepinephrine reuptake by incubation in the presence of nisoxetine (1 microM) significantly increased depolarized release (fractional and absolute) in young adults only. A higher concentration of nisoxetine (5 microM) significantly increased depolarized release in juveniles, but significantly reduced release in adults. Nisoxetine did not influence release in adolescents at either concentration. The possibilities that adolescents development brings about a change in alpha 2-adrenoceptor subtype and that juveniles may have a greater NE reuptake capacity than adults are discussed. Hypothalamic NE projections are important to several regulatory functions, and changes that take place in this system over adolescence may be important for the emergence of adult-typical responses as well as render adolescents vulnerable to specific dysfunctions.

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PubMed1994

Reciprocal Influences between Chronic Illness and Adolescent Development.

Chronic illness can affect an adolescent's physical, cognitive, and psychosocial development, and, conversely, adolescent development can influence both the natural course and medical management of a chronic disease. Providers who are aware of this reciprocal relationship and the "feedback loop" to which it can lead can intercede and optimize the management of chronic illness in adolescents.

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PubMed2000

Adolescent development and external influences.

There are two different approaches to the definition of "normal" in adolescence: psychoanalytic interpretation and empirical research. They are not necessarily at odds but can complement each other if normalcy is viewed as a dependent variable. Its definition depends also on cultural rules, social values and expectancies, professional orientations, personality traits and political climate, which all determine the tolerance level for aberrance. The adolescent development including biological, cognitive and psychosocial changes is related to the existing social formations and processes. It is affected by family, peer groups, neighborhood, work and wider community. The paper describes the adolescent development in particular social contexts.

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