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Edwards, Elizabeth J.; Taylor, Caitlin S.; Vaughan, Robert S. – School Psychology International, 2022
Smartphones have many characteristics that make them attractive to adolescents. Recent work, however, has established a link between smartphone-related problems and self-esteem (self-worth) and social anxiety (fear of social relations). To date, little is known about the characteristics underpinning these relationships in combination. Driven by…
Descriptors: Self Concept Measures, Self Esteem, Adolescents, Anxiety Disorders
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Lozano-Blasco, Raquel; Cortés-Pascual, Alejandra – Comunicar: Media Education Research Journal, 2020
Widespread use of the Internet in 21st century society is not risk-free. This paper studies the comorbidity of some problematic uses of Internet with depression in order to assess their correlation. With that aim, a meta-analysis of 19 samples obtained from 13 different studies (n=33,458) was carried out. The subjects of these studies are…
Descriptors: Internet, Depression (Psychology), Adolescents, Cultural Differences
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Carney, Stuart; Bhugra, Dinesh K. – Academic Psychiatry, 2013
Background/Objective: Recent training and education changes have raised important issues in delivery of psychiatric education at all levels. In this article, the authors describe the current status of mental health education in the training of all doctors and postgraduate training and education in psychiatry in the U.K. Method: The authors explore…
Descriptors: Psychiatry, Medical Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Change
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Buswell, Marina; Duncan, Peter – Health Education Journal, 2013
Objective: To evaluate a school-based stop smoking pilot project and to understand the teenage experience of smoking and quitting within that context. Design: Flexible design methods. Setting: A Kent (United Kingdom [UK]) secondary school. Methods: Semi-structured interviews analyzed following a grounded theory approach. Results: The main themes…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Smoking, Foreign Countries, Pilot Projects
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Harvey, Kevin; Brown, Brian – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2012
This study explores adolescents' accounts of self-harm with a view to elucidate the implications for health care practitioners seeking to administer care to teenagers in English. Drawing on a corpus of 1.6 million words from messages posted on a UK-hosted adolescent health Web site, analysis began by identifying a range of keywords relating to…
Descriptors: Addictive Behavior, Adolescents, Health Personnel, Foreign Countries
Bryson, Lucy – Adults Learning, 2009
This article shares the story of Lucy Bryson, who was hooked on crack cocaine and heroin when she was 17, and was working the streets to fund her addiction. Her future looked bleak when she was imprisoned four years ago but a project that builds trust and responsibility in young people by teaching them to work with animals has transformed her…
Descriptors: Animals, Role Models, Females, Cocaine