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A Narrative Review That Explores the Influence of Physical Activity on Care Experienced Children and Young People's Mental Health and Wellbeing
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Emily Whyte; Bryan McCann; Paul McCarthy; Sharon Jackson – Child Care in Practice, 2024
Care-experienced children and young people are likely to experience early adversities that place them at increased risk of developing physical and mental health difficulties. Physical activity can help address the varied needs and interests of care-experienced children and young people and become a tool to manage mental health and well-being…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Influences, Children, Adolescents
Patterns of Intimacy Crisis Resolution and Their Associations with Romantic Loneliness in Polish and U.S. Young Adults
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Adamczyk, Katarzyna; Park, Jung Yeon; Segrin, Chris – Developmental Psychology, 2022
In Erikson's model of development, intimacy and isolation denote polar outcomes of psychosocial crisis in young adulthood. Drawing on this model, the present study used three-wave longitudinal data to examine patterns of the success and lack of success in the resolution of Eriksonian crisis in relation to romantic loneliness as a negative outcome…
Descriptors: Intimacy, Psychological Patterns, Young Adults, Cross Cultural Studies
Creating Safe Environments for Students with Disabilities Who Identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender
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Morgan, Joseph J.; Mancl, Dustin B.; Kaffar, Bradley J.; Ferreira, Danielle – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2011
Adolescence is an important time in human development. Teenagers spend much time questioning their core belief structures and developing the foundations of their identity. For students who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT), this path of development is difficult in American schools because of strongly held homophobic…
Descriptors: Homosexuality, Sexual Identity, Individual Development, Educational Environment
Preserving Canadian Exceptionalism: An Educator's Context
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Shaker, Paul – Education Canada, 2009
In this article, the author discusses the educational and societal differences between Canada and the United States. He claims that an egocentric culture, committed to immediate gratification, stands in the way of a healthy response to change. People are always seeking accommodation to the changes around them. When people choose familiar behaviour…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Delay of Gratification, Psychological Patterns, Social Change
When Worlds Collide: Evaluating the Impact of Short-Term Study Abroad Programs
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Sato, Deirdre Colby – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this study was to determine whether and how short-term study abroad programs transform college students' perspectives. The study examined attitudes about host country and international outlook, as well as intellectual, social and personal understandings. Short-term programs were defined as programs of less than a semester or a…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Summer Programs, Foreign Countries, College Students
Young Workers: Varieties of Experience.
Barling, Julian, Ed.; Kelloway, E. Kevin, Ed. – 1999
This book contains nine papers devoted to the psychological experience of youth employment and its role in shaping future employment experiences and expectations. "Introduction" (Julian Barling, E. Kevin Kelloway) emphasizes the diversity of young people as a group and the diversity of individual youth's employment experience. "The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Attitude Change