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Improving Mental Health among Transgender Adolescents: Implementing Mindful Self-Compassion for Teens
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Bluth, Karen; Lathren, Christine; Clepper-Faith, Melissa; Larson, Lillia M.; Ogunbamowo, Daniel O.; Pflum, Samantha – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2023
The purpose of this study was to investigate the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary outcomes of an online self-compassion intervention for transgender adolescents, with the aim of improving mental health. Participants identified as transgender or gender expansive, were between the ages of 13 and 17, and lived in the U.S. or Canada. The…
Descriptors: Intervention, Adolescents, LGBTQ People, Metacognition
Growth in Perceived Control across 25 Years from the Late Teens to Midlife: The Role of Personal and Parents' Education
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Vargas Lascano, Dayuma I.; Galambos, Nancy L.; Krahn, Harvey J.; Lachman, Margie E. – Developmental Psychology, 2015
This study examined trajectories of perceived control and their association with parents' education and personal educational experience (educational attainment and years of full-time postsecondary education) in 971 Canadian high school seniors tracked 7 times across 25 years. Latent growth models showed that, on average, perceived control…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, High School Seniors, Adults, Educational Attainment
Education and Social Media: Toward a Digital Future. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning
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Greenhow, Christine, Ed.; Sonnevend, Julia, Ed.; Agur, Colin, Ed. – MIT Press, 2016
How are widely popular social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram transforming how teachers teach, how kids learn, and the very foundations of education? What controversies surround the integration of social media in students' lives? The past decade has brought increased access to new media, and with this new opportunities and…
Descriptors: Social Media, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Sons of St. Patrick: Quality of Life and Heights of Young Irish Males at Mid-Nineteenth Century
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Jordan, Thomas E. – Social Indicators Research, 2011
An index of the quality of life for children in Ireland's four provinces containing thirty-two counties is generated from three domains of information in the (1841) census of Ireland. The average of three regression-weighted indexes derived from educational, demographic and housing data is labelled the Quality of Life for Irish Children-1841…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Counties, Quality of Life, Males
Evaluating the Effectiveness of a School-Based Counselling Service in the UK
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Fox, Claire L.; Butler, Ian – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2009
Despite the growth of school counselling in the UK, very few studies have examined its effectiveness. As part of a wider evaluation of the work of the NSPCC Schools Counselling Project, 219 pupils aged 11-17 years completed the TEEN CORE questionnaire before receiving counselling; 104 of these pupils also completed a questionnaire after…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Questionnaires, Teacher Attitudes, School Counseling
Education in Alberta: Some Major Societal Trends. Revised.
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Planning and Policy Secretariat. – 1989
The major societal trends happening in Alberta, Canada, have an impact on educational effectiveness in the region. Statistics are provided in the areas of demographics, family and society, Alberta's youth, labor force, and advances in science and technology. The section on demographics includes data on population growth, births, fertility rates,…
Descriptors: Demography, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Characteristics