adolescent Definition
ado·les·cent (ad′ə les′ənt)
adjective
- developing from childhood to maturity; growing up
- of or characteristic of adolescence; youthful, exuberant, immature, unsettled, etc.
Etymology: Fr < L adolescens, prp. of adolescere, to come to maturity, be kindled, burn < *adalescere < ad-, to + alescere, to increase, grow up < alere, to feed, sustain; akin to OE ald (see old), Goth alan, to grow
noun
a boy or a girl from puberty to adulthood; teenage person
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adolescent Usage Examples
Converse of object
- age: Brent Center for Young People Service for adolescents aged 14 to 21 who self-harm.
- affect: Social services have an increased awareness of issues affecting adolescents.
Adjective modifier
- female: An examination of a sociocultural model of disordered eating among male and female adolescents.
- young: Middle school students ' reading behavior is a timely issue given the recent interest in the education of young adolescents.
- ethnic: Ethnic minority adolescents and the use of community mental health services.
- old: Older adolescents are usually responsible enough to manage alone for limited periods of time.
- most: Nevertheless, most adolescents will not go on to be drug users.
- early: Gender organization of schooling and television viewing among early adolescents: a test of two alternative hypotheses.
Modifies a noun
- psychiatrist: There is a mental health in-reach team in place lead by a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist.
- psychiatry: He was an international figure in the world of pediatric and adolescent psychiatry.
- psychotherapist: This is followed by the opinions of a child and adolescent psychotherapist, and a senior CAMHS nurse.
- angst: Even allowing for adolescent angst, a book in which the hero's children hang themselves does not suggest a frivolous nature.
- gynecology: Chapter 5: Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology - Pregnancy Q 5. 16 Are there any particular worries about a teenager having a pregnancy?
- psychotherapy: Journal of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, 1, 63-68.
Noun used with modifier
specialist: We provide a range of treatment packages, and a specialist adolescent service as we are licensed to accept females from 14 years.
Possessives
perception: Adolescents ' perceptions of their fathers ' involvement: Significance to school attitudes.
Preposition: with
- autism: Face processing in high-functioning adolescents with autism: Evidence for weak central coherence?
- diabetes: Factors of interest The effects of educational and psychosocial interventions for adolescents with diabetes.
- disorder: Virtual environments for social skills training: comments from two adolescents with autistic spectrum disorder.
- problem: Improved services for children and adolescents with mental health problems.
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