While any transitioning youth would benefit from transition supports designed to empower them by making them more self-aware and transition aware, risk assessment may be helpful in identifying youth in need for similar transition supports.
Increasing GPs' awareness of the possible occurrence of mental health problems in high risk groups (e.g. frequently attending children, children presenting psychosomatic complaints, or children living in stressful circumstances [ 24]), may assist them in identifying youths who need additional care.
CONCLUSIONS Given the prevalence of overweight and obesity among youth with type 1 or type 2 diabetes, health care professionals caring for youth with diabetes need to pay particular attention to identifying youth, particularly females, with unhealthy weight-loss practices.
Taking such proactive steps to enhance JJ community supervision staffs' attitudes regarding substance use prevention services could positively influence their decisions to connect identified youth in need to community-located substance use prevention services.
In order to identify youth at risk for MA use, health care workers and counsellors need to conduct a holistic assessment that includes psychiatric, lifestyle, and family history.
Additionally, these data suggest that the current empirically-supported avenues to identify youth who might be at-risk for abusing substances (e.g., measurements of individual level risk factors) may be less effective for indicating the need for intervention among justice-involved youth, and particularly among racial/ethnic minority youth within this context.
Results: Out of 109 identified youths, 81 participated.
Given this heterogeneity in the population of people who self-injure, and the high prevalence of NSSI among youth, research that facilitates understanding which individuals are at highest risk of SI is crucial for identifying the youth most in need of intervention.
A number of researchers have identified needs of youth for specific kinds of formative experiences.
"The youth need that father figure," Ms. Llewellyn said.
