Essays 571 - 600
to strict behaviorism either, and nor did he support the traditional therapeutic model in which the client had a mainly passive ro...
creativity (Wilderdom, 2004). Piaget presented four stages of cognitive development to explain how children learn and develop. Pi...
modeling and imitation (Somers and Tynan, 2006). Hypothesis in each study Collins, et al, propose that television holds the pote...
2006). Marcotte and colleagues (2002) note that a great deal of progress has been made in this field over the last two decades but...
for constant friendship and status both in the group and in the school. The group gives each member protection from being alone an...
and similarity" (Kipke et al, 1997, p. 655). Within the forming of these friendships is also a climate of greater importance with...
and those who have been diagnosed as having a major depressive episode (Editors, 2006). As the data verify, girls are far more lik...
homeless teens as indicative of a larger problem (Wagner 16). Wagner explains it this way: " With their economy in shambles, many ...
prerequisite" (Anderson and Roit 123). In other to help students with understanding, the authors suggest several strategies, whic...
students in 2004 from 24% of students in 2003 (MORI, 2004). Bullying and threatening behaviour are increasing and it was found tha...
1998). This is enshrined in both political rhetoric and policies and papers such as the policy documents Excellence in Schools and...
applied here validate all 181 cases. The third is a "date-charge" set of statistics, indicating when the arrests occurred. Perha...
children who are inactive because of television viewing. This study found that children who were inactive because of television v...
attitudes and feelings which he may have, no matter how unconventional, absurd, or contradictory these attitudes may be" (Rogers 1...
have changed considerably over the last century. This change is associated with a number of factors, the most prominent being our...
This is because the Church realizes that what individuals believe in regards to religion or morality is frequently contingent on t...
these students into the general education classroom. By the end of high school, they usually have obtained the level of third to s...
by his mother. He becomes angry and withdrawn, mistrusting others around him and as a result constantly tests the boundaries Ted ...
there is constant bickering. It seems that when mom and dad are happy, the family should be happy. Reportedly, 70% (Corliss & Mc...
an adolescent client (Wallis, 2004, p. 59). Data on the development of abstract reasoning skills, as well as of the "recognition o...
the "perceived lack of close and meaningful relationships with others" (Rew et al, 2001, p. 35-36). The Beck Hopelessness Scale, ...
is a time for considerable growth and learning, so it stands to reason that with the child a veritable sponge of curiosity, he or ...
that it leads to a lack of contact between fathers and daughters. Studies suggest that girls who grow up in families without fath...
available to young people with potential problems: primary, secondary and tertiary, which "can be viewed along a continuum in ter...
issue via conceptual analysis, inasmuch as Walker and Avant provide specific steps that allow one to wholly define the ambiguous a...
childbearing age and, particularly adolescent girls, should receive special attention in regards to prevention. There are several ...
affects specific individuals, but the future of society as a whole. As HIV infection has affected African American youth in greate...
above the ideal standards based on the National Center for Health Statistics growth charts (Jerum and Melnyk, 2001). While weight ...
that one can incorporate the extreme with the ordinary? Indeed, risk taking represents a bit of all of these definitions, inasmuc...
the ages of 12 and 19 were considered overweight (Surgeon General News, 2005). If that werent enough, this number is nearly triple...