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behaviors. Often, it is within the setting of a therapeutic community that such issues may be dealt with in the most effective man...

often takes more than 20 years for the effects of cigarette smoke to develop into a detectable malignancy" (p. PG). II. ADOLESCEN...

their family unit - a time of stresses that dont need to be complicated about concerns such as career and college choices. Yet unf...

also occurred in numerous nations in the mid- to late-1950s through the 1970s (Spooner, 2002). The focus of this wave included: "e...

"total years of life lost to disability (YLD), with depression accounting for 8% of the total YLD" (Mathers, et al., 2001; p. 1076...

As of 1999, more than 8 million children in America were living with their divorced single parent (Fagan and Rector, 2000). When t...

THEORY The concept of behavioral therapy takes into consideration the history of cross-cultural psychology, in that it asse...

ignorant, uneducated attitudes. The social, political, economical, cultural and religious activities experienced in everyda...

between cases at the time of diagnosis (Newmark and Anhalt, 2007). Type 1 diabetes is typically due to a "lack of insulin producti...

families often have little access to health care services (Bauman, Silver and Stein, 2006). In many cases, access is provided thro...

of an individual and his or her environment, experiences and relationships dictate the overall growth process. Indeed, certain cr...

cause of death for 5-to-14-year-olds" ("Teen suicide"). Such statistics suggest that depression in childhood and adolescence can b...

grade, "21.3% had been drunk, while 44.0% and 61.6% of 10th- and 12th-graders, respectively, had been drunk at least once in their...

Discussion Parents serve, either consciously or unconsciously as role models for their children. Gender roles develop in p...

couple of studies dealing with gansta rap and its impact on adolescents most likely to be affected by it. Well then move to the ot...

Although it is not uncommon to see gay and lesbian couples at the high school level, there are children who question their sexuali...

researchers maintained that obesity is on the rise in adolescent populations and may be the product of social constructs. There ...

questionable impact over adolescent personality, values and manner. In gathering this information, several methods were utilized ...

It has never been out of print since its publication and has been translated into "French, German and Dutch" (Taillon 16). Written...

Ward & Friedman (2006) report, "Our findings suggest that TV use, in multiple forms, appears to be linked with adolescent sexualit...

populations (p. 24). Because detailed quantitative research can make the data themselves both formulate and limit the analy...

(Alliance for Excellent Education, 2006). * About eight percent of entering college freshmen must take at least one literacy remed...

to Dr. Jordan Metzl, physician who specializes in sports medicine and author of The Young Athlete: A Sports Doctors Complete Guide...

Yong et al (2002) in their study of eighth-grade students, found that there was a close correlation between high self-esteem...

things also play a role in the analysis. While a variety of things are examined, and statistics complied, there is seemingly only ...

as well. Nielsen and Perry (2000) state that we "must recognize that we are united in our diversity" (p. 4). This has...

a major relapse when they are adults (Olfson et al, 2003). Therefore treatment at an early stage may help prevent later episodes. ...

goes on to say that the nature of the family is its members being "connected emotionally" (Bowen Center for the Study of the Famil...

economic standing. All that began changing in the early 1990s, with the result that between 1995 and 1999 - years in which many o...

the age of seven, the prevalence of the disorder does increase with age (2003). Childhood schizophrenia forms a continuum with the...