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Youth Work Value and Attributes

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

Adolescence and Football

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

Adolescence and Self Esteem Factors

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

Literature Review on Stress Agents

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

A Case Study That Examines Amelia's Choices

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

Development, Growth, and the Impact of Stress

without some simple form of stress, the mind/body connection is not stimulated. However, this stress is completely divergent from...

Adolescent Development and Peer Pressure

operations stage when adolescents are going through their later personality formation and undertaking a great deal of the learning...

Four Issues Regarding the History of Australia

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

Children, Adolescents, and Divorce Effects

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

Children and Adolescent TCs

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

Grief and Adolescence

different types of life stresses in adolescence than those experienced in childhood or adulthood. The reactions and process an adu...

Adolescent Girls and Depression

to one survey conducted in both 1999 and 2001, 28 percent of American high school students report that they felt hopeless or sad a...

Connection Between Depression and Alcohol Abuse in Adolescents

depression (Jersild B10). Men, suffer from such things as well, but findings seem to suggest that women fare worse. Yet, other stu...

Great Depression and What it Was Like to Be a Teenager

We also had to write a lot of compositions. There was a lot of attention to grammar, spelling and composition, but sometimes it s...

Response Paper th Mary Pipher's Reviving Ophelia

romance ideas, and the subtle but pervasive message that they are second to males in this society. Many girls fit this example as ...

A Comparison of Two Literary Protagonists

This paper compares and contrasts two adolescent protagonists, Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and J.D. Salinger's character Holden ...

Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary

In a paper consisting of five pages the therapeutic impact of this novel is considered within the context of adolescents that may ...

Adolescent Depression and ADHD

for the disorder. On medication now, he says that he is more focused than at any other time of his life. He always wanted to do ...

Decoding Skills and Reading Comprehension Teaching of Adolescents

from written texts based on a complex coordination of a number of interrelated sources of information" and is considered as "the m...

Child and Adolescent Bipolar Disorder Treatment Issues

In nine pages this research paper reviews 4 articles as they relate to problems and issues surrounding the treatment of children a...

Overview of Developmental Psychology

From two to seven months, the infant makes such rapid growth that it affects not only his own behavior but that of the caregiver. ...

Self Esteem in Female Adolescents

notions of the men they are dating. However, even Winik appears to realize that this can be damaging to the self-esteem of the w...

Adolescent Homosexuality and Counseling Perspectives

is long overdue" (Fontaine, 1996; McKee., 1994). The important issues for psychologists are not only the onset of homosexua...

Suicidal Behavior Predictive Variable and Adolescent Depression

In five pages the links between adolescent depression and suicide are considered and the recommendation that interventions are bes...

Adolescents and Intimate Family Relationships

In nine pages this report considers four research study results in which each concentrated on a different intimate family relation...

Suicide, Children, and Adolescents

In six pages research analysis on suicide involving children and adolescents include motivation causal factors, statistics, and th...

Adolescent Suicide and Statistical Research Design

In nine pages this paper discusses programs for preventing adolescent suicide in a consideration of a research design in which an ...

Divorce and its Effects on Children

children. "In my experience, children with behavior problems, such as hyperactivity and aggression, seem to be treated, and their ...

Effects of Divorce on Children

In five pages divorce's impact upn children are examined with a contrast of its effects on adolescents and younger children. Four...

Teen Girls and Self Esteem Issues

In eight pages this paper discusses low self esteem problems that confront adolescent girls. Twelve sources are cited in the bibl...