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'An Ounce of Cure' by Alice Munro

about alcohol. The narrator describes that -- if her parents ever drank alcoholic beverages -- it was outside their home (Munro 43...

The Negative Effects of Adolescent Corporal Punishment in Adulthood

have turned into even greater social misfits as a means by which to defy the authoritative nature of corporal punishment. Any com...

Adolescents and Cognitive Behavior Theory

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

The Conflicts of Adolescence

This paper contains eleven pages and examines the conflict adolescents experience with their parents and society through differing...

Adolescents and the Effects of Dependence Upon Welfare

response to the issue of poverty, but also the mass cultures transition from very basic moral and work ethics to a series of econo...

Nonadherence to Medical Instructions: Walker and Avant

issue via conceptual analysis, inasmuch as Walker and Avant provide specific steps that allow one to wholly define the ambiguous a...

Effectiveness of Psychotherapy

available to young people with potential problems: primary, secondary and tertiary, which "can be viewed along a continuum in ter...

Taking Risks and Adolescence

that one can incorporate the extreme with the ordinary? Indeed, risk taking represents a bit of all of these definitions, inasmuc...

Children and Obesity

above the ideal standards based on the National Center for Health Statistics growth charts (Jerum and Melnyk, 2001). While weight ...

Teen Alcohol Abuse Socioeconomic Policy Control and Proposition

pricing adolescents out of the alcohol market. As Robert Heilbroner and Lester Thurow state, the theory of supply and deman...

Teen Pregnancy, Regulatory and Legislative Influences

Because antiabortion activists have been so successful in blocking legislative approaches toward governmentally subsidized contrac...

Juvenile Delinquency and Religiosity

rules - some written, some spoken, others explicitly followed by virtue of inherent knowledge but all universally understood withi...

Sub Saharan Region of Africa and Teenage Females with HIV and AIDS

childbearing age and, particularly adolescent girls, should receive special attention in regards to prevention. There are several ...

African American Teenagers and Incidence of HIV

affects specific individuals, but the future of society as a whole. As HIV infection has affected African American youth in greate...

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...

Adolescents and Life Satisfaction Critiqued

that interest by participating in activities. 3. The third aspect had to do with the relationship between social interest and life...

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...

Adolescent Type I Diabetes Care Plan

much sugar remains in the blood and too little energy is transferred to other cells. The diabetic needs to take externally adminis...

Learning Differences Between Adolescents and Adults

behaviors of older students (i.e., adult students). Classroom activities that pair younger students with older students may "encou...

Australia, Alcohol Consumption and the Impact of Combining Advertising and Sports

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

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...

Young Teens, Education in Schools, and AIDS

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

Title, Premise, Design for DNP Project

This paper presents an outline for a student's Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) project. The paper describes the project title, pr...

Teen Suicide

This research paper presents an overview of adolescent suicide. Gender and causal factors, warning signs and symptoms and preventi...

Overweight Youth

The percentages of overweight and obese children and youth is alarming. About 17 percent of American children and adolescents are ...

Proposed Study, Obesity, Adolescent Hispanics

This research paper has two major sections. The first pertains to a proposed research study and the second pertains to a proposed ...

Teen Obesity

This research paper pertains to data on the prevalence of obesity among American adolescents. This information reveals that it is ...

Improving the Mental and Physical Health of Hispanic Adolescents

This 3 page paper provides a discussion of a few methods proposed to improve the health of Hispanics of adolescent age. This paper...

Hispanic Students Health

This 3 page paper provides a discussion of a few methods proposed to improve the health of Hispanics of adolescent age. This paper...

Hispanic Youth, Obesity, and Research

This research paper pertains to three research studies, which pertain to overweight/obesity in Hispanic adolescents, and reports ...