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Adolescents and Health

the ages of 12 and 19 were considered overweight (Surgeon General News, 2005). If that werent enough, this number is nearly triple...

Child Development Theory of Lev Vygotsky 's Leading Activity/Child Development

grades. Each period is characterized by its own specific leading activity and developmental goals. Infancy The leading activity ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Article on Adolescents and Anger Critiqued Critique of “Anger in Adolescents: Sex, Ethnicity, Age Differences, and Psychometric Properties”

The authors conclude that the anger-in scale of the STAXI may be less reliable for younger groups but that it is still valuable fo...

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...

Self Esteem in Adolescents and Fashion Industry Effects

certain physical appearance is quite easy to trace over the past one hundred years; however, one might readily argue the fact that...

Eugenia Collier's 'Marigolds' and Adolescence

to suddenly seeing how others may well suffer. When one finally sees and understands that other suffer, innocence is gone and comp...

Adolescence and Football

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

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...

Psychosis in Adolescents and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

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

Adolescent Girls' Sexuality and the Impact of Divorce

have noted that sexual activity among girls from single-parent homes is greater than among those who live in "blended" families. G...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Story of Filippinno Emigrants

This essay provides an overview and analysis of American Son by Brian Roley, how the adolescent sons react to the great changes an...

Health Outcomes and SES

This research paper describes research findings that indicate the relationship between health outcomes and low socioeconomic statu...

Juveniles and Marijuana Addiction

This research paper focuses on the role of peer pressure in regards to adolescent use of marijuana. Whether or not marijuana shoul...

Children, Adolescents Living with Diabetes

This research paper presents a discussion of the challenges confronting children and adolescents with diabetes using a literature ...

Non-Pharmacological Treatment of ADHD

This research paper presents a literature review that focuses on non-pharmacological interventions that address ADHD n children an...

Oppositional Behavior, Parenting Style and Delayed Gratification - Examination of Research Findings

The writer examines the results of primary research which assessed the parenting style of mothers and delayed gratification to det...