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TV's Effect on Sexual Behavior

modeling and imitation (Somers and Tynan, 2006). Hypothesis in each study Collins, et al, propose that television holds the pote...

Teen Treatment Outcomes/Depression

psychotherapy declined. Psychotherapy is often an expensive and prolonged process, which is why Olfson, et al, posit that increase...

Organ Donation, Erie Co. & Educating Youth

medical attention if they were identified as organ donors (Minniefield, 2002). One hundred percent of the 25 to 35 years olds expr...

The Use of Antidepressants and Increased Suicide Rates in Adolescents

adolescents there were no real treatment alternatives for these children (Brent, 2004). The common belief, in fact, was that thos...

Child & Adolescent Obesity/U.S.

"hyperlipidemia, hypertension, blood glucose disturbances, Type 2 diabetes, sleep apnea and asthma," while emotional effects inclu...

Adolescent Depression And Cognitive Behavior Therapy

29 percent of the entire group of patients at the beginning of the study (Weeks, 2004; NIMH, 2005). This rate was reduced in all f...

Diabetes in Adolescence

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

Adolescent Development - Freud, Erikson And Vygotsky

focuses on psychosocial development, which is reflected in his Eight Stages of Human Development. The stages, in order, are: infan...

Support Services for Gay and Lesbian Children and Adolescents

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

School Climate/James P. Comer

through a consensual process, each member of the team feels that they had an input into the decision, whereas the process of votin...

Reforming Juvenile Justice

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

Article Review: Depression And Delinquency

that depression may be a risk factor. Depression causes many different feelings and conditions such as the inability to concentrat...

Drugs and Their Negative Impact on Teens

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...

Depression in Children and Adolescents

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

Urban Black Male Adolescents

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

Does Divorce or Disruption in Family Structure During Adolescence Have a Detrimental Effect on Development?

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

Graduate School in Bronfenbrenner's Model

position the late developmental psychologist Urie Bronfenbrenner would take. Bronfenbrenners Human Ecology Lang (2005) writ...

Althol Fugard/Valley Song

choir. However, she ahs peered through neighbors windows and caught glimpses of singers on television, realizing that her talent c...

Cigarette Smoking in Adolescence (Article Review)

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

Adolescent Development: Three Different Perspectives

occurred in recent years. Background: Adolescent Psychology Self-esteem is immediate connected with assessments of the ...

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...

Children and Obesity

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

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...

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...

Adolescents and Crime

possibilities; and other issues. They also dont seem to understand that older people were once young, and therefore understand th...

Literature Relevant to Adolescent Developmental Disorders

relationship with both the mother and her family and the father and his family (also in relation to property and/or inheritance la...

Adolescence and Moral Development

drops out of society or gets into a car accident. They may be on the road to addiction, which can be life changing and even end in...

Adults, Adolescents, and Smoking

22.4% (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2004). Cigarettes, once considered glamorous and chic, have emerged as t...

Stages of Development

1993, p. 3), Piaget and Vygotsky illustrate how this lopsidedness can create a considerable amount of frustration. Often misconst...