Essays 481 - 510
This paper examines the reasons for increases in child and adolescent killings in America in six pages. Four sources are cited in...
childhood develop self-esteem encompasses several elements. I. INFANCY There is perhaps no more vital a growth period in an indi...
the day when children are purportedly asleep. The problem is that teenagers are notorious night owls and tend to turn the televisi...
In a paper consisting of seven pages early adolescent development is considered in terms of biopsychosocial considerations with ch...
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...
also associated with adolescents who have been diagnosed as having binge eating disorder. Unquestionably psychologically related,...
In ten pages this paper examines how adolescents are affected by gang membership and culture. Six sources are listed in the bibli...
In 5 pages this paper discusses themes of personal integrity, bureaucracy strictures, and adolescent rebellion that are featured i...
prerequisite" (Anderson and Roit 123). In other to help students with understanding, the authors suggest several strategies, whic...
applied here validate all 181 cases. The third is a "date-charge" set of statistics, indicating when the arrests occurred. Perha...
students in 2004 from 24% of students in 2003 (MORI, 2004). Bullying and threatening behaviour are increasing and it was found tha...
1998). This is enshrined in both political rhetoric and policies and papers such as the policy documents Excellence in Schools and...
attitudes and feelings which he may have, no matter how unconventional, absurd, or contradictory these attitudes may be" (Rogers 1...
have changed considerably over the last century. This change is associated with a number of factors, the most prominent being our...
and similarity" (Kipke et al, 1997, p. 655). Within the forming of these friendships is also a climate of greater importance with...
and those who have been diagnosed as having a major depressive episode (Editors, 2006). As the data verify, girls are far more lik...
homeless teens as indicative of a larger problem (Wagner 16). Wagner explains it this way: " With their economy in shambles, many ...
2006). Marcotte and colleagues (2002) note that a great deal of progress has been made in this field over the last two decades but...
modeling and imitation (Somers and Tynan, 2006). Hypothesis in each study Collins, et al, propose that television holds the pote...
for constant friendship and status both in the group and in the school. The group gives each member protection from being alone an...
exert an influence in adult life. Freud maintained that individuals develop their personalities as a result of biological...
having lasting significance, since it impacts not only on childs subsequent emotional and psychological development but also on th...
interpret and organize information in a way which leads to the development of a stable idea of "self". They note that Erikson (196...
to strict behaviorism either, and nor did he support the traditional therapeutic model in which the client had a mainly passive ro...
creativity (Wilderdom, 2004). Piaget presented four stages of cognitive development to explain how children learn and develop. Pi...
childbearing age and, particularly adolescent girls, should receive special attention in regards to prevention. There are several ...
affects specific individuals, but the future of society as a whole. As HIV infection has affected African American youth in greate...
above the ideal standards based on the National Center for Health Statistics growth charts (Jerum and Melnyk, 2001). While weight ...
that one can incorporate the extreme with the ordinary? Indeed, risk taking represents a bit of all of these definitions, inasmuc...
available to young people with potential problems: primary, secondary and tertiary, which "can be viewed along a continuum in ter...