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Adolescents and Pediatric Perioperative Nursing Interventions

an adolescent client (Wallis, 2004, p. 59). Data on the development of abstract reasoning skills, as well as of the "recognition o...

Adolescents and Challenging School Behaviors

students in 2004 from 24% of students in 2003 (MORI, 2004). Bullying and threatening behaviour are increasing and it was found tha...

Provisions in Education for Adolescents with ADHD, Asperger's, and Autistic Spectrum Disorders

1998). This is enshrined in both political rhetoric and policies and papers such as the policy documents Excellence in Schools and...

Stages of Development

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

Health Benefits of Child and Adolescent Exercise

children who are inactive because of television viewing. This study found that children who were inactive because of television v...

Film 'Kramer vs. Kramer' and Adolescent Development

by his mother. He becomes angry and withdrawn, mistrusting others around him and as a result constantly tests the boundaries Ted ...

Marital Breakups and the Effects of Divorce on Adolescents

there is constant bickering. It seems that when mom and dad are happy, the family should be happy. Reportedly, 70% (Corliss & Mc...

Homeless Adolescents Resiliency Correlation Part Three

the "perceived lack of close and meaningful relationships with others" (Rew et al, 2001, p. 35-36). The Beck Hopelessness Scale, ...

Preschool and Adolescent Development in Terms of Physical, Cognitive, and Social Development

is a time for considerable growth and learning, so it stands to reason that with the child a veritable sponge of curiosity, he or ...

Absent Fathers and the Psychosocial Development of Girls

that it leads to a lack of contact between fathers and daughters. Studies suggest that girls who grow up in families without fath...

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...

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...

World Diversity and Catholic Education

This is because the Church realizes that what individuals believe in regards to religion or morality is frequently contingent on t...

Adult Transition of Mildly Retarded Adolescents

these students into the general education classroom. By the end of high school, they usually have obtained the level of third to s...

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...

Children and Obesity

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

Literature Review on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

first began to describe a recognizable pattern of birth defects that are attributable to alcohol exposure in the late 1960s. Since...

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...

Adolescent Social Development, Footloose

This essay discusses topics that address adolescent development as dramatized in the movie Footloose. The writer discusses parent-...

Changes for Adolescents

among those challenges could be racism, classism, sexism, adultism, and cultural oppression. Any of these can have devastating eff...

Media Violence and Behaviour

effect of exposure to violent video games has been determined to be 0.2, which is more than the effect of asbestos on cancer, home...

Teenage Years

want to be. They may experiment with a number of attitudes, values, and personalities trying to find something that will fit and t...

Participation in Youth Sports

This research paper presents examination of sports research in order to ascertain if the benefits associated with sports participa...

Driving While Under the Influence of Alcohol

This research paper offers an overview of drunk driving accidence statistics, a brief description of penalties and a discussion of...

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...