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2006). Marcotte and colleagues (2002) note that a great deal of progress has been made in this field over the last two decades but...

homeless teens as indicative of a larger problem (Wagner 16). Wagner explains it this way: " With their economy in shambles, many ...

and those who have been diagnosed as having a major depressive episode (Editors, 2006). As the data verify, girls are far more lik...

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...

entire population of youth between the ages of 12 and 17 used illicit drugs in 2004 (SAMHSA, 2005). This represents a slight decre...

has existed for more than a decade (Associated Content, Inc., 2006; Young and Gainsborough, 2000). In fact, the juvenile system ha...

for constant friendship and status both in the group and in the school. The group gives each member protection from being alone an...

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

describe the other elements that were at play in the educational process. These invisible elements, the so-called "hidden curricu...

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...

as noted above, is a "protective resource" that counters the effect of something stressful; for example, providing financial suppo...

mental illness. One area of practice where this factor in Christian psychiatric practice may prove effective is in regards to the...

women, despite their success; women still are faced with doing the majority of tasks around the home, no matter how busy their pro...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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