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families often have little access to health care services (Bauman, Silver and Stein, 2006). In many cases, access is provided thro...
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...
Discussion Parents serve, either consciously or unconsciously as role models for their children. Gender roles develop in p...
couple of studies dealing with gansta rap and its impact on adolescents most likely to be affected by it. Well then move to the ot...
Although it is not uncommon to see gay and lesbian couples at the high school level, there are children who question their sexuali...
Ward & Friedman (2006) report, "Our findings suggest that TV use, in multiple forms, appears to be linked with adolescent sexualit...
14 hours per week of television and spend an average of 6-7 hours per day viewing various media" (LeBlanc, 2003, p. 329. Furthermo...
at different rates, which means that "physical growth is "asynchronous" (Berk 296). B. The general growth curve indicates the cha...
(Alliance for Excellent Education, 2006). * About eight percent of entering college freshmen must take at least one literacy remed...
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...
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...
the crises facing the individual at subsequent stages. Each individual must, basically, "pass eight great tests" and anticipation ...
various roles" (Meadows-Oliver, et al, 2007, p. 116). The stress involved in a teenage pregnancy and the associated pressure tha...
entire population of youth between the ages of 12 and 17 used illicit drugs in 2004 (SAMHSA, 2005). This represents a slight decre...
In general, if a parent asks for information concerning a counseling session, the counselor is required to provide a response. How...
jungle (Berk, 2008). This chapter concentrates on the physical development of the child through this stage of growth. Berk not...
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...
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...
medical attention if they were identified as organ donors (Minniefield, 2002). One hundred percent of the 25 to 35 years olds expr...
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...
about alcohol. The narrator describes that -- if her parents ever drank alcoholic beverages -- it was outside their home (Munro 43...
have turned into even greater social misfits as a means by which to defy the authoritative nature of corporal punishment. Any com...
THEORY The concept of behavioral therapy takes into consideration the history of cross-cultural psychology, in that it asse...
As of 1999, more than 8 million children in America were living with their divorced single parent (Fagan and Rector, 2000). When t...
"total years of life lost to disability (YLD), with depression accounting for 8% of the total YLD" (Mathers, et al., 2001; p. 1076...
ignorant, uneducated attitudes. The social, political, economical, cultural and religious activities experienced in everyda...