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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...
above the ideal standards based on the National Center for Health Statistics growth charts (Jerum and Melnyk, 2001). While weight ...
the past decade. One of the central issues that has been related through an assessment of behavioral elements, and that can arg...
the application of these viewpoints for troubled adolescent populations is a distinction that relates both to the value of human l...
thing to do. "In its strong form the theory asserts that people always act in their own interests, even though they may disguise ...
for understanding the nature of compliance issues with treatment programs like vitamin supplementation and provide a quantitative ...
romance ideas, and the subtle but pervasive message that they are second to males in this society. Many girls fit this example as ...
for the disorder. On medication now, he says that he is more focused than at any other time of his life. He always wanted to do ...
from written texts based on a complex coordination of a number of interrelated sources of information" and is considered as "the m...
is established that she has not yet reached her fourteenth birthday. Yet, she is also shown to be a practical, level-headed girl. ...
much sugar remains in the blood and too little energy is transferred to other cells. The diabetic needs to take externally adminis...
been studied from several different perspectives, but it appears that there has been no attempt to relate grade expectations with ...
does not take into account the role that genetics plays in body-building: even though steroids can augment potential which already...
viral disease that attacks the human immune system making it ineffective in fighting disease or sickness caused by microbial organ...
control group received as much attention from nursing staff as the experimental groups (LaMontagne, et al, 2003). The interventi...
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...
pricing adolescents out of the alcohol market. As Robert Heilbroner and Lester Thurow state, the theory of supply and deman...
Because antiabortion activists have been so successful in blocking legislative approaches toward governmentally subsidized contrac...
rules - some written, some spoken, others explicitly followed by virtue of inherent knowledge but all universally understood withi...
jungle (Berk, 2008). This chapter concentrates on the physical development of the child through this stage of growth. Berk not...
In general, if a parent asks for information concerning a counseling session, the counselor is required to provide a response. How...
various roles" (Meadows-Oliver, et al, 2007, p. 116). The stress involved in a teenage pregnancy and the associated pressure tha...
year of close observation. The young women allowed Finders to read their notes and listen to their conversations, an amazing displ...
for teaching: Today there is a substantial movement toward "student-centered" education. The theory is that students rather than t...
the theory that there is a direct relationship between intelligence and perceptive motor abilities. The strongest relationship bet...
food. In order to maintain a sense of acceptance, adolescents often forego the necessary elements of a proper and healthful diet ...
need to be the skills, including cooking skills, the ability to design menus, and the approaches taught also need to be available ...
and behavior. However, males with anorexia are usually suffering in silence because of the lack of social acceptance that this is...
to the same extent (Saner and Ellickson, 1996). Saner and Ellickson concluded that violent adolescent acts are often the result of...