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response to the issue of poverty, but also the mass cultures transition from very basic moral and work ethics to a series of econo...
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...
is established that she has not yet reached her fourteenth birthday. Yet, she is also shown to be a practical, level-headed girl. ...
control group received as much attention from nursing staff as the experimental groups (LaMontagne, et al, 2003). The interventi...
viral disease that attacks the human immune system making it ineffective in fighting disease or sickness caused by microbial organ...
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...
affects specific individuals, but the future of society as a whole. As HIV infection has affected African American youth in greate...
Yong et al (2002) in their study of eighth-grade students, found that there was a close correlation between high self-esteem...
their family unit - a time of stresses that dont need to be complicated about concerns such as career and college choices. Yet unf...
also occurred in numerous nations in the mid- to late-1950s through the 1970s (Spooner, 2002). The focus of this wave included: "e...
that interest by participating in activities. 3. The third aspect had to do with the relationship between social interest and life...
often takes more than 20 years for the effects of cigarette smoke to develop into a detectable malignancy" (p. PG). II. ADOLESCEN...
behaviors. Often, it is within the setting of a therapeutic community that such issues may be dealt with in the most effective man...
behaviors of older students (i.e., adult students). Classroom activities that pair younger students with older students may "encou...
ignorant, uneducated attitudes. The social, political, economical, cultural and religious activities experienced in everyda...
"total years of life lost to disability (YLD), with depression accounting for 8% of the total YLD" (Mathers, et al., 2001; p. 1076...
As of 1999, more than 8 million children in America were living with their divorced single parent (Fagan and Rector, 2000). When t...
about alcohol. The narrator describes that -- if her parents ever drank alcoholic beverages -- it was outside their home (Munro 43...
In eight pages this paper examines adolescent substance abuse in terms of treatment and prevention. Ten sources are listed in the...
Health in 1982. The conclusion of the research that had been conducted in those ten years indicated that watching violence on tele...
available to young people with potential problems: primary, secondary and tertiary, which "can be viewed along a continuum in ter...
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...
childbearing age and, particularly adolescent girls, should receive special attention in regards to prevention. There are several ...
above the ideal standards based on the National Center for Health Statistics growth charts (Jerum and Melnyk, 2001). While weight ...
"hyperlipidemia, hypertension, blood glucose disturbances, Type 2 diabetes, sleep apnea and asthma," while emotional effects inclu...