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Killing by Adolescents and Children in America

This paper examines the reasons for increases in child and adolescent killings in America in six pages. Four sources are cited in...

Teens and TV

the day when children are purportedly asleep. The problem is that teenagers are notorious night owls and tend to turn the televisi...

Psychology and Self Esteem in Child Development

childhood develop self-esteem encompasses several elements. I. INFANCY There is perhaps no more vital a growth period in an indi...

Adolescence and Deviance

In eight pages the concept of deviance is examined in terms of definition and relevant sociological theories in order to make a de...

Juveniles and the Impact of Gang Culture

In ten pages this paper examines how adolescents are affected by gang membership and culture. Six sources are listed in the bibli...

Themes in Arthur Miller's The Crucible

In 5 pages this paper discusses themes of personal integrity, bureaucracy strictures, and adolescent rebellion that are featured i...

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...

Stages of Development

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

Adults, Adolescents, and Smoking

22.4% (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2004). Cigarettes, once considered glamorous and chic, have emerged as t...

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...

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...

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, ...

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...

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...

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...

Low Reading Levels and Teens At Risk

prerequisite" (Anderson and Roit 123). In other to help students with understanding, the authors suggest several strategies, whic...

Children, Adolescents, and Ethics of Psychologists

that other psychological associations would do well to emulate. For example, it provides a student for decision-making that Canadi...

Althol Fugard/Valley Song

choir. However, she ahs peered through neighbors windows and caught glimpses of singers on television, realizing that her talent c...

Methamphetamine Prevention Program For Teens

to one of three groups, one of which was a control group with 208 students in it (Ferlazzo, 2006). The rest of the group were divi...

Cigarette Smoking in Adolescence (Article Review)

things also play a role in the analysis. While a variety of things are examined, and statistics complied, there is seemingly only ...

Youth Suicide and Depression; Conventional Approaches To Treatment

a major relapse when they are adults (Olfson et al, 2003). Therefore treatment at an early stage may help prevent later episodes. ...

Family Systems Theory

goes on to say that the nature of the family is its members being "connected emotionally" (Bowen Center for the Study of the Famil...

Urban Black Male Adolescents

families often have little access to health care services (Bauman, Silver and Stein, 2006). In many cases, access is provided thro...

Reforming Juvenile Justice

as well. Nielsen and Perry (2000) state that we "must recognize that we are united in our diversity" (p. 4). This has...

Drug Abuse Among Adolescents and Behavior Therapy

reported that behavior therapy follows "a format of therapist modeling, behavior rehearsal, specific therapy assignments, self-rec...

Exploring the Basics of Client-Centered Therapy

attitudes and feelings which he may have, no matter how unconventional, absurd, or contradictory these attitudes may be" (Rogers 1...