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Essays 541 - 570
viral disease that attacks the human immune system making it ineffective in fighting disease or sickness caused by microbial organ...
much sugar remains in the blood and too little energy is transferred to other cells. The diabetic needs to take externally adminis...
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. ...
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...
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...
above the ideal standards based on the National Center for Health Statistics growth charts (Jerum and Melnyk, 2001). While weight ...
available to young people with potential problems: primary, secondary and tertiary, which "can be viewed along a continuum in ter...
homeless teens as indicative of a larger problem (Wagner 16). Wagner explains it this way: " With their economy in shambles, many ...
and similarity" (Kipke et al, 1997, p. 655). Within the forming of these friendships is also a climate of greater importance with...
2006). Marcotte and colleagues (2002) note that a great deal of progress has been made in this field over the last two decades but...
adolescents there were no real treatment alternatives for these children (Brent, 2004). The common belief, in fact, was that thos...
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...
"hyperlipidemia, hypertension, blood glucose disturbances, Type 2 diabetes, sleep apnea and asthma," while emotional effects inclu...
psychotherapy declined. Psychotherapy is often an expensive and prolonged process, which is why Olfson, et al, posit that increase...
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...
entire population of youth between the ages of 12 and 17 used illicit drugs in 2004 (SAMHSA, 2005). This represents a slight decre...
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...
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...
modeling and imitation (Somers and Tynan, 2006). Hypothesis in each study Collins, et al, propose that television holds the pote...
things also play a role in the analysis. While a variety of things are examined, and statistics complied, there is seemingly only ...
goes on to say that the nature of the family is its members being "connected emotionally" (Bowen Center for the Study of the Famil...
a major relapse when they are adults (Olfson et al, 2003). Therefore treatment at an early stage may help prevent later episodes. ...
as well. Nielsen and Perry (2000) state that we "must recognize that we are united in our diversity" (p. 4). This has...