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Citizenship and Sports Participation

to be one of the social activities that improve the quality of life (Dinc, 2011). This evaluation is derived from the fact that en...

Self-Esteem Autonomy Attachment in Teenagers

This is the Millennial Generation. They do not know the threat of a nuclear war, have no idea of what the USSR was or meant, they ...

Diabetic Ketoacidosis, A Case Study

serious, potentially fatal, but preventable, complication of diabetes mellitus that occurs when there is insufficient insulin to m...

Organ Donation, Erie Co. & Educating Youth

medical attention if they were identified as organ donors (Minniefield, 2002). One hundred percent of the 25 to 35 years olds expr...

Teen Treatment Outcomes/Depression

psychotherapy declined. Psychotherapy is often an expensive and prolonged process, which is why Olfson, et al, posit that increase...

Child & Adolescent Obesity/U.S.

"hyperlipidemia, hypertension, blood glucose disturbances, Type 2 diabetes, sleep apnea and asthma," while emotional effects inclu...

Adolescent Depression And Cognitive Behavior Therapy

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...

The Effect of Religion on Adolescents Addicted to Illegal Substances

as noted above, is a "protective resource" that counters the effect of something stressful; for example, providing financial suppo...

Mental Retardation & Psychopathology

mental illness. One area of practice where this factor in Christian psychiatric practice may prove effective is in regards to the...

Trying Juveniles In Adult Courts

has existed for more than a decade (Associated Content, Inc., 2006; Young and Gainsborough, 2000). In fact, the juvenile system ha...

A Case Study on Adolescent Development

creativity (Wilderdom, 2004). Piaget presented four stages of cognitive development to explain how children learn and develop. Pi...

Substance Abuse and Adolescents

entire population of youth between the ages of 12 and 17 used illicit drugs in 2004 (SAMHSA, 2005). This represents a slight decre...

TV's Effect on Sexual Behavior

modeling and imitation (Somers and Tynan, 2006). Hypothesis in each study Collins, et al, propose that television holds the pote...

Danny Zuko From The Movie Grease

for constant friendship and status both in the group and in the school. The group gives each member protection from being alone an...

Adolescents and Challenging School Behaviors

students in 2004 from 24% of students in 2003 (MORI, 2004). Bullying and threatening behaviour are increasing and it was found tha...

Provisions in Education for Adolescents with ADHD, Asperger's, and Autistic Spectrum Disorders

1998). This is enshrined in both political rhetoric and policies and papers such as the policy documents Excellence in Schools and...

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...

High Risk Behavior in Adolescents

applied here validate all 181 cases. The third is a "date-charge" set of statistics, indicating when the arrests occurred. Perha...

Teenagers and Pallative Care

have changed considerably over the last century. This change is associated with a number of factors, the most prominent being our...

Drug Abuse Among Adolescents and Behavior Therapy

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

A Treatment Research Study on Adolescent Depression

and those who have been diagnosed as having a major depressive episode (Editors, 2006). As the data verify, girls are far more lik...

Adolescent Counseling and William Glasser's Theories

exert an influence in adult life. Freud maintained that individuals develop their personalities as a result of biological...

Schools and Adolescent Behavioral Challenges

having lasting significance, since it impacts not only on childs subsequent emotional and psychological development but also on th...

Adolescent Self Concept

interpret and organize information in a way which leads to the development of a stable idea of "self". They note that Erikson (196...

Adolescent Counseling and the Theories of William Glasser

to strict behaviorism either, and nor did he support the traditional therapeutic model in which the client had a mainly passive ro...

Treatment and Adolescent Depression

2006). Marcotte and colleagues (2002) note that a great deal of progress has been made in this field over the last two decades but...

Mexico and Homelessness

homeless teens as indicative of a larger problem (Wagner 16). Wagner explains it this way: " With their economy in shambles, many ...

A Scale for Adolescent Coping

and similarity" (Kipke et al, 1997, p. 655). Within the forming of these friendships is also a climate of greater importance with...

Film 'Kramer vs. Kramer' and Adolescent Development

by his mother. He becomes angry and withdrawn, mistrusting others around him and as a result constantly tests the boundaries Ted ...

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, ...