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Jean Piagot’s Contribution to Adolescent Psychology

The time of Piaget was a time when new awareness was also coming to the specific condition of children, as they were seen as separ...

Adolescents and Drug Addiction

a beautiful young lady...There is no way to describe the daily misery and agony I went through while addicted to heroin" (The Agon...

Rite of Passage

and, thus, in the religious duties and responsibilities of being an adult male within this community. The boy, in turn, receives a...

Adolescence: Erikson and Piaget's Staging Theories Compared

one that they find fits them ("Eriksons Psychosocial Stages of Development," 2007). In other words, they do not know who they real...

Adolescent Motivation To Learn And Achieve

this youngster is challenged with massive physiological and emotional changes. This stage is called: Identity vs. Role Confusion (...

Body Image: Journal Articles Overview

to lose weight, media pressure to gain weight, and media pressure to increase muscle tone (McCabe et al, 2003). Both studi...

Action Plan to Reduce Obesity in 12 - 18 Year Olds

causes of obesity catching children when they can still be influenced. Children who are overweight are one of the groups that ha...

Healthy People 2010/Obesity Objective

in nutritional value. High risk also results from the fact that poor neighborhoods frequently lack "well-maintained sidewalks and ...

Adult Obesity

a drug sold under the brand name of Glucophage) in treating obesity. Finally, nursing intervention will be proposed based on the ...

Childhood Obesity/Focus on Kaneohe, HI

Melnyk, 2001, p. 606). Children today live in a social and cultural climate that "idealizes thinness," and also "stigmatizes being...

Obesity/Hispanic Women in Tillman County, OK

$1,109,950 in additional medical costs for the county (OSDoH, 2007). Additionally the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDoH)...

Obesity in America and Around the World

arguably around the world. 2. Approximately 22 million children worldwide who are under the age of five are thought to be obese...

Overview of Childhood Obesity

This research paper presents an extensive discussion of childhood obesity that addresses prevalence, the negative effects of overw...

Obesity, Social Marketing

This research paper pertains to a social marketing campaign, the Campaign to End Obesity and the writer also discusses obesity pre...

An Important Public Health Issue, Obesity

This paper pertains to obesity and the writer specially discusses how the terms "epidemic" and "pandemic" are defined in regards t...

Nutrition and Health Problems in the Elderly

self-reported diabetes ranged from 1.6% among persons aged 18-34 years to 12.5% among persons aged 65-74 years" (Current Trends Re...

Progress of Fat and Genetic Predisposition to Obesity

health. There are morbidly obese people who appear to enjoy being the way they are and actively seek to maintain their stat...

Depression and Obesity

emotional problems are likely to emerge. The relationship between obesity and depression is one that is not exactly clear (Stunka...

Steroid Use In Adolescents: Leads To Other Drug Use And Illicit Criminal Behavior?

to the rationale for research in order to learn the diversity inherent to each individuals reaction. II. LITERATURE REVIEW ...

Racism & Adolescent Development

favor "cooperation, discussion, a focus tied to people, hands-on activities, and whole-to-part learning," while white students are...

Article Critique/Dating Study

previously tested instrument, indicates that issues of validity and reliability were also adequately addressed. The results are ...

Adolescent Depression : Review Of Articles

more attention needs to be given to the diagnosis and treatment of this illness. Any wide-spread illness is expensive to the patie...

Shyness And Social Anxiety Disorder

contract, not smiling at appropriate times (Bressert, 2006). The incidence of shyness is much less than that of social phobia bu...

Cognition and Suicide: Adolescent Gender Differences

This research paper pertains to two topics. The first section of the paper deals with difference between the gender and adolescent...

Alcohol and Drug Use/Juvenile Crime

health and well-being (Neff and Waite, 2007). While illicit substance usage peaked in the late 1970s, recent statistics indicate t...

Privacy and Adolescence

characters are rather boisterous and entangled in relationships. At the same time, they are private in their own way. They need th...

Predicting Adolescent Crime

external controls are social and legal. Socialization is the reason for law-abiding citizens. Hirschi later offered a social bond...

Risk Behaviors and Adolescents - A Talk

address the topic of how you, as adolescents, can recognize when youre being tempted to engage in risky behaviors, and decide whet...

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Russell Barkley

that the individual suffers constantly, since childhood, and that the symptoms continue throughout life and are quite severe in ma...

Grief Counseling in High Schools

influenced by a variety of factors, such as family and cultural background, life experiences and environmental influences. Noppe a...