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possibilities; and other issues. They also dont seem to understand that older people were once young, and therefore understand th...

above the ideal standards based on the National Center for Health Statistics growth charts (Jerum and Melnyk, 2001). While weight ...

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...

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...

to one survey conducted in both 1999 and 2001, 28 percent of American high school students report that they felt hopeless or sad a...

different types of life stresses in adolescence than those experienced in childhood or adulthood. The reactions and process an adu...

for the disorder. On medication now, he says that he is more focused than at any other time of his life. He always wanted to do ...

from written texts based on a complex coordination of a number of interrelated sources of information" and is considered as "the m...

is established that she has not yet reached her fourteenth birthday. Yet, she is also shown to be a practical, level-headed girl. ...

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...

been studied from several different perspectives, but it appears that there has been no attempt to relate grade expectations with ...

viral disease that attacks the human immune system making it ineffective in fighting disease or sickness caused by microbial organ...

control group received as much attention from nursing staff as the experimental groups (LaMontagne, et al, 2003). The interventi...

the past decade. One of the central issues that has been related through an assessment of behavioral elements, and that can arg...

the application of these viewpoints for troubled adolescent populations is a distinction that relates both to the value of human l...

for understanding the nature of compliance issues with treatment programs like vitamin supplementation and provide a quantitative ...

also occurred in numerous nations in the mid- to late-1950s through the 1970s (Spooner, 2002). The focus of this wave included: "e...

their family unit - a time of stresses that dont need to be complicated about concerns such as career and college choices. Yet unf...

behaviors. Often, it is within the setting of a therapeutic community that such issues may be dealt with in the most effective man...

often takes more than 20 years for the effects of cigarette smoke to develop into a detectable malignancy" (p. PG). II. ADOLESCEN...

As of 1999, more than 8 million children in America were living with their divorced single parent (Fagan and Rector, 2000). When t...

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...

to Dr. Jordan Metzl, physician who specializes in sports medicine and author of The Young Athlete: A Sports Doctors Complete Guide...

Yong et al (2002) in their study of eighth-grade students, found that there was a close correlation between high self-esteem...