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Essays 481 - 510
that one can incorporate the extreme with the ordinary? Indeed, risk taking represents a bit of all of these definitions, inasmuc...
the ages of 12 and 19 were considered overweight (Surgeon General News, 2005). If that werent enough, this number is nearly triple...
available to young people with potential problems: primary, secondary and tertiary, which "can be viewed along a continuum in ter...
issue via conceptual analysis, inasmuch as Walker and Avant provide specific steps that allow one to wholly define the ambiguous a...
above the ideal standards based on the National Center for Health Statistics growth charts (Jerum and Melnyk, 2001). While weight ...
focuses on psychosocial development, which is reflected in his Eight Stages of Human Development. The stages, in order, are: infan...
researchers maintained that obesity is on the rise in adolescent populations and may be the product of social constructs. There ...
questionable impact over adolescent personality, values and manner. In gathering this information, several methods were utilized ...
It has never been out of print since its publication and has been translated into "French, German and Dutch" (Taillon 16). Written...
that is, promote and nurture this factor. While this examination will touch on the latter meaning, this emphasis is on the former,...
couple of studies dealing with gansta rap and its impact on adolescents most likely to be affected by it. Well then move to the ot...
Although it is not uncommon to see gay and lesbian couples at the high school level, there are children who question their sexuali...
between cases at the time of diagnosis (Newmark and Anhalt, 2007). Type 1 diabetes is typically due to a "lack of insulin producti...
that depression may be a risk factor. Depression causes many different feelings and conditions such as the inability to concentrat...
grade, "21.3% had been drunk, while 44.0% and 61.6% of 10th- and 12th-graders, respectively, had been drunk at least once in their...
cause of death for 5-to-14-year-olds" ("Teen suicide"). Such statistics suggest that depression in childhood and adolescence can b...
families often have little access to health care services (Bauman, Silver and Stein, 2006). In many cases, access is provided thro...
as well. Nielsen and Perry (2000) state that we "must recognize that we are united in our diversity" (p. 4). This has...
Discussion Parents serve, either consciously or unconsciously as role models for their children. Gender roles develop in p...
occurred in recent years. Background: Adolescent Psychology Self-esteem is immediate connected with assessments of the ...
goes on to say that the nature of the family is its members being "connected emotionally" (Bowen Center for the Study of the Famil...
things also play a role in the analysis. While a variety of things are examined, and statistics complied, there is seemingly only ...
through a consensual process, each member of the team feels that they had an input into the decision, whereas the process of votin...
(Alliance for Excellent Education, 2006). * About eight percent of entering college freshmen must take at least one literacy remed...
Ward & Friedman (2006) report, "Our findings suggest that TV use, in multiple forms, appears to be linked with adolescent sexualit...
14 hours per week of television and spend an average of 6-7 hours per day viewing various media" (LeBlanc, 2003, p. 329. Furthermo...
at different rates, which means that "physical growth is "asynchronous" (Berk 296). B. The general growth curve indicates the cha...
the crises facing the individual at subsequent stages. Each individual must, basically, "pass eight great tests" and anticipation ...
various roles" (Meadows-Oliver, et al, 2007, p. 116). The stress involved in a teenage pregnancy and the associated pressure tha...
experimental trial" (Craig, et al, 1996, p. 811). It may be that the researchers assumed that their readers would perceive that th...