SEARCH RESULTS

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...

issue via conceptual analysis, inasmuch as Walker and Avant provide specific steps that allow one to wholly define the ambiguous a...

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

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...

relationship with both the mother and her family and the father and his family (also in relation to property and/or inheritance la...

drops out of society or gets into a car accident. They may be on the road to addiction, which can be life changing and even end in...

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

to the same extent (Saner and Ellickson, 1996). Saner and Ellickson concluded that violent adolescent acts are often the result of...

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 He becomes angry and withdrawn, mistrusting others around him and as a result constantly tests the boundaries Ted ...

there is constant bickering. It seems that when mom and dad are happy, the family should be happy. Reportedly, 70% (Corliss & Mc...

an adolescent client (Wallis, 2004, p. 59). Data on the development of abstract reasoning skills, as well as of the "recognition o...

prerequisite" (Anderson and Roit 123). In other to help students with understanding, the authors suggest several strategies, whic...

that other psychological associations would do well to emulate. For example, it provides a student for decision-making that Canadi...

the theory that there is a direct relationship between intelligence and perceptive motor abilities. The strongest relationship bet...

This research paper offers an overview of adolescent identity development and the issues associated with this stage of personality...

need to be the skills, including cooking skills, the ability to design menus, and the approaches taught also need to be available ...

and behavior. However, males with anorexia are usually suffering in silence because of the lack of social acceptance that this is...

groups are open to anyone, while cliques are restricted to only those who are accepted by virtue of the defining quality. Moeller...

for teaching: Today there is a substantial movement toward "student-centered" education. The theory is that students rather than t...

year of close observation. The young women allowed Finders to read their notes and listen to their conversations, an amazing displ...

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

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

operations stage when adolescents are going through their later personality formation and undertaking a great deal of the learning...

that interest by participating in activities. 3. The third aspect had to do with the relationship between social interest and life...

behaviors of older students (i.e., adult students). Classroom activities that pair younger students with older students may "encou...

"total years of life lost to disability (YLD), with depression accounting for 8% of the total YLD" (Mathers, et al., 2001; p. 1076...

ignorant, uneducated attitudes. The social, political, economical, cultural and religious activities experienced in everyda...

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