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for understanding the nature of compliance issues with treatment programs like vitamin supplementation and provide a quantitative ...
to one survey conducted in both 1999 and 2001, 28 percent of American high school students report that they felt hopeless or sad a...
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...
Health in 1982. The conclusion of the research that had been conducted in those ten years indicated that watching violence on tele...
food. In order to maintain a sense of acceptance, adolescents often forego the necessary elements of a proper and healthful diet ...
existing cognitive structure (Ginn, 2009). Accommodation is the process of changing existing cognitive structures to accept then n...
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...
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...
"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...
about alcohol. The narrator describes that -- if her parents ever drank alcoholic beverages -- it was outside their home (Munro 43...
have turned into even greater social misfits as a means by which to defy the authoritative nature of corporal punishment. Any com...
THEORY The concept of behavioral therapy takes into consideration the history of cross-cultural psychology, in that it asse...
experimental trial" (Craig, et al, 1996, p. 811). It may be that the researchers assumed that their readers would perceive that th...
14 hours per week of television and spend an average of 6-7 hours per day viewing various media" (LeBlanc, 2003, p. 329. Furthermo...
and ice creams sold in the summer, this looks at the trends rather than just the past performance. Regression analysis takes th...
at different rates, which means that "physical growth is "asynchronous" (Berk 296). B. The general growth curve indicates the cha...
Ward & Friedman (2006) report, "Our findings suggest that TV use, in multiple forms, appears to be linked with adolescent sexualit...
In general, if a parent asks for information concerning a counseling session, the counselor is required to provide a response. How...
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...
jungle (Berk, 2008). This chapter concentrates on the physical development of the child through this stage of growth. Berk not...
This research paper offers an overview of adolescent identity development and the issues associated with this stage of personality...
link between the unhealthy, fat-laden meals served by fast food restaurants and the epidemic of obesity in the U.S. However, commo...
groups are open to anyone, while cliques are restricted to only those who are accepted by virtue of the defining quality. Moeller...