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Grief and Adolescence

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

Connection Between Depression and Alcohol Abuse in Adolescents

depression (Jersild B10). Men, suffer from such things as well, but findings seem to suggest that women fare worse. Yet, other stu...

Great Depression and What it Was Like to Be a Teenager

We also had to write a lot of compositions. There was a lot of attention to grammar, spelling and composition, but sometimes it s...

Emotionally Disturbed Teens and the Impact of Distant Intentionality on Their Anxiety, Depression, and Self Esteem

something is not provable by means of definitive findings, then it is said to have no place within the world of science, with psyc...

Adolescence and Self Esteem Factors

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

Psychosis in Adolescents and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

the age of seven, the prevalence of the disorder does increase with age (2003). Childhood schizophrenia forms a continuum with the...

Adolescent Girls' Sexuality and the Impact of Divorce

have noted that sexual activity among girls from single-parent homes is greater than among those who live in "blended" families. G...

Adolescence and Football

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

Youth Work Value and Attributes

economic standing. All that began changing in the early 1990s, with the result that between 1995 and 1999 - years in which many o...

Children, Adolescents, and TV Violence Effects

Health in 1982. The conclusion of the research that had been conducted in those ten years indicated that watching violence on tele...

Adolescents and Substance Abuse

In eight pages this paper examines adolescent substance abuse in terms of treatment and prevention. Ten sources are listed in the...

'An Ounce of Cure' by Alice Munro

about alcohol. The narrator describes that -- if her parents ever drank alcoholic beverages -- it was outside their home (Munro 43...

The Negative Effects of Adolescent Corporal Punishment in Adulthood

have turned into even greater social misfits as a means by which to defy the authoritative nature of corporal punishment. Any com...

Adolescents and Cognitive Behavior Theory

THEORY The concept of behavioral therapy takes into consideration the history of cross-cultural psychology, in that it asse...

Australia, Alcohol Consumption and the Impact of Combining Advertising and Sports

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

Young Teens, Education in Schools, and AIDS

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

Children, Adolescents, and Divorce Effects

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

The Conflicts of Adolescence

This paper contains eleven pages and examines the conflict adolescents experience with their parents and society through differing...

Adolescents and the Effects of Dependence Upon Welfare

response to the issue of poverty, but also the mass cultures transition from very basic moral and work ethics to a series of econo...

At Risk Adolescents and Parental Alcoholism

50% of those who commit sex abuse crimes also abuse alcohol. Suicides: 1. 80% of all adolescent suicides have been reported to b...

Adolescent Delinquency Case Study

life of this boy, asking what went wrong may help to comprehend juvenile delinquency in America. There are many implications and t...

Juvenile Delinquency and Religiosity

rules - some written, some spoken, others explicitly followed by virtue of inherent knowledge but all universally understood withi...

Children and Obesity

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

High Risk Adolescents and Suicide

seldom published until two or three years after the data were collected. Since reports have indicated a continually increasing acc...

Teen Pregnancy, Regulatory and Legislative Influences

Because antiabortion activists have been so successful in blocking legislative approaches toward governmentally subsidized contrac...

Teen Alcohol Abuse Socioeconomic Policy Control and Proposition

pricing adolescents out of the alcohol market. As Robert Heilbroner and Lester Thurow state, the theory of supply and deman...

Sub Saharan Region of Africa and Teenage Females with HIV and AIDS

childbearing age and, particularly adolescent girls, should receive special attention in regards to prevention. There are several ...

Homeless Adolescents Resiliency Correlation Part Three

the "perceived lack of close and meaningful relationships with others" (Rew et al, 2001, p. 35-36). The Beck Hopelessness Scale, ...

Preschool and Adolescent Development in Terms of Physical, Cognitive, and Social Development

is a time for considerable growth and learning, so it stands to reason that with the child a veritable sponge of curiosity, he or ...

Absent Fathers and the Psychosocial Development of Girls

that it leads to a lack of contact between fathers and daughters. Studies suggest that girls who grow up in families without fath...