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Essays 511 - 540
As of 1999, more than 8 million children in America were living with their divorced single parent (Fagan and Rector, 2000). When t...
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...
the age of seven, the prevalence of the disorder does increase with age (2003). Childhood schizophrenia forms a continuum with the...
have noted that sexual activity among girls from single-parent homes is greater than among those who live in "blended" families. G...
something is not provable by means of definitive findings, then it is said to have no place within the world of science, with psyc...
to illustrate the inherent effectiveness of the alternative approach of Distant Intentionality upon self-esteem, depression and an...
also occurred in numerous nations in the mid- to late-1950s through the 1970s (Spooner, 2002). The focus of this wave included: "e...
often takes more than 20 years for the effects of cigarette smoke to develop into a detectable malignancy" (p. PG). II. ADOLESCEN...
their family unit - a time of stresses that dont need to be complicated about concerns such as career and college choices. Yet unf...
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...
that interest by participating in activities. 3. The third aspect had to do with the relationship between social interest and life...
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...
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...
been studied from several different perspectives, but it appears that there has been no attempt to relate grade expectations with ...
above the ideal standards based on the National Center for Health Statistics growth charts (Jerum and Melnyk, 2001). While weight ...
This is because the Church realizes that what individuals believe in regards to religion or morality is frequently contingent on t...
these students into the general education classroom. By the end of high school, they usually have obtained the level of third to s...
children who are inactive because of television viewing. This study found that children who were inactive because of television v...
1993, p. 3), Piaget and Vygotsky illustrate how this lopsidedness can create a considerable amount of frustration. Often misconst...
possibilities; and other issues. They also dont seem to understand that older people were once young, and therefore understand th...
22.4% (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2004). Cigarettes, once considered glamorous and chic, have emerged as t...
applied here validate all 181 cases. The third is a "date-charge" set of statistics, indicating when the arrests occurred. Perha...
have changed considerably over the last century. This change is associated with a number of factors, the most prominent being our...
1998). This is enshrined in both political rhetoric and policies and papers such as the policy documents Excellence in Schools and...
attitudes and feelings which he may have, no matter how unconventional, absurd, or contradictory these attitudes may be" (Rogers 1...
reported that behavior therapy follows "a format of therapist modeling, behavior rehearsal, specific therapy assignments, self-rec...