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An Analysis of Media Violence and its Impact on Children and Teens

There is no doubting the fact that the media sometimes incites violence (DuRant, Champion and Wolfson, 2006). The media is in fac...

Cognitive Development: Bygotski vs. Piaget

language and language facilitated thought. Speech, of course, develops in response to a childs interactions with others. This in...

Educational Suggestions for Piaget's Stages

explain experiences. Begins to gain ability for abstract problem solving. During this stage, child begins to understand concepts o...

The Importance of Early Nurturing

is Infancy, from birth to about age 1 year; the crisis is trust versus mistrust (Boeree, 2006). At this age, the infant is totally...

The McMartin Case: Interviewing Children

This paper pertains to the McMartin Preschool 1983 child abuse case, and the study conducted by Schreiber and colleagues (2006), w...

Child Abuse Policies, Discussion Questions

This research paper starts with a discussion of an ethical dilemma, specifically the challenge that child protective services (CPS...

CBT and NST to Treat Latino Victims of Sexual Abuse, A Research Method

This 5 page paper gives an example of how the method for a research study on Latino children victims of sexual abuse could be cond...

Are More Childen Really Bipolar

The number of children and adolescents being treated for bipolar disorder has soared exponentially over the last decade. Some expe...

The Hobbit An Analysis

Tolkiens children's tale was significantly revised after its initial publication in 1937. There are five sources in this six page...

Relevant Nursing Theories and Childhood Obesity

This research paper describes Patricia Benner's Humanistic Model, Kathryn E. Barnard's Parent Child Interaction Model and Nola Pen...

Development by Eras

Child development theories did not really come to fore until the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In fact, the word ‘childhood’...

Reading Empowers Children

This paper considers the social and emotional value of children's literature. There are three sources in this four page paper. ...

Overweight Youth

The percentages of overweight and obese children and youth is alarming. About 17 percent of American children and adolescents are ...

Domestic Violence, Children Witnesses

This paper pertains to domestic violence and its negative effects on child witnesses. The writer considers the issue of whether w...

One Transtion in Adolescent's Life

Children and adolescents make many transitions during their lifetimes, one of which is the transition from elementary to middle sc...

Language Development: Observation

This paper recounts the writer observations garnered from observing a three year old and a one year old and discusses the children...

Gay Couples and the Issue of Adoption

in recent years. More and more frequently our "traditional" families are single parent households or even more unusual tw...

Children Who Lost Parents 9/11

the 9/11 terrorist attacks; that included 100 infants born after the event (Patterson. 2006). Professionals who have worked with ...

Home-School Relationships : Fathers

accomplishments. In fact, many research studies have found that the presence of a childs father in the home has a positive effect ...

Narrator Cassie in Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

older brother, is somewhat more worldly-wise: although there is only a small age difference between the two children, Stacey is mo...

Scenario on Reproduction and Ethics

option. That option, however, is replete with many ethical considerations. As we shall see, those ethical considerations become ...

Speaking in Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

and essentially doing what no other human could, or would, do. Charlotte was also a child and as a child could perceive and acce...

Youth and Children Psychosexual Development's Influential Concepts

the inherent dangers associated with intercourse; as such, when choosing to enter into these relationships, there is a heightened ...

Robert Louis Stevenson and Shel Silverstein: Child Poetry

Good Play" the poem is far more simplistic in relationship to how children think and play as the poems narrator states, "We built ...

Junk Food and Children

Such junk food is apparently readily available in many high schools, perhaps with the understanding that high school students are ...

Adult Court Versus Juvenile Court

2005). It would take until the 1980s before all youth were taken out of adult jails and removed to separate facilities (Krisberg, ...

Fear And Anxiety In Children

for anxiety" (The Childrens Center for OCD and Anxiety, 2006; also see National Center for Health and Wellness, 2006). There are m...

Suicidality and Depression in Young Children

Given that serious depression too often leads to suicide, it is a problem that simply cannot be ignored. Numerous factors enter i...

Mental Retardation & Psychopathology

mental illness. One area of practice where this factor in Christian psychiatric practice may prove effective is in regards to the...

Childhood Obesity and Public Policy

issues on that front? First, it should be said that although the government does have policy on health related issues, some compl...