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Althol Fugard/Valley Song

choir. However, she ahs peered through neighbors windows and caught glimpses of singers on television, realizing that her talent c...

Dallas Willard: Four Great Questions Of Life

teenagers, because they are often reactions from the lower self. A strong personal desire can also evoke an emotional response, w...

Methamphetamine Prevention Program For Teens

to one of three groups, one of which was a control group with 208 students in it (Ferlazzo, 2006). The rest of the group were divi...

Adolescent Development: Three Different Perspectives

occurred in recent years. Background: Adolescent Psychology Self-esteem is immediate connected with assessments of the ...

Drugs and Their Negative Impact on Teens

grade, "21.3% had been drunk, while 44.0% and 61.6% of 10th- and 12th-graders, respectively, had been drunk at least once in their...

Article Review: Depression And Delinquency

that depression may be a risk factor. Depression causes many different feelings and conditions such as the inability to concentrat...

Reforming Juvenile Justice

as well. Nielsen and Perry (2000) state that we "must recognize that we are united in our diversity" (p. 4). This has...

Support Services for Gay and Lesbian Children and Adolescents

Although it is not uncommon to see gay and lesbian couples at the high school level, there are children who question their sexuali...

Does Divorce or Disruption in Family Structure During Adolescence Have a Detrimental Effect on Development?

Discussion Parents serve, either consciously or unconsciously as role models for their children. Gender roles develop in p...

Depression in Children and Adolescents

cause of death for 5-to-14-year-olds" ("Teen suicide"). Such statistics suggest that depression in childhood and adolescence can b...

School Climate/James P. Comer

through a consensual process, each member of the team feels that they had an input into the decision, whereas the process of votin...

Youth Suicide and Depression; Conventional Approaches To Treatment

a major relapse when they are adults (Olfson et al, 2003). Therefore treatment at an early stage may help prevent later episodes. ...

Family Systems Theory

goes on to say that the nature of the family is its members being "connected emotionally" (Bowen Center for the Study of the Famil...

Thomas Hobbes And Sigmund Freud: Man Is Born Into Specific Behaviors

Hobbes clearly addresses the notion of individualism and Social Contract Theory as they relate to the moral factor behind justice....

Article Critique/Stuttering in Adolescents 9-14 Years

experimental trial" (Craig, et al, 1996, p. 811). It may be that the researchers assumed that their readers would perceive that th...

Health Promotion/Childhood Obesity

14 hours per week of television and spend an average of 6-7 hours per day viewing various media" (LeBlanc, 2003, p. 329. Furthermo...

Adolescent Attitudes About Sex

Ward & Friedman (2006) report, "Our findings suggest that TV use, in multiple forms, appears to be linked with adolescent sexualit...

Towards Universal Happiness: Issues, Insights/Perspectives, Prospects and Challenges in Business Ethics

and respect diversity within the corporate environment, but not leveraging it in order to gain commercially at the cost of others....

Summary and Outline: Childhood Development

jungle (Berk, 2008). This chapter concentrates on the physical development of the child through this stage of growth. Berk not...

Laura Berk/Infants, Children and Adolescnets/3 chapters

at different rates, which means that "physical growth is "asynchronous" (Berk 296). B. The general growth curve indicates the cha...

Counseling Adolescents/Confidentiality Issues

In general, if a parent asks for information concerning a counseling session, the counselor is required to provide a response. How...

Diabetes in Adolescence

between cases at the time of diagnosis (Newmark and Anhalt, 2007). Type 1 diabetes is typically due to a "lack of insulin producti...

Spiritual Development of Children

that is, promote and nurture this factor. While this examination will touch on the latter meaning, this emphasis is on the former,...

Beatrice C. Mosionier/In Search of April Raintree

It has never been out of print since its publication and has been translated into "French, German and Dutch" (Taillon 16). Written...

Adolescent Literacy Rates

(Alliance for Excellent Education, 2006). * About eight percent of entering college freshmen must take at least one literacy remed...

Adolescent Development - Freud, Erikson And Vygotsky

focuses on psychosocial development, which is reflected in his Eight Stages of Human Development. The stages, in order, are: infan...

Contributing Factors to Adolescent Obesity: A Research Proposal

researchers maintained that obesity is on the rise in adolescent populations and may be the product of social constructs. There ...

Adolescent Online Impact Study: Methods And Results

questionable impact over adolescent personality, values and manner. In gathering this information, several methods were utilized ...

Teen Obesity

This research paper pertains to data on the prevalence of obesity among American adolescents. This information reveals that it is ...

Proposed Study, Obesity, Adolescent Hispanics

This research paper has two major sections. The first pertains to a proposed research study and the second pertains to a proposed ...