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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....

Adolescent Literacy Rates

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

Two Consumers; A Comparison of Purchase Processes and Influences

in the two months following Christmas, and that December, in the run up to Christmas is also one of the periods of peak spending i...

Skinner, Piaget And Vygotsky : Developmental Theories

existing cognitive structure (Ginn, 2009). Accommodation is the process of changing existing cognitive structures to accept then n...

Nutritional Needs Of Adolescents

food. In order to maintain a sense of acceptance, adolescents often forego the necessary elements of a proper and healthful diet ...

Literary Techniques in Junior High Girls

for teaching: Today there is a substantial movement toward "student-centered" education. The theory is that students rather than t...

Literary Techniques Used by Girls in Junior High School

year of close observation. The young women allowed Finders to read their notes and listen to their conversations, an amazing displ...

Proposal for a Project to Tackle Obesity in Adolescents

need to be the skills, including cooking skills, the ability to design menus, and the approaches taught also need to be available ...

Young Males and Anorexia

and behavior. However, males with anorexia are usually suffering in silence because of the lack of social acceptance that this is...

The Impact of Race and Gender on Adolescent Violence

to the same extent (Saner and Ellickson, 1996). Saner and Ellickson concluded that violent adolescent acts are often the result of...

Cliques, Crowds And Adolescent Development

groups are open to anyone, while cliques are restricted to only those who are accepted by virtue of the defining quality. Moeller...

Adolescent Development of Individual Identity

This research paper offers an overview of adolescent identity development and the issues associated with this stage of personality...

Article Review: Intelligence

the theory that there is a direct relationship between intelligence and perceptive motor abilities. The strongest relationship bet...

Three Journal Articles: Analysis Of Adolescent Development

test site in which to explore various behaviors not deemed acceptable by adult standards, yet are perfectly fine within the constr...

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...

Article Analysis: Appeals to Logos, Ethos and Pathos

women, despite their success; women still are faced with doing the majority of tasks around the home, no matter how busy their pro...

The Social Adolescent

make her laugh and Debbies mothering tendency. Marie said she appreciated Denaes honesty, Jills spontaneity and Lindas frankness....

The Effect of Religion on Adolescents Addicted to Illegal Substances

as noted above, is a "protective resource" that counters the effect of something stressful; for example, providing financial suppo...

Mental Retardation & Psychopathology

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

Trying Juveniles In Adult Courts

has existed for more than a decade (Associated Content, Inc., 2006; Young and Gainsborough, 2000). In fact, the juvenile system ha...

Substance Abuse and Adolescents

entire population of youth between the ages of 12 and 17 used illicit drugs in 2004 (SAMHSA, 2005). This represents a slight decre...

The Use of Antidepressants and Increased Suicide Rates in Adolescents

adolescents there were no real treatment alternatives for these children (Brent, 2004). The common belief, in fact, was that thos...

Teen Treatment Outcomes/Depression

psychotherapy declined. Psychotherapy is often an expensive and prolonged process, which is why Olfson, et al, posit that increase...

Organ Donation, Erie Co. & Educating Youth

medical attention if they were identified as organ donors (Minniefield, 2002). One hundred percent of the 25 to 35 years olds expr...

Child & Adolescent Obesity/U.S.

"hyperlipidemia, hypertension, blood glucose disturbances, Type 2 diabetes, sleep apnea and asthma," while emotional effects inclu...

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...

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...