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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...
In eight pages this paper examines adolescent substance abuse in terms of treatment and prevention. Ten sources are listed in the...
Health in 1982. The conclusion of the research that had been conducted in those ten years indicated that watching violence on tele...
about alcohol. The narrator describes that -- if her parents ever drank alcoholic beverages -- it was outside their home (Munro 43...
have turned into even greater social misfits as a means by which to defy the authoritative nature of corporal punishment. Any com...
also occurred in numerous nations in the mid- to late-1950s through the 1970s (Spooner, 2002). The focus of this wave included: "e...
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...
operations stage when adolescents are going through their later personality formation and undertaking a great deal of the learning...
that interest by participating in activities. 3. The third aspect had to do with the relationship between social interest and life...
ignorant, uneducated attitudes. The social, political, economical, cultural and religious activities experienced in everyda...
"total years of life lost to disability (YLD), with depression accounting for 8% of the total YLD" (Mathers, et al., 2001; p. 1076...
As of 1999, more than 8 million children in America were living with their divorced single parent (Fagan and Rector, 2000). When t...
Yong et al (2002) in their study of eighth-grade students, found that there was a close correlation between high self-esteem...
without some simple form of stress, the mind/body connection is not stimulated. However, this stress is completely divergent from...
often takes more than 20 years for the effects of cigarette smoke to develop into a detectable malignancy" (p. PG). II. ADOLESCEN...
experimental trial" (Craig, et al, 1996, p. 811). It may be that the researchers assumed that their readers would perceive that th...
at different rates, which means that "physical growth is "asynchronous" (Berk 296). B. The general growth curve indicates the cha...
14 hours per week of television and spend an average of 6-7 hours per day viewing various media" (LeBlanc, 2003, p. 329. Furthermo...
Ward & Friedman (2006) report, "Our findings suggest that TV use, in multiple forms, appears to be linked with adolescent sexualit...
jungle (Berk, 2008). This chapter concentrates on the physical development of the child through this stage of growth. Berk not...
In general, if a parent asks for information concerning a counseling session, the counselor is required to provide a response. How...
the crises facing the individual at subsequent stages. Each individual must, basically, "pass eight great tests" and anticipation ...
various roles" (Meadows-Oliver, et al, 2007, p. 116). The stress involved in a teenage pregnancy and the associated pressure tha...
focuses on psychosocial development, which is reflected in his Eight Stages of Human Development. The stages, in order, are: infan...
It has never been out of print since its publication and has been translated into "French, German and Dutch" (Taillon 16). Written...
that is, promote and nurture this factor. While this examination will touch on the latter meaning, this emphasis is on the former,...
researchers maintained that obesity is on the rise in adolescent populations and may be the product of social constructs. There ...
questionable impact over adolescent personality, values and manner. In gathering this information, several methods were utilized ...
(Alliance for Excellent Education, 2006). * About eight percent of entering college freshmen must take at least one literacy remed...