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Essays 511 - 540
interpret and organize information in a way which leads to the development of a stable idea of "self". They note that Erikson (196...
to strict behaviorism either, and nor did he support the traditional therapeutic model in which the client had a mainly passive ro...
and those who have been diagnosed as having a major depressive episode (Editors, 2006). As the data verify, girls are far more lik...
by his mother. He becomes angry and withdrawn, mistrusting others around him and as a result constantly tests the boundaries Ted ...
children who are inactive because of television viewing. This study found that children who were inactive because of television v...
the "perceived lack of close and meaningful relationships with others" (Rew et al, 2001, p. 35-36). The Beck Hopelessness Scale, ...
is a time for considerable growth and learning, so it stands to reason that with the child a veritable sponge of curiosity, he or ...
that it leads to a lack of contact between fathers and daughters. Studies suggest that girls who grow up in families without fath...
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...
22.4% (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2004). Cigarettes, once considered glamorous and chic, have emerged as t...
drops out of society or gets into a car accident. They may be on the road to addiction, which can be life changing and even end in...
relationship with both the mother and her family and the father and his family (also in relation to property and/or inheritance la...
1993, p. 3), Piaget and Vygotsky illustrate how this lopsidedness can create a considerable amount of frustration. Often misconst...
above the ideal standards based on the National Center for Health Statistics growth charts (Jerum and Melnyk, 2001). While weight ...
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...
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...
affects specific individuals, but the future of society as a whole. As HIV infection has affected African American youth in greate...
childbearing age and, particularly adolescent girls, should receive special attention in regards to prevention. There are several ...
pricing adolescents out of the alcohol market. As Robert Heilbroner and Lester Thurow state, the theory of supply and deman...
Because antiabortion activists have been so successful in blocking legislative approaches toward governmentally subsidized contrac...
rules - some written, some spoken, others explicitly followed by virtue of inherent knowledge but all universally understood withi...
In five pages 2 articles on HIV afflicted adolescents and their immune systems are examined. Two sources are cited in the bibliog...
In six pages scientific research regarding depression and how it is manifested differently among genders and the factors that infl...
In five pages this research paper discusses the counseling similarities between adolescent and adult clients regarding the issue o...
In nine pages this paper contrasts and compares the adolescent identity crisis with the mid life crisis their parents may be going...
has taken a negative turn and simply glorifies ignorance, violence and misogyny (1996). Many agree with his assessment. While ea...
the symptoms go unrecognized as a serious issue. For example, Most adolescents, rather than communicate that they are experiencing...