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Mexico and Homelessness

homeless teens as indicative of a larger problem (Wagner 16). Wagner explains it this way: " With their economy in shambles, many ...

The Adolescence of Anne Frank

is the equivalent of Freuds anal stage, is when a toddler begins to assert his or her individuality. The rest of the stages, and t...

Adolescent Type I Diabetes Care Plan

much sugar remains in the blood and too little energy is transferred to other cells. The diabetic needs to take externally adminis...

Children, Adolescents, and Divorce Effects

As of 1999, more than 8 million children in America were living with their divorced single parent (Fagan and Rector, 2000). When t...

Maturity in the Relatoinship of Romeo and Juliet

is established that she has not yet reached her fourteenth birthday. Yet, she is also shown to be a practical, level-headed girl. ...

Australia, Alcohol Consumption and the Impact of Combining Advertising and Sports

"total years of life lost to disability (YLD), with depression accounting for 8% of the total YLD" (Mathers, et al., 2001; p. 1076...

'An Ounce of Cure' by Alice Munro

about alcohol. The narrator describes that -- if her parents ever drank alcoholic beverages -- it was outside their home (Munro 43...

The Negative Effects of Adolescent Corporal Punishment in Adulthood

have turned into even greater social misfits as a means by which to defy the authoritative nature of corporal punishment. Any com...

Young Teens, Education in Schools, and AIDS

ignorant, uneducated attitudes. The social, political, economical, cultural and religious activities experienced in everyda...

Taking Risks and Adolescence

that one can incorporate the extreme with the ordinary? Indeed, risk taking represents a bit of all of these definitions, inasmuc...

Adolescents and Health

the ages of 12 and 19 were considered overweight (Surgeon General News, 2005). If that werent enough, this number is nearly triple...

Effectiveness of Psychotherapy

available to young people with potential problems: primary, secondary and tertiary, which "can be viewed along a continuum in ter...

Nonadherence to Medical Instructions: Walker and Avant

issue via conceptual analysis, inasmuch as Walker and Avant provide specific steps that allow one to wholly define the ambiguous a...

Literature Relevant to Adolescent Developmental Disorders

relationship with both the mother and her family and the father and his family (also in relation to property and/or inheritance la...

African American Teenagers and Incidence of HIV

affects specific individuals, but the future of society as a whole. As HIV infection has affected African American youth in greate...

Teen Alcohol Abuse Socioeconomic Policy Control and Proposition

pricing adolescents out of the alcohol market. As Robert Heilbroner and Lester Thurow state, the theory of supply and deman...

Teen Pregnancy, Regulatory and Legislative Influences

Because antiabortion activists have been so successful in blocking legislative approaches toward governmentally subsidized contrac...

Juvenile Delinquency and Religiosity

rules - some written, some spoken, others explicitly followed by virtue of inherent knowledge but all universally understood withi...

Children and Obesity

above the ideal standards based on the National Center for Health Statistics growth charts (Jerum and Melnyk, 2001). While weight ...

Sub Saharan Region of Africa and Teenage Females with HIV and AIDS

childbearing age and, particularly adolescent girls, should receive special attention in regards to prevention. There are several ...

Children, Adolescents, and PTSD

in the home and/or in the community. An understanding of this condition will help the educator to help the child. Research has fou...

Adolescents and Education on Health

In six pages this paper considers curriculum structuring regarding well rounded mental and physical health education to adolescent...

How Mass Media Can Impact Teenage Girls.

In our parents time it may have been: the brains, the geeks and the jocks. In a 1999 report entitled, "Girls, media, and the nego...

Adolescent Substance Abuse and Comorbidity

In five pages a research design detailed in an article discussing adolescent substance abuse and comorbidity is critiqued. Four s...

Child and Adolescent OCD

In eighteen pages Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is examined in an overview of the diagnosis as described in DSM IV with a literatu...

Getting the Teenage Diabetic Patient to Comply

One of the main problems with teenage diabetes patients is getting the patient to comply with the diet and medication regimen. Thi...

Children's Use of Antidepressants

In six pages the growing practice of children and adolescents using antidepressants is discussed in terms of the controversy and w...

Adolescent and Mid Life Crises Similarities and Differences

In nine pages this paper contrasts and compares the adolescent identity crisis with the mid life crisis their parents may be going...

Adolescents and Depression

the symptoms go unrecognized as a serious issue. For example, Most adolescents, rather than communicate that they are experiencing...

The Twenty First Century Media and Adolescence

This paper consists of ten pages and discusses the often skewed perceptiions the media presents in regards to adolescents which fu...