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Self Esteem and Gender

In five pages this paper discusses how the expectations of society exerts a profound influence over adolescent self perception in ...

Modern Americans' and Native Americans' Rites of Passage

In seven pages this paper compares the contemporary American teenager with Tukuna, Okrika, and Okiek Native American counterparts ...

Inner City and Blacks Crimes

In a paper consisting of seven pages inner city incidences of high crime among African American adolescents are discussed in terms...

Sexuality and the Impact of TV

of sexual activity, particularly among adolescents. Whos Responsibility? When the discussion revolves around children, th...

Adolescent Sex and the Influence of Cinema

In seven pages this paper discusses how adolescents are influenced by the sexual activity presented in contemporary cinema. Eleve...

Adolescents and Challenging School Behaviors

students in 2004 from 24% of students in 2003 (MORI, 2004). Bullying and threatening behaviour are increasing and it was found tha...

High Risk Behavior in Adolescents

applied here validate all 181 cases. The third is a "date-charge" set of statistics, indicating when the arrests occurred. Perha...

Teenagers and Pallative Care

have changed considerably over the last century. This change is associated with a number of factors, the most prominent being our...

Exploring the Basics of Client-Centered Therapy

attitudes and feelings which he may have, no matter how unconventional, absurd, or contradictory these attitudes may be" (Rogers 1...

Drug Abuse Among Adolescents and Behavior Therapy

reported that behavior therapy follows "a format of therapist modeling, behavior rehearsal, specific therapy assignments, self-rec...

A Scale for Adolescent Coping

and similarity" (Kipke et al, 1997, p. 655). Within the forming of these friendships is also a climate of greater importance with...

Treatment and Adolescent Depression

2006). Marcotte and colleagues (2002) note that a great deal of progress has been made in this field over the last two decades but...

A Treatment Research Study on Adolescent Depression

and those who have been diagnosed as having a major depressive episode (Editors, 2006). As the data verify, girls are far more lik...

Adolescent Counseling and William Glasser's Theories

exert an influence in adult life. Freud maintained that individuals develop their personalities as a result of biological...

Citizenship and Sports Participation

to be one of the social activities that improve the quality of life (Dinc, 2011). This evaluation is derived from the fact that en...

Diabetic Ketoacidosis, A Case Study

serious, potentially fatal, but preventable, complication of diabetes mellitus that occurs when there is insufficient insulin to m...

Overview of Adolescent Depression

of morbidity and mortality and depression among youth has become increasing prevalent. Adolescent depression has been shown to gen...

Self-Esteem Autonomy Attachment in Teenagers

This is the Millennial Generation. They do not know the threat of a nuclear war, have no idea of what the USSR was or meant, they ...

Changes and Challenges: Adolescence, Late Adulthood

should be prohibited from normal adult activities, such as drinking alcoholic beverages, driving motor vehicles, and voting. On ...

Adolescent Social Development, Footloose

This essay discusses topics that address adolescent development as dramatized in the movie Footloose. The writer discusses parent-...

Changes for Adolescents

among those challenges could be racism, classism, sexism, adultism, and cultural oppression. Any of these can have devastating eff...

Media Violence and Behaviour

effect of exposure to violent video games has been determined to be 0.2, which is more than the effect of asbestos on cancer, home...

Teenage Years

want to be. They may experiment with a number of attitudes, values, and personalities trying to find something that will fit and t...

Development in the Adolescent Stage

deliberate decisions and choices, especially about vocation, sexual orientation, and life in general, role confusion becomes a thr...

Nursing and Adolescent Pregnancy

their infants, and this factor is associated with increased morbidity and mortality, as well as significant financial expenditures...

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...

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 Crime

possibilities; and other issues. They also dont seem to understand that older people were once young, and therefore understand th...

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...