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Absent Fathers and the Psychosocial Development of Girls

that it leads to a lack of contact between fathers and daughters. Studies suggest that girls who grow up in families without fath...

Film 'Kramer vs. Kramer' and Adolescent Development

by his mother. He becomes angry and withdrawn, mistrusting others around him and as a result constantly tests the boundaries Ted ...

World Diversity and Catholic Education

This is because the Church realizes that what individuals believe in regards to religion or morality is frequently contingent on t...

Adult Transition of Mildly Retarded Adolescents

these students into the general education classroom. By the end of high school, they usually have obtained the level of third to s...

Adolescence and Moral Development

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...

Adults, Adolescents, and Smoking

22.4% (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2004). Cigarettes, once considered glamorous and chic, have emerged as t...

Stages of Development

1993, p. 3), Piaget and Vygotsky illustrate how this lopsidedness can create a considerable amount of frustration. Often misconst...

Drug Abuse Among Adolescents and Behavior Therapy

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

Children, Adolescents, and Ethics of Psychologists

that other psychological associations would do well to emulate. For example, it provides a student for decision-making that Canadi...

Mexico and Homelessness

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

Low Reading Levels and Teens At Risk

prerequisite" (Anderson and Roit 123). In other to help students with understanding, the authors suggest several strategies, whic...

Adolescents and Pediatric Perioperative Nursing Interventions

an adolescent client (Wallis, 2004, p. 59). Data on the development of abstract reasoning skills, as well as of the "recognition o...

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...

Provisions in Education for Adolescents with ADHD, Asperger's, and Autistic Spectrum Disorders

1998). This is enshrined in both political rhetoric and policies and papers such as the policy documents Excellence in Schools and...

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...

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...

Danny Zuko From The Movie Grease

for constant friendship and status both in the group and in the school. The group gives each member protection from being alone an...

TV's Effect on Sexual Behavior

modeling and imitation (Somers and Tynan, 2006). Hypothesis in each study Collins, et al, propose that television holds the pote...

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...

Schools and Adolescent Behavioral Challenges

having lasting significance, since it impacts not only on childs subsequent emotional and psychological development but also on th...

Adolescent Self Concept

interpret and organize information in a way which leads to the development of a stable idea of "self". They note that Erikson (196...

Adolescent Counseling and the Theories of William Glasser

to strict behaviorism either, and nor did he support the traditional therapeutic model in which the client had a mainly passive ro...

A Case Study on Adolescent Development

creativity (Wilderdom, 2004). Piaget presented four stages of cognitive development to explain how children learn and develop. Pi...

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...

Why Science Will Not Solve the Obesity Problem

a medical intuitive and medical doctor, claims that a multitude of issues including psychological and emotional problems will caus...

Suing Fast Food Restaurants For Obesity

The dictionary defines this phrase as: "in fact, whether with a legal right or not" and "acting or existing in fact but without le...