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Depression in Children and Adolescents

cause of death for 5-to-14-year-olds" ("Teen suicide"). Such statistics suggest that depression in childhood and adolescence can b...

Children Who Murder

of youthful homicide perpetrators present with a history of adverse familial factors," such as "physical abuse, sexual abuse, inst...

Rearing a Happy, Loving and Productive Child: A Critique of the Scientology Philosophy

a child in an authoritarian way but rather essentially allow the child to do whatever it is that they want (Reitman, 2006). Scien...

How Punishment Harms Children

form of punishment but others take away privileges. In the latter case, a parent may rescind television-viewing privileges for a d...

The Causes of Learning Disabilities

settings, to demonstrate that educatorse and parentse are "on the same team" and that it is likely that they both want the same th...

Support Services for Gay and Lesbian Children and Adolescents

Although it is not uncommon to see gay and lesbian couples at the high school level, there are children who question their sexuali...

Smoking in Public Places

health risks. Children: The risk to children comes largely from secondhand smoke, derived from the tobacco products their parents...

Negative Impacts on Female Child Raised by Divorced Mother

of the family that ensures they "pass on their genes" when times are difficult.4 This is a very odd hypothesis, since there seems ...

Learned Mothering: Raising a Child with ADHD

ADHD as they can impact social worker response and even the response of educators. Methodology The subjects of this study were...

Computers Use for Education and Leisure for the Visually and Hearing Impaired

use of computers increase or decrease the social interaction of the hearing impaired learners? Introduction Educators and ...

Language and Communication Problems Associated with Learning Disabilities (ADD/ADHD) in the School Age Child

maintain that these individuals experience "deficits in behavioral, emotional, academic, and social functioning" that follow them ...

Health and Poverty/Incidence of Childhood Asthma

engine contains features that help to limit a search. The writer/tutor selected "scholarly" material published after 10/01/2002 an...

A Case Study

inexperienced teacher whose pedagogical approach to teaching is not geared to a fourth grade level. What are the different perspe...

The Needs of Small Children

at a rather rapid rate until they are walking and by that time, their need for solid food is usually met. Yet, many theorists clai...

Parents and Time with Children

time together. But, as is the case with any research, any real changes in society are not really evident or available through rese...

Adequate Progress Brochure

New Jersey Department of Education. (May 2007). Wright, Peter W. D. and Pamela Darr Wright. Use Appendix A as a Tool. (n.d.)....

Trying to Go Home Again

should have been the hallway connecting the gym to the rest of the school, I found myself outside! Part of the building had been t...

Violence in Media and Child Behavior

on the TV screen" (Levin and Carlsson-Paige, 2003,. P. 427). Violence also exists on other forms of media. Browne and Hamilton-G...

Child Abuse And Spanking

the formative years, this search most often leads to a superficial fix time and time again due to the individuals volatile, unpred...

Child Language Acquisition: Babbling

one year old (Alam, 1998). Other authors write that babbling sometimes goes on at the same time as speech, or that it can recur af...

Status of American Education

of the many areas of education that has suffered due to overburdening public schools (Croddy 30). In a research study that involve...

Teen and Adult Parenting Styles

she found out. It brought my mom and I closer but my dad and I, were not close any more at all" ("Melinda"). Because this girl is ...

The Child As A Moral Philosopher By Kohlberg

children simply adopt and internalize the standards they are taught by their parents but Kohlberg found that children make moral j...

Joseph Fritzl

is a windowless cellar that is variously described as a "maze" and a "warren" but apparently started out as one small room (Connol...

Spiritual Development of Children

that is, promote and nurture this factor. While this examination will touch on the latter meaning, this emphasis is on the former,...

Child Abuse in America

adult fails to provide a child "with the basic needs and supervision to live a healthy and happy life" (Harris, 2007). Of the 1,49...

Summary and Review of Lynne Curry’s The DeShaney Case: Child Abuse, Family Rights, and the Dilemma of State Intervention

After putting a name and a face on the social issue of child abuse, and considering the dilemma of the social worker who seeks to ...

Juveniles Tried as Adults: A Problem Statement

the death penalty in juvenile cases (Brendtro and Mitchell, 2007). It was Kennedys contention that some of the elements that are ...

The Effect of TV Violence on Young People

62 percent of the time" (Tepperman, 1997). Perhaps the worst message of all is that "violence is pleasurable. Clint Eastwood, in D...

Child And Adolescent Development

not completely so This author states: "Personality development occurs by the ongoing interaction of temperament, character, and en...