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

researchers maintained that obesity is on the rise in adolescent populations and may be the product of social constructs. There ...

questionable impact over adolescent personality, values and manner. In gathering this information, several methods were utilized ...

focuses on psychosocial development, which is reflected in his Eight Stages of Human Development. The stages, in order, are: infan...

behaviors of older students (i.e., adult students). Classroom activities that pair younger students with older students may "encou...

behaviors. Often, it is within the setting of a therapeutic community that such issues may be dealt with in the most effective man...

also occurred in numerous nations in the mid- to late-1950s through the 1970s (Spooner, 2002). The focus of this wave included: "e...

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

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

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

THEORY The concept of behavioral therapy takes into consideration the history of cross-cultural psychology, in that it asse...

In eight pages this paper examines adolescent substance abuse in terms of treatment and prevention. Ten sources are listed in the...

Health in 1982. The conclusion of the research that had been conducted in those ten years indicated that watching violence on tele...

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

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

50% of those who commit sex abuse crimes also abuse alcohol. Suicides: 1. 80% of all adolescent suicides have been reported to b...

life of this boy, asking what went wrong may help to comprehend juvenile delinquency in America. There are many implications and t...

This paper contains eleven pages and examines the conflict adolescents experience with their parents and society through differing...

response to the issue of poverty, but also the mass cultures transition from very basic moral and work ethics to a series of econo...

to one survey conducted in both 1999 and 2001, 28 percent of American high school students report that they felt hopeless or sad a...

We also had to write a lot of compositions. There was a lot of attention to grammar, spelling and composition, but sometimes it s...

different types of life stresses in adolescence than those experienced in childhood or adulthood. The reactions and process an adu...

The authors conclude that the anger-in scale of the STAXI may be less reliable for younger groups but that it is still valuable fo...

certain physical appearance is quite easy to trace over the past one hundred years; however, one might readily argue the fact that...

to suddenly seeing how others may well suffer. When one finally sees and understands that other suffer, innocence is gone and comp...

the age of seven, the prevalence of the disorder does increase with age (2003). Childhood schizophrenia forms a continuum with the...

have noted that sexual activity among girls from single-parent homes is greater than among those who live in "blended" families. G...

something is not provable by means of definitive findings, then it is said to have no place within the world of science, with psyc...

to illustrate the inherent effectiveness of the alternative approach of Distant Intentionality upon self-esteem, depression and an...

economic standing. All that began changing in the early 1990s, with the result that between 1995 and 1999 - years in which many o...