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

It has never been out of print since its publication and has been translated into "French, German and Dutch" (Taillon 16). Written...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

has existed for more than a decade (Associated Content, Inc., 2006; Young and Gainsborough, 2000). In fact, the juvenile system ha...

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

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

psychotherapy declined. Psychotherapy is often an expensive and prolonged process, which is why Olfson, et al, posit that increase...

medical attention if they were identified as organ donors (Minniefield, 2002). One hundred percent of the 25 to 35 years olds expr...

women, despite their success; women still are faced with doing the majority of tasks around the home, no matter how busy their pro...

29 percent of the entire group of patients at the beginning of the study (Weeks, 2004; NIMH, 2005). This rate was reduced in all f...

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

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

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

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