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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...
ignorant, uneducated attitudes. The social, political, economical, cultural and religious activities experienced in everyda...
"total years of life lost to disability (YLD), with depression accounting for 8% of the total YLD" (Mathers, et al., 2001; p. 1076...
have turned into even greater social misfits as a means by which to defy the authoritative nature of corporal punishment. Any com...
THEORY The concept of behavioral therapy takes into consideration the history of cross-cultural psychology, in that it asse...
about alcohol. The narrator describes that -- if her parents ever drank alcoholic beverages -- it was outside their home (Munro 43...
adolescents there were no real treatment alternatives for these children (Brent, 2004). The common belief, in fact, was that thos...
psychotherapy declined. Psychotherapy is often an expensive and prolonged process, which is why Olfson, et al, posit that increase...
"hyperlipidemia, hypertension, blood glucose disturbances, Type 2 diabetes, sleep apnea and asthma," while emotional effects inclu...
for constant friendship and status both in the group and in the school. The group gives each member protection from being alone an...
modeling and imitation (Somers and Tynan, 2006). Hypothesis in each study Collins, et al, propose that television holds the pote...
entire population of youth between the ages of 12 and 17 used illicit drugs in 2004 (SAMHSA, 2005). This represents a slight decre...
creativity (Wilderdom, 2004). Piaget presented four stages of cognitive development to explain how children learn and develop. Pi...
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...
to suddenly seeing how others may well suffer. When one finally sees and understands that other suffer, innocence is gone and comp...
homeless teens as indicative of a larger problem (Wagner 16). Wagner explains it this way: " With their economy in shambles, many ...
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...
and similarity" (Kipke et al, 1997, p. 655). Within the forming of these friendships is also a climate of greater importance with...
2006). Marcotte and colleagues (2002) note that a great deal of progress has been made in this field over the last two decades but...
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...
operations stage when adolescents are going through their later personality formation and undertaking a great deal of the learning...
that interest by participating in activities. 3. The third aspect had to do with the relationship between social interest and life...
without some simple form of stress, the mind/body connection is not stimulated. However, this stress is completely divergent from...
often takes more than 20 years for the effects of cigarette smoke to develop into a detectable malignancy" (p. PG). II. ADOLESCEN...