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Teen Pregnancy, Regulatory and Legislative Influences

Because antiabortion activists have been so successful in blocking legislative approaches toward governmentally subsidized contrac...

Juvenile Delinquency and Religiosity

rules - some written, some spoken, others explicitly followed by virtue of inherent knowledge but all universally understood withi...

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...

Homeless Adolescents Resiliency Correlation Part Three

the "perceived lack of close and meaningful relationships with others" (Rew et al, 2001, p. 35-36). The Beck Hopelessness Scale, ...

Preschool and Adolescent Development in Terms of Physical, Cognitive, and Social Development

is a time for considerable growth and learning, so it stands to reason that with the child a veritable sponge of curiosity, he or ...

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...

Literature Relevant to Adolescent Developmental Disorders

relationship with both the mother and her family and the father and his family (also in relation to property and/or inheritance la...

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...

Sub Saharan Region of Africa and Teenage Females with HIV and AIDS

childbearing age and, particularly adolescent girls, should receive special attention in regards to prevention. There are several ...

African American Teenagers and Incidence of HIV

affects specific individuals, but the future of society as a whole. As HIV infection has affected African American youth in greate...

Children and Obesity

above the ideal standards based on the National Center for Health Statistics growth charts (Jerum and Melnyk, 2001). While weight ...

Effectiveness of Psychotherapy

available to young people with potential problems: primary, secondary and tertiary, which "can be viewed along a continuum in ter...

Nonadherence to Medical Instructions: Walker and Avant

issue via conceptual analysis, inasmuch as Walker and Avant provide specific steps that allow one to wholly define the ambiguous a...

Taking Risks and Adolescence

that one can incorporate the extreme with the ordinary? Indeed, risk taking represents a bit of all of these definitions, inasmuc...

Adolescents and Health

the ages of 12 and 19 were considered overweight (Surgeon General News, 2005). If that werent enough, this number is nearly triple...

Children and Adolescent TCs

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

Four Issues Regarding the History of Australia

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

Adolescent Development and Peer Pressure

operations stage when adolescents are going through their later personality formation and undertaking a great deal of the learning...

Adolescents and Life Satisfaction Critiqued

that interest by participating in activities. 3. The third aspect had to do with the relationship between social interest and life...

Learning Differences Between Adolescents and Adults

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

Children, Adolescents, and Divorce Effects

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

Adolescence and Self Esteem Factors

Yong et al (2002) in their study of eighth-grade students, found that there was a close correlation between high self-esteem...

A Case Study That Examines Amelia's Choices

their family unit - a time of stresses that dont need to be complicated about concerns such as career and college choices. Yet unf...

Development, Growth, and the Impact of Stress

without some simple form of stress, the mind/body connection is not stimulated. However, this stress is completely divergent from...

Literature Review on Stress Agents

often takes more than 20 years for the effects of cigarette smoke to develop into a detectable malignancy" (p. PG). II. ADOLESCEN...

Youth Work Value and Attributes

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

Psychosis in Adolescents and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

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