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that it leads to a lack of contact between fathers and daughters. Studies suggest that girls who grow up in families without fath...
relationship with both the mother and her family and the father and his family (also in relation to property and/or inheritance la...
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...
22.4% (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2004). Cigarettes, once considered glamorous and chic, have emerged as t...
1993, p. 3), Piaget and Vygotsky illustrate how this lopsidedness can create a considerable amount of frustration. Often misconst...
childbearing age and, particularly adolescent girls, should receive special attention in regards to prevention. There are several ...
affects specific individuals, but the future of society as a whole. As HIV infection has affected African American youth in greate...
above the ideal standards based on the National Center for Health Statistics growth charts (Jerum and Melnyk, 2001). While weight ...
available to young people with potential problems: primary, secondary and tertiary, which "can be viewed along a continuum in ter...
issue via conceptual analysis, inasmuch as Walker and Avant provide specific steps that allow one to wholly define the ambiguous a...
that one can incorporate the extreme with the ordinary? Indeed, risk taking represents a bit of all of these definitions, inasmuc...
the ages of 12 and 19 were considered overweight (Surgeon General News, 2005). If that werent enough, this number is nearly triple...
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...
homeless teens as indicative of a larger problem (Wagner 16). Wagner explains it this way: " With their economy in shambles, many ...
This paper analyzes the care prevailed for Lucy, an adolescent college student who is diabetic and complaining of fatigue. Diagnos...
This research paper consists of 2 parts. The first part is an annotated bibliography of studies that focus on interventions design...
This research paper pertains to socio-economic and medical factors that are associated with adolescent pregnancy. Six pages in len...
This paper entails an article critique of the study report published by Grey, et al. (2009). This study focused on an intervention...
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...