SEARCH RESULTS

romance ideas, and the subtle but pervasive message that they are second to males in this society. Many girls fit this example as ...

for understanding the nature of compliance issues with treatment programs like vitamin supplementation and provide a quantitative ...

the application of these viewpoints for troubled adolescent populations is a distinction that relates both to the value of human l...

thing to do. "In its strong form the theory asserts that people always act in their own interests, even though they may disguise ...

In order to contextualize the views of adolescent behavior and egocentrism and the changes that are important through maturation, ...

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...

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

1993, p. 3), Piaget and Vygotsky illustrate how this lopsidedness can create a considerable amount of frustration. Often misconst...

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

possibilities; and other issues. They also dont seem to understand that older people were once young, and therefore understand th...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

In five pages this paper incorporates sections from the KTadldrg.wps paper file and briefly describes Mount Freedom, New Jersey's ...

In ten pages this paper examines how adolescents are affected by gang membership and culture. Six sources are listed in the bibli...

In 5 pages this paper discusses themes of personal integrity, bureaucracy strictures, and adolescent rebellion that are featured i...

In eight pages the concept of deviance is examined in terms of definition and relevant sociological theories in order to make a de...

One of the main problems with teenage diabetes patients is getting the patient to comply with the diet and medication regimen. Thi...

In our parents time it may have been: the brains, the geeks and the jocks. In a 1999 report entitled, "Girls, media, and the nego...

In five pages a research design detailed in an article discussing adolescent substance abuse and comorbidity is critiqued. Four s...

in the home and/or in the community. An understanding of this condition will help the educator to help the child. Research has fou...

In nine pages this paper presents a conceptual analysis of adolescent coping behavior with regard to emotional and physical suffer...

This is because the Church realizes that what individuals believe in regards to religion or morality is frequently contingent on t...

these students into the general education classroom. By the end of high school, they usually have obtained the level of third to s...

children who are inactive because of television viewing. This study found that children who were inactive because of television v...