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The Use of Antidepressants and Increased Suicide Rates in Adolescents

adolescents there were no real treatment alternatives for these children (Brent, 2004). The common belief, in fact, was that thos...

Trying Juveniles In Adult Courts

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

Teen Treatment Outcomes/Depression

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

Child & Adolescent Obesity/U.S.

"hyperlipidemia, hypertension, blood glucose disturbances, Type 2 diabetes, sleep apnea and asthma," while emotional effects inclu...

Substance Abuse and Adolescents

entire population of youth between the ages of 12 and 17 used illicit drugs in 2004 (SAMHSA, 2005). This represents a slight decre...

TV's Effect on Sexual Behavior

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

Adolescent Self Concept

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

Adolescent Counseling and the Theories of William Glasser

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

Schools and Adolescent Behavioral Challenges

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

Adolescent Counseling and William Glasser's Theories

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Australia, Alcohol Consumption and the Impact of Combining Advertising and Sports

"total years of life lost to disability (YLD), with depression accounting for 8% of the total YLD" (Mathers, et al., 2001; p. 1076...

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...

'An Ounce of Cure' by Alice Munro

about alcohol. The narrator describes that -- if her parents ever drank alcoholic beverages -- it was outside their home (Munro 43...

The Negative Effects of Adolescent Corporal Punishment in Adulthood

have turned into even greater social misfits as a means by which to defy the authoritative nature of corporal punishment. Any com...

Adolescents and Cognitive Behavior Theory

THEORY The concept of behavioral therapy takes into consideration the history of cross-cultural psychology, in that it asse...

Young Teens, Education in Schools, and AIDS

ignorant, uneducated attitudes. The social, political, economical, cultural and religious activities experienced in everyda...

Adolescents and Substance Abuse

In eight pages this paper examines adolescent substance abuse in terms of treatment and prevention. Ten sources are listed in the...

Children, Adolescents, and TV Violence Effects

Health in 1982. The conclusion of the research that had been conducted in those ten years indicated that watching violence on tele...

Children's Use of Antidepressants

In six pages the growing practice of children and adolescents using antidepressants is discussed in terms of the controversy and w...

Adolescence and Deviance

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

Getting the Teenage Diabetic Patient to Comply

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

Child and Adolescent OCD

In eighteen pages Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is examined in an overview of the diagnosis as described in DSM IV with a literatu...

Autistic Adolescent and Child Study Team Meeting

In an essay consisting of five pages what is observed when attending a child study team meeting for an autistic adolescent that ha...

The Twenty First Century Media and Adolescence

This paper consists of ten pages and discusses the often skewed perceptiions the media presents in regards to adolescents which fu...

Adolescents and Education on Health

In six pages this paper considers curriculum structuring regarding well rounded mental and physical health education to adolescent...

Conceptual Analysis of Adolescent Suffering and Negative Coping Mechanisms

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