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Adolescent Egocentrism

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

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 ...

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...

Effectiveness of Psychotherapy

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

Adolescents and Crime

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

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'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...

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...

How Mass Media Can Impact Teenage Girls.

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...

Adolescent Substance Abuse and Comorbidity

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

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...

Juveniles and the Impact of Gang Culture

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

Themes in Arthur Miller's The Crucible

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

Stages of Development

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

Adults, Adolescents, and Smoking

22.4% (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2004). Cigarettes, once considered glamorous and chic, have emerged as t...

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...

Children, Adolescents, and PTSD

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

Annotated Bibliography, Adolescent Suicide

This paper consists of an annotated bibliography that reports on articles pertaining to adolescent suicide. Four pages in length, ...

Are More Childen Really Bipolar

The number of children and adolescents being treated for bipolar disorder has soared exponentially over the last decade. Some expe...

PICOT/Implementation Plan: Adolescent Suicide Intervention

This paper offers the implementation plan and PICOT question that pertain to a capstone project that is designed as an interventio...

Memo for Adolescent Pregnancy Community-Based Interventions

This 3 page paper gives an example of a memo concerning adolescent pregnancy prevention. This paper includes four community-based ...

Overweight Minors, Nutritional Education

This paper pertains to an event on nutrition, which pertained to the nutrition education and overweight children and adolescents. ...

Proposed Study, Obesity, Adolescent Hispanics

This research paper has two major sections. The first pertains to a proposed research study and the second pertains to a proposed ...

Chapter 9, Forensics Handbook, An Analysis

This paper discusses the five-stage model developed by the Vera Institute, which describes the process used to enter adolescents i...

Depression, Summaries of 2 Studies

This paper presents summations of two research studies. The first one, Meadows-Oliver and Sadler (2010), pertained to depression a...

Pediatric Bipolar

Bipolar Disorder dramatically changes a person's life and quality of life. It affects every part of the patient's life. There is v...