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situation. As a provider of care, it is the role of the community health nurse to address the needs of Centerville adolescents i...
of distinguishing cultures within the larger diaspora through linguistic boundaries. What is Language? Language in...
to 27.2 percent of females (SAMHSA, 2004). * 31.6 percent of teen drinkers were white; 19.8 percent were non-Hispanic blacks and 1...
categories (Turrisi, 2004). Being under the legal drinking age has little impact upon the problem itself (Turrisi, 2004)....
affects specific individuals, but the future of society as a whole. As HIV infection has affected African American youth in greate...
people 21 and older * Underage drinking costs the United States more than $58 billion every year - enough to buy every public scho...
age of 15, "compared with 21 percent of Hispanics and 16 percent of non-Hispanic whites" (Non-Hispanic black teens, 2003; p. 7). ...
times more births among junior high school girls and two and a half times more births among senior high school girls than do the g...
p. 685). American Demographics reports that a significant trend is the rising rate of teenage pregnancies among Latinos (Suro, 19...
1997). Societal factors as a whole, however, bear examination in regard to their impact on this phenomena. Not only must parents...
not only understanding themselves but themselves in relation to others and others as individuals. Within social studies it is gene...
nicotine in cigarette smoke which causes an increased heart rate and raised blood pressure and peripheral vascular resistance, con...
unprotected sex, drugs, theft, driving too fast, and thrill seeking. According to Lynn Ponton, author of The Romance of Risk: Why ...
ones life when one experiences an abundance of hostility from external sources, it is during ones formative teenage years; as such...
The authors conclude that the anger-in scale of the STAXI may be less reliable for younger groups but that it is still valuable fo...
"is the best possible option for kids" and should be the primary, if not the only, lesson that schools teach (Curran, and Witt, 20...
and 1990s, "the percentage of Americans suffering from an eating disorder has doubled, according to the U.S. Public Health Service...
would relapse into drug use within the first three months after completion. More than likely, the number would be closer to 8 out ...
1972). The rest of the stages, and their specific crisis, are as follows: the preschooler stage (years 3-5)-- initiative v. guilt;...
different is that we always had penmanship classes, all the way through school. Theres so much difference now; schools dont seem ...
the social skills that one to one contact would offer them. As such, then, these teens are not able to effectively reach out emoti...
his head, and at the age of 14 took his own life. Erikson states that during adolescence the child leaves behind one type of ide...
problems.... Because theyre not supporting anyone else, they can afford to wait for the right job " (2001, p.28). This is true. ...
them with the behaviors necessary for formulating good health decisions. The target audience for the program are African American ...
these teens the freedom and boosts to self-esteem that may not be afforded them in the real world. In these communities they are a...
they posit that in order to reduce teen birth rates, it is imperative that there should be further comprehension regarding the sig...
acts of violence resulting "from ones reduced ability to regulate the expression of aggressive behavior in interpersonal situation...
more than twice as likely to become pregnant as white teens and Latina teens were 3.5 times more likely to get pregnant than white...
for black and Latino girls, however (Medical News Today, July, 2005). Black teens were more than twice as likely to become pregnan...
to speak more loudly than any words on the subject. "My teaching was silent on issues of race, and it was a silence that must hav...