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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...

creativity (Wilderdom, 2004). Piaget presented four stages of cognitive development to explain how children learn and develop. Pi...

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

2006). Marcotte and colleagues (2002) note that a great deal of progress has been made in this field over the last two decades but...

and those who have been diagnosed as having a major depressive episode (Editors, 2006). As the data verify, girls are far more lik...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

that other psychological associations would do well to emulate. For example, it provides a student for decision-making that Canadi...

attitudes and feelings which he may have, no matter how unconventional, absurd, or contradictory these attitudes may be" (Rogers 1...

homeless teens as indicative of a larger problem (Wagner 16). Wagner explains it this way: " With their economy in shambles, many ...

reported that behavior therapy follows "a format of therapist modeling, behavior rehearsal, specific therapy assignments, self-rec...

have changed considerably over the last century. This change is associated with a number of factors, the most prominent being our...

applied here validate all 181 cases. The third is a "date-charge" set of statistics, indicating when the arrests occurred. Perha...

students in 2004 from 24% of students in 2003 (MORI, 2004). Bullying and threatening behaviour are increasing and it was found tha...

1998). This is enshrined in both political rhetoric and policies and papers such as the policy documents Excellence in Schools and...

prerequisite" (Anderson and Roit 123). In other to help students with understanding, the authors suggest several strategies, whic...

by his mother. He becomes angry and withdrawn, mistrusting others around him and as a result constantly tests the boundaries Ted ...

there is constant bickering. It seems that when mom and dad are happy, the family should be happy. Reportedly, 70% (Corliss & Mc...

an adolescent client (Wallis, 2004, p. 59). Data on the development of abstract reasoning skills, as well as of the "recognition o...

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...