YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Adolescents and Crime
Essays 331 - 360
much sugar remains in the blood and too little energy is transferred to other cells. The diabetic needs to take externally adminis...
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...
above the ideal standards based on the National Center for Health Statistics growth charts (Jerum and Melnyk, 2001). While weight ...
is established that she has not yet reached her fourteenth birthday. Yet, she is also shown to be a practical, level-headed girl. ...
pricing adolescents out of the alcohol market. As Robert Heilbroner and Lester Thurow state, the theory of supply and deman...
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...
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...
22.4% (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2004). Cigarettes, once considered glamorous and chic, have emerged as t...
1993, p. 3), Piaget and Vygotsky illustrate how this lopsidedness can create a considerable amount of frustration. Often misconst...
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...
that one can incorporate the extreme with the ordinary? Indeed, risk taking represents a bit of all of these definitions, inasmuc...
the ages of 12 and 19 were considered overweight (Surgeon General News, 2005). If that werent enough, this number is nearly triple...
prerequisite" (Anderson and Roit 123). In other to help students with understanding, the authors suggest several strategies, whic...
an adolescent client (Wallis, 2004, p. 59). Data on the development of abstract reasoning skills, as well as of the "recognition o...
there is constant bickering. It seems that when mom and dad are happy, the family should be happy. Reportedly, 70% (Corliss & Mc...
by his mother. He becomes angry and withdrawn, mistrusting others around him and as a result constantly tests the boundaries Ted ...
relationship with both the mother and her family and the father and his family (also in relation to property and/or inheritance la...
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...
children who are inactive because of television viewing. This study found that children who were inactive because of television v...
the "perceived lack of close and meaningful relationships with others" (Rew et al, 2001, p. 35-36). The Beck Hopelessness Scale, ...
is a time for considerable growth and learning, so it stands to reason that with the child a veritable sponge of curiosity, he or ...
that it leads to a lack of contact between fathers and daughters. Studies suggest that girls who grow up in families without fath...
"total years of life lost to disability (YLD), with depression accounting for 8% of the total YLD" (Mathers, et al., 2001; p. 1076...
As of 1999, more than 8 million children in America were living with their divorced single parent (Fagan and Rector, 2000). When t...
behaviors of older students (i.e., adult students). Classroom activities that pair younger students with older students may "encou...
behaviors. Often, it is within the setting of a therapeutic community that such issues may be dealt with in the most effective man...