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

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

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

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

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

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

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

behaviors of older students (i.e., adult students). Classroom activities that pair younger students with older students may "encou...

As of 1999, more than 8 million children in America were living with their divorced single parent (Fagan and Rector, 2000). When t...

also occurred in numerous nations in the mid- to late-1950s through the 1970s (Spooner, 2002). The focus of this wave included: "e...

operations stage when adolescents are going through their later personality formation and undertaking a great deal of the learning...

that interest by participating in activities. 3. The third aspect had to do with the relationship between social interest and life...

without some simple form of stress, the mind/body connection is not stimulated. However, this stress is completely divergent from...

behaviors. Often, it is within the setting of a therapeutic community that such issues may be dealt with in the most effective man...

This paper contains eleven pages and examines the conflict adolescents experience with their parents and society through differing...

response to the issue of poverty, but also the mass cultures transition from very basic moral and work ethics to a series of econo...

In six pages scientific research regarding depression and how it is manifested differently among genders and the factors that infl...

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

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

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

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

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

certain physical appearance is quite easy to trace over the past one hundred years; however, one might readily argue the fact that...

to suddenly seeing how others may well suffer. When one finally sees and understands that other suffer, innocence is gone and comp...

depression (Jersild B10). Men, suffer from such things as well, but findings seem to suggest that women fare worse. Yet, other stu...

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...

to one survey conducted in both 1999 and 2001, 28 percent of American high school students report that they felt hopeless or sad a...

different types of life stresses in adolescence than those experienced in childhood or adulthood. The reactions and process an adu...

to Dr. Jordan Metzl, physician who specializes in sports medicine and author of The Young Athlete: A Sports Doctors Complete Guide...

Yong et al (2002) in their study of eighth-grade students, found that there was a close correlation between high self-esteem...