Essays on Adolescence

Obesity is a serious chronic condition that affects people across all ages. It inflicts harm to a person’s health and if it is not addressed early, it may cause lasting psychological problems. Among adolescents, it has been said to be doing a lot of harm to those suffering from it. In the article Obesity Impairs Academic Attainment in Adolescence: Findings from ALSPAC, A UK Cohort, it is clear that obesity does affect the performance of adolescents in school. When their physical appearance makes them feel uncomfortable, they become insecure and lack concentration. This leads to poor performance in Continue reading...

REVIEW: Summarize the consequences of pubertal timing for adolescent development.

Adolescence is considered as a transitional phase, that effects on a child’s physical and psychological development. The condition in the adolescence period and puberty differs in different countries and also in one country due to the influence of different cultures within one country (Newman, & Newman, 2011).
When adolescent development is studied, it comes to more clear understanding that because adolescence is the hormones are affected due to puberty in such an age. As this is related to mind, science and also the physical body this topic is being studied in Biology, Psychology and Anthropology too in order to Continue reading...

Depression is a medical condition, causing a wide array of physical, as well as psychological symptoms. According to an article entitled “Depression in Adolescence” published in The Lancet, nearly 8 percent of all adolescents will experience depression before they reach their teens . Nearly 4% of them will remain depressed through their teenage years. Unfortunately, many times this mental illness goes undiagnosed because the symptoms can be difficult to recognize in this age group (2012). Regardless of whether it is diagnosed or not, if untreated, it can become a significant problem in the adolescent’s life.
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The literature helped in the provision of sufficient information concerning the statistics of the adolescent men who are exposed to crime due to poverty in the society. The sources give an elaborate analysis of the cases of crime as a result of poverty in the adolescent men, in the society. The sources also outlines the role of poverty as a cause of criminal activities among the adolescent men in the U.S.
The overall strengths of the sources used involves the provision of statistical evidence in analyzing the relationship between crime and poverty among the adolescent youths. The sources are Continue reading...

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Do Thin Models Warp Girls’ Body Image? (705)

Models have followers and fans in the name of young girls who are driven into wanting to look like a particular model. However, the course of a model’s life is not an easy one that an ordinary girl would love to walk through. According to research, the issue of body has outgrown with time so that, when a girl is growing, there is one particular look that she would love to appear in. Take for instance, the cheerleaders in Continue reading...

 The real cause of adolescent depression is not clear, but it is believed to have arisen from biochemical, genetic, psychological and environmental factors (William & Jerald, 2012). Pointedly, the depression can result from the occurrence of seasonal affective disorder which may emerge due to temporal relationship between the start of depression and change of season or decrease in sunlight. Therefore, it is very important to note the time when children start school in order to avoid stress at early stage of child development (William & Jerald, 2012).
 William & Jerald (2012) reports that the initial signs and symptoms of depression may be Continue reading...

Pregnancy during adolescence exposes ladies and the born children to health risks. Some of this risks include; malnutrition, low birth-weight, social and emotional complications and depression (McDowell, 2011). Such bad health conditions can be avoided. Ladies should engage in unprotected sex when their reproductive system has matured.
Teenage mothers do not eat well during their pregnancy (McDowell, 2011). Consequently, they do not gain weight. They give birth to light kids. Low birth-weight relates to several complications including; poorly developed organs, brain bleeding, interstitial problems and respiratory distress. In addition to this, teenage mothers are likely to use drugs due Continue reading...

When it comes to adolescents making decisions for their own life, typically it depends on what the subject material is. By the time an individual reaches adolescence, they are picking what they want to wear, what they want to eat, and many of the movies they watch in their spare time. Parents begin to relinquish some of the rules they held over the individuals as children in order to let them grow, become independent, and learn lessons on their own. However, many ask where to draw the line. Adolescents are capable of making many decisions for themselves concerning small Continue reading...

Influence of Facebook on the Body Image of Adolescent Girls

Media and peer pressures usually influence the way many teens especially girls see or observe themselves. Additionally, the media generally distort their mental perception, which normally pushes them to engage in risky behaviors in circumstances when they feel that they may not meet the stated goals or objectives. Mass media such as Facebook have emerged to become a massive part of almost every adolescent girl. It is evident that self image issues usually lead to a lot of negative risky behaviors such as eating disorders, cutting, drug and alcohol abuse, sexual addictions, and bullying among other threats. Therefore, the Continue reading...

The period of adolescent development can be difficult and exciting for either gender. Males and females develop different characteristics and different skills at different rates. Cognitive and physical development occurs very differently throughout adolescence depending on the individual’s gender as well as the individual themselves. Typical emotional development tends to be more similar between the sexes though it can vary depending upon each individual. We will explore the differences and similarities in these adolescent developments between the genders.
During adolescent the individual’s self-concept, or way they view themselves, begins to change and develop. The self-concept involves opinions Continue reading...

Adolescence is a transitional stage that occurs to every individual. The changes of physical and psychological human development do occur from puberty to legal adulthood. The period that this change occurs mostly affects the teenagers into the early stage of and in some points, it does continue to the early twenties .The adolescences stage does affect many of the individual due to the changes that the changes sometimes affect the society. The study of adolescence creates an awareness of the expectation to the individual affected are the reasons for the society to understand them.

The Roles of Peers in Adolescences

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Introduction

Adolescence is a crucial period for the developments of behaviors and lifestyles. Often being obese and overweight are foremost widespread health problems among adolescents that result in declined physical activity. Few studies noticed that during this period of life involvement in sport, and physical activity is decreased. Casey with coworkers studied broadly to identify the reason of this decline in their paper “Using a Socioecological Approach to Examine Participation in Sport and Physical Activity Among Rural Adolescent Girls.” The research area was based on qualitative analysis with Continue reading...

Literature review

Essentially information is always intended to reach a large audience presented by the assorted mass media platforms such as print media, broadcast media and outdoor media. This enables us to identify with the notion that there are both negative and positive impacts of the mass media to our lives. In particular, this particular paper will focus on how mass media has affected teen girls in our modern day society (Gullotta, et.al, 2005).  Mass media has since developed in the contemporary times making its impacts more apparent that never before. Arguably, though mass media affects all of us in the Continue reading...

Introduction

There are many different extracurricular activities that are been dominated by adolescent youths of the same ethnicity compared to others in public school. There has been an increase in awareness on how children especially those from high school on the way they spend their time when they leave schools and how it affects the children’s development and education. This has caused many people to do researches about the issue. Some of the results found by the researchers are that there are different types of after school activities that students have due to their ethnicity and economic background that Continue reading...

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Family bonds are the most important things in the life of human beings. These bonds have a power to build as well as destroy the proper shaping of the personality of children, especially of adolescents. Thus, in the assignment, we would discuss about the Todds, a family that had difficulties in becoming strong as a family and how they dealt with the difficulties. Also, some tips of communication for parents is discussed.

Keywords : Family, adolescents, personality, tips of communication.

The structure and type of a family varies from culture to culture. A family has both inclusive as well as exclusive elements. Keeping this in mind, Continue reading...

The context of decision making in adolescence is a rite of passage of sorts. Throughout the transition period from pre-teens to adulthood, innumerable changes occur physiologically and psychologically. Often the two are intertwined. Adolescence is a time of sexual maturation in a physiological sense (i.e., reproductive organs are fully functional), yet the emotional and intellectual capacity has not matured to the same extent. Consequently, adolescents are prone to risky behavior. The demonstration of quick, insensitive, or self-satisfying decisions that tend to characterize adolescence are, to an extent, expected behavior. As the same time, the lessons learned from such behavior Continue reading...

Adolescent idealism, the ideal state of adolescent characterized by the tendency to prefer certain standards has profound effects on the adolescents. The adolescent develops specific standards of doing things and presumes that things must be done following his or her abstractions. Due to this, the adolescents tend to criticize most of the laid down procedures of doing things. The personal fable, the extreme egocentric belief that since most people pays attention to the adolescent makes the adolescent special and uniquely different from others. The personal fable, idealism, and abstraction lead to a particular way of thinking among the adolescent. Continue reading...

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Alienation and initiation are two important themes in cotemporary short fiction. Literature exists through experience, and, more often than not, the protagonist of the story represents the society we live in and the experiences of every man. Particularly, in modern fiction, the adolescent hero and his struggles to embrace adulthood has been a major theme. Most stories having an adolescent protagonist portray the coming of age or the initiation of the young hero. This essay is an attempt to compare the portrayal of the experience of initiation of two such protagonists, from the stories Continue reading...

In this article, the argument employed about adolescence is constructive. According to (Schlegel, 15) adolescent is defined as a response to the reproductive capacity growth in a social context. During this stage, additional training and nurturing is very important prior to the person taking full responsibility of the roles of an adult both socially and occupationally. I like the argument that during this stage, an individual can accommodate training, but they cannot withstand the complex economic systems (Schlegel, 15). This article clearly illustrates the actual reasons behind the age groupings socially and the differentiation of roles in these groups. Continue reading...

Introduction

Racial and ethnic variations are common in most of the American families. Race and ethnicity is one of the major social factors that could affect the growth and trajectory of adolescent life to adulthood. According to most psychologists, parenting practices and social well-being differs from various ethnic groups or race (Heard, 2007, p. 320). The variations could always affect the development of an adolescent, and it should always be well-thought-out. Adolescent period is a very crucial time since it will eventually affect the development of adult life. Different studies and articles have discussed the effects of race and ethnicity Continue reading...

The pressure of being a single parent dealing with an adolescent daughter or son can be a handful. In most cases, the father-daughter, mother-son relationships are quite more compatible, as the father has a soft spot for his daughter, and the mother, has for her son. But, when a single mother has to deal with her growing daughter, who is attached to her father, the implications can be volatile, as seen in the change in Traci’s attitude in the movie, Thirteen. Right at the start of the movie, Traci is seen asking, looking at the camera, and asking Continue reading...

The problem of adolescent depression is concerning as depression and suicide in adolescence is increasing rapidly even as better treatment and awareness has resulted in decreasing rates in adults (Gray, 2010). There are a number of reasons for this increase in youth. One reason for concern is that it can be difficult to determine when an adolescent is acting developmentally appropriately and when they are depressed. Adolescents are often moody, irritable, histrionic, reactionary and oppositional. These are also signs of depression so figuring out where the line between normal adolescent behavior and behavior that might indicate a problem is Continue reading...

Given the objective to determine how HPV infected adolescent females are affected by the perception of clinicians on cancer treatment options, research survey questions have been designed for the qualitative part of the study. These research questions were aligned to the hypothesis that radiation and chemotherapy are among the best options to treat females who are infected with HPV. Factors such as level of understanding about HPV and its relation to sexual activities along with those that influence the decision of clinicians regarding treatment options of infected adolescent females and how the health of adolescent females are compromised based Continue reading...

Experts in child development and related practice hold a common view that parents should learn parental sensitivity to child behavior. The responses that parents give to their children have a significant impact on the development of the child. Interestingly, studies on the parental sensitivity project limit focus on the adolescent mothers and fathers. Parental sensitivity focuses on the response pattern to the infant’s behavior.
Mary Ann McGovern article “Sensitivity and Reciprocity in the Play of Adolescent Mothers and Youth Fathers with Their Infants” explore the adolescent mothers and father’s sensitivity and reciprocity to their four month old Continue reading...

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Man is a social being. His behaviour and actions have an impact on the society in which he lives. The behaviour of an individual should thus be in coherence with the accepted norms of the society. Every individual behaves in a particular manner based on his mental development and his perception of the environment in which he lives. Accordingly, the cognitive development of every individual is unique. This cognition in turn influences his various skills that govern his interaction with the society. Psychology plays a pivotal role in determining how a person thinks, behaves and what triggers Continue reading...

Question 1: Communication challenges and how they affect consultation

• During childhood and pre-teens, patient Anna (15 years old) used to be very friendly and maintained good communication during consultation. However, she has now changed, and she does not maintain a direct eye contact.

• Anna is now adolescent, and she may be undergoing adolescence changes that have also affected her communication skills.

• Both girls and boys undergo physical, mental, sexual, and social changes that affect their general well being.
• Being a transition period from childhood to adulthood, adolescents adapt different behaviors and roles depending on parenting style and environment.
• Adolescents often disagree with their parents and this may even affect the ability to fully express oneself during consultation.
• These adolescent changes also affect communication and relationship between Continue reading...

Introduction

Adolescence is one of the stages in life that poses several challenges to the youth. In this transition stage from childhood to adulthood, the youth usually experience new encounters in their lives, which they had never experienced before. In some youths, these experiences have positive impacts on their behavior and character. On the other hand, other youths might experience demeaning effects of the impacts of adolescent experiences. Sports are one of the activities, which engage the youth. Research indicates that, most of the adolescents engaged in sporting activities stay away from other peer related influences such as drug abuse, Continue reading...

Physicians’ prevalence of recommending HPV vaccine for adolescent males aged between 11 and 26

Constructing a conceptual framework for the study to investigate the prevalence of physicians to recommend HPV vaccines for males aged between 11 and 26 will require the identification of variables. These include variables that will be dependent on other variables and those that will be independent. In most occasions, independent variables are those that exist prior to a study while dependent variables are met while constructing the literature review of a research or study. It is important to note that conceptual frameworks are personal opinions that may or may not be provable through any means suitable for the purposes Continue reading...

Issues of Body image and acceptance

Acceptance is one of the factors contributing to an individual’s self-esteem, confidence levels and social development. In the advent of the growing culture of sedentary life and eating fast and refined foods, there have been major concerns on issues of body weight (obesity) and image, particularly among children and the adolescents. An individual’s perception of their body image, shape and weight affect acceptance, which in turn affect self-esteem, confidence and social development (interactions with peers). An individual’s perception of their body shape and weight is dependent on factors such as parental and peer influence, media influence Continue reading...

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Adolescence is indeed one of the most fruitful and controversial periods of person’s existence. The spring of life brings new unique experiences, it helps to develop and strengthen personal, professional and academic skills and qualities which will impact the further life of an individual and influence the choices that he or she is going to make in adulthood. This period is also a very tricky one. The system of values and behavioral patterns at this age are still fragile and not entirely established. Therefore this is a point Continue reading...

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Now read the titles and abstracts of the 14 articles in the attached file. Using criteria described in the Pyrczak's guide, answer the following questions:
1) Best title:

The best title is: Why Does Early Sexual Intercourse Predict Subsequent Maladjustment? Exploring Potential Familial Confounds

Explain why:
The first part of the title is a question that begs for an answer from the reader, the second part tells the reader what is the research is all about (Pyrczack, 2012). The research is based on the findings of another research that proved that early sexual intercourse indeed leads to maladjustments; the title covers that aspect by clearly indicating that. The research intends on exploring the familial confound Continue reading...

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Teenage Pregnancy: First Draft
Introduction
Parents are raising their children with the fervent hope and desire that they would grow as mature, productive and responsible adults in the prime of their lives. In contemporary societies, however, as children approach the most precarious stage of development, adolescent stage, teen-agers who are exposed to negatively influential behavior could imbibe risky demeanor which could significantly impact their future. One of the unwanted trends manifested by teenagers is teen pregnancy. According to the Office of Adolescent Health, “the U.S. teen birth rate is higher than that of many other developed countries, including Canada Continue reading...

The topic for this presentation is the effects of HumanPapilloma Virus on adolescent females. According to the research, the possible effects of this virus include the prevalence of cancer, particularly anogenital and oropharyngeal cancers. Furthermore, the virus also results in the prevalence of external genital warts among adolescent females.

The research aims to inquire about the beliefs of clinicians regarding the treatment for HPV among adolescent females.

The hypothesis, formulated in this research, says that females with HPV can be treated through radiation and chemotherapy.
The dependent variable in this research is HPV virus. The independent factors include race, geographic region, age of female adolescents, sexual relationships, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy.
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- Parenting styles describe the climate in which the functionality of a family and the child rearing strategies that occur. They define the set of behaviors that are involved in different generations of life.
- It may also involve the relationships between members of two or more generations and can pass on to other aspects of life.
- Parenting styles require much support of the children as they define the interaction between the parents and children at different stages in life.
- These styles are differentiated through the way the impact the development of children from the early childhood Continue reading...

The movie Love and Basketball is a romantic American drama released in 2000. The story is about two teenage basketballers, Quincy and Monica who fell in love (Prince-Bythewood et.al, 2000). This movie clearly depicts adolescent development through the various scenes that are in line with adolescent theories. Monica has a heated argument with her mother where she confronts her mother for judging her style in dressing. She is a tomboy but the movie hardly equates her to being gay. This heated argument between Monica and her mother is in line with Sigmund Freud’s theory of adolescent development who Continue reading...

Introduction

- Purpose
Smoking among adolescents is among the major concerns for the public at large and also the to the public health systems in many developed countries. The familiarity and knowledge of social and individual risk factors are quite significant for the advancement of addiction of nicotine and it could greatly help to enhance all the procedures that are aimed at reducing the use of tobacco and to start efficient and efficacious prevention programs. The main purpose of this study is to detect all the psychosocial variables that relate to smoking among adolescents. In this study, participants were 2, Continue reading...

Introduction

Symbolic interactionism is essentially a sociological perspective, which is influential in numerous areas of this discipline. The theory as thought of George Mead and Herbert Blumer is actually the process of interaction or relations in formation of meanings for the individuals. Herbert Blumer, an interpreter and a student of Mead, devised the term “symbolic interactionism” and with influence of John Dewey who argued, that we are understood best in relation to our environment outlined the term as a study of the human group life as well as conduct. For this reason, this essay relates this theory to the topic, “ Continue reading...

Adolescent suicide is rated as the third-leading cause of death among individuals that fall between the ages of 15 to 19. This trend, however, according to pundits can reversed through early screening for depression, suicidal behavior and ideation. The American Academy of Pediatrics Clinical report Suicide and Suicide Attempts in Adolescents notes that there are several signs and symptoms that re exhibited by suicidal adolescents. These are depression, low self esteem, withdrawal from social circles, suicide thoughts and aggressive behavior.
This vice can be prevented early enough through primary, secondary and tertiary methods. Suicide in Children and Adolescents by Continue reading...

Rites of passage are found in all societies in all periods but they are time and cultural relative. In most of African cultures, initiation is the most common rite while in the Jews community, wedding or marriage is the ideal. Like the American rite of passage, where one gets a driver’s license, the Jews and African rites compare. In all three cases, one becomes an adult who is supposed to be responsible and accountable of their deeds. All the three rites helps one understand their new role in the society. They learn how to behave and treat others Continue reading...

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Positive human functioning enables human beings especially adolescents counter and deal with difficult situations with ultimate ease in life. Positivity develops a high degree of self esteem which is critical towards determination of whether one flourishes or does not flourish in life. This report is going to analyze whether the elements that determine the well being on an individual as defined in the PERMA model by Seligman differ or compliment with categorically flourishing and none flourishing for adolescents.
Martin Seligman established the PERMA model which constitute of five important elements that determines a happy living in life (Armstrong, 2006). Continue reading...