Essays on Adolescence

Adolescent criminal behaviour (juvenile delinquency) is by far one of the most discussed social issue in the United States since the early 1960s. This was attributed to the fact that at the time, the United States was transitioning into another stage of development. This growth and development however caused social and economic stratification where most neighbourhoods were divided according to ethnic background and economic leverage. This raises the issue as to whether poverty is an influence to adolescent criminal behaviour. Indeed poverty influences adolescent criminal behaviour.

In 1997, New York City experienced a surge in juvenile delinquency cases reported ...

The Karate Kid, a quintessential film portraying the journey of an adolescent through the odds of life and the final triumph of life, serves to cinematically describe the stages of development of an adolescent individual. It would be extremely interesting to apply the theories of Erik Erikson in deciphering the cinematic essence of the film and having a comprehensive view of the matter.

Erikson describes the stage to be one when the adolescent is concerned about how others perceive of him or her. The superego of the adolescent grows as does the confidence of oneself. The child finally develops ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. Though the exact cause ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Carter and McGoldrick

Abstract 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, ...

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 ...

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. ...

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‘Subject’ Short stories about love 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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Part 1 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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Psychology

<Student’s name> <Name of the Academic Institution> 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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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. The method, which has been chosen ...

- 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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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, “ ...

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 ...

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 ...

Introduction

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). ...

Introduction

Teenage pregnancy and childbirth is a burning issue in Australia. Statistical data showcase detrimental effects of being an adolescent mother, since young mothers appear to experience long-term psychological impairments, serious developmental crisis and physical problems (Bishop, 2007). The Australian teenage pregnancy rates are not as high as the American, yet, they are four times higher than Spain, Italy, Japan and the Netherlands (Bishop, 2007). Based on the United Nations Population Fund handout that was released in December 2012, 16 million adolescent girls give birth annually, which is approximately 11 percent of all worldwide births, and thousands of teenage girls ...

As Scott Weber points out in his journal article on the relationship between depression and, among other factors, self-esteem, “adolescents today are living in complex and challenging times” (Weber, 2010). With depression and other psychiatric disorders common among youth, it is adults who they rely on to build a health care and education system that understands this and provides antiquate support for adolescents. Self-esteem has a negative correlation with depression (Weber, 2010) and so environments and strategies to improve self-esteem in adolescents have the effect of also reducing the frequency and severity of depression in these populations. It has ...

Introduction

Studies on adolescent mothers and their babies have realized sufficient attention among various stakeholders and healthcare scholars. In their studies, health researchers attempt to explore the cause of adolescent mothers, the preference rate, and the health and social consequences of adolescent pregnancies to mothers and their children. Based on the available research findings, adolescent pregnancies are prompted by various factors including mental health issues, neglect, child abuse, school failure, persistence poverty, and moral decay. The analysis of various academic articles is essential in understanding the cause of adolescent pregnancies and the outcomes adolescence mothers to babies and their mother. ...

Introduction

The rate of divorce has increased over the years. Research indicates that for every three marriages that take place in today’s society, one of them ends in divorce (American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2011). Furthermore, the majority of the families that divorce have children. Consequently, divorce causes various impacts on children depending on how they perceive it and what kind of life they lead after it occurs in comparison with the past. Some children often take the blame on themselves for being responsible for their parents’ divorce and this will have devastating impact on their lives. Mostly, ...

Online friendship that is often enhanced through internet interaction has developed both positive and negative impacts to the development of the adolescents. As concerns develop amongst the educators and other psychologists about the effect the online interaction has had on the developing or growing adolescents, we cannot shun away from exposing some of the effects of these developments especially the effect on the social developments of the adolescent children. The online interaction in essence has affected majority of the teenagers than it has influenced the parents and other people beyond the adolescent age bracket. The teenagers in their consumption ...

Psychology: Teenage Pregnancy and its Effects

Abstract Teenage pregnancy is pregnancy under the age of 20 years. In healthy, well-nurtured teenage girls, menarche, the first menstrual period, normally takes place around the ages 12 or 13. A pregnancy can occur before menarche, but usually is possible after menarche. This article discusses occurrence of teenage pregnancy and its dependency upon a number of personal and social factors. This paper also discusses a research study by McLaughlin, Pearce, Manninen and Winges by the name “To Parent or Relinquish: Consequence for Adolescent Mothers” which makes an elaborate discussion on the subject of adolescent mothers and the comparison of ...

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine from a developmental assets approach similarity and differences in single parents and adolescents’ perceptions of parenting competencies.

Problem Statement

Today parents face many challenges which sometimes surpass their ability to respond accordingly. Lately, there has been awareness that children majorly from most backgrounds in a technological society are exposed to significant dangers and risks. People are generally hesitant to acknowledge that every family has limitations that more or less may require much support externally in order to succeed in the current environment. Arguably, a knowledgeable outlook is aware that even low income families ...

Predictors of Sexual Risk Taking Behaviour among Adolescents in the U.S.A

Abstract

This study sought to determine the predictors of sexual risk taking behaviour among adolescents in the U.S.A. Based on theory and previous studies this study identified three predictors which informed the research questions and hypothesis for the study; knowledge of HIV/AIDS, attitude towards avoiding sexually risky behaviours and adolescent egocentrism. Three hypotheses were developed. First, knowledge of HIV/AIDS predicts the sexual risk taking behaviour of adolescents. Secondly, attitude towards avoiding risky behaviour predicts the sexual risk taking behaviour of adolescents. Thirdly, adolescent egocentrism predicts the sexual risk taking ...

Reflection

Chapter 15 and 16 focuses on the idea of inclusion of disabled students in the general classroom environment at both elementary and secondary education environments. Smith is quick to point out that a high percentage of disabled students are likely to attend a general classroom environment. In specific he points out that only 15 percent of students are likely to attend restrictive classroom environment. Allowing disabled students to attend general classroom environment is advantageous because it helps disabled students in building better personal relations with students without disabilities. It is prudent to also understand that students without disabilities also ...

The Karate Kid, a quintessential film portraying the journey of an adolescent through the odds of life and the final triumph of life, serves to cinematically describe the stages of development of an adolescent individual. In the essay, I apply the theories of Erik Erikson in deciphering the cinematic essence of the film and having a comprehensive view of the matter. Erikson describes the stage to be one when the adolescent is concerned about how others perceive of him or her. The superego of the adolescent grows as does the confidence of oneself. The child finally develops a sense ...

This is a practice of inhaling smoke from burning tobacco for getting a state of mind that is consider as being “high”. Cigarette smoking is referred to be among the key factors that contribute to lungs cancer. It a common and emerging trend with the young generation and is facilitated by the peer pressure at an adolescence stage. This practice has raise concern of the rate to which it is currently increasing and the effect it is posing to the community in general. A larger population is now exposing to the danger of smoking cigarettes since some of the ...

Discuss the impact of chronic medical conditions on adolescents (12-18 years) and identify ways of promoting resilience or positive development.

Introduction Many adolescents live out their daily life suffering from a chronic illness. This can be both physical and mental. Chronic illness can become an emotional burden on an adolescent’s life, which can lead to negative impacts on an individual’s psychosocial and cognitive development before they reach early adulthood. An adolescent is a person from the age of 12-18 years old. Chronic illnesses within an individual between 12-18 years old can have negative impact on the psychosocial wellbeing. This paper will analyze the social, psychological, psychosocial, and cognitive growth influences of chronic illness in adolescents. Adolescents who ...

Moffitt’s developmental theory offers dynamic overview of criminal behavior that have Risen in recent times, yet few efforts are channeled to the comprehend intimate partner Violence using developmental angle, Family, and criminological violence articles has emerged with distinctive paths; there are several reasons for crosschecking hypothesis across fields. For instance, theories built to comprehend additional and broader criminal activity, facilitate understanding of partner-violence, and expand the view of such theories. In addition, there are substantial reasons to project spousal battering fueled by factors or forces that triggers deviant behavior, low self-esteem and control, imperative and weak moral stature. ...

Adolescent substance abuse refers to dependence on or overindulgence in addictive substances (e.g., drugs or alcohol) by young individuals. There are many reasons why adolescents resort to the misuse and abuse of substances. Some authors and experts in the field consider the theoretical perspectives on the interrelationships between substance abuse and emotion while some laypersons view addiction as evil in itself and that the addict is a bad person . There are those of the opinion that drug abuse is caused by unfavorable familial and cultural influences whereas in the medical and health sectors, addiction is a disease caused by ...

Peers at adolescent often have developed a close relationship with one another. This paper will focus on the major learning objectives in this course that tends t explore this idea of peer close relationship witnessed at adolescent. It will help understand the popularity, aggression and rejection among peers during adolescent as well as determining the determinants of popularity and rejection that is witnessed among the adolescent peers. It is also vital to understand the difference between intimacy and sexuality and why the development of intimacy becomes an important concern in adolescence. In order to fully explore this theme, Sullivan’ ...

Parents and teens normally tend to disagree over petty issues and when ignored may lead to conflicts. Such disagreements come from difference in opinion. Conflict arises because parents have different perspectives about life issues. Whereas teens see issues as a matter of personal choice, parents see them as right or wrong. Some issues affecting parents when their teens are passing through teenage includes worry about the body physical changes and perception of the future. Some of the changes in the family needs at the adolescent include; change in the whole family as a unit. The economic status also changes ...

Psychology

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Identifying and predicting psychopathic traits by analyzing childhood behaviours must be based on sound psychometrics to ensure scientifically reliable results. Statistical analysis using G-Power (computer model for calculations) aids in analyszing the results from surveys and personality assessments which are administered to teens and young adults from communities, colleges, juvenile homes and jails in order to understand how the data from self reported questionnaires can reliable be used to predict psychopathic behavior. The ability to do so would be very helpful for counseling and could possibly help avoid psychopathic behaviors in young people that are self-destructive ...

Adolescence is a transitional period in life where a person’s development is characterized by daring behaviors and involvement in adventurous activities. At this stage, adolescents imitate behavior as they strive to explore the world. Peer pressure is a major influence on decisions and lifestyle while body image is a very sensitive issue especially among females. Moreover, the level of self-esteem plays a role in the youth’s ability to form and sustain social networks that fulfill their needs for information, alternative ideas and emotional support. Social skills aid in the development of independence, direct future career paths and ...