Maria Alvarez TUES-THURS 10:30-11:50AM May 8‚ 2014 Adolescent Interview When picking my adolescent I had quite a few choices to pick from but I decided on my adolescent 15 year old sister since I know a lot about her and have seen first-hand how she is coping with this adolescent stage. Patricia is a normal 15 year old girl still in high school. She lives in a household of 7 with 3 older siblings and one younger one. She mentioned that she lived in a small home with three dogs‚ two fish‚ a
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Alyssa’s academic prowess is a source of pride for her parents as she has consistently been a good student and has excelled in most projects that she has decided to undertake and was even a part of the gifted and talented program at her school. As I gave her positive reinforcement about her being involved in extra-curricular activities‚ her confidence level in attempting these activities increased and her performance bettered. When she started losing confidence in in math and language arts‚ I was
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Adolescence is roughly the ages of 10 and 19 years which around puberty to early adulthood. It is hard to determine if an adolescent is need of assistance from a human service provider or just going through the “changes.” The amount of peer pressure that is around them‚ the music‚ television‚ internet access and video games has embedded some much negativity in their mind that it is difficult for them to function without any intervention. My 19 year old daughter called me yesterday crying‚ saying
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Alcohol and Adolescents Alcohol has become the easiest drug to obtain for adolescents which has been leading to a life of alcoholism. Even though the legal age is twenty one‚ many teenagers are still finding ways to obtain alcohol. According to some reports kids as early as seven have tasted alcohol. Nearly three million young people between the ages of 14 and 17 “are regular drinkers with a serious alcohol problem” (Kittleson‚ 2005‚ 59). With statistics such as this no wonder younger children
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Obesity is a national public health concern and increasing epidemic. This crisis is the research focus and media sensation as Americans’ continue to gain weight. Obesity results from weight gain over several years. Excessive body fat leads to significant health concerns and increases the risk of death (Centers for Disease Control (CDC)‚ 2014). The epidemiological issues of obesity include prevalence‚ rising incidents‚ causal factors‚ and burden of diseases related to obesity. Substantial change
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Adolescents and Marijuana Kathleen Stewart University of West Florida Adolescents and Marijuana Marijuana is the most widely used illicit drug used by teens today. Approximately 60 percent of the kids who use drugs use only marijuana. Of the 14.6 million marijuana users in 2002‚ approximately 4.8 million used it on 20 or more days in any given month (Kids and Marijuana). There are many reasons why some teens start smoking marijuana. Many start using because their older siblings or friends
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Chapter 14: BIOSOCIAL The things that I wanted to mention which about Puberty Begins was “menarche”. About menarche‚ it is a girl’s first menstrual period signaling that she had begun ovulation. Pregnancy is biologically possible‚ but ovulation and menstruation are often irregular for years after menarche. The current average age of menarche among well-nourished girls is about 12 years‚ 8 months. According to my personal experience of menarche‚ I remember my menarche was happened about 12
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Obesity is a problem all across America. Everyday young kids choose to stay in their room and play video games or watch TV instead of going outside to play or participate in athletics at school. The benefits of exercising greatly outweigh the benefits of watching TV or playing video games‚ but yet most children would still rather be inactive. Being active keeps you healthy in many ways and can be as fun as you make it. There are many benefits of being an active person. Being active helps you control
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Al‚ 2009). This therefore as the ability to the long term to reduce the amount of adolescents suffering with depression and reduce the negative discrepancy the individual is feeling. The study found that in the short term the mental health literacy of participants had significantly increased which hopes to change in the long term the actual
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Who’s To Blame for Obesity? Do you want to be surrounded with a society filled with obese children? Obesity has become a big problem in America. Parents are not being careful with the amount of junk food they’re allowing their kids to take in. According to Daniel Wientraub’s article “The Battle Against Fast Food Begins in the Home”‚ he claims that parents are in the position to fight the epidemic of overweight children‚ not the government or fast food companies. I agree with Daniel Wientraub because
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