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Al 2000 P Anorexia Nervosa
1,378 wordsCreating a profile of a developmental stage of the lifespan In this essay, I am going to discuss the developmental stage of the adolescent aged from 12 to 20 years old from the physical development like puberty and sexual maturity, the social development like peer pressure, popularity and rejection in school and the issues surrounding them like juvenile delinquency and gangs, eating disorders like obesity, anorexia nervosa and bulimia. I will also be touching on the causes of these issues. Physi...
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York Random House Negative Behavior
1,424 wordsFinal Assignment For this report, I chose to interview three professionals who deal with teenagers: the school counselors of three different high schools. I thought it would be more insightful than interviewing the teenagers themselves, since those professionals were able to explain to me not only the adolescents perception of racism, sexism, economic opportunity and the media, but also describe how those perceptions are formed, as well as tell me about various programs that are created to addre...
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Parental Divorce Psychological Bulletin
3,038 wordsThe Affects of Divorce on Children As a child, there are many things that affect a view, memory, opinion, or attitude. Children have many of their own daily struggles to cope with, as peer pressures are an example. As an adult, we sometimes forget what it is like to be a child dealing with some of the childhood pressures. Many parents do not realize how something like divorce could possibly affect their children as much as it does themselves. As the case may be, children are strongly affected by...
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Upper Middle Class Eating Disorders
2,793 wordsEating Disorders A vast amount of research has been done on the subject of eating disorders and their causes. This essay will explore the development of eating disorders in adolescent girls. It will show that these disorders are closely connected to the biological and psychosocial changes that occur during the adolescent period. Many teen girls suffer with anorexia nervosa, an eating disorder in which girls use starvation diets to try to lose weight. They starve themselves down to skeletal thinn...
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Sexual Behavior Sexual Activity
2,971 wordsIn most societies, out of wedlock pregnancy and childbearing violate the optimal life course pattern of completion of schooling, gaining employment, marriage, and then parenthood. The phenomenon of adolescent pregnancy is particularly troubling though. Although this occurrence often results in a personal, as well as very real, social dilemma, it must be recognized from the outset that it is not the behaviors themselves that are problematic, but their timing. Adolescence is a period of intense ph...
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