Adolescent sexuality

cause of death among the adolescent population. Therefore, it is pivotal that the PMHNP properly assess and manage suicide risk. To address the gap in clinical research, PMHNP ought to include assessment of protective factors as well as risk factors within the clinical setting. To emphasize Fleming et al.’s (2007) research study, family connectedness is shown to be a strong protective factor against adolescent SI and SA. To reduce the risk of SI and SA among adolescents, parent or adult…

The high school has an average of nearly one third to one half of adolescents that have a diagnosis of either anxiety or depression. The local high school in 2012-2013 had 850 students. Nearly three quarters of the adolescents are on medications for the disease. One of the most important interventions that would help these adolescents, would be a hotline or person that the adolescent could talk to when they needed someone to listen to them. This may help with the episodes…

In this article the focus was on how there haven’t been many studies done on how the adolescent brain changes during puberty over the years, but that is slowly changing. The authors also talked about some of the experiments and studies that have been done already dealing with the adolescent brain. The focus of some of these studies ranged from White Matter (WM) and Gray Matter (GM) to the Prefrontal Cortex (PFC). When the authors were talking about WM and GM it was stated that throughout…

Adolescent Homelessness As of today our adolescent homelessness is becoming a major problem in the United States. I am going to talk about the causes, the consequences, and the programs that may help them off the streets. So, why do these adolescents become homeless in the first place? Well the meaning of homelessness is a person or individual without a permanent home who may live on the streets, stay in a shelter, mission, single room occupancy facilities, abandoned house or a vehicle or…

remain solitary hypothesis, it is frequently find within the sight of different speculations, for example, balance hypothesis and naming hypothesis. The following area talks about how drift theory helps adolescent…

under the legal age will cause harm to the body of the consumer or even cause the person to become an alcoholic before they enter into adulthood. There has been many different research studies trying to determine all different factors that drive adolescents to drink. Could this cause be partly influenced by overparenting or under parenting the child? Teens and young adults will start drinking because of a variety of reasons, some do it to be considered…

index is compatible with levels of physical and sexual adolescent dating violence victimization. Gender inequality index is a measurement that is used to determine the gap between genders. Gressard, Swahn, and Tharp (2015) used surveys to collect the physical adolescent dating violence data. The results showed that high school females were more likely than males to experience physical dating violence by reporting…

states that adolescents should be able to read and write and have a slight basic understanding of mathematic skills by the time the student reaches the third grade. Though for the proposal that is to be implemented I’m proposing setting the school class to a slightly higher grade such as the fifth grade instead of the third grade stated in the “No Child Left Behind” Act, this is so at least the child in question will understand what is happening to them. Therefor, by the time the adolescents…

discusses television advertisements and how they are a dangerous stimulant that sends subliminal messages to its audience to urge them to buy their product. In this article, Miller focuses primarily on adolescents since Channel One is a television program commonly shown in schools. To explain why adolescents are so affected by advertisements, Miller uses psychoanalysis. In his article, Miller separates each of the subliminal messages into lessons and analyzes how the ads have manipulated…

Family Involvement and Success in Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment Literature Review Social Work Practicum Class II University of Northern Iowa Ashley Knerr Adolescents face various struggles every day. Some of these struggles, such as substance use and behavioral struggles, lead them to being placed in a treatment setting. Today’s youth are living in a world where illegal substances are more accessible. Therefore, experimentation of these substances is also becoming more…