The Adolescents

however, 15% to 18% of children fall victim to such diseases (Boyse et al, 2012). Adolescents with chronic disease are at an increased risk for psychological complications and their peer relationships are jeopardized. Chronic disease obviously causes the afflicted to experience physical pain, but mental health can also be compromised. “Studies on chronic pain and its relationship to quality of life in adolescents show positive relationships between pain and psychological distress” (Hunfeld et…

There are many changes in the development of young adolescents as they arrive at and go through the middle school. One of these changes is in their intellectual development. At this age, students begin to depend less on concrete examples and can more easily grasp the concept of abstract thoughts. Jean Piaget states that students will enter the “formal operational” stage around the age of eleven. This will be about the time they are in sixth grade. Also they are developing in other ways. Their…

personality, morals and, values and, body image. I think body image is one of the top levels that can make or break a child. Body image is such an important topic at the adolescent age because of their body growth. The changes to their body effects their self-esteem and, body issues in a positive or negative way. During the adolescent years, growth spurs and puberty develops. They may grow in inches of height, gain weight, and this process can be slow for some and for others it can be fast.…

Depression affects many people, including children. “About 5 percent of children and adolescents suffer from depression, and in 2012, an estimated 2.2 million adolescents aged 12 to 17 in the United States had at least one major depressive episode in the past year. This represented 9.1 percent of the U.S. population aged 12 to 17 (National Institute of Mental Health, 2014). Persisting sadness and hopelessness are troubling predictors of clinical depression, which is significantly linked to…

children’s age limits and sample numbers. Thus, more research is conducted to focus on adolescent development. The statistics from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health have large samples which are over 12,000 adolescents shows no such problems happen to adolescents from gay and lesbian families compared to adolescents from heterosexual families (Patterson, 2009). However, it doesn’t mean that these adolescents from gay and lesbian families don’t have challenges in their lives.…

of substance abuse and poor family attachments are also risk factors for substance abuse in adolescents. Within the school and community, there are factors that put an adolescent more at risk for abusing drugs. These include accessibility of substances, poor school performance, having drug-abusing peers, and social norms that favor substance abuse (HHS, 2016). The individual protective factors for adolescents provided by the United States Department of Health and Human Services include physical…

An adolescent expressing suicidal intentions may not have intentions of following through with the act, expressed intentions of suicide should never go ignored. If during filed placement an adolescent made a suicide threat, I would assume the threat is intended and assess the threat. After completing the assessment and despite the outcome, I would report the threat to supervisors and/or the child’s parent. If the assessment outcome suggested the child was at risk to follow through with the…

As Kruk (2012) observes, fatherless adolescents have more difficulties with social settings, adjustments and manifest behavioral problems. Some hide their resentment and unhappiness by putting on a good face, or others imitate a tough character persona to hide their fears and anxieties (Kruk, 2012). Due to the stress of dealing with these emotions, fatherless children perform inferior academically. 71% of high school dropouts come from fatherless families; they score poorly on tests or…

To address the stigma and the lack of information about Chlamydia, goals are to increase awareness among adolescents, normalise conversations about prevention, and promote sexual health, testing and screenings as a part of societal norms (Bandura, 1986). This can be achieved by campaigning, including videos, a testing service locator that can be accessed via website…

perceived as being depressed have been prescribed medication in growing numbers during the past decade, even though some recent polls reveal that most physicians do not consider themselves qualified to identify or treat depression in children and adolescents.” My conclusion, then, is that if they do not feel qualified to diagnose a teen with depression they should not have the power to prescribe antidepressants. Doctors that do not know how to identify depression diagnisioning teens will lead to…