The Adolescents

Adderall and its Effects on Adolescents Christine R. Perrin Florida Institute of Technology Abstract The purpose of this paper is to discuss Adderall and Adderall XR for the treatment of ADHD in adolescents. It will discuss the history of Adderall as well as present several case studies and findings including side effects both positive and negative on adolescents. Specifically this paper will focus on the history, case studies, and side effects adolescents have been known to exhibit with both…

Recent research on the effects of sleep deprivation on the adolescent mind caused by early school start times, and the body’s circadian clock, suggest later school start times would benefit high school students. Adolescents need at least 9 hours of sleep each night to be able to function in the morning. However, Larry Gable and Kate Kinsella (2013), a professor and neuroscientist at San Francisco State University, and the authors of “Adolescent Sleep Research- Findings for Secondary Schools,”…

Working with Adolescents As a former high school English teacher, I have a strong affinity for working with adolescents. I made a personal decision to teach at an alternative school, as opposed to a public high school, for various reasons. Primary to this decision, however, was the ability to interact and impact disenfranchised youth, who experienced a wide range of life experiences, from mental health diagnoses, substance abuse, or violence, i.e. gang violence. Corey, Corey, and Corey (2010)…

I am Charis, from tutorial group 23 and this is my essay on adolescent development. The family that we interviewed is a nuclear family comprising a couple, Mr Ha and Madam Si, both age 46 and their only child, Miss Fa age 17. Our main client is Miss Fa and the developmental stage that she is in right now is adolescent. In the next few paragraphs I will be discussing more about the key information of Miss Fa, her physical, cognitive, psychological and moral developmental stages, factors that…

lose interest in daily activities, and a variety of other symptoms. The illness is becoming more widely spoken about more than ever amongst adolescents. However, what they have to say has quickly turned from spreading awareness, to the avid romanticization of the disorder, which causes people to perceive depression in an unrealistic sense. While adolescents have started idealizing the illness on the internet, depression is not…

Greg, the first adolescent that was chronicled said he was always on the internet. His parents tried to monitor what he was viewing on the internet by using parental controls but Greg was able to outsmart the parental controls. Greg also stated that he spent much of his free time on the computer and often times felt that it was hard to disconnect. Greg is not alone, in a survey of 8 to 18 year old Americans, nearly 90% had access to a computer at home and more than two-thirds of that 90% used…

I. Introduction a. Adolescents who engage in sexual activity place themselves at risk of sexually transmitted diseases (STD) or unplanned pregnancies. b. Many teenagers and adolescents are misled or hold fabricated beliefs concerning STD and teenage pregnancy. By every measure, adolescent sexual behavior is harmful to the well-being of all involved. c. Each year, one in every 20 adolescents and young adults will develop a new STD (Department of Reproductive Health and Research, 2007). d. The…

Substance abuse has been on a rise of adolescents, especially between the ages of 15 and 18. Due to the high rates, it is important to find out what contributes to the factors of substance abuse and put them at risk for this type of behavior. Research has been shown that sleep insufficiently and depression has been found to have higher rates related to substance abuse in this age group. There were four major substances that were used for this study, but this paper will focus on the marijuana…

When predicting who might be a prolific offender there are many potential patterns that have been identified at an early age. The best predictors for having a criminal conviction later in life, in adolescents who are 10 years old, are socio-economic deprivation, poor parental supervision and child rearing, antisocial parents and siblings, low intelligence, poor school records and coming from broken homes (Ratcliffe, 2008). The major issue with these variables are that they are unlikely to be…

Adolescent problem behaviors of delinquency, alcohol and drug abuse, and risky sexual behavior pose a major health risk as well as a threat to adolescents ' further psychosocial development (Melkman, 2015). Risk factors experienced early in life can expose youth to risk taking behaviors that may have negative impact and decrease…