The Adolescents

Adolescents often use smoking as a form of dealing with stress, anger, or generally boosting their moods (Curry, S.J., Mermelstein, R.J., & Sporer, A. K., 2009). While NRT and other medications have shown to be helpful in treating the nicotine addiction, this comes secondary to the original problem at hand: mood control. One idea is instead of dealing with the symptoms as they come up - i.e. self-medication through the use of nicotine - perhaps in some cases it would behoove the youth to use…

ideas are created about expectations of young adolescents. Often times this is constructed by theories on how their brain functions. At this time in their lives, adolescents have a cognitive shift. Their brain is beginning to develop more logically thinking instead of simply concrete ideas. Before the age of 12, children moreso focus on the subject at a surface level; however, during puberty they start to question more things about life. The word adolescent derives from the Latin word,…

America. In addition, the American, middle-class, suburban neighborhoods are unfamiliar to Russians, as many grew up in densely populated neighborhoods. All of these societal differences relate to upbringing of children and their development of adolescents, as environments play an important role as well as brain changes in adolescence. I think that children who are raised by their family develop a deeper connection with them than those who had babysitters or went to childcare centers,…

Violence is recognized as a major public health issue in America (Ellickson & McGuigan, 2000). The researchers, Ellickson and McGuigan (2000), conduct a study to identify early predictors of adolescent violence, and whether these predictors range by gender and across different forms and degrees of violence (Ellickson & McGuigan, 2000). The researchers identify seven predictors, including school bonds, family relationships, problem behaviors, exposure to deviant social influences, personalities,…

Between the ages of 10-15, young adolescents are developing more than any other part of their lives; this being said, the middle school needs to be a developmentally appropriate place for them to emerge into self-actualizing citizens. Children in these early years grow in a very unique way. There are many theorists with ideas on child development. Adolescents are very vulnerable at this age, so they are affected by a lot of things. Adolescents are going through physical and cognitive growth.…

happiness. This paper discusses how technology has been influencing these aspects in adolescents lives. However, technology too has its own negative consequences. It made a form of reliance in the society to an extent that its failure can affect operations in all fields thereby engendering stress and unhappiness in some situations. Adolescents are becoming more lazy doing their daily chores…

examination of the five factors of personality, pubertal onset and alcohol usage in adolescent males. Masters theses & specialist projects. Paper 981. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu.libsrv.wku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1984&context=theses This study was conducted to determine the combined effects of early pubertal onset and certain personality characteristics on the alcohol usage demonstrated by adolescent males. The subjects for this study were 100 males in the sixth, seventh, and…

Adolescent Gynecomastia What Does It Mean? Adolescent gynecomastia, also called as “puffy nipples”, is caused by swelling of the tissues of breast and imbalance of estrogen and testosterone in young men. Such hormones control the hormonal characteristics in both women and men. Female traits like growth of breasts are controlled by estrogen. Mail traits like muscle mass and body hair are controlled by testosterone. Commonly believed fact is that estrogen is restricted to females but it…

Middle School is a time where young adolescent experience the most rapid period of growth since birth. Young adolescents are going through a time where they are transitioning from concrete thinking to abstract thinking. This transition is essential in becoming a well-rounded individual. Adolescents also begin thinking in more complex ways in mathematics, have the ability to analyze forms of writing further, and interpret larger concepts. Many adolescents would rather take an active role in their…

Labelling Adolescents The labelling theory first received attention when society predominately focused on what Tannenbaum (1938:72-74) regarded as ‘tagging, defining and identifying’ young adolescents and people as delinquent individuals. Bernburg, Krohn and Rivera (2006:81-84) emphasise that labelling adolescents through ‘juvenile justice intervention methods caused the formation of deviant networks.’ For example they concluded that police intervention during early adolescence ages of 14-18 had…