The Adolescents

Personally, I do highly believe that Adolescents have the right to make autonomous medical choices but this is a highly argumentative subject. I feel as if my parents shouldn’t have to confirm everything about me, for I am my own person by 15 even though they still look at me as their “baby-girl”. Lets face it by 15 i’m not so much of a baby anymore, i’m not completely grown yet but i’m far enough away from the baby stage and am perfectly capable to make my own decisions by now. Parents have…

In today’s society, social media has become a buzzword. Not only has it gained popularity, it has been accepted into mainstream culture. Social media is a web-based service, with a large online community. Websites and applications allow users to create and share content as well as participate in social networking. Assuming that all aged 15 to 35 have social media accounts, youths are undoubtedly actively involved in online communities. Even though social media allows youths to stay connected and…

Verissimo, Santos, Fernandes, Shin, and Vaugn (2014) conducted the research to examine how secure attachment with their mothers supports preschool children’s social competence in their peer group. 147 preschool children and their mothers participated in the study. Most of the mothers had graduated from university, and most of the families had socioeconomic status above median. The research was a longitudinal study. To determine the children’s attachment security, researchers measured attachment…

Sexual intercourse amongst adolescents is occurring more frequently now than ever before. According to Kurt Conklin, 46 percent of high school teenagers have engaged in sexual activities before completing high school. Sex is a highly regarded intimate activity that is worth being saved for marriage, but most young teens are experimenting it now for “enjoyment” or from peer pressure. Since more adolescents are having sexual intercourse, pregnancy rates are increasing. Teenagers are becoming…

things pregnant people shouldn’t do”. Isolation can be very scary at this age; this is where one could feel as Erikson described “Identity Confusion”. Adolescents go through self-absorption and egocentrism. Egocentrism is defined as “a state of self absorption in which the world is seen as focused on oneself.” (Feldman, 2013). This allows adolescents to question and argue back against people and ideas they don’t agree with or understand. It also makes them more hostile towards criticism. It is…

choices about their behavior. It is important for sex education to begin at a young age. Giving young people basic information from an early age provides the foundation on which more complex knowledge is built up over the years as they go in to their adolescent years. The education they receive plays a major role in the way they make decisions. Based on the way it is taught, the child makes decisions that may forever change his/her life. The two most essential ways children learn about sex is at…

The main point of this paper was to analyze and convey what adolescents are doing with their time and what it means for how and in what way they are developing in that time. Reed Larson, the author of the paper brings up how over the years young people have started to do less and less labor work at a young age, slowly receding to more of an emphasis on school work and supplemental discretionary time. Time doing chores have lowered as more kids start becoming more distracted in other time takers…

Video Games Have a Negative Impact on Adolescent Behavior “I’ve been waiting to do this for years”, says Chris Harper in a online group chat the night before he commenced the massacre that would leave 10 people dead and many more injured on the Umpqua Campus. Chris was known for spending most of his time playing and obsessing over violent video games, I which is the leading cause of the shooting. Chris is not the only example In which the mind was overcome by violent thoughts due to violent…

Adolescents should not have the right to make their own medical decisions, this would be very unsafe for the patient and possibly for the people around them, also adolescents are not mature enough to take on the responsibility in the decision making and the decision the adolescent might make might not be the best choice. Giving the adolescent decision making privileges on his/her medical choice could be very dangerous, not just to the adolescent but to the people around him/her. He/She could…

Effects of Self-Esteem on Asian American Adolescents Lindsay Wakayama Introduction Identity development is difficult for any individual during adolescence. Adolescence is the transition from the reliance on others in childhood to the autonomy of the self in adulthood. It is a challenging time, both for the individuals living it, as well as for those surrounded by it. Filled with emotional turbulence, overwhelming insecurity, and verbal miscommunication, adolescents feel caught up in an…