The Adolescents

This intervention program is designed to aid the linking of depression and drug use in adolescents. It’s my mission to spread awareness of just how much depression affects adolescents in today’s society. Also, I am committed to exhibit strategies that will help others spot the early signs of depression and drug use in the afflicted; and hopefully they will be able to help them defeat their battle. Interventions can be held in an array of places, like someone’s home, community centers and health…

Antidepressants should be highly regulated when distributed to adolescents. The prescription of antidepressants is often a "quick fix" to a permanent or complicated situation, and is, in many cases, ineffective or harmful. Various instances of suicidal events have occurred due to hap-hazard methods used when prescribing antidepressants. However, when used properly and under adequate supervision, these drugs can be live-saving and have very positive impacts on a child or teen's life. When…

Sociopathic or alcoholic parents have a great impact on passing their genetic characteristics to their children (North & Yutzy 2010, p. 237). According to North & Yutzy (2010, p. 237) criminal offenders and some adolescents with signs of sociopathy tend to have substance abuse disorder or SUD. Particularly, SUD is developed to supress emotions from childhood abuse and replace it with effects of dopamine (Weiss et al. 2013, p. 944). Substance abuse can give a long-term…

Bullying is a major problem in the lives of many adolescents; whether the adolescent is the bully, the one being bullied or a bystander of the bullying. Approximately twenty-eight percent of adolescents in sixth through twelfth grade have experienced bullying, and approximately thirty percent of adolescents have divulged to bullying. At least seventy percent of students or faculty has observed bullying in the school (“Effects of Bullying”). Bullying can impinge on different facets of a victim;…

one of the leading causes of death in the adolescent age group in the United States. It is an important public policy issue to address because it is not centralized to just one region or any specific group, despite it being more prevalent in some gender, racial, and socioeconomic groups. Suicide is a preventable death, which is why it is a very real issue that needs the attention of the public agenda. There are many individuals who are familiar with adolescent suicide, but the lack of action…

theory (Watt, 1979). Community violence exposure, risk taking, and decision making are concepts that low income, minority adolescents can be faced with frequently and deserves further investigation in research literature. The research questions are as follows: Could adolescents become desensitized to community violence with results in their brain activity? I hypothesize that adolescents can be desensitized to community violence. Brain activation for people who are desensitized would be…

Analyses of Community Violence in Adolescents Introduction People think that crime, violence only happens or is related to gangs of inner cities, but violence could happen anywhere, for example in a family house, in crowded cities and rural cities. Every child in the United States faces elevated rates of exposure to violence over the years in their community. Children that are more at risk are the ones with families with low income, being non-white, and living in family violence. Therefore,…

to hope that the killer is caught and punished accordingly. Why does it seem that people are more willing to properly punish an adult than an adolescent for the same crime? Why is it a moral imperative that adults be sentenced to life without parole, but not children? Adolescents should be eligible for the life without parole sentence…

That some of the scales mentioned in the article are useful tools for examining adolescents anxiety and depression. The information being used by the author and its relationship to the main issue is to test the fit of measurement models, examine agreement in mother- and self-reported measures and to examine unique and shared information…

particularly for the young. Mostly, those clouds dissipate after a while, but for some, it takes stronger methods to force them away before they let loose their torrents of premature rain. This same situation holds true with countless cases of adolescent depression that can not be driven away by therapy and placebos. Antidepressants can be imperative for teenagers with depression through reassurance that their disease is curable, benefits not offered by other forms of treatment, and preventing…