The Adolescents

For this discussion, I decided to read the article called “A Multicultural Assessment of Adolescent Connectedness: Testing Measurement Invariance across Gender and Ethnicity” by Karcher and Sass. The main purpose of this article was to use the Hemingway: Measure of Adolescent Connectedness to investigate if there was invariance at the time of measuring adolescent connectedness across different racial/ethnic groups and gender. This primary function seems to be multicultural inclusive as it wants…

The adolescent I chose to interview is my little cousin. Her name is Embry and she is 14-years-old. Unlike Albert, Embry is a brat 24/7. The reason I think that is because she is very disrespectful to her mom. She is rude, calls her names, and says she is too nosey, and so on. She is as sweet as can be to her dad though. Her mom says it is just her hormones. I think it is because her mom actually makes her listen, clean, and do her homework whereas her dad gets to be the fun parent and that is…

The debate on whether a parent should send their child to an all female school or all male school has came up in recent years. Will this be contributing to children becoming more productive and lucrative later in life, one can ask. Segregating adolescents by gender in schools can only lead to hurting their development and socialization with the opposite sex. Granting the allowance for children to go…

Bernadine M. Pedrealba I Love ME: Why does this modern day digital age lead adolescents to narcissism? Narcissism is defined by the Oxford dictionary as "Excessive interest in or admiration of oneself and one's physical appearance; in Psychology, it is defined as an Extreme selfishness, with a grandiose view of one's own talents and a craving for admiration, as characterizing a personality type. Adolescents today or as many would like to call them: ‘Millennials' have been classified as…

The topic of the article is adolescent. It discusses the general characteristics, physical growth, psychosocial growth, and cognitive development. An adolescent is illustrated as the period of life, beginning with the appearance of secondary sex characteristics and ends with the cessation of growth and emotional maturity. Adolescents are identified at the age of 12 to 19 years old. Adolescents are divided into early (12 to 14 years old), middle (15 to 16 years old), and late periods (17…

period in an individual's life. It is a short but enjoyable time in one's life (Cabigon, 1999, p.106). Emphasizing the word enjoyable, adolescents loves to live their life to the fullest through socializing with other people, hanging out more with their barkadas, being rebellious in nature and disobeying parents just to achieve an enjoyable state of life. An adolescent has a great deal to think about. This is the time of seeing other people in an objective way, of weighing oneself against…

Problem behaviors in adolescents are normally defined as being a troubled child. Many people are not aware that there are mental illnesses which cause the sudden outburst in many adolescents, these outbursts are usually modified by medication but corrected with behavior techniques (White, 2016). By observing the agency, the social worker came to the conclusion the proposed macro concern is the lack of behavioral job interviewing skills programs for students who are aging out aged sixteen through…

which leads to addiction. Overmedicating adolescents with mental disabilities is negative because the doctor may have misdiagnosed the problem, it causes a drug dependency or addiction, and the patient has a lack of self-confidence.…

fields of private practice, criminal justice, and education, we are likely to encounter adolescents at-risk of encountering the juvenile justice system or with a history in the system. Included in the ever-growing prison population in our country are thousands of people under the age of 18. In late 2014, there were over 50,000 adolescents under the age of 18 in juvenile detention facilities and over 4,000 adolescents under the age of 18 held in adult detention facilities. (Juveniles in…

only correspond with one another, but they are also used to describe the feelings of many adolescents. Adolescents face many changes, as they get further into life. Many can cope just fine with the simple feeling of anxiety and sadness. However, some teens are facing severe anxiety and extreme saddens or hopelessness. According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA), nearly 80% of adolescents who suffer from anxiety disorder aren’t seeking the help…