The Adolescents

In 2006, the fear of a child and adolescent epidemic shook society. The thought of a child and adolescent depression epidemic formed from four observations: a rise in antidepressant medication prescribed to adolescents and children, an increase in adolescent suicide, increased rates of long term depression in older generations, and a study in Britain found a rise in emotional problems in adolescents (Costello, Erkanli, and Angold, 2006). To address the profound question as to whether there was…

Adolescent is defined as a young person who is developing into an adult. Adolescents are passed the stage of being a child and yet not considered an adult. Adolescents also referred to as teens or teenagers float in the middle of both categories, undefined and unexplained for decades until the publication of recent research. Frances E. Jensen, M.D., a neuroscientist and a single mother sheds a new perspective on the brains and behaviors of adolescents and young adults in her book titled “The…

Treatment for Adolescent Obesity In the United States, the number of obese adolescents has steadily increased over the last decade and there is considerable controversy over the factors that contribute to the problem. Arguably, the contributing factors include heredity, race, ethnicity, family functioning, proximity of fast food restaurants, and state and regional dispositions. Despite numerous case studies into each factor, the number of obese adolescents continues to rise and there is no…

about the awful crimes committed by children and adolescents all over the Internet, on Television, and even in newspaper articles. This had led many people to wonder if adolescents are as bad as the media perceives them to be. Delinquent behaviors among juveniles are present in all societies and have been steadily decreasing for the past decade. Due to the media overload concerning delinquency, people tend to assume that crime rates among adolescents are the highest they have ever been. However,…

physically ill or have psychiatric disorder or learning disability. There are three basic sleep problems that are common in adolescents which are not sleeping well, sleeping too much, and episodes of unusual behavior or experience related to sleep. There are nearly 100 possible causes or types of these sleep problems that are now recognized. One big factor within adolescents is changes in sleep at puberty. Puberty can change the sleep cycle because the biological clock controls the timing of an…

Revealing Montana as one of the high-risk states for adolescents in this country. The leading health issues in Lake County are observed: diabetes eight percent, 26% are obese, 22% are physically inactive, 1,759 people have been diagnosed with diabetes, and 5,509 individuals are obese, compared to a total population of 29,457 for Lake County (census.gov; city-data.com). The well-being of children/adolescents is directly linked to the economic health of the family and the community…

Issues of gender is very important to adolescent literature. Gender is the first thing people generally look for when reading a book. Readers look for a character that they can associate with, or imitate. When reading adolescent literature, knowing the gender of the characters in the story, gives readers assumptions about the characters themselves without even knowing their background. Even if the author decided not to formally establish or intentionally state the gender of their characters, the…

The Ted Talk described how in the state of New York, is one of the two states that trial adolescents as adults and these jails have maltreatment upon the adolescents, who are sentenced for their crimes. For example, Ismael talked about his experience as an inmate at a jail in New York. When he was there, a male correctional officer named Monroe, called him over to talk briefly about the physical attribution that was caused by Ismael and his roommate. Instead of the correctional officer mentoring…

important to start exercising at a young age for adolescents for a variety of reasons concerning physical health, prevention of future diseases, stable feelings and emotions, and to become more productive. This issue is widespread and is affecting adolescents nationwide and it’s up to parents, teacher, and coaches to care about how much and what kinds of physical activity kids are engaging in daily. There are many effects of how obesity occurs in adolescents which include, inactive school…

Adolescent Obesity is a Two-Way Street Within America, the obesity rate among adults and children has almost tripled between 1976 and 2012. The drastic increase in caloric intake and decrease of physical activity creates an extensive energy gap which is widely accepted as a leading cause of obesity. Nutritionally, calories are within all foods, and are converted into energy. When there is an excess of energy, the body stores the energy as fat within the subcutaneous tissue, which leads to a gain…