Running head: HIV/AIDS‚ ADOLESCENTS‚ AND RISKY SEXUAL BEHAVIOR HIV/AIDS‚ adolescents‚ and risky sexual behavior HIV/AIDS‚ adolescents‚ and risky sexual behavior Introduction You can’t smell it‚ taste it‚ hear it‚ or even see it. BUT‚ it lives inside the bodies of 36 million people worldwide and it’s responsible for the death of many others. It’s the biggest epidemic in human history (Sittitrai‚ 1998). It’s HIV/AIDS‚ and it doesn’t care who you are or where you’re from. U.S. public health
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Charvi Patel April 7th‚ 2010 Obesity among Children and Adolescents Obesity has been a controversial issue for years. Childhood obesity is already an epidemic in some areas and is on the rise in others. Although rare in the past‚ obesity is now amongst some of the most widespread issues affecting our children and adolescents living in the United States today. Childhood obesity is harmful to not only the child’s present lifestyle but it also affects the child’s future. Obesity in children is
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Sexual Health Promotion in Adolescents McLaughlin‚ L. ( ). Effectiveness of Sexual Health Promotion in Adolescents. Journal of Nursing. Retrieved from http://rnjournal.com/journal-of-nursing/effectiveness-of-sexual-health-promotion-in-adolescents This article discusses the importance of sexual health and behavior in adolescents. Research indicates that promoting health has positively influenced the reduction in sexual activity among teens. Programs to improve adolescent sexual and reproductive
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Prevention of Adolescent Drug Addictions Abstract Drug addictions among today’s adolescent is climbing to an all-time high rate. Parents need to become more proactive in the prevention of their children becoming addicted to drugs. However‚ parents alone cannot handle this overwhelming task‚ the local schools and the community will need to take action also. Together this is a possible task‚ team work and consistency will prevail and save adolescents from being drug addicts.
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How have different research methods contributed to understanding how infants organise the world into classes‚ categories and concepts? Psychologists regularly conduct research and construct scientific hypothesis while pushing the boundaries of psychology in a concerted effort to understand human nature‚ while answering complex questions in this important and intriguing area of study. Probably one of the most challenging fields facing psychologists is the study of children‚ especially in the area
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Adolescent Substance Abuse Being a teenager and raising a teenager are individually‚ and collectively‚ enormous challenges. For many teens‚ illicit substance use and abuse become part of the landscape of their teenage years. Although most adolescents who use drugs do not progress to become drug abusers‚ or drug addicts in adulthood‚ drug use in adolescence is a very risky proposition. Even small degrees of substance abuse (for example‚ alcohol‚ marijuana‚ and inhalants) can have negative consequences
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Perceptions of Mexican American Adolescent Girls. Journal of Adolescent Research. doi:10.1177/0743558415594424 Research by Romo‚ Mireles-Rios and Hurtado (2015) found that although one of the participants does not take her friends feedback as
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Eating Disorders in Adolescent Girls Eating disorders are a group of mental disorders that interfere with normal food consumption. They may lead to serious health problems and‚ in the case of both bulimia nervosa and anorexia nervosa‚ even death. The major recognized eating disorders are anorexia nervosa‚ bulimia‚ and binge eating disorder. An eating disorder is a serious psychological condition. The sufferer is obsessed with food‚ diet and often body image to the point where their quality of
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PSYC101 Journal Article Review Assignment - Part 2 Article Analysis‚ Connection‚ and Reflection Due: 11:55pm ET Sunday at the end of Week 6 of the 8-week course term You may work on this assignment ahead of its deadline but may not submit it prior to Week 6. Points Possible: 140 OVERVIEW: For Part I of this two-part assignment you identified and summarized elements of a published scholarly article selected from the classroom Resources Folder. For Part 2‚ which is due by the end of Week
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show some areas of drug use decreasing among middle school and high school students‚ past-year use of illicit drugs numbers still landed at around 27.2 percent. Many treatments work well for both adults and teenagers‚ but teens come with unique problems and issues that often require more specialized programs. While they’re used to be a lack of resources for teenage addicts‚ an increased awareness of adolescent drug abuse has given way to a greater amount of options available for treatment. Therapy
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