12 Results for high-risk behaviors

Is there a direct relationship between children's developmental stages and maternal depression? Research suggests that children's development can be adversely affected by maternal depression. A depressed person has more negative cognitions than that of non-depressed counterparts. Depressed...
What is Depression? Most adults and many children and adolescents have a few bad days here and there, sometimes three or four in a row. When this happens, your mood is bad, you feel like jumping on people for nothing. You sleep, but you do not rest. You eat, but you are not hungry. Your life is on...
PSY 2301 - MODULE 9: CLASSICAL CONDITIONING Learning - relatively permanent change in behavior due to experience Humans are most capable of all the species to change behavior through learning Helps organism to adapt to its environment Associative learning - learning through association of ...
I found an article titled "Smoking, physical activity, and diet in North American Youth" from the Canadian Journal of Public Health. This article basically states the problems and risk factors associated with today's youth health. There are many causes and reasons for today's ...
A Closer Look At High Risk Youth It is important not to overreact to isolated incidents. Young people will have problems and will learn, at their own rate, to struggle and deal with them. But it is critical for parents and helping adults to be aware of the factors that put a youth at particular ...
Teenage pregnancy has been a significant issue in our society, today. The number of single teens who become pregnant continually increases dependence on the social welfare system causing a strain on state and local government services, in which we as a society pay taxes to support. There are three...
Knowledge Base of Social Work: Practice methods that correspond to the levels of Practice are: 1. Micro level of practice- direct practice/service delivered directly to clients (face to face and minimal administrative work. 2. Mezzo level of practice- indirect practice involving administration/...
Bulimia Nervosa Definition "Bulimia was classified as a distinct disorder by the American Psychiatric Association in 1980; the name was changed to bulimia nervosa in 1987." Bulimia nervosa is known as the "binge-purge syndrome", which in its extreme form, can also le...
It is an old cliche now that the teenage years are the most trying ones for both the teenager and the parents. The transition from childhood to adulthood is fraught with physical, emotional, mental and psychological changes. Teenage problems are now compounded by the challenges facing society to...
On the night of January 23rd, 1978, a 21 year-old woman was found murdered. The killer, in no way connected to the victim, had torn all clothes from the woman's body and had ripped open her lower abdomen. A huge knife wound gaped from breast to navel , some inner organs had been cut out. Several ...
Childhood Depression In recent years, we have heard of depression and the affects of the disorder, and what medications and theories help to prevent depression in adults. Many people are not aware that not only is depression diagnosed in adults, recently studies show that depression is diagnos...
The killing of own life intentionally is referred as suicide. Over the past years, American society has been concerned about this issue, especially teenage suicide. The suicide rate among teenagers is not constant for a period of time; it keeps changing over time. Most of the time, the suicide rate ...