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rate of teen delinquency
- 17% of arrest are teens
- 8% of the popullation
- almost every teen has done something illegal at some point in their life.
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Characterisitics of teen depression
sad fustrated, hopless about the future, loss of pleasure in activites, distrubance in sleep, appetite, concentration and energy
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Teens meaning of friendship
Closer knit group of friends with mutual openness, and support
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Parent child conflicts
mild conflict arises faciliates adoslecents identy development, and antonomy by helping family members express and tolerate disagreement.
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Warning signs of sucide
putting affairs in order, wishing they were dead, withdrawal from friends and social activites, random emotional burst, not caring/ about anything and apperance, changes in mood, sleep, appitete and physhical complinets.
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teens who immgrated from collective cultures
Parent's have high focus on obience and family life, it's hard when teens branch out and away from their family net to their social life and form their own view points.
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The search for identy
Figuring out who you are, what you want to do and what your morals are in life.
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Identy Achivement.
searched and committed to goals and morals
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Identy forecloser
Commited to choice that wasn't made by themselves.
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moratorium
actively searching for an answer
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Identy defussion
not committed, not searching, just letting it be as is.
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self eesetem change in adoslence
low at first but as close friendship, romance and job status increase so does their self eesteem.
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process of identy formation
search, question, expirement.
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Erikson's view on a teen that is shallow with no sense of direction
they are in identy confusion and if they don't engage in the search they will not live a happy fulfilled life.
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"Who Am I"
what are your goals, morals, and beliefs, how do you want to live your life?
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% of high school students that graduate
92
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high school jobs and outcomes
usually limited to menual task that rarely advance their knowledge, students who spend a lot of time at this job are likely to drop out
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academic failure and dropping out
eight percent of students drop out of h.s.
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research evidence on school testing
negatively effects educational quality and students learning,
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media multitasking results
it fragments attention, yeilding superficial learning and multi taskers have difficulty filtering out irrelevent stimuli
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most beneifcial child rearing style
athourtative
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risks after a school transition
poor self eestem, motivation, and achievement
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personal fable contributes to
someone thinking that bad things can't happen to them
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teenager as the focus of everyones attention
imaginary audience
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formal operational skills
the ability to use symbols and word problems that may not represent the real world to solve problems
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Pendulum problem
what effects the swing of a pendulum, how creative one can get in solving that question
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hypothetical deuctive reasoning
when faced with a problem they start with hypothesis, or predictions about variables that might effact the outcome from which they deduce logical testable inferences, then systematicly isolate and combine varibles to see which of these are comfirmed in the real world
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STD that disappears on its own without treatment
cytomegalovies
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where do must teens learn about sex
media
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leading cause of death among teens
car accidents
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bulimia
stricted dieting, binge eating, puking, and use laxatives
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treatment for anorixa
hospitalization, family therapy, and medication to reduce anexity
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how can the family improve a teen's diet?
frequent family meals promits fruit and vetagbles
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Eating disorders
teens who reach prubity early that live in homes where weight and being thin are higher at risk for eating disorders
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what is the most common adolsence nuritional deficiency
iron
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early maturing
going through it first, not knowing what to expect but getting it over with quickly
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late maturing
wondering what is wrong with youu
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parent adolesent disagreements
may happen often but should be rare.
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prepartion for puberty
body aches and pains
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average age of menarche in US
11 1/2
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Primary sexual characterisitics
period, semen in sperm
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growth pattern during puberty
10 inches 40 pounds
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signs of puberty
growing taller, heavier, voice deepening, physical changes
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girls/boys entry into adolesence
- Girls merchae -first period
- boys spermarch 1rst sperm filled ejaucation
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characteristics of adolenses
hormones, growth spurts, sexual activity.
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