Category: Adolescence

Adolescent obesity poses serious health problems to Hispanic communities, health service provision, and nursing practice. Therefore, adolescents considered to be obese have surpassed being overweight and have increased risks of succumbing to chronic health conditions. Additionally, any health issues that begin in childhood and continue through adolescence can be serious threats when in adulthood. The…

Joanna, a 15-year-old Caucasian female, presents to the office for normal her annual health checkup and is accompanied by her mother. She weighs 90 pounds at the height of 5 foot 3 inches. Her BMI is 15.9, which is underweight for a female her age and height. She is currently in high school but takes…

Introduction Adolescence is a life stage that precedes reaching psychological maturity and social independence. For that reason, it involves the risks of extreme reactions to negative experiences, including impulsive decisions to end ones life. Adolescent suicide research sheds light on eight signs pointing to suicide risks, depression/relationship issues as the key causes contributing to suicidal…

Adolescence is marked by many physical and mental development changes, which have several challenges. During this time, teenagers start to use modern technology and join social media networks (SMNs), which have some adverse effects on them. From the video by CBS Sunday Morning (2018), social media isolates the teen users from people around them as…

Issue Description and External Stressors With the advent of information technology (IT), and particularly Information and communications technology (ICT), the role of the Internet and especially social media has reached exponential growth. Due to the increasingly large amount of information that the Internet offers its users, the development of addition toward the incessant consumption of…

Social media has showcased behavioral modification amongst its frequent users. Besides yielding positive impacts, it has given birth several negative effects to its users. According to recent studies, it is clear that social media has had a huge impact especially on adolescents (Keles, McCrae & Grealish, 2020). Past meta-analysis has also shown that adolescents are…

What essential elements should be included in a health teaching plan addressing physical, emotional, social, and spiritual challenges in adolescents? Today, adolescents face a number of health risks that could impact their further life. However, most of these health risks are preventable. Therefore, comprehensive health education could help to lower the incidence of health issues…

Abstract Statistics on mental disorders show that they tend to prevail in infants, children, and adolescents. More than 2.5 million children in the USA suffer from different kinds of mental disorders and more than 13% are in the risk group (Paul, 2007). Disorders in children and adults are not clearly differentiated as those appearing at…

A Teenager in Love by Dion DiMucci was a famous song during my adolescent years. Some of the most crucial Lyrics are Each time we have a quarrel / It almost breaks my heart (DiMucci, 2017, lines 1-2). Essentially, this was a powerful opening considering this was a love song. Other critical lines include One…

The argument about the existence of a sexual double standard among adolescent teens, both sexually permissive and not, is a widely studied topic in psychology. First, on the side supporting the existence of a double standard, their study used both ethnographic research and survey methods. Using a sample group of teens across the nation, they…