Adolescence
Mr. Larkins
Leadership II
Test: 11-19-07
Leadership II
Test: 11-19-07
Terms
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copy deck
- top three causes of death among 15-23 yr olds
- car accidents, murder, suicide
- US has higher rates of WHAT than other industrialized countries?
- sexual activity
- highest rates of suicide are among those aged HOW OLD?
- 75-84, and middle-aged single male
- teenage suicides rates have WHAT since 1960s?
- tripled
- predictor of teenage suicide
- "no way out" view of things
- percent who suffer from bulimia
- 4%
- influences on teenage drug use
- peer/social group, social/academic stress, family environment
- WHAT PERCENT of actively-sexual girls get pregnant?
- 10 %
- US average female (height and weight)
- 5 foot 4 inches; 145 pounds
- HOW MANY teens attempt suicide every year?
- half a million
- three types of sexual behavior
- puritan, victorian, modern
- three key factors in development of adolescence
- education, exclusion from labor market, juvenille legal system
- factors in teen suicide
- Alcohol and drug use, triggering events, age, gender, rural vs. urban, family relations, "copycats"
- characteristics of adolescence
- biological growth and development, undefined status, increased decision-making, increased pressure, search for self
- teens go directly to WHAT STAGE after puberty?
- adulthood
- 75% of people with eating disorders are how old?
- 13-25
- HOW MANY eating disorder cases are diagnosed each year in US?
- 8 million; 97% of world's total
- Huge increase in drug-related crime began WHEN
- late 1960s
- what percent of people with eating disorders are white?
- 90%
- influences on sexual activity
- social class, parents marital status, religious participation, peer group
- what percent of people with eating disorders are middle and upper class?
- 85%
- percent of female teens who have anorexia
- 1%