Current issue on Adolescent
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The document discusses several issues facing adolescents including sexually transmitted infections from having multiple partners, sexual identity crises, internet and gaming addiction, violence in media, bullying online and at school, violence at home, violent culture, teen suicide, the impact of internet pornography, substance abuse, and male and female prostitution.
Current issue on Adolescent
- 2. Adolescent Pregnancy Sexually active youth, similar to older unmarried adults, usually have monogamous, short-lived relationships with successive partners. Current surveys indicate that 11% of high school females and 17% of high school males report having had 4 or more sexual partners.7 In addition to intercourse, many adolescents report having had oral sex or engaging in kissing, touching, sucking or other mutual stimulation; however, data on these other behaviors are reported rarely
- 3. Sexually Identity Crisis A sexual orientation conflict within one's self that has not been resolved. A stage of psycho-neurological development, as in adolescence, where hormonal imbalances influence sociological and sexual choices.
- 4. Internet and Gaming Addiction Younger generations, unlike their parents' generations, often socialize, hang out, and communicate online, rather than in person. They prefer to text rather than talk on the phone, and often prefer to socialize on Twitter or Facebook rather than in the local bar, on the street or at the town square. Some young people spend much too much time in front of a computer screen, spending up to 20 hours a day, seven days a week.
- 5. Violence In Media Violence on T.V. occurs in most programs and even more so, in cartoons. By age 12, the average child has witnessed tens of thousands of acts of violence on T.V. and games. The gaming acts of violence are even more damaging, because the player is actively seeking to kill or wound fellow players. Multiplayer online games have real people taking the part of avatars, which means that fights are going on in real psychological space.
- 6. Bullying Online and At School Bullying is an ongoing pattern of harassment and abuse. It can be done directly by physical or verbal attacks or indirectly by exclusion, spreading rumors, etc. Cyber- bullying is a growing problem among Middle and High School aged students. While it also occurs among College- aged students, for the most part young people have matured past cyber-bullying at that point .
- 7. bullying ex lover if you brake up with him or her still might like you and just be really annoyed with you so he/she might take all of his stress out on you.
- 8. Violence At Home One of the main reasons that children become violent is because they are exposed to violence in their own homes, whether it is directed towards them or towards others. Violence at home can be of a physical nature, or it can be expressed verbally or through neglect and abandonment. Abusive homes and violent neighborhoods are stronger predictors of adult violent behavior than violence in the media. Most abusive parents were physically or sexually abused as children.
- 9. Violent Culture Numerous researches have established the undeniable relationships between militarism, sexism, racism and violence within the culture. Principally, there is no difference between the state of mind that seeks to resolve international conflicts by force and the state of mind that seeks to resolve interpersonal or familial conflicts by force and the misuse of power.
- 10. Teen Suicide Suicide is the third leading cause of death for adolescents and young adults. Young males are much more likely to commit suicide than their female peers. Female adolescents are more likely to attempt suicide than their male peers. Female Hispanic students are more likely to attempt suicide than all other students. American Indian/Alaskan Native male adolescents have the highest suicide rate.
- 11. The Impact of Internet Pornography on Adolescents The recent proliferation of Internet-enabled technology has significantly changed the way adolescents encounter and consume sexually explicit material. Once confined to a personal computer attached to a telephone line, the Internet is now available on laptops, mobile phones, video game consoles, and other electronic devices
- 12. Drugs Substance use and abuse among American adolescents account for significant morbidity and mortality in this age group. A good history is the mainstay in the evaluation, along with the identification of clinical clues of drug use or abuse. Issues of consent and confidentiality should be considered in the assessment, particularly when deciding whether to use drug testing in diagnosis and management.
- 13. Male & Female Prostitution