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1. 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 .

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if you brake up with him or her still might like you and just
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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