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Mental Health And You, Sierra Salvatierra

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

The Latinx community at the Epicenter in Salinas dealt with mental health illnesses, as well as were brought up with machismo attitudes. This population has a strong stigma against getting help with their mental health. Being faced with immigration, poverty, discrimination and inadequite conversations about health, drives a spike in anxiety levels. Consequences of not dealing with mental health illnesses include unresolved emotions are generational trauma, self harm, substance abuse, and unhealthy relationships. The project created to get in front of this problem was a dialogue series of conversation starters for people who want to open up. The purpose of …

Relationship Violence: Risk Factors For Adolescents, Antionette Wall

Journal of Undergraduate Research at Minnesota State University, Mankato

The term domestic violence usually elicits a picture of an adult relationship where the man batters a woman. This picture is an accurate picture, but there are other individuals who are affected by domestic violence. Couple from all socioeconomic backgrounds, including homosexual and adolescent couples can face domestic violence situations. Research on adolescent relationship violence is fairly recent. Adolescents seem to be a population missed by general society when it comes to being involved in relationship violence. This paper strives to examine risk factors such as self-esteem, rigid sex-role ideas, parents‟ in violent relationships, and friends who are in violent …

Ua68/10/1 Sociological Symposium No. 6 – Adolescence, Wku Sociology

WKU Archives Records

Table of Contents:

• Cogswell, Betty E. Communication with Adolescents: A Study of Sex Information Sessions
• Dickinson, George E. Sex Information Sources of Black & White Adolescents in a Southern Community
• Huth, Mary Jo. Drug Abuse & American Youth
• Levin, Martin L. Intra-Familial Patterns of Political Socialization: The Model of Male Dominance Re-examined
• Newman, John J. & Martin L. Levin. Patterns of Agreement Between Adolescents & Their Parents on Adolescent Rules
• Schwartz, Michael. Education & Adolescent Adjustment
• Wilkinson, Doris Y. Racial Beliefs of White Adolescents: An Exploratory Inquiry
• Wells, J. Gipson. A Selected Bibliography on the Sociology of Adolescence