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Swander 2008

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  • Downward trend for teen workplace participation
  • Peak in 1978 (72% of 16 year olds in workforce)
  • Percent of teens in workforce has steadily decreased to 50% during 2007
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Marcia-Identity Statuses

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  • Core idea that one’s sense of identity is determined largely by the choices and commitments made regarding certain personal and social traits
  • Well developed identity gives on a sense of one’s strengths, weaknesses, and individual weakness
  • Tends to be around 18-25 years of age
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Identity

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Involves adoption of

  • Sexual orientation
  • set of values and ideals
  • vocational direction
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Ethnic Identity Development

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  • Jean Phinney (1996)

- William Cross

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Jean Phinney (ethnic identity development)

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  • Bicultural identity

` identify in some ways with own ethnic group, and other ways with dominant group (or minority culture)

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William Cross (ethnic identity development)

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  • Ethnic difference development in minority groups
  • Differs from identity statuses
  • Pre-encounter
  • Encounter
  • Immersion/Emersion
  • Internalization
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Pre-encounter (William Cross)

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Identify with majority culture

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Encounter (William Cross)

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  • A positive encounter leads to surprise at perceived difference
  • A negative encounter makes on feel devalued or rejected
  • Shake earlier beliefs about identity
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Immersion/Emersion (William Cross)

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  • Little interest in those outside of own ethnic group (immersion)
  • Feel own ethnic group is positive, other groups are not (immersion)
  • Eventually realize that no one group is perfect or right all the time (emersion)
  • Begin exploration of other ethnic groups too (emersion)
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Internalization

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-Identity allows for meaningful relationships across group boundaries, but only with those who respect all aspects of your new identity

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Anorexia

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-Early to mid-adolescence (12-14 years old)
-Late adolescence (17-20)
-DSM IV-TR
` Weight loss leading to maintenance of body weight

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Treatment of Anorexia

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  • Restoring body to healthy weight
  • Treat psychological issues related to the eating disorder
  • Efforts to reduce or eliminate behaviors or thoughts that lead to insufficient eating
  • No medication to date
  • Maudsley Approach
  • Parents of teens will assume responsibility for feeding child (effective)
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Bulimia

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  • Mid to late adolescence 16-20
  • Recurrent episodes of binge eating
  • Recurrent innapropriate compensatory behavior to prevent weight ( induced vomiting, misuse of laxatives/diuretics/enemas, fasting, excessive exercise)
  • Binge eating and inappropriate compensatory behavior both occur (on average) at least twice a week for 3 months
  • Self-evaluation is unduly influenced by body shape/weight
  • The disturbance does not occur exclusively during episodes of anorexia nervose
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Treatments of Bulimia

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  • Involves combination of options
    -To reduce or eliminate bing-eating and purging behaviors
    ` Nutritional counseling and psychotherapy
  • Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
    ` therapists helps the patient learn how to identify distorted or unhelpful thinking patterns
    ` recognize and change inaccurate beliefs
  • Prescribed medication
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Couturier et al. (2013) study

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-Meta-analysis of family-based treatment for teens with eating disorders
- Involves 9-12 months of treatment, on therapist, and a physician assed physical health
- Based on selection of criteria the authors found 12 randomized control trial studies of teens with eating disorders and family therapy
-Results of meta-analysis were not sufficient
` family therapy did not differ from individual therapy
-Showed this treatment technique is much more effective for adolescents than individuals therapy at 6-12 month follow-ups

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Rachel, Myya, Abby Group: Eating Disorders

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-longitudinal study over 3 years
-Random sample of 14-15 year olds
- Results
` Media = ideal internalization predicted later negative emotional experiences regarding body and self
` Negative experiences predicted subsequent dietary restraint and binge eating
` No differences across gender

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Camille and Marissa’s group: LGBTQ issues

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- Vicitimization outcomes
    ` Distress 
    ` Bullying
    ` Drug use
    ` Mental difficulties (depression and suicide)
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Lorenzo, Dustin, and Laura grou: groups of drug users and psychological health

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  • Abstainers
  • Frequent users
  • Experimenters
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Abstainers

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  • proud of being “objective” and rational
  • over controlled
  • moralistic
  • not like/accepted by peers
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Frequent users

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  • not dependable or responsible
  • not productive or able to get things done
  • not having high aspirations
  • poor impulsive control
  • not having the warmth or capacity to have relationships with others
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Experiementers

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  • most psychologically sound
  • experimenting with new roles, identities, testing limits
  • typical for adolescent age bracket
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Biana, Cailey, and Jasmine’s group: palliative care

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  • specialized medical care for people with serious illnesses
  • it focuses on providing patients with relief from symptoms and stress of a serious illness
  • the goal is to improve quality of life for both the patient and the family
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Megan and Kelly’s group: birth control

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  • most effective and popular choice was hormonal implant
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Gabriella, Erika, and Ambar’s group: maturation and social benefits

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  • Early maturation is linked with “social benefits”
  • Girls that experienced puberty earlier were indeed considered “cool” by peers
  • similar results from teachers when reporting on student popularity
  • earlier pubertal develop was associated with subsequent depressive symptoms and low self-worth
  • although popular, these girls are a larger target of nasty rumors
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Ben, Brandon, Venita, and kaitlyn’s group: bullying and cyberbullying

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  • 95% of teens or adolescents have witnessed or seen cyberbullying and have done nothing to report or defend those being bullied
  • 75% of school age children became victims of cuber bullying at least once in 2014
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Dakota’s group: teens and military families

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  • Site difference had not effects on the results of the experiments
  • when the data was compiled, researchers found no significant difference between the groups and how they handled their mental illness– contrary to what researchers expected
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Lynsie, Breea, and Tara’s group: gender and sexting

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-females were more likely to engage in sexting

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