Essays on Psychology

Contemplating My Childhood Dreams Contemplating back on my childhood life, I always had great thoughts. I would imagine being a lawyer, a doctor, a nurse, or even become the first female president of America. But, I have not ever deliberated a career in social work. I have realized over the years...

Fences: An Analysis of the Character Troy Maxon Fences is a short play of about ten minutes written by American playwright August Wilson. Set in the late 50s, the play talks about themes such as race, relationships, and issues of trust. All these themes and others are brought to the fore...

Effects of Growing Up in a Single Parent Family What are the effects of growing up in a single parent family? The nuclear or two-parent family has been the most dominant family structure throughout America's history. Waldfogel, Craigie, and Brooks-Gunn point out that "the vast majority of American children were born...

Effects of Teenage Pregnancy Teenage pregnancy can be a complex philosophical issue affecting the young mother, family and friends. Teenage pregnancy can be defined as a period between the ages of 13-19 when a teenager gets pregnant. There are numerous complications associated with teen pregnancy which affect both the mother and...

Cyberbullying is a growing concern in the society today. Its intensity in today’s society is attributed to widespread technology and devices that expose individuals to harmful content and behavior. Globally, the internet has become the go-to channel through which people express their feelings, interact with peers, undertake social revolutions and...

Difference Between Healthy Discipline and Child Abuse? Before we go about establishing the difference between discipline and abuse, it is important that we define these two terms: Discipline: To make people obey rules through punishment or reward and make them follow a set of rules. Abuse: To treat with cruelty or violence, especially regularly or...

The Use of Cell Phones Among Teenagers The use of cell phones among teenagers has become a widespread venture with approximately 24% of the entire youthful population being constantly online due to the accessibility of smartphones. The phones have brought about convenience to the teenagers whereby 92% have to log in...

Art is part of the society today, ranging from paintings, designs, music, and writing among others. Most education systems across the world manly focus on the academic side of education and pay little attention to creativity. For childhood passage, it has been playing an important role in the tradition. Froebel,...

The Successful Interview The interview carried out was successful as it led to comprehensive responses from the interviewee. The questions were answered comprehensively as the interviewee went about explaining their views on different subjects clearly, the adolescent also understood all questions as the answers provided were relevant to the questions asked....

Literacy Journey Today, every person has had an experience of the time they were in school, reading, writing and all that pertains learning. Each one of us has a story of the first day one went to school, started reading, the good things we loved and the bad things we hated...

Bass, Margaret M., Catherine A. Duchowny, and Maria M. Llabre. "The effect of therapeutic      horseback riding on social functioning in children with autism." Journal of autism and developmental disorders 39.9 (2009): 1261-1267. Burgon, Hannah. "Case studies of adults receiving horse-riding therapy." Anthrozoös 16.3      (2003): 263-276. DeMello, Margo. Animals and...

Teenage pregnancy is a situation where a female individual becomes pregnant at an early age of between thirteen to nineteen years. At this age, they are still very young to be called a parent since they have not yet attained adulthood stage. They can be intentional pregnancy or unintentional where...