Enviroshopping for Teens

Virtual Reality Smoking Cessation–Designed for Teens, by Teens

Received: December 28, 2016 Revised: March 30, 2017 Accepted: May 04, 2017 Abstract: Introduction: Today, about 90% of adult smokers started smoking before the age of 18. As the largest preventable cause of disease and death in the United States, tobacco use accounts for nearly 500,000 deaths and hundreds of billions of dollars to care for smoking-related illnesses every year. While most smokin...

Virtual Environments for Children and Teens

Realistic program for teens discourages drunk driving.

arlier this year, two L6-year-oIds E l injured in a drunk-driving accident ; near their high school were taken to Scripps .Mercy Hospital in San Diegoone by Mercy Air, the hospital's helicopter service, and the other by ambulance. Once inside the trauma room, physicians and nurses tried valiantly to save their lives. When the victims parents arrived at Mercy, they experienced the tragedy of sud...

Probing Text Complexity: Reflections on Reading The Giver as Pre-teens, Teens, and Adults

who had read the book during their upper-elementary, middle school, or high school years seemed to have significantly more powerful responses as adult readers compared to their initial responses to the book. While it is no surprise that students would report different responses from their readings as youths, Angie recently noticed far more adults commenting on this phenomenon in an intentionall...

Where need meets opportunity: youth development programs for early teens.

Early adolescence is a time of burgeoning independence, autonomy, and focus on peers. It is also a time when individual interests, skills, and preferences become salient to young people. Not surprisingly, out-of-school programs designed to capture the interest of early teens are diverse in focus and varied in structure, ranging from sports teams to drop-in recreation centers, from museum appren...