MC 2000 Chapter : Electronic News
Document Summary
Spend less time in company of friends and more with relative strangers. Old peer network breaks down and friends often no longer see one another at all. More likely to feel angry and depressed, and to be truant: task mastery structure (definition) - schooling in a less competitive setting in which individual effort and improvement are rewarded. Come to value academic subjects more and show an increased desire to learn. As many as 9% of adolescents meet the criteria: clinical depression refers to a motivation or drive which has been depressed. S u i c i d e: depression increases the risk for attempting suicide, most common cause of death between 15 and 24, adolescent males are 5 times more likely to die by suicide than females. D r u g s: psychoactive drugs work by affecting the neurotransmitters that facilitate communication between nerve cells: they either enhance or diminish the effects of the neurotransmitters.
