Purchase Solution

Teens and domestic violence

Not what you're looking for?

Ask Custom Question

Ideas to develop a research paper on domestic violence among teenagers are listed.

Purchase this Solution
Solution Summary

This job offers a "how to" approach to writing about teens and domestic violence.

Solution Preview

Hi,
This is a very broad topic, but not impossible. This is how I approach these assignments and when I teach, this is what I want my students to do.

1. First, I list what I know about the topic and try to pick something that I care about. For example, you might choose to look at research about domestic violence in teens and does this carry on to adult domestic violence; is domestic violence in teens correlated to socio-economic status; is it correlated to other things like the part of the country, race, alcohol use, grades, etc. (but choose only one correlation, like alcohol use); do men suffer domestic violence as teens;
do teenage mothers become victims more often than teens who are not mothers... If I'm unable to narrow a topic down, I go to Wikipedia and look at how they broke the subject down. If it's not listed in Wikipedia, I try to find a library book that has the subject in it and look in the index. The index will have the subject broken down by subtopic for you.

2. Once I have 2 possible subtopics (in case one doesn't work out), I go to either Google Scholar (www.scholar.google.com) or to the library's article search site and type in the subtopic between quotes. "domestic violence in teens and alcohol use". Our school has PsycInfo and PsycArticles which are both pretty good at finding articles you can download instantly. Try ...

Purchase this Solution
Free BrainMass Quizzes
How can you tell if your loved one is suicidal?

This is a small quiz to help determine if a loved one is suicidal and what steps should be taken to help stop suicide.

Developmental Psychology

This quiz explores the concepts, theories and key terminology associated with human psychological development.

Erik Erikson's Psychosocial Stages

Erik Erikson researched eight stages of psychosocial development beginning at birth and ending at death. This quiz challenges your knowledge of each stage, the corresponding age range, and the conflicts present during each stage.

Key Psychology Theories and their Developers

Match which psychologist developed and/or contributed to which theory.

Health Psychology

This quiz speaks to the general concepts, themes, and terminology associated with the field of health psychology.

View More Free Quizzes
Related BrainMass Solutions

  • Domestic violence: an initial overview.

    Statistics show that children who witness or experience domestic violence are more apt to demonstrate those same behaviors as teens and adults.

  • Influences on Substance Abuse among Teens

    Parental violence, witness to domestic violence, divorce, and other family dysfunction also plays a part in the decision to take drugs and alcohol. Poverty also plays a part. Parenting style also plays a role.

  • Media Influences

    Research shows that other teachers and teen experts are seeing this correlation with "The alleged domestic violence incident involving R&B stars Chris Brown and Rihanna has stirred serious discussions about abusive relationships among teens" (http://www.npr.org

  • Leaving Abusive Relationships: Teens & Married Women

    Thus, it is the structure of social systems and the culture of particular groups that enforce and propagate practices that encourage and support violence and abuse of women - be they teens or adults, married or otherwise.

  • Intimate Partner Violence and Health

    This posting discusses issues relating to domestic violence and intimate partner violence.

  • Dating Violence: How to Prevent It

    653475 Dating Violence: How to Prevent It How does dating violence impact teens and young adults? How should social workers intervene to support youth who are experiencing violence and to prevent relationship violence before it starts?

  • Exploitation in the Media

    Other songs link violence to sex, which normalizes this behavior. In fact, teenage domestic violence is on the rise, and young women will stay in violent relationships saying the violent boy friend still loves her and she can't live without him.

  • Pros and Cons of Violence in the Media Affecting Teenagers

    Aside from violent images being shown on television, teens and adolescents are constantly exposed to violence online and on video games and in the movies , all of which many teens and adolescents can easily get through sites such as youtube.com.

  • Increasing Teen Mental Illness

    Research into outbreaks of violence, such as was seen at the Virginia Tech and Columbine shooting, and has been shown to be a larger issue of mental illness in teens.

View More Related Solutions