Based on What You Have Learned About the Developmental Tasks

question 86

Essay

Based on what you have learned about the developmental tasks and psychosocial crisis of early adolescence, design a developmentally appropriate intervention that would promote condom use and/or pregnancy prevention.

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Definitions:

GABA

Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid, a neurotransmitter in the brain that inhibits many neurons from firing, reducing activity in the nervous system.

Neuron

A cell that conducts electrochemical signals; the basic unit of the nervous system; also called a nerve cell.

Dendrites

A neuron’s branches that receive information from other neurons and transmit it toward the cell body.

Axon

A neuron’s extending fiber that conducts impulses away from the cell body and transmits them to other neurons.