Adolescent Experience with Unwanted Pregnancy: A Scoping Review

Teenagers who experience unwanted pregnancy will drop out of school, not accept pregnancy, be ostracized, and plan to have an abortion. Arksey and O'Malley methodology. The databases are Pubmed, Proquest, Sciendirect and Wiley. Review articles using JBI is grade A as much as 5 articles and 2 articles grade B. Psychological impact experienced by teenagers with unwanted pregnancy is an emotional initial reaction, when knowing she is pregnant will be shocked and angry, feel hopeless, and intend to commit suicide because she can not continue her education so that it requires support from family, friends, spouse and the environment.

Why Music Matters to Adolescents

Chapter 10 proposes one philosophical perspective on why adolescents make music. Using Ellen Dissanayake’s writings, five intersections are described that connect art and the adolescent experience, namely, (1) mutuality, (2) belonging and acceptance, (3) finding and making meaning, (4) acquiring a sense of competence, and (5) elaboration. Each intersection weaves adolescents words and understandings to form a philosophy of adolescent music-making. At the end of the chapter, ritualization is introduced to explain how adolescents make their music-making special. Adolescents tell about annual traditions and special events that evoke powerful memories At the end of the chapter, a figure is presented for realizing relationships between and among music-makers.

Bite Me: The Allure of Vampires and Dark Magic in Chicana Young Adult Literature

The intersectionality of the protagonists’ marked hybrid status as teenage girls, Chicanas, and supernatural beings, two of which are obviously realistic marginalized depictions while one is a fantasy, creates an interesting space within which to explore hybridity. This chapter argues that there is a limit to Anzaldúan hybridity as the exemplar for the YA reader and character because of its overly idealistic portrayal of the New Mestiza, which doesn’t work when applied to a teenaged coming-of-age that involves transitioning painfully and often amongst their borderlands identities in ways that do not reflect peaceful coexistence amongst hybrid influences. This chapter exposes an alternate model for adolescent Chicana hybridity that takes into account the adolescent experience.