Kids in Crisis Articles Vocab

3. effects: happening as a consequence of something that has happened earlier.
5. impaired or abnormal functioning
9. to make attitudes or behavior part of one's nature by learning (or doing so unconsciously)
11. existing for a long or longer than usual time
15. to carry out a crime or deception
17. extraordinary in bulk, quantity, or degree
18. representative sample: a section of a population that reflects the the entire population (the part reflects the whole)

1. an experience’s importance, intensity, effect on others
2. to revive from apparent death or from unconsciousness
4. based on reports or observations of usually unscientific observers (just somebody tells you about an experience)
6. (as an adjective/statistic, not the thing in the middle of the road): In statistics, the value separating the higher half from the lower half of a data sample or population
7. having no earlier occurrence of something similar (if we’ve never seen anything like it, there’s no previous example of it, it’s unprecedented)
8. viewpoint that traditional values and beliefs have no foundation, and that existence is senseless and useless
10. to produce as an effect or outgrowth (violence begets violence)
12. disastrous (like a disaster, a massive tragic event, an utter failure)
13. widespread, dominant
14. a state of not doing anything or having any real responsibilities or purpose (being employed, going to school, serious relationships)
16. to make twice as great in size or amount; to intensify or strengthen