Essays 451 - 480
and recent mothers determined that, in general, the rate of alcohol consumption for women, aged 15 to 44, was lower among pregnant...
Spousal abuse -- which is defined as "a pattern of assaultive and coercive behaviors including physical, sexual, and psychological...
year in the United States there are hundreds of thousands of children who are abused (Hwang 1999). A recent issue of JAMA reporte...
as Community Health personnel and teachers to report suspected abuse. Children continue to be abused and to suffer the impacts of...
"chronic, heavy drinking" (Enoch and Goldman, 2002, p. 192). According to government standards, a woman is at-risk for heavy drink...
population believes that spanking is allowable, although there are also likely many of those individuals who would prefer spanking...
1879, closely followed by the Johns Hopkins University in the US in 1883. in 1890 James Cattell developed psychological tests, dev...
in the testimony that is presented and many of these cases illuminate the inconsistencies and short comings that exist within the ...
Not only are the direct health impacts to the nurse deleterious, impaired nurses cannot meet their responsibility to provide top q...
71). This seems to be particularly true for black women, who get caught between the double bind of being female in a male dominate...
abuse anyway? Does it mean beating another human being exclusively or can other physically violent acts qualify? In studying this ...
a nurse to determine which elderly patients are being abused because a sense of shame or a desire to protect the family member who...
2004). Schedule II drugs, in comparison are not allowed to be refilled and: "are...
to the specifics of the abuse. Denov (2004), for example, reports that the long term impacts of sexual abuse in children include ...
specific, desired goals, by employing combination of efforts that support, direct and utilize authority (DHR). The CPS case worker...
perhaps but not inherently wrong by the standards under which it exists. Such is the case with eating pets - typically defined as...
in the face of adversity" (Greene 2). Studies of risk and resilience are similar in structure to epidemiological investigations ...
that within a group there exists "the possibility for a contagion of emotional and irrational thoughts and behavior which causes a...
stress can be triggered by positives as well; in fact, stress has been defined as "the nonspecific response of the body to any dem...
be validated through other means (Science Daily , 2007). An overwhelming majority of victims who recover such memories are women. ...
by using standard PTSD models there is a limiting of the understanding of the conditions that are suffered and that there is the ...
be vulnerable to abuse or neglect for a variety of reasons and in a variety of situations, which range from home care to care in r...
degree of violence among todays adolescents that something has gone terribly wrong in American society. What has gone wrong has b...
sometimes an individuals perceived reality can hinder his or her ability to see things as they truly are, which then requires the ...
diagnosis or believe they do not. PTSD The American Psychiatric Association has specific guidelines for diagnosing PTSD, sp...
like a project management situation wherein several resources are coordinating services. Keeping track and monitoring how all serv...
(Kelly and Kowalyszyn, 2003; Saggers and Gray, 1997, Weller et al, 1992), however in many instances the attention has been focused...
would be incurred if we were to rehabilitate drug and alcohol users rather than put them in the penitentiary. The view...
harm in which a child sustains physical damage and emotional harm in which the charge is endangered psychologically. This harm ca...
two of which occurred while she was incarcerated (Ackerman, 2004). Psychiatric patients are forbidden to engage in sex, "but San...