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Child Abuse Statistics

Child abuse can be either an act of commission or omission (Nester, 1998). It can take the form of physical abuse, emotional abus...

A Tool Against Child Abuse

This paper considers A-1654, a new New Jersey law requiring the education of new parents about what constitutes child abuse and ho...

Parent Child Relationship and Child Abuse

are clear-cut and undeniable but there are circumstances such as that experienced by Dr. Ellen Gandle (2002) who writes about her ...

Abuse in Foster Care

may believe this to be a hoax and something that does not occur very often, the truth is that this happens quite often, and the tr...

Connection Between the Abuse of Substances and Domestic Violence

violence is something thought of as being proliferated against women, but it can occur against men in both homosexual and heterose...

Child Abuse and its Causes

notes that this situation arises because the community shares the same cultural values and traditions, and any deviation from thes...

Adult Abuse Survivors and Theory

However, the role of temperament and personality is a critical component of crisis intervention, inasmuch as that singular individ...

Babies Born to Cocaine Abusing Mothers

in the form of crack, the onset is even quicker (Kuhn, Swartzwelder & Wilson, 2003). Cocaine creates a sense of well being and t...

Psychological Dependence and Drug Abuse

craving for the drug (Edlin & Golanty, 2009). Someone who has never taken a recreational drug can understand what a craving is lik...

Elder Abuse: What It Is, Why It Occurs and How to Prevent It

or she does)" (Elder abuse and neglect, 2007). Abuse may also take the form of financial exploitation, when the caregiver steals f...

Crisis Services For Spousal Abuse Victims In San Antonio, Texas

Spousal abuse -- which is defined as "a pattern of assaultive and coercive behaviors including physical, sexual, and psychological...

Substance Abuse and Therapy

(Bromwell, n.d.). This approach would also try to have the patient develop different patterns of thinking (Bromwell, n.d.). For ex...

Ethics in Nursing Discerning Child Abuse

a decision of having to decide on the basis of what is best for all concerned rather than what the patients family might think tha...

Drug Abuse, its causes and effects

they are addicted and also when they feel that they cannot deal with the problems in life without the drug(Mayo Clinic Staff). W...

Tougher Laws Needed To Address Domestic Abuse

justice to the battered victim, it is also to educate the health care industry about how to identify abuse and the steps necessary...

Protective Orders for Native American Victims of Domestic Abuse

Although many Native American communities are admittedly moving away from their traditional ideological frameworks, their traditio...

The Navajo Peacemaking Process in Domestic Abuse

penalties for the abuse. In too many cases involving traditional native peoples, however, this also means that the victim is sepa...

Juvenile Delinquency and Sexual Abuse

want to prostitute themselves because they become especially interested in sex, or they simply engage in criminal activity as a wa...

COSTS OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE IN THE WORKPLACE

the job tested positive for either alcohol or drugs. Small businesses suffer the most - another statistic from the Substanc...

Identifying Child Abuse Early

low protection from it. Academic performance was much better for low risk, high protection students. It was also shown that girls ...

Comprison of Four Interventions for Substance Abuse

Mental Health Services Administration: one out of every eight people in this country currently has a significant problem with alco...

Drug Use, Abuse and Treatment in a Social Interactive Approach

difference plays a part in substance use and abuse. In other words, females are more inclined to be judged by their peers and pare...

Domestic Abuse and the Court System

only be achieved when the contracting parties could not take advantage of one another. In cases of domestic violence, however, th...

The Elderly Population and Substance Abuse

not as healthy as those of younger adults. Metabolism changes and older individuals cannot handle alcohol in he same way as their ...

Problems with Abuse and Neglect of the Elderly

paper properly! While two million older adults are abused in America each year, only 2% of these cases are reported by phy...

Stressors in Organizations: Coping Strategies and the Abuse of Power

United States Army (or any military institution for that matter) involves a great deal of stress. The stress in these positions co...

Abuse in Childhood, Abusers as Adults

raised in an atmosphere of domestic violence. When they see a parent beaten by the spouse, they accept this as normal and may cont...

Political Philosophy Debate on the Abuse of Authority

In this paper consisting of seven pages a better understanding of such abuses as Amadou Diallo's murder by NYPD officers is provid...

Heathcliff's Emotional and Physical Abuse in Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

sister- in-law, then abuses everyone within his power. Heathcliff and Catherine spend the rest of their days absorbed in vengeanc...

History of Child Abuse 3

In eight pages child abuse is examined in terms of legal definition, history, social occurrence based on statistics, treatment, an...