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Tertiary Prevention: Family Violence

childs natural means of expression, namely play, is used as a therapeutic method to assist him/her in coping with emotional stress...

Ritalin, Pro & Con

vision problems or learning disabilities or "whether a childs behavior is simply immature or exuberant" ("Attention" 77). Accurate...

Community Health Project/Diabetes Among Hispanics

in the US. Likewise, diabetes-associated nephropathy, a progressive disorder of the kidney, is the leading cause of end stage rena...

Wellness & Nutrition for Healthy Aging

nurses facilitate the "recognition and communication" of these concepts, permitting "thoughts to be shared through language" (Davi...

Ecstasy And Its Effects

young masses. II. PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS The need for artificial stimulation has long been associated with the ...

"The Basketball Diaries" - Reaction

ability to register pain, anxiety and desire while at the same time enhances an artificial sense of contentment. As Jim becomes m...

High Performance Drugs: Social Consideration

is both famous and respected. However, it becomes difficult for the child or adolescent to understand the motivation behind such ...

Epidemiology & STDs

associations, testing hypotheses, and identifying the causes of health-related states or events" (Merrill and Timmreck, 2006, p. 2...

Inpatient Substance Abuse Treatment in the United States: Does it Actually Work? A Research Proposal

at any given time, 700,000 people in the United States are receiving treatment of some kind of alcohol dependence. In a 1992 nati...

Elder Abuse in the United States

sometimes illusive. Generally, the characterization of elder abuse is that it does occur in the United States and while hard to de...

Factors That Affect Personality Development

of development to explain personality development (Laberge, 2006). One of the things Erikson said was that a child who was unable ...

Elder Abuse Among African Americans

verbal abuse, neglect or abandonment, and psychological abuse (Tauriac and Scruggs, 2006). Physical abuse is the most common, and...

Margulies/Guantanamo

al Qahtani was held in intense isolation for months on end, to the point where he began to hallucinate; strip searched and made to...

Child Abuse in America

adult fails to provide a child "with the basic needs and supervision to live a healthy and happy life" (Harris, 2007). Of the 1,49...

The Role of Gender in Violence

by men. Some people have argued that our society itself allows men to abuse women because of the fact that they are male. Michae...

Domestic Violence/Immigrant Hispanic Women

in the face of adversity" (Greene 2). Studies of risk and resilience are similar in structure to epidemiological investigations ...

Baltimore Child Protective Services

specific, desired goals, by employing combination of efforts that support, direct and utilize authority (DHR). The CPS case worker...

Substance Abuse Rehab Program Termination

In five pages this paper examines the termination of a rehabilitation for substance abuse program from the perspective of a social...

How Various Cultures View the Aging Process

In eight pages the ways in which Japanese, Hispanic, and American cultures regard aging are explored and include such relevant top...

Borderline Personality Disorder

require a combination of therapeutic approaches that may include behavior modification plans, psychoanalysis and even the use of p...

Cognitive Therapy : Addiction & Trauma

specifically the division of artificial intelligence (Boeree, 2000). Some of the major players are Tolman, Piaget, Bandura, Chomsk...

Adolescent Substance Abuse and Comorbidity

In five pages a research design detailed in an article discussing adolescent substance abuse and comorbidity is critiqued. Four s...

Abuse and Differences That Exist Among Economic Classes

In eleven pages domestic violence examined from an economic context with the argument presented that impoverished individuals have...

Sociological Assessment of Child Abuse

In seven pages child abuse is examined through a sociological assessment of its root causes. Five sources are cited in the biblio...

Families and the Effects of Substance Abuse

In nine pages this paper examines how families are affected by substance abuse in a comparative analysis of rates in the United St...

Substance Abuse and Psychology

In five pages this paper discusses various psychosocial components as they relate to substance abuse issues. Thirteen sources are...

Health Care Industry and Ethical Issues Posed by Substance Abuse During Pregnancy

In 6 pages this paper examines the ethical issues associated with the abuse of substances during pregnancy from a health care prof...

Parent Substance Abuse and Effects on Their Children

In eight pages parental substance abuse and the lingering effects upon their children are discussed. Eleven sources are cited in ...

Substance Abuse and Schizophrenia Dual Diagnosis

In six pages this paper examines the counseling and therapeutic challenges of dual diagnosis particularly as it relates to mental ...

Florida and Abuse of the Elderly

In five pages the increase of senior citizen neglect and abuse in Florida is examined. Ten sources are cited in the bibliography....