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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...

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 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...

Social Constructionism and Child Sexual Abuse

there is an argument among sociologists as to whether a "weak" or "strong" reading of the stance of claims-makers is more effectiv...

Video Games and Social Responsibility

games are encouraging violent aggression in young people. Should video game designers act in a manner that is socially responsibl...

Cultural Communication Learning Styles

among different groups of people. As Grant-Thomas and Powell (2006) comment, the term structural racism tends to confuse people....

Alcohol Abuse and Public Health

(Time for coordinated action on alcohol, 2004). It is particularly dangerous to young people, who are more likely than anyone else...

Partner Abuse

easily overlooked by hospital personnel or other clinicians. Women both "initiate and reciprocate violence" (Lawson, 2003, p. 19...

North Carolina Sex Offender Registry

sentence; 5. when enrolled in a NC institute of higher education 6. when working in the State for more than 14 days or a period th...

Creativity, Systems Theory, Problem Solving

reapplying existing ideas" (p. 46). Creative thinking is about putting a new twist on something but it will always involve the kno...

Two Major Social Problems

computers, and increasing insurance coverage are three simple factors that might have increased the number of reports made to auth...

Discussion on Articles 1 - 4; Rights of Children and Health

abuse, what it is, the causes, the apparent cyclic behaviour and the way that it may be prevented. Early studies indicated that ab...

Mood Disorder: Case Study

Being a temporary mood lifter, marijuana actually creates even more of a problem for someone experiencing the throes of major depr...

Preventing Fraud,Waste and Abuse

Further, there are some instances that the government would label practices as being fraudulent when they are not, or are fraudule...

Problems of Adolescence

Drug use is common among teens today, and most say "pressure usually is the reason for their usage" (Teenage drug abuse, 2004). If...

Child Abuse and Its Relationship to Sociology

that within a group there exists "the possibility for a contagion of emotional and irrational thoughts and behavior which causes a...

Intervention - Recovered Memories And Trauma

be validated through other means (Science Daily , 2007). An overwhelming majority of victims who recover such memories are women. ...

Research Design To Test The Hypothesis That There Is An Inverse Relationship Between Memory Recovery Of Child Sexual Abuse And The Development Of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

by using standard PTSD models there is a limiting of the understanding of the conditions that are suffered and that there is the ...

Nurses and Drug Abuse

have access to a range of drugs. Bennett (et al, 2000) argues that the overall rate of substance abuse in the nursing popualtion r...

Elder Neglect in Nursing Homes

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...

The Abused Child and Ancillary Threats to Health and Welfare

degree of violence among todays adolescents that something has gone terribly wrong in American society. What has gone wrong has b...

Church Committee & Influence of Watergate

on Nixons opponents, as Nixon was convinced that leaks to the press directly threatened the effectiveness of his administration...

Alcohol Use of Polices Among the Indigenous Population in Australia

(Kelly and Kowalyszyn, 2003; Saggers and Gray, 1997, Weller et al, 1992), however in many instances the attention has been focused...

Practicum Proposal: PTSD in Women Victims of Violent Crime

diagnosis or believe they do not. PTSD The American Psychiatric Association has specific guidelines for diagnosing PTSD, sp...

Hypothetical Interview With Case Manager, Laura's House

like a project management situation wherein several resources are coordinating services. Keeping track and monitoring how all serv...

Banned Books In California: K-12

attempt to limit access to so-called sensitive issues and concepts, radical right wing supporters have pushed their weight around ...

The Misuse of Psychology

1879, closely followed by the Johns Hopkins University in the US in 1883. in 1890 James Cattell developed psychological tests, dev...

Case Scenario/Alcohol Abuse

"chronic, heavy drinking" (Enoch and Goldman, 2002, p. 192). According to government standards, a woman is at-risk for heavy drink...