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Adolescent Drug Abuse, Diminished Social Skills, and Low Self Esteem

In six pages this paper examines the problem of adolescent drug abuse in a consideration of various issues and the determining fac...

How to Community Drug Abuse Before It Starts

services to the unique needs of the residents. By providing a broad range of services, the agency has traditionally been a focal p...

NJ Social Services Programs

In five pages this paper examines New Jersey's social service programs in a consideration of such groups as the 'Self Help Clearin...

Reviewing an Article on a Psychiatrist's Socio Legal Responsibilities

In two pages an article that appeared in the World Press Review in which the author discusses the social and legal responsibilitie...

Substance Abuse Effects

This essay provides information related to the ADA and substance abuse. It then discusses medical, social, psychological, and voca...

Hispanic Communities and Sexual Child Abuse

This research paper pertains to the prevalence and therapies associated with sexual child abuse, with a focus on Hispanics. The wr...

Mapping the Mental Health Consequences of Childhood Sexual Abuse

impact how a person perceives the counseling relationship, how they react to certain situations, and how they define their persona...

HOMELESSNESS AND INHERENT HUMAN RIGHTS

Safe and secure housing is but one of many rights withheld from those whose circumstances – whether through mental illness, financ...

Substance Abusers and Harm Reduction Attitudes

media campaign and treatment received the least (32 percent), (Drug Policy Foundation [DPF], 2000; ONDCP, 2000). A RAND study indi...

Different Clients and Different Types of Social Work Practice

many motivated families waiting for help; the resistant families will call back when they finally feel the need; there is no need ...

Decline of Organized Religion and American Social Problems

idea that crime is caused by a change in social norms. V. Conclusion All of these things have in common is that they are thi...

Teenagers and Drug Abuse from a Social Perspective

associated with drug abuse can indeed be quite severe. In "Antisocial Behavior by Young People : A Major New Review" authors Mich...

Substance Abuse and Emile Durkheim's Social Theories

a biological entity" (Coser, 1977, p. 129). These factors which are external to the individual outlast individuals who die over ti...

Drug Abuse Sociological and Psychological Causative Factors

author Nick Davies investigates the problems of drug abuse in Britains largest cities. The slums, ghettos, and red-light areas he...

Behavior and the Effects of Social Influence

want to hone in on specific types of examples such as substance abuse, because then it will be easier to convey how social influen...

Drug Problems as a Social Construct

life-threatening..." (Merta, 2001, p.1). In Time magazine, Lopez (1999) reports on one police officers journey through the drug c...

Social Workers and Attachment Theory

the attachment cycle, crying is the dominant signaling behavior. The cry of the infant signals the caregiver to provide relief fo...

Attribution Theory of Harold Kelley

study and instead went to see a movie or went out with friends all weekend. Thus he has provided himself with an excuse that is ex...

Abuse within the Family

from friends and family, and denying the victim access to money or other basic resources" (Domestic violence, 2006). Economic abu...

Case Study Kendra and Austin

This case involves a mother and her teenage son and the abuse suffered by the mother. Her drunken husband violently abused her dai...

The Problem with the Abuse Excuse

are so important then no one would be responsible for anything. After all, every like and dislike, and every activity, tied to an...

Child Protective Services (CPS) In Arizona

Once considered dependent, the courts engage in a review hearing on the childs behalf no less frequently than at six-month interva...

Substance Abuse And Dual Diagnosis

with mental illnesses may reach out to drugs or alcohol to ease the pain they are feeling. It becomes very difficult to separate t...

The Case Against Animal Cruelty

(Vollum, Buffington-Vollum and Longmire 209). It has been argued that animals, in their own right, are worthy of consideration and...

How I Survived Being Sexually Abused as a Child

I think of my aunt just inside the door well within earshot of what was happening right under her own roof. My story,...

Prevention And Treatment Programs For Alcohol Abuse

prevention of alcohol abuse from a community perspective has made Sacramento, California a precedent setting city whereby extended...

Steroid Abuse in Major League Baseball

2007, p. 128). After all, if 23 New York Mets players have either taken in the past or are currently taking performance-enhancing...

Bipolar Disorder II And Substance Abuse

that may trigger a Bipolar incident, many of these also trigger using substances. Oliver (2007) identified twelve different "Trigg...

The Social Problem of Substance Abuse

of the overall problem of substance abuse to inform potential methods for change, it is necessary to consider both the driving and...

Border Control and Immigration Policy

fence, but rather that remedies should address both social concerns and the realities of this social, economic and political probl...