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A Week-Long Multicultural Event

A variety of theorists have identified the need to reflect upon the foundations of culture and its importance in how people develo...

Kinship and the Iroquois

of marriages, which are encouraged within families to ensure the control of matrilineal-defined inheritance rights, but cannot occ...

Secondary Prevention and Family Violence

facts concerning domestic violence. First of all, research data shows that domestic violence rates are high, as there is lifetime ...

Effects of Foreclosure

about the social impacts of foreclosure. These events have a direct impact on the family and on individual family members. They al...

Reasons for a Career In Teaching

astronaut and my sister had dreams of the Presidency, I always knew Id become a teacher. Positive experiences with excellent teac...

Applying Therapy to an Example Family: The Buckmans

the structural and relational factors, including patterns of poor communication, Gils work issues, and problematic financial issue...

The Concept of Narrative Therapy

deeper understanding of the current situations. However, the meaning that is brought to those stories by the family members is lik...

Strengths-Based Approach: A Case Study

the family identify the skills they already have and foster improvements by relating those strengths. In cases like the Browns, ...

Narrative Therapy: A Lit Review

2. reality is subjective, and so our perceptions are inextricably linked to our reality, rather than an obscured external reality...

Relative Therapy in Drug Addiction

Alcoholism and other types of drug addictions impact not just those that suffer from the disease but also their relatives. Drug...

Facing a Family Health Challenge

frequently the needs of terminal patients are not addressed properly and that multiple problems exist in this regard. Practitioner...

A View of Life in Colonial America

was soon culturally established as a center for "moral guidance" in the lives of New England colonists. 2.) Why did slavery grow...

System Dynamics in Gilbert Grape

as portrayed in the novel Whats Eating Gilbert Grape, definitely has more than one patient who could benefit from counseling inter...

School Age Diabetic Children and APN Care

type 2 was associated with onset in later adult life. However, the epidemic of overweight/obesity, which is a known risk factor fo...

Gender, Family/Juvenile Delinquency

one time, a concept referred to as the "masculinity hypothesis" proposed that female delinquency was rare and consisted primarily ...

The Variety of Personal Influence

so than my other friends my age. Perhaps part of the reason that I was able to get along so well with my extended family instead...

Individual or Group Therapy

for children diagnosed with moderate to severe depression as was group therapy. Trowell et al. (2007) include 72 children between ...

The Bernie Madoff Scandal

Bernie Madoff is in prison serving a sentence that will see him there for the rest of his natural life. His crimes are explored as...

Interviewing My Grandmother and Contemplating Time Changes

quite radically since the 1920s. These changes are evident in such personal aspects of our lives such as family life and religiou...

The Beauty of the Lilies by John Updike

"tumbles" his family into a "financial ruin from which they do not recover for two generations" (Bottum 64). Clarence finds that a...

The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver

at a bar before moving on and a Native American woman deposits a three-year-old girl in her car and begs her to keep the child. ...

Korean Corporations and the Practice of Nepotism

Korean business - at one point, Hyundai, Daewoo, Samsung, LG and SK, the five largest chaebol, had hundreds of subsidiaries betwee...

Post 1970 U.S. Interracial Marriages

as a land of immigrants, the much-heralded cultural melting pot, blending people of all races, has existed only in myth. Prejudic...

A Cybernetics and Systems Science Overview

This theory then suggests that the system must be autonomous even if it is seemingly dependent on another system, for example. It ...

Thematic Analysis of Things Fall Apart by Achebe

his titles. He is part of the society, and like any good leader or member, he finds that he must make personal sacrifices in order...

Willa Cather's O Pioneers! and Love

emotional release. This may be seen as giving the different types of love a balance. This book was published in 1913, a...

The Government According to Aristotle

that when things were fully developed, and had naturally reached their conclusion - or ending - they were simply following their n...

Raymond Carver's Perspectives on Family

who are very young and very old and this paradigm really only involves an individuals life for an eighteen year time span. For exa...

The Effects of Alcoholism

parents are much more likely to become alcoholics themselves than do those who grow up in nonalcoholic households (Powell and Garc...

Career Development and Family Changes

28 percent in 1999 but that number has also jumped to more than one-third of children today (Blundo, 1999). * Women married younge...