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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...

Strategies for Parents with Children who have Spina Bifida

is called spina bifida cystica, which is something that signifies a number of conditions also known as myelodysplasia, myelomening...

Romanian Family History

and Carol I (1839-1914) was installed as its first monarch" (Wertsman). It is a very old country with a rich and varied history. ...

Domestic Violence: Is Income a Factor?

domestic abuse one of the most troubling problems of our society. According to U.S. Department of Justice (2005) statistics...

Reich's "The Future Of Success: Working And Living In The New Economy" - Brief Chapter Overview

value amidst an ever-changing social landscape may present opportunity on the one hand but as Reich (2002) points out, it also ref...

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...

Pay Equity

"oppressive child labor" was defined. Under this act those who are not paid the required level can reclaim the lost wages as wel...

Behaviorism

- can condition (train) him to be whatever professional he chooses. This, he argues, is the basis upon which behavior is founded:...

African-Americans and Reconstruction

organizations as the Freedmens Bureau and "Northern benevolent societies," and "after 1868, state governments" (Building the black...

Transient - and Disappearing - Benefits

true, but it seems as though these same organizations are being rather myopic in planning for the future. The single constant fac...

The Family Friendly Workplace

and other personal items; its also likely to have an empty parking lot after hours, indicating that the employees are at home with...

Honor and Family Names in The Count of Monte Cristo

his bravery and leadership" (Faulkner). And, like his father, Alexandre apparently went on to experience a life of debauchery and ...

Oedipus Sealed His Own Tragic Fate

of the Soul Jonathan Lear describes the knowledge someone has regarding something already known as knowingness. This is developed...