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Blood Glucose That is Not Controlled and Patient Perceptions of Long Term Impact

are certainly those patients who understand that they have a chronic disease which has the potential to be life-threatening and ar...

Children And Adolescents in the Group Home Environment

to treat our children who suffer from mental, psychological, emotional illnesses and behavior and conduct disorders. But, as of ye...

President John F. Kennedy's 1963 Community Mental Health Law

a problem that is difficult to define adequately. There is much competition in the health field, and in the mental health field t...

Food-Borne Illnesses From Listeriosis Bacteria

"special life style," which enables this bacterium to escape from phagosome and circulating antibodies (Jin, 2002). One of the pri...

Animal Cognition and Intelligence

Those misgivings largely fell away with Griffins studies into the communication systems of bees. He used that work to prove anima...

Overview of Mental Health Courts

is not an issue in Missouris Boone County, however. There, the local Mental Health Board of Trustees has the power to bypass the ...

Health and the Effects of Gender Roles

the need to purge what one had just consumed in order to "return for additional eating, drinking and merriment" (Kuehnel, 2002)....

Family Therapy - Three Different Models

Batesons cybernetics model (Niolan, 2002). Tucker (2002, PG) notes that to Bateson familial problems exist in a system of units a...

Unattachment Disorders and Children

in Oklahoma, "When an infant expresses rage and feels no relief for his need, he learns that to survive this world, he must contro...

The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe, and Francie Brady's Mental Disturbance

effect of these two dysfunctional role models acts in a synergistic fashion to create within Francie a tremor of mental disturbanc...

Low Budget Community Mental Health Center and Reduction of Case Loads

follow when attempting to improve the system. Some of the most common complaints from patients include the feeling of being shuff...

Case Study on Mental Health and Social Work

which are applicable to Lisas case, but also the ways in which they can best be enacted, given these constraints. One of the most ...

Community Mental Health Practice and Communication

to three days more than 20 years ago. We ruefully joke that some managed care plans only allow new mothers to be hospitalized on ...

Vietnam War Soldiers and Suicides

claims that the Vietnam soldiers had a 72 percent higher rate of suicide than their other military counterparts (Bower, 1987, p. 1...

Partnership Development and Mental Health Recovery Focus

mental illness in the individual has become more and more obvious. This emphasis has, of course, been based on previous work but ...

Use of Lithium Within The Field of Psycho-Pharmacology

notes that another five percent are victims of occasional despondency, with one of every six people succumbing to a "serious, or m...

Evaluation of the Beck Depression Inventory

characteristics of the BDI-II: a clinical sample (n-500, 63 percent female; 91 percent white) and a "convenience" sample of Canadi...

Importance of Recreation Programs for Students Who Are At Risk

of social acceptance. Their counterparts often unknowingly make them feel inadequate and worthless when it comes to achievement o...

Senior Citizen Mental Patients and Relocation

and that maintaining the most stable possible environment has been found to help alleviate the impact of such behaviours: it might...

Mental Attitude and Tools for Back to School

be time consuming, but is especially beneficial for students who do not have a grasp of computer technology or who are more tactil...

Critique of a Journal Article on Ethnic Disparities Regarding Treatment of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Issues

measuring device is used, there is less need for the student to discuss the reliability and accuracy of the instruments. Statisti...

College Education Benefits

off the job as well (U.S. Department of Education, 2003). The DOE also points out that a college education provides a grea...

Mixed Method And Quantitative Research

detailed quantitative research can make the data themselves both formulate and limit the analysis (Trochim, 2002), qualitative res...

How Cost Effective Measures Can Be Used In 1) Educating Students With Special Needs And 2) Engaging In A Social Change Response

and staff of a given school understand this necessity indicates a greater academic, social and emotional dedication toward their s...

Scared Straight

other programs are designed to be more educational with interactive discussions between the inmates and the youth" (Schembri, 2006...

Reducing Prejudice

contemporary forms of prejudice" (Dovidio et al, 1999, pp. 101-105). Intergroup contact as a method of reducing prejudice ...

Practices And Trends In Crisis Intervention

This followed along with the theories that crises can lead to more serious disorders and can have long-term effects (Myer and Moo...

Mark 4:1-9

but also offers insight into how the passage pertains to present-day Christian life. Background on Marks Gospel, Literary Interpre...

Behaviorism/Teaching College Students

focused on operant rather classical conditioning (Mergel, 1998). Operant conditioning refers to "voluntary behaviors used in opera...

Obesity in Adults

negative health impacts are felt. This means that there is a lag in the conditions as well as the associated costs. The short term...