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1879, closely followed by the Johns Hopkins University in the US in 1883. in 1890 James Cattell developed psychological tests, dev...
"chronic, heavy drinking" (Enoch and Goldman, 2002, p. 192). According to government standards, a woman is at-risk for heavy drink...
diagnosis or believe they do not. PTSD The American Psychiatric Association has specific guidelines for diagnosing PTSD, sp...
like a project management situation wherein several resources are coordinating services. Keeping track and monitoring how all serv...
(Kelly and Kowalyszyn, 2003; Saggers and Gray, 1997, Weller et al, 1992), however in many instances the attention has been focused...
population believes that spanking is allowable, although there are also likely many of those individuals who would prefer spanking...
2004). Schedule II drugs, in comparison are not allowed to be refilled and: "are...
to the specifics of the abuse. Denov (2004), for example, reports that the long term impacts of sexual abuse in children include ...
the issues, and potential solutions, for domestic violence more understandable. These methodologies are only applicable, however,...
told repeatedly that one is "stupid" or "lazy" or "useless." Children internalize this message and consider themselves to be all t...
of such states as Montana (Anonymous, 2005), Rhode Island (Roman, 2006) as well as Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Ne...
The view that incarceration is not the solution for drug abuse is supported by a wide cross-section of our population. Author Jam...
would be incurred if we were to rehabilitate drug and alcohol users rather than put them in the penitentiary. The view...
an overseeing entity be in place that looks out for the interest of those that cannot look out for themselves....
more quickly than that (Kuhn, Swartzwelder & Wilson, 2003). The most negative aspect of cocaine use is of course the possibility o...
harm in which a child sustains physical damage and emotional harm in which the charge is endangered psychologically. This harm ca...
two of which occurred while she was incarcerated (Ackerman, 2004). Psychiatric patients are forbidden to engage in sex, "but San...
results from alcohol or drug misuse and which interferes with professional judgment and the delivery of safe, high quality care" (...
71). This seems to be particularly true for black women, who get caught between the double bind of being female in a male dominate...
abuse anyway? Does it mean beating another human being exclusively or can other physically violent acts qualify? In studying this ...
a nurse to determine which elderly patients are being abused because a sense of shame or a desire to protect the family member who...
Given that serious depression too often leads to suicide, it is a problem that simply cannot be ignored. Numerous factors enter i...
or other individual. The goal of child welfare services is to provide an array of prevention and intervention services to children...
have been abused themselves will inevitably abuse others if in fact they do not get help. Simpson (2000) writes: "In those familie...
context notes the need for investigative teams to help differentiate whether abuse and/or neglect served as a direct cause of deat...
in the testimony that is presented and many of these cases illuminate the inconsistencies and short comings that exist within the ...
Being a temporary mood lifter, marijuana actually creates even more of a problem for someone experiencing the throes of major depr...
Further, there are some instances that the government would label practices as being fraudulent when they are not, or are fraudule...
Drug use is common among teens today, and most say "pressure usually is the reason for their usage" (Teenage drug abuse, 2004). If...
abuse, what it is, the causes, the apparent cyclic behaviour and the way that it may be prevented. Early studies indicated that ab...