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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...

The Paradox of Relational Individualism; Women’s Issues

pay. They also face other issues such as family violence, racism and child welfare; and they deal with these issues within the con...

Positive Impacts Resulting from Intervention Counseling for Children from Dissolved Families

the interventions, which were undertaken for a total of 21 parent child groups, of which 15 completed the treatment, lasted an av...

The Biological Theory of Crime: The Social Implications

to criminal behavior are not so far-fetched. This paragraph stresses the risks of being too aggressive in intervention of "crimi...

The Influence of the Family on a Student's Education

but not retain the information for long. The additional stress will affect the students psychological health and possibly their se...

Familes have Changed

There have been significant changes in the structure of families over the last four decades. This essay discusses some of those ch...

Pros and Cons of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act

remove the disincentive toward working, it did little to impact the increase in illegitimate births or the increase in births to m...

Children in Family Situations and Literature

is a workaholic. He complains that he works hard but only has a small pile of gold for his labors. The reader learns that he has a...

Group Development And Effectiveness

than fulfills this purpose. They offer more information in more forms than one could digest in a week. The organizations Web site ...

Social Issues and Impacts Upon Schools and Families of Young Children

more of a culturally mixed country we see more and more religious diversity, further confusing the matter for young children. Now,...

Florida and Foster Care

DCF] the worst child-welfare system in the nation" (Hathaway, 2002, p. 1E). The state child protective agency, regardless of its ...

Alcoholism and Children of Alcoholics

of alcoholics. To prove that children of alcoholics are more likely to physiologically be alcoholic themselves provides added supp...

Dr. Murray Bowen's Family Systems Therapy Theory and Pat Conroy's The Prince of Tides

to as nuclear family emotional systems. According to this concept, the family acts as a "unitary whole," which is affected by two...

Psychopathology and Aileen Wuornos

as theyre treated" (Burns, 2003). Human behavior is a complicated and curious equation. The answer to why a particular rea...

Child Rearing Over the Course of a Century

those that already had become urban (New York and Boston, as example) still retained a rural atmosphere in terms of how families a...

'A place in the family: an historical interpretation of research on parental reactions to having a child with a disability' by Philip M. Ferguson Reviewed

place in time. The point Ferguson goes on to make is that it is important to also consider the ways in which social attitudes and ...

ADHD Children and Using Family and Group Therapies

age children, considered more than 3 million in the United States alone in the year 2001. Although the disorder has been reported ...

An Atlanta Homeless Families' Overview

evil, they also do have some concerns and want to help. The first thing that must be done is to analyze the problem. It is importa...

Growing Up in the Tales of Scott R. Sanders and Edward Rivera

this fact that is akin to the shame that Sanders feels over his fathers drinking. When asked if his First Communion clothes were ...

Family Violence and Making the Family Unit Stronger

in quelling situations of domestic violence and child abuse. II. Domestic Violence Domestic violence is a serious problem an...

Gambling on the Internet

not get the bad news until the end of the month when you receive your credit card statement. However, if you happen to get lucky a...

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...

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...

Contrasts Between Culture and Medical Science in The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

experience, particularly that immigrant experience as it occurs within the modern medical environment, revolves around cultural un...

Scholastic Achievement and Families with Single Parents

for, for example). They strongly recommend that school staff make themselves aware of the kind of constraints which are faced by s...

Family Position of Eldest and Youngest Children

let others have their way because youre so used to fighting for what you want. You also tend to be organized and the person everyo...

Children Ages 7 to 11 and Positive Environmental Influences

(Kwon & Yawkey, 2000). Freudian theory would spark interest in terms of how the environment would affect emotional impulses as wel...

Florida's 113th District Representation

on Health Services ("Rep. Manuel," 2004). While some are semi-related, he has done little in respect to the questions at hand. Gra...

Overview of Homelessness, Families, and Children

for homelessness is poverty and this generally affects families in their ability to obtain affordable housing and maintain suffici...

A Family Practice Model for Advanced Nursing Practice and Grieving Parents

define what other mechanisms are brought into the healing process. For example, Gordon et al (2002) argue that depending on the v...