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Proposal Regarding Young Pregnant African American Females and Crack Cocaine

must be addressed is how to ensure that the children of these pregnancies are not the victims of one of the most dangerous drugs i...

The Law and Recovered Memory of Sexual Abuse

This paper concludes that retrieved sexual abuse memories should be permissible in legal proceedings. Both sides of the issue are ...

The Effects of Abuse on Childhood Development

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at Piaget's stages of childhood development. The impact of neglect and abuse upon such ...

Can Domestic Abuse Be Deterred?

who is looked upon as the ultimate decision-maker - runs the family. There is no question as to the distinctive roles played by b...

A Therapy Plan for Donald (Case Study)

This fictitious case study concerns Donald, a middle aged man with a history of abuse and neglect. CBT is the recommended course ...

The Causes of the Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal

The writer looks at some of the potential influences that resulted in the abuse at Abu Ghraib Prison occurring and continuing. The...

Increasng Sustainability of Medicaid and Medicare

It is public knowledge that the Medicare and Medicare programs are going broke. They are not sustainable with current expenses. It...

Early Childhood Trauma and Recovered Memories

Psychologists are challenged when trying to separate fact from fiction as it respects the extent to which childhood abuse occurred...

Counseling Issues in Substance Abuse Treatment

population, with the largest demographic designation being individuals of mixed race, as they comprise 6 percent of the population...

Issues in Addiction and Maladaptive Behavior

important to understand the difference between use, abuse and dependence because these terms denote the stages of maladaptive beha...

Aspects of Substance Abuse

For example, the Addictive Personality theory maintains that addiction is not due to the chemical effect of the drug, but rather i...

Drug Abuse and the Elderly

Abstract Substance abuse among the elderly is growing problem. Substance...

Criminal Offenses and Substance Abuse

with 0 meaning definitely not and 100 meaning definitely. A definite score indicating mental illness caused the person to commit t...

The Elderly and Substance Abuse

then developing a quantitative instrument for assessing risk behaviors related to the onset of substance abuse behaviors among the...

MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING AND THE ROAD TO RECOVERY

principles: 1) express empathy; 2) develop discrepancy; 3) avoid argumentation; 4) deal with, or "roll with" resistance and 5) sup...

Drugs and Their Negative Impact on Teens

grade, "21.3% had been drunk, while 44.0% and 61.6% of 10th- and 12th-graders, respectively, had been drunk at least once in their...

Domestic Violence/Immigrant Hispanic Women

in the face of adversity" (Greene 2). Studies of risk and resilience are similar in structure to epidemiological investigations ...

The Role of Gender in Violence

by men. Some people have argued that our society itself allows men to abuse women because of the fact that they are male. Michae...

McDonald's and Obesity; A Case Study

eating. This will help empower them to make decisions regarding their own diet. It will also placed pressure on the companies to c...

Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Substance Abuse

many different problems, including attention-deficit disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety, depression and a number of ...

Cognitive Therapy : Addiction & Trauma

specifically the division of artificial intelligence (Boeree, 2000). Some of the major players are Tolman, Piaget, Bandura, Chomsk...

Cases Regarding Substance Abuse Outpatient and Rehabilitation Centers

paper will attempt to examine the problem surrounding the construction of these treatment centers and how zoning has sometimes pro...

Soccer, Drugs, and Violence

the current status of the problem of associated violence within this sport due largely in part to drugs and/or alcohol. Soccer S...

Senior Citizens and Substance Abuse

the prevalence of substance abuse among the elderly as it often goes unrecognized (Irons and Rosen, 2002). However, alcoholism do...

Science and Art According to Friedrich Nietzsche and Jean Jacques Rousseau

Academy, and reconcile contempt for study with respect for the truly learned?" (NA). In many ways we can see a certain amount of h...

Data Protection Act of 1998

being largely inconsequential. Verkaik (2002) reports that, rather than serving to protect the public from abuse of the Data Prot...

Substance Abuse and the Theories of Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud

abuse is. Theories of Sigmund Freud When Sigmund Freud first introduced his theories of the subconscious during the late...

A Comparison of Huck Finn and the Misfit From A Good Man is Hard to Find

footsteps. This is demonstrated through the parallels between Huck and his father. In the part of the novel where Huck is abducted...

University Environment and Drug Addiction

elaborate the description of a college campus as a community...] Major drugs used for addictions can be arranged in four categori...

Iowa v. Williams and Fairness or Unfairness of Habeas Corpus

may be utilised (McInnis, 2001). Part of these process can be seen as that concept of Habeas Corpus. This was a concept that was u...