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Women's Halfway Houses and Transitional Housing

(Jacobs, 1997). It was founded by the Quakers and came about because of the concern regarding the conditions of the prisons (Jacob...

Child Development and Verbal Abuse

told repeatedly that one is "stupid" or "lazy" or "useless." Children internalize this message and consider themselves to be all t...

Causes and Solutions of Child Abuse

year in the United States there are hundreds of thousands of children who are abused (Hwang 1999). A recent issue of JAMA reporte...

No Child Left Behind Act and IDEA

was signed into law on January 8, 2002 by President Bush. The bill was initiated by the president and written as a bi-partisan act...

Working with troubled youth in South America

improving social welfare, social workers can work in a variety of different arenas and industries. For instance, some go into coun...

A Tool Against Child Abuse

This paper considers A-1654, a new New Jersey law requiring the education of new parents about what constitutes child abuse and ho...

Aspects of Child Abuse

growth is harmed, and their mental health is altered. Their mental state of health is hindered by fear and abnormal feelings and t...

Benefits of Statistical Testing

2008). Nevertheless, it is widely acknowledged that using testing measures to screen for depression is beneficial, as this identif...

Children, Adolescents, and Ethics of Psychologists

that other psychological associations would do well to emulate. For example, it provides a student for decision-making that Canadi...

Pastoral Counseling

include intra-psychic, interpersonal and social factors. Stack (145) is just one researcher to investigate the effects of modern...

Children's Psychological Treatment and Ethical Issues

counselor, not wanting to agitate the situation but realizing she had to uncover more information, asked whether or not Jennifers ...

Literature Relevant to Adolescent Developmental Disorders

relationship with both the mother and her family and the father and his family (also in relation to property and/or inheritance la...

Victims of Child Abuse and the After Effects

these characteristics are the fact that women tend to bond more strongly with children then men do; they tend to prefer "older and...

Song 'My Name is Luka' by Suzanne Vega

want to accept glib explanations for the signs of abuse because they do not want to feel that they have to get involved in a domes...

Abused Child Counseling

In five pages an academic setting scenario is presented regarding an abused child and the alternatives available for a school coun...

Historical Plausibility of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

In 5 pages this great American novel is analyzed in an historical overview of the relevant 19th century issues including children'...

Relationship Between Poverty and Child Abuse

The relationship between poverty and child abuse is considered in ten pages. Sixteen sources are cited in the bibliography....

Sociological Assessment of Child Abuse

In seven pages child abuse is examined through a sociological assessment of its root causes. Five sources are cited in the biblio...

Attribution Theory of Harold Kelley

study and instead went to see a movie or went out with friends all weekend. Thus he has provided himself with an excuse that is ex...

Child Abuse Cycle

In twelve pages the cyclic nature of child abuse is examined in terms of causes, influences, prevention, and treatment with UK and...

Issues of Abuse and Neglect Regarding Children

Socio-economic pressures may have a strong influence on the way in which children are treated within the family: the stresses of s...

Educator Responsibility and Child Abuse

forms of physical discipline and actual full-blown abuse (Gullatt, 1999). Twenty-six states have prohibitions against corporal pun...

Approaching Child Abuse from a Multi Dimensional Perspective

In sixty pages twenty first century child abuse presents a statement of the problem, traces its history, provides a literature rev...

Lydia Maria Child's Mrs. Child's Reply

we can see that such words would clearly irritate one who was not ignorant of the truths. And, in all honesty, Child spares no exp...

Submissive Characters In Children's Literature: Influence Upon Self-Perception In Female Children

set down for them without making any fuss. Laurence Behrens and Leonard J. Rosen, authors of Writing and Reading Across the Curri...

Gulliver Adaptations

the protagonists "descent into madness and misanthropy" (Stallcup 87). As Stallcup observes, this is "hardly a likely candidate fo...

Sexually Abused Children and Art Therapy Assessments

when human subjects are utilized there is the need to apply an ethical standard to the research process. Inherent, then, in the d...

Attachment Disorders in Children That Have Been Neglected and Abused

1997). "Since 1980, alleged child abuse and neglect reports have more than doubled in this country [Child Welfare League of Ameri...

Child Abuse Journal Article Critiqued

The Journal of Interpersonal Violence was the source for an article on Valerie Whiffen and Melissa Judd's 1999 study on childhood ...

Child Abuse and Self Harm of the Body

In a paper consisting of five pages further study is recommended in the area of research to determine the link between individuals...