SEARCH RESULTS

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

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

as Community Health personnel and teachers to report suspected abuse. Children continue to be abused and to suffer the impacts of...

the foot of power!/Nothing care I for Zeus" (Aeschylus). In other words, Prometheus will not succumb to tyranny and a power that r...

games are encouraging violent aggression in young people. Should video game designers act in a manner that is socially responsibl...

there is an argument among sociologists as to whether a "weak" or "strong" reading of the stance of claims-makers is more effectiv...

adult fails to provide a child "with the basic needs and supervision to live a healthy and happy life" (Harris, 2007). Of the 1,49...

After putting a name and a face on the social issue of child abuse, and considering the dilemma of the social worker who seeks to ...

the formative years, this search most often leads to a superficial fix time and time again due to the individuals volatile, unpred...

individual is exposed to any type of experience there is the potential for that individual to be desensitized to any experiences t...

controversial because of their human resource practices. Many employees are very loyal to the company and yet, they have had more ...

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

want to prostitute themselves because they become especially interested in sex, or they simply engage in criminal activity as a wa...

low protection from it. Academic performance was much better for low risk, high protection students. It was also shown that girls ...

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

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

time," then shortened to "ragtime" (Porter, 1973, p. 2). The innovations that Joplin brought to ragtime were remarkable and uniqu...

by using standard PTSD models there is a limiting of the understanding of the conditions that are suffered and that there is the ...

that within a group there exists "the possibility for a contagion of emotional and irrational thoughts and behavior which causes a...

be validated through other means (Science Daily , 2007). An overwhelming majority of victims who recover such memories are women. ...

insomnia, eating disorders, headaches, TMJ, asthma, self-mutilation or self-harming behaviors, and chronic physical complaints(Bac...

Journal of Psychohistory, deMauses story tells a story of thousands of years of crimes against children, ranging from infanticide ...

Child abuse can be either an act of commission or omission (Nester, 1998). It can take the form of physical abuse, emotional abus...

The use of psychological knowledge in the courtroom, however, is becoming somewhat more common, even though physical knowledge, or...

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...

to what happened and why Kaylas case fell through the cracks, it is only through a thorough analysis of the situation, and the eff...

of children, adolescents and adults at the same time. In setting up the research, the researcher would need to pinpoint subjects i...

notes that this situation arises because the community shares the same cultural values and traditions, and any deviation from thes...

question whether that is the case or not, because that will be all he has ever been exposed to. As he grows to realize it is his ...

with the humiliation and grief typically associated with child abuse. Indeed, children have no fewer rights than their adult coun...