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Popular Culture and Media Portrayals of Child Abuse

The ways in which popular culture and the media publicly portray child abuse are considered in this literature review consisting o...

Parent Substance Abuse and Effects on Their Children

In eight pages parental substance abuse and the lingering effects upon their children are discussed. Eleven sources are cited in ...

Florida and Abuse of the Elderly

In five pages the increase of senior citizen neglect and abuse in Florida is examined. Ten sources are cited in the bibliography....

Abuse and Differences That Exist Among Economic Classes

In eleven pages domestic violence examined from an economic context with the argument presented that impoverished individuals have...

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...

Families and the Effects of Substance Abuse

In nine pages this paper examines how families are affected by substance abuse in a comparative analysis of rates in the United St...

Substance Abuse and Schizophrenia Dual Diagnosis

In six pages this paper examines the counseling and therapeutic challenges of dual diagnosis particularly as it relates to mental ...

Substance Abuse and Psychology

In five pages this paper discusses various psychosocial components as they relate to substance abuse issues. Thirteen sources are...

Priests and the Sexual Abuse of Children

in the testimony that is presented and many of these cases illuminate the inconsistencies and short comings that exist within the ...

Traci West/Wounds of the Spirit

71). This seems to be particularly true for black women, who get caught between the double bind of being female in a male dominate...

The Role of Gender in Domestic Violence

abuse anyway? Does it mean beating another human being exclusively or can other physically violent acts qualify? In studying this ...

Substance Abuse in Nursing

Not only are the direct health impacts to the nurse deleterious, impaired nurses cannot meet their responsibility to provide top q...

House Bill 250: Analysis

context notes the need for investigative teams to help differentiate whether abuse and/or neglect served as a direct cause of deat...

Policy Overview

eligibility is determined by age and health status. Implementation difficulties reflect the perpetual absence of adequate funding...

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...

Substance Abuse and Adolescents

entire population of youth between the ages of 12 and 17 used illicit drugs in 2004 (SAMHSA, 2005). This represents a slight decre...

Should The United States Legalize Medical Marijuana Use?

of such states as Montana (Anonymous, 2005), Rhode Island (Roman, 2006) as well as Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Ne...

Suicidality and Depression in Young Children

Given that serious depression too often leads to suicide, it is a problem that simply cannot be ignored. Numerous factors enter i...

Crime and Substance Abuse

the increased propensity of our nations youth to use drugs can be traced back to the same root reasons as the other problems which...

Arguing in Favor of Reallocating Funds for Programs Involving Drug Abuse and Alcohol Treatment

would be incurred if we were to rehabilitate drug and alcohol users rather than put them in the penitentiary. The view...

Incarceration v. Rehabilitation in the Drug Abuse Issue

The view that incarceration is not the solution for drug abuse is supported by a wide cross-section of our population. Author Jam...

Substance Abuse and Society

to hire a lawyer. This is true even when police use illegal tactics to secure an arrest. Certainly, there are tax implications an...

Neo Liberal and Neo Conservative Perspectives on Child Abuse

toward personal rights the Warren Court upheld was met with great consternation by conservatives who believed the Supreme Court ju...

Substance Abusers and Harm Reduction Attitudes

media campaign and treatment received the least (32 percent), (Drug Policy Foundation [DPF], 2000; ONDCP, 2000). A RAND study indi...

Canadian Response to the Problem of Child Abuse The Child Aid Society of Canada

of the agencies are broad, there has been criticism waged (Hick, 2002). For example, child protective services do not address issu...

Children Who are Physically Abused, Depression, and Suicide

(Nester, 1998). The physical harm a child incurs as a result of child abuse, of course, is inextricably coupled with the...

An Article on Drug Addiction and Korean Teens Summarized

after a period of detoxification passed, the teens began to reconsider this position and reconsider their past lives. From retra...

The Nursing Issue of Drug and Alcohol Abuse among Nurses

results from alcohol or drug misuse and which interferes with professional judgment and the delivery of safe, high quality care" (...

Parenting and the Effects of Substance Abuse

and poverty has been established for many years, and it may be argued that it is the less well-off social classes children will al...