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Traditional Practices and Child Abuse Distinctions?

an overseeing entity be in place that looks out for the interest of those that cannot look out for themselves....

Cocaine Use by Teens, Causes and Effects

more quickly than that (Kuhn, Swartzwelder & Wilson, 2003). The most negative aspect of cocaine use is of course the possibility o...

Causes and Effects of Child Abuse

harm in which a child sustains physical damage and emotional harm in which the charge is endangered psychologically. This harm ca...

Punishing Abuse

two of which occurred while she was incarcerated (Ackerman, 2004). Psychiatric patients are forbidden to engage in sex, "but San...

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...

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...

Domestic Abuse Cases and the 1973 Stockholm Syndrome

the issues, and potential solutions, for domestic violence more understandable. These methodologies are only applicable, however,...

Hydrocodone: An Overview

2004). Schedule II drugs, in comparison are not allowed to be refilled and: "are...

Domestic Abuse

to the specifics of the abuse. Denov (2004), for example, reports that the long term impacts of sexual abuse in children include ...

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 ...

Nursing Dilemma/Elder Abuse

a nurse to determine which elderly patients are being abused because a sense of shame or a desire to protect the family member who...

Physical Child Abuse

population believes that spanking is allowable, although there are also likely many of those individuals who would prefer spanking...

Case Scenario/Alcohol Abuse

"chronic, heavy drinking" (Enoch and Goldman, 2002, p. 192). According to government standards, a woman is at-risk for heavy drink...

The Misuse of Psychology

1879, closely followed by the Johns Hopkins University in the US in 1883. in 1890 James Cattell developed psychological tests, dev...

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 ...

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...

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...

Social Work Case Management

or other individual. The goal of child welfare services is to provide an array of prevention and intervention services to children...

The Liza Minnelli Case

have been abused themselves will inevitably abuse others if in fact they do not get help. Simpson (2000) writes: "In those familie...

Child Abuse and Neglect Laws in Louisiana

This paper addresses child abuse and neglect laws both federally and within the state of Louisiana. The author provides both fede...

Issue of Elder Abuse and Neglect

in both domestic environments, i.e., private residences, and in institutions, i.e., nursing homes (Jogerst et al, 2003). However, ...

Causes and Effects of Incest

marriage of close relatives is to prevent inbreeding, or consanguinity. The reasoning behind such prohibitions revolve around the...

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurton and Spousal Abuse

who can take care of her and so Janie is married unhappily to a man named Logan Killicks. In Chapter Four, it is easy to see that ...

Literature and Domestic Abuse

boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy(Roethke). This is...

A Domestic Abuse Case Study

The issues closely identified with domestic abuse are examined in this overview consisting of 8 pages. With a case study of a fic...

1865 to 1900 'Dirty Laundry' of the United States

This paper discusses power abuses and corruption that occurred in America during this time period in five pages. Two sources are ...

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...

The Case Study of a Child in Need

in order so that it can be determined if all of the childs educational needs are being met. Aiding disabled children in reaching t...