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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 ...

Mapping the Mental Health Consequences of Childhood Sexual Abuse

impact how a person perceives the counseling relationship, how they react to certain situations, and how they define their persona...

The Responsible Use of Technology in Law Enforcement

fire small barbed electrodes into a targets skin, and then send an electrical current passing through their body. This has the eff...

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder DSM-IV and DSM-5

There are many differences between the two latest versions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The diffe...

Reports on Medicare

Activities performed by the Department of Health and Human Services are discussed in comprehensive semiannual reports that are aut...

Crimes Against Medicare

The Office of Inspector General, Department of Health & Human Services publishes several reports each year in addition to giving t...

Erikson Freud Breakfast Club

The Breakfast Club has become a cult movie because it shows the angst of being not only a teenager but a youngster who has been ab...

Abuse in Government

This essay considers three questions: why it is important for public administrators to know about fraud, waste, abuse, and corrupt...

An Attempt to Stope Corruption in one City

In 2013 New York passed the 'Nonprofit Revitalization Act of 2013' to tighten governance and financial accountability rules and re...

Fraud in the Court

Inspector generals investigate and audit departments or agencies to detect and prevent fraud, waste, abuse, and corruption. This p...

Drug Use and Psychosocial Motivations

In ten pages this paper discusses the psychosocial motivations people have for using and abusing drugs. Six sources are cited in ...

Drugs and Alcohol as 'Gateway Drugs'

The way in which using alcohol and drugs like marijuana serve as a gateway to harder drug use and abuse is the focus of this 5 pag...

Alcohol Abuse and the Film Leaving Las Vegas

attacks, visual hallucinations, and paranoid delusions" are withdrawal symptoms of heavy drinking (Anonymous, 1999, PG). In the m...

U.S. Health Care

picked up through government programs and often receive quality health care. Those who make too much money to qualify for free med...

Battered Child Syndrome in America

is socioeconomic status. They point to evidence that there is a higher prevalence of abuse and a greater use of punishment in low...

Fighting Child Abuse Proposal

p. 1) child abuse complaints. Child abuse is a significant problem in America today. In 1996 alone, there were 969,000 (Hewitt ...

Assessments of Sexually Abused Children and Art Therapy

As a result, art therapy may be use in evaluating whether a child who has been sexually abused has formed a normative view of sexu...

Methamphetamines

been increased clandestine production. Abusers are predominantly White, lower middle- income, high-school educated, young adults ...

LSD's History

touted as the proverbial magic bullet. It was proscribed for everything from migraines to schizophrenia. The LSD craze, however, g...

Health Care Service and 'Professional Power'

different forms such as verbally or in writing, however, the compliance with the request is also influenced by other factors, such...

Courtroom and the Importance of Psychological Knowledge

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

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" (...

Genetic Engineering and Agriculture

is to determine whether they can use the plant to synthesize a protein that may have immunological properties for human beings. C...

Hydrocodone: An Overview

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Research Design To Test The Hypothesis That There Is An Inverse Relationship Between Memory Recovery Of Child Sexual Abuse And The Development Of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

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

Intervention - Recovered Memories And Trauma

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