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ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT: SUBSTANCE ABUSE AGENCY

This 10-page paper focuses on the development and running of a substance abuse agency in upstate New York. Topics include organiza...

Homelessness, Mental Illness, and Social Intervention

least. Description of Agency XYZ is a small organization that attempts to address the needs...

MENTAL ILLNESS AND INSANITY - THE LEGAL ISSUE

held criminally responsible for his/her behavior (Not Guilty By Reason of Insanity, 2010). After this particular finding and after...

Analyzing John Nash's Mental Illness in A Beautiful Mind Film by Director Ron Howard

original consensus among mental health professionals the schizophrenia developed during late teens or early adulthood. However, a...

Homelessness and People Who Suffer from Mental Illness

cooperative effort between the psychological establishment and federal, state, and local governments - through policy initiatives ...

Safeguards and Penalties for Improper Use of Data and U.S. Law

to criminal issues were not sufficient to address computer fraud. To an extent, wire and mail fraud issues were addressed in the p...

Holden, Mental Illness

mean a person who saves children from going over a precipice. As this indicates, he wants to be a "savor/ defender of the innocent...

Alcoholism in the Film “When a Man Loves a Woman”

the face of her addiction (Simon, 1994). No matter what he does its wrong "because of Alices defensiveness, which perceives concer...

Deviance: Mental Illness And Homelessness

crime was chemical or emotional disparity. From colonial times where people were chained to block walls in dark, dank dungeons an...

Faith-Based Counseling

anxiety or address a family problem, they may prefer faith-based counseling simply because its in a language that fits them and th...

Cognitive Therapy : Addiction & Trauma

specifically the division of artificial intelligence (Boeree, 2000). Some of the major players are Tolman, Piaget, Bandura, Chomsk...

Inpatient Substance Abuse Treatment in the United States: Does it Actually Work? A Research Proposal

at any given time, 700,000 people in the United States are receiving treatment of some kind of alcohol dependence. In a 1992 nati...

Article Analysis: Psychology: "Stress, Motivation and Drug Addiction"

stress can be triggered by positives as well; in fact, stress has been defined as "the nonspecific response of the body to any dem...

School Counseling

with "relatively well-adjusted" individuals (Hood and Johnson 213). It measures "everyday characteristics," such as "soci-ability,...

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...

Client Interactions and Substance Abuse

the Catholic Church and in work communities. Juans mother, Marianna, lives a block away and spends time with the children after s...

Different Clients and Different Types of Social Work Practice

many motivated families waiting for help; the resistant families will call back when they finally feel the need; there is no need ...

Mentally Ill Individuals and Substance Abuse

that "as a consequence of their illness they may find themselves living in marginal neighborhoods where drug use prevails" (Hatfie...

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...

United Kingdom's System of Criminal Justice and Mental Illness

range of the problem is quantified 2. What is Mental Illness? 2.1 Definitions of Mental Illness The difficulty with defining me...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Extreme Mental Illness And Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)

that depression is experienced, as well as the inability for young adults to understand why they are depressed at such a vulnerabl...

Drug Abuse and the Elderly

Abstract Substance abuse among the elderly is growing problem. Substance...

The Elderly and Substance Abuse

then developing a quantitative instrument for assessing risk behaviors related to the onset of substance abuse behaviors among the...

MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING AND THE ROAD TO RECOVERY

principles: 1) express empathy; 2) develop discrepancy; 3) avoid argumentation; 4) deal with, or "roll with" resistance and 5) sup...

Aspects of Substance Abuse

For example, the Addictive Personality theory maintains that addiction is not due to the chemical effect of the drug, but rather i...