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Elder Abuse: What It Is, Why It Occurs and How to Prevent It

or she does)" (Elder abuse and neglect, 2007). Abuse may also take the form of financial exploitation, when the caregiver steals f...

HOMELESSNESS AND INHERENT HUMAN RIGHTS

Safe and secure housing is but one of many rights withheld from those whose circumstances – whether through mental illness, financ...

Working with troubled youth in South America

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

The Family System in Society

families, something unheard of in the past. Also, the dual career couple is the primary family working pattern today (Elloy & Flyn...

A Tool Against Child Abuse

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

Diagnostic Approaches to Mental Illness

clinicians rely on the DSM to diagnose their patients. It is credible insofar as it is published by the American Psychiatric Assoc...

Life of a Factory Worker Compared with Life of a Slave

students of history shudder to read the horrible human rights abuses that were inflicted upon slaves in the antebellum South. Howe...

Implications of Family Abuse for Victims and Society

In a paper of five pages, the writer discusses abuse in a family situation, its origins, prevalence and ramifications. The writer ...

Discussion on Articles 1 - 4; Rights of Children and Health

abuse, what it is, the causes, the apparent cyclic behaviour and the way that it may be prevented. Early studies indicated that ab...

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...

Mood Disorder: Case Study

Being a temporary mood lifter, marijuana actually creates even more of a problem for someone experiencing the throes of major depr...

The Social Problem of Substance Abuse

of the overall problem of substance abuse to inform potential methods for change, it is necessary to consider both the driving and...

Alcohol Abuse and Public Health

(Time for coordinated action on alcohol, 2004). It is particularly dangerous to young people, who are more likely than anyone else...

Social Constructionism and Child Sexual Abuse

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

Effectiveness of Substance Abuse Programs

conclusions reached by these research teams. The point of this investigation is to try to discern patterns in the literature that ...

Article Critique/Male v. Female Substance Abuse Patterns

A 4 page article critique of a criminal justice study of juvenile behavior in regards to substance abuse pattern. No additional so...

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...

Preventing Fraud,Waste and Abuse

Further, there are some instances that the government would label practices as being fraudulent when they are not, or are fraudule...

Problems of Adolescence

Drug use is common among teens today, and most say "pressure usually is the reason for their usage" (Teenage drug abuse, 2004). If...

Factors That Affect Personality Development

of development to explain personality development (Laberge, 2006). One of the things Erikson said was that a child who was unable ...

COSTS OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE IN THE WORKPLACE

the job tested positive for either alcohol or drugs. Small businesses suffer the most - another statistic from the Substanc...

Identifying Child Abuse Early

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

Drug Use, Abuse and Treatment in a Social Interactive Approach

difference plays a part in substance use and abuse. In other words, females are more inclined to be judged by their peers and pare...

Domestic Abuse and the Court System

only be achieved when the contracting parties could not take advantage of one another. In cases of domestic violence, however, th...

How and Why Children are Used in Conflict

The human rights abuse is discussed in depth. The concept is supported with quantitative research. There are twelve sources listed...

The Elderly Population and Substance Abuse

not as healthy as those of younger adults. Metabolism changes and older individuals cannot handle alcohol in he same way as their ...

Domestic Abuse and Murder

often likely to downplay the violence they are experiencing, even to doctors and health professionals (Dickson, 2004). It ...

The Navajo Peacemaking Process in Domestic Abuse

penalties for the abuse. In too many cases involving traditional native peoples, however, this also means that the victim is sepa...

Causes and Solutions of Child Abuse

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