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Designing Community-Based Prevention

any demographic characteristics. Considering these principles from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the fact that drug a...

The Problem of Alcohol Abuse - Impact in Abusers and Families

Alcohol poses a direct risk as a result of the physical impact it has on the body. The use of alcohol is often seen as a social ...

Problems with Abuse and Neglect of the Elderly

paper properly! While two million older adults are abused in America each year, only 2% of these cases are reported by phy...

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...

Benefits of Statistical Testing

2008). Nevertheless, it is widely acknowledged that using testing measures to screen for depression is beneficial, as this identif...

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...

Crime and Drug Abuse

and booked for larceny or theft; more than 14 times more likely to be arrested and booked for such offenses as driving under the i...

Domestic Violence Yesterday and Today

Spousal violence has a history that stretches back to mankinds earliest chapters on earth. This...

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...

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...

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...

MEDIATION FOR DOMESTIC ABUSE

were expected to endure within the confines of matrimony is now considered nothing short of abuse. That victims of domestic viole...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Domestic Abuse Cases and the 1973 Stockholm Syndrome

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

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...

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...

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...

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...