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Families: Then and Now

author notes, importantly, that, "There is no medium more powerful than television in shaping the way people view family life" (Ja...

Dickens/Utilitarianism & Hard Times

he is absolute appalled that Sissy does not know the scientific definition for "horse," and that his own children have been tempte...

Marriage Counseling - Case Study

delivery system, race, gender, and socioeconomic status have become important issues to consider when formulating therapeutic stra...

Pinter's The Homecoming

Teddy is the most accomplished member of the family, but he is not treated very well. Perhaps the reason why there is friction, a...

Walton: "Mississippi: An American Journey"

the American one" (Bernstein, 1996). Walton says that there is "something almost unspeakably primal and vicious about Mississippi...

Welfare to Work Program and Family Literacy

work, he or she is expected to work. It also means that if welfare recipients are capable of working, but need education or traini...

Stress Resistance and a Conflict in a Women's Work and Family

included the authors need to modify the job stress portion of the study in order to separate the overlapping measures of "other ke...

Food Budgeting in Relation to the US Poverty Standard

lower than in other parts of the country. There is not a great deal of industry in the area; housing is relatively inexpensive. ...

Essay on 1999 Documentary Nuyorican Dreams

at an alternative school which he founded. Robert is an eloquent spokesman regarding how the culture of poverty harms minority mem...

Rights and Wisconsin v. Yoder

both the Amish religion and the Amish way of life (University of Missouri/Kansas City, 2003). The parents felt that by sending the...

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and the Loman Family's Symbolism

finally come to terms with the reality of the situation. Happy, of course, is a chip off the old block, confined into his narrow a...

Aspects of Family Therapy

to the position of trying to improve the clients ability to change and control themselves, self-organization also lined to circula...

Differences Between Dysfunctional and Functional Families

Actions and behaviors therefore are at least partially the result of the inherent relationships that exist within the family. ...

Vietnam War Soldiers and Suicides

claims that the Vietnam soldiers had a 72 percent higher rate of suicide than their other military counterparts (Bower, 1987, p. 1...

Nursing and Family's Role

caused by the illnesses the may then have a negative physiological backlash on the patient. For other condition it may be the ro...

Nursing Issues and the Health Issues of the West Family

her, per se, but rather with her expectations of Madeline, which are not age appropriate. The scenario says that Madeline knows be...

Marriage Changes

responsibility for child-rearing or housekeeping duties traditionally assigned to women (Luker, 2003). To complicate things still ...

Addressing Family Concerns

opportunity to concentrate on the task of child rearing. However, as Scwartz and Scott (2003) indicate, this stereotypical ninetee...

Earning Minimum Wage with a Family to Support

If the husband is bedridden, ideally both of the older children should be in daycare (the oldest in after school care), but there ...

Family Stress and Family Systems Theories

as separation and the breakdown of subsystems. This will continue until a new point of equilibrium is reached (Ackerman, 1985). ...

Whitaker's Model Applied to a Case Study on the Family

both conflict and methods for resolution. Experiential therapy, then, is a process that allows families to open channels of inter...

Hong Kong Family Therapy and Systems Theory

colleagues applied the same ideas to families and discovered that systems theory provided an ideal medium for gaining insight into...

Uncertainty and Culture Change

parents for the safety of their children, wanting to know where they are and who they are with. There is an increased feeling of t...

Abuse and Family Violence

behavior. This concept of "mother blaming," then, has influenced the view of low-income families, single-parent families and the ...

Families and Therapeutic Goals Regarding Autism

"syndrome of behavioral deficits and excesses that have a biological basis but are nonetheless amenable to change through carefull...

Families in Poverty and Welfare Reform

study also integrates data that relates to educational gains and other measures that can reduce the use of welfare, reduce the pov...

Considerations in Blended Families

steps we take to make them work, blended families raise problems regarding appropriate social roles. Individuals, after all, are ...

Family/Childcare Issues & Single Parent

as the "irregular household structures-of the working poor" (Nelson, 2006). For example, one young working mother relies on her mo...

Advanced Nursing Practice and Family Theory: Lessons From the Movie “Thirteen”

begins using drugs, stealing, experimenting with sex, and seeking out more radical means of self mutilation. Each of these change...

When Parents Aren’t Parents: The Impact of Dysfunctional Parents on Their Children

that others do not. We need to understand the obstacles these children face in order to help them and by doing so, help society as...