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Domestic Abuse

to the specifics of the abuse. Denov (2004), for example, reports that the long term impacts of sexual abuse in children include ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Domestic Violence Yesterday and Today

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

Punishing Abuse

two of which occurred while she was incarcerated (Ackerman, 2004). Psychiatric patients are forbidden to engage in sex, "but San...

Psychological Disorders: Categorization and Classification

is used to categorize symptoms and disorders to aid in a standardized diagnosis between professionals. This has led to an industry...

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...

Domestic Abuse Cases and the 1973 Stockholm Syndrome

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

Substance Abuse and Adolescents

entire population of youth between the ages of 12 and 17 used illicit drugs in 2004 (SAMHSA, 2005). This represents a slight decre...

Drugs and Their Negative Impact on Teens

grade, "21.3% had been drunk, while 44.0% and 61.6% of 10th- and 12th-graders, respectively, had been drunk at least once in their...

Borderline Personality Disorder

require a combination of therapeutic approaches that may include behavior modification plans, psychoanalysis and even the use of p...

Elder Abuse in the United States

sometimes illusive. Generally, the characterization of elder abuse is that it does occur in the United States and while hard to de...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...