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Contemporary Threats to Marriage and the Family

evolved to the point, in fact, where the extended families of old have been severed. So-called nuclear families have arisen in th...

Adult Day Care in North Carolina

includes seniors centers focusing on social and wellness programs and activities, adapting healthcare needs to those standards rat...

Child Development and Blended Families

parents and an undertanding of the roots of conflict. Marsolinis (2000) perspective is one that comes from the value in applyin...

Family Reactions to a Member’s Troubles in Baldwin and Kafka

stress, particularly when the stress also involves a violation of social "norms." Some have suggested that Gregors "metamorphosis"...

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...

Using Gestalt Theory with Families

own feelings, behaviors and thoughts. The phenomenological method of gaining awareness is about "perceiving, feeling and acting" (...

FAMILY, THEORIES AND SOCIETAL IMPACT

Discusses the relationship between family and society. Also discussed are the family stress and symbolic interaction theories. The...

Case study Marilyn Friedman's Model

driving distance, visiting with friends, and participating in a variety of church activities. Also, both children play sports whic...

Educational Alternatives for Poverty-Stricken Children

that schools located in working-class neighborhoods tend to be more regimented than schools located in suburban neighborhoods wher...

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...

Napoleon Bonaparte: The Influences on Him and How He Influenced the World

might say in fact that he was slightly ahead of his time. Yet, in addition to having been an important figure and brilliant strate...

The Relevance of Seierstad's The Bookseller of Kabul

home, while none of the reporters dispatched there have produced anything resembling a definitive account of the countrys trajecto...

Does Divorce or Disruption in Family Structure During Adolescence Have a Detrimental Effect on Development?

Discussion Parents serve, either consciously or unconsciously as role models for their children. Gender roles develop in p...

High Risk Family Assessment/Violence

education or less; little or not prenatal care; unlisted telephone number; low income; history of unemployment; current under or u...

Marriage Counseling - Case Study

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

Walton: "Mississippi: An American Journey"

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

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...

Family Theory Questions

traditional nuclear families (Bowen). 3. How does family assessment influence health-seeking behaviors among individuals? Asses...

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...

Considerations in Blended Families

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

Asthma: A Research Proposal

chests as well as wheezing and coughing. The physiological reasons for these responses include spasms in the smooth muscle tissu...

Nursing Diagnoses/National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation

come through, which sends him over the edge, kidnapping his boss; however, the boss comes through with the bonus, all conflicts ar...

Family Systems/The Postpartum Mother

of family such as the one cited above. In many instances hospitals adhere to the traditional definition, which means that the poli...

Case Study & Calgary Family Intervention Model

233). After assessment is completed, the nurse utilizes the CFIM, which defines an intervention as "an action or activity a heal...

Jokinen's Family Life-Path Theory

also possess knowledge concerning a particular family as a whole, including the intricacies of its family system, the position of ...

Parents and Three Children Insurance

family with $15,000 at most for health insurance, medical expenses, and other emergencies. Health Insurance Plan Options Once th...

Families and Neighborhoods

social networks that can be used to achieve collective goals (Jarrett, Jefferson and Kelly, 2010). This fact results in negative ...

Assessing Personal Family Process

throughout my childhood. I was also expected to attend Greek school in hopes of learning the language, but to my parents disappoi...

Are Same-Sex Couples with Children Families

In 2006, for instance, surveys reflected that 30 percent of respondents stated that pets would count as family but gay couples did...