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'A place in the family: an historical interpretation of research on parental reactions to having a child with a disability' by Philip M. Ferguson Reviewed

place in time. The point Ferguson goes on to make is that it is important to also consider the ways in which social attitudes and ...

Alcoholism and Children of Alcoholics

of alcoholics. To prove that children of alcoholics are more likely to physiologically be alcoholic themselves provides added supp...

Social Issues and Impacts Upon Schools and Families of Young Children

more of a culturally mixed country we see more and more religious diversity, further confusing the matter for young children. Now,...

Florida and Foster Care

DCF] the worst child-welfare system in the nation" (Hathaway, 2002, p. 1E). The state child protective agency, regardless of its ...

Dr. Murray Bowen's Family Systems Therapy Theory and Pat Conroy's The Prince of Tides

to as nuclear family emotional systems. According to this concept, the family acts as a "unitary whole," which is affected by two...

Psychopathology and Aileen Wuornos

as theyre treated" (Burns, 2003). Human behavior is a complicated and curious equation. The answer to why a particular rea...

Pros and Cons of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act

remove the disincentive toward working, it did little to impact the increase in illegitimate births or the increase in births to m...

Family Assessment 2 and Howard P. Parette Jr.'s 'Family-centered assistive technology assessment'

This paper presents an article summary in four pages as it relates to children with disabilities and the involvement of their fami...

Great Britain's Industrial Revolution

In seven pages this research paper discusses the social impact of Great Britain's Industrial Revolution with such topics as family...

The Culture of Poland and America Compared

This research report looks at two cultures and compares and contrasts them. Various issues are included such as children, family a...

How to Cope with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

manual stipulates further that all three subtypes of ADHD are required to meet an additional requirement before a diagnosis can be...

Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996

approximately twenty percent, according to Heritage Foundations Robert Rector. However, in spite of the fact that the numbers did...

AFDC and Welfare Reform Issues

Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) were the product of relationships that never culminated in marriage, while only 30 percent...

Overview of 1988's Family Support Act and 1996 Reform

In eight pages this research paper compares these Acts in terms of their consideration of teen education, child support, work, ret...

Learning Disabilities and Their Effects

In six pages learning disabilities are examined in terms of various categories along with their effects on the child and family ps...

Society is Not Threatened by Nontraditional Families

In five pages this paper discusses that nontraditional families are not a national threat and children who grow up in them are und...

Relationship Between Mother and Child and Mothers Who Work

them, and saw them off to and home from school each day. Over the past three decades these ideals, although they are still rec...

Family Psychology Research Methods Compared

In five pages the approaches of four researchers are compared in terms of assessing the effects cohesiveness have on children and ...

Parental Perceptions Journal Article Reviewed

In four pages a review of a journal article that evaluates the social development of children and the impacts of interaction with ...

American Family as Viewed by Playwright Sam Shepard

understanding of family life, much as do shows like The Simpsons and Malcolm in the Middle. Families are not always polite to one ...

Overview of Family Centered Care

In five pages family centered care is presented in an overview of principles and a model that pertains to special needs' children....

Planning and Intervention in the Disease Process of Childhood Asthma

In ten pages this report examines childhood asthma in terms of causes and symptoms, planning and intervention possibilities, and a...

Abortion, Teen Pregnancy, and Risks

influence how soon that same adolescent may have a second baby. Correspondingly, if our adolescent mom continues her education, s...

Mothers and Daughters in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility

In 5 pages this paper discusses how in this Jane Austen novel the mothers' relationships with their children and how their selfish...

Group Therapy and Children of Divorce

In fourteen pages children who are products of divorced families are discussed in terms of group therapy benefits. Twelve sources...

Pediatric Asthma and Interventions of Public Health Peer Education

In fifteen pages this paper features the results of a Chicago case study regarding the importance of peer education for families o...

Overview of Homelessness, Families, and Children

for homelessness is poverty and this generally affects families in their ability to obtain affordable housing and maintain suffici...

Examination of Cultural Competence

work. That idea may now be articulated in a sophisticated professional language with phrases derived from differential diagnosis ...

Family Impact of Divorce

well as younger children. When a specific age range is meant, that will be clarified in the text. * Divorce means that the couple ...

Sam Shepard and William Faulkner on Family Dysfunction

In twenty pages twentieth century family dysfunction is considered in a comparative analysis of its portrayal in the characterizat...