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Child Abuse and Its Relationship to Sociology

that within a group there exists "the possibility for a contagion of emotional and irrational thoughts and behavior which causes a...

The Abused Child and Ancillary Threats to Health and Welfare

degree of violence among todays adolescents that something has gone terribly wrong in American society. What has gone wrong has b...

Elder Neglect in Nursing Homes

be vulnerable to abuse or neglect for a variety of reasons and in a variety of situations, which range from home care to care in r...

The Role of Gender in Violence

by men. Some people have argued that our society itself allows men to abuse women because of the fact that they are male. Michae...

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...

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...

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...

Policy Overview

eligibility is determined by age and health status. Implementation difficulties reflect the perpetual absence of adequate funding...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Different Clients and Different Types of Social Work Practice

many motivated families waiting for help; the resistant families will call back when they finally feel the need; there is no need ...

Parenting and the Effects of Substance Abuse

and poverty has been established for many years, and it may be argued that it is the less well-off social classes children will al...

Alcohol as a Drug Discussion

juice etc. This mixture of yeast and juice is left to ferment for several weeks in a container that does not allow air to enter, ...

Substance Abusers and Harm Reduction Attitudes

media campaign and treatment received the least (32 percent), (Drug Policy Foundation [DPF], 2000; ONDCP, 2000). A RAND study indi...

Children Who are Physically Abused, Depression, and Suicide

(Nester, 1998). The physical harm a child incurs as a result of child abuse, of course, is inextricably coupled with the...

Cocaine Use by Teens, Causes and Effects

more quickly than that (Kuhn, Swartzwelder & Wilson, 2003). The most negative aspect of cocaine use is of course the possibility o...

Mentally Ill Individuals and Substance Abuse

that "as a consequence of their illness they may find themselves living in marginal neighborhoods where drug use prevails" (Hatfie...

Traditional Practices and Child Abuse Distinctions?

an overseeing entity be in place that looks out for the interest of those that cannot look out for themselves....

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...

Causes and Effects of Child Abuse

harm in which a child sustains physical damage and emotional harm in which the charge is endangered psychologically. This harm ca...

Punishing Abuse

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

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...