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Female Sex Offenders and the Prison Environment

the number of suspected incidents of child abuse and neglect topped 1.9 million cases; by 1994, over 3.1 million children were rep...

Identity and Adolescent Development

In this paper consisting of ten pages the importance of developing an identity during adolescence and the influences of peers as w...

Dormitory Residence Halls and Student Discipline

In ten pages this paper examines problems of racial discord, sexual orientation, date rape, vandalism, and substance abuse in this...

Analysis of Adolescent Health Promotion

In four pages this paper discusses adolescent health promotion in a consideration of issues including safe sexual practices and su...

Study Sample and an Application of Statistical Analysis

30 of the respondents or 32.6% had no history of abuse. 24 respondents equating to 26.08% of the sample had a history of abuse as ...

Causes and Effects of Incest

marriage of close relatives is to prevent inbreeding, or consanguinity. The reasoning behind such prohibitions revolve around the...

Clerical and Non-Clerical Sexual Abusers Annotated Bibliography

more male victims than non-clerical abusers. The fact that clerics had a lower offense rate in general suggests to the authors tha...

Literature Review of Depression and Sexual Abuse

(Brown et al, 1999). It was found that adolescents and young adults who had experienced childhood maltreatment were three times mo...

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder DSM-IV and DSM-5

There are many differences between the two latest versions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The diffe...

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...

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...

Mapping the Mental Health Consequences of Childhood Sexual Abuse

impact how a person perceives the counseling relationship, how they react to certain situations, and how they define their persona...

Issues in Addiction and Maladaptive Behavior

important to understand the difference between use, abuse and dependence because these terms denote the stages of maladaptive beha...

The Law and Recovered Memory of Sexual Abuse

This paper concludes that retrieved sexual abuse memories should be permissible in legal proceedings. Both sides of the issue are ...

Anorexia and Sexual Abuse

they have eaten. The problem is that their body image is not realistic and many people who suffer from this may get to a point whe...

Instances of Abuse in The Mushkegowuk Cree of Fort Albany, Ontario and Canada's Aboriginal Residential Schools

only be accused of hundreds of cases of physical and sexual abuse but was also known for its use of a home-made electric chair wit...

Problems of Adolescence

Drug use is common among teens today, and most say "pressure usually is the reason for their usage" (Teenage drug abuse, 2004). If...

Borderline Personality Disorder

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

America and its Education Commitment

In a paper consisting of three pages America's troubled educational system is examined and President George W. Bush's No Child Lef...

US Children and Obesity

need to be more in tune to their childrens activities and their food choices. Obesity observes no geographic or socioeconom...

TV and America's Children

a fairly even level of knowledge. Some entered the early grades with a rudimentary foundation of writing or phonics learned in th...

IRS and Collection of Child Support

In ten pages the issue of paying child support in America is examined through tax and other collection considerations in order to ...

Impact of Events Occurring Outside the Classroom

In six pages this paper discusses how a child's development outside the classroom is more significant than what happens inside in ...

Comparing American and African Children

In six pages children in America and children in Africa are examined in this comparative analysis. Five sources are cited in the ...

Hydrocodone Abuse

of Schedule III and, thereby, removes many of the usage restrictions. "Vicodin, Lortab--and more than 200 other products that con...

Against Animal Cruelty

(Vollum, Buffington-Vollum and Longmire 209). It has been argued that animals, in their own right, are worthy of consideration and...

Alcoholism's Social and Psychological Effects

In eight pages this paper examines the US abuse of alcohol in a consideration of causes, psychological and social effects, and tre...

Grounded Theory Applied to Sexual Abuse

Grounded theory is driven by observation and analysis of data collected in the natural environment of the subject. Morrow and S...

A Review of Battered Women in the Courtroom by James Ptacek

This 5 page essay explores the legal complications faced by a woman litigating abuse. 1 source....

China and the Possibility of Revolution

societal dictates under which Chinese women had lived for centuries. This period was characterized by a complex interaction betwe...