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Social Work Among the Elderly, An Overview

This paper presents an overview of urgent issues in social work that entail provision of services to older adults. Topics addresse...

Overview of Child Abuse

This paper describes the effects of child abuse on child development and also the problems that is causes in later life for the ad...

A Social Problem That Cannot be Solved, Drugs

This paper argues that the US War on Drugs is a total failure and that this social problem will not be solved using this approach....

Case Study Kendra and Austin

This case involves a mother and her teenage son and the abuse suffered by the mother. Her drunken husband violently abused her dai...

Organized Crime and Drug Cartels

laundering and counterfeiting and even cybercrimes, all created to fund the organization (Dean, 2012). Drug cartels, like other ...

Argentina and the Radical Social Divide that Has Emerged

OUTLINE I. Introduction A. 2001 Financial Collapse...

Violence at Work: A Problem for Nurses

In a paper of six pages, the author writes about research on the problem of workplace violence against nurses. The studies used i...

Abuse of Women in Muslim Societies: The Cultural Contributors

society, women are often subjected to a variety of abuses, both physical and psychological. Sadly, nowhere is this form of abuse m...

APN Role in Protecting Elderly Abuse Victims

"an older person with adequate food, clothing, shelter, medical care or assistance with activities of daily living" (Gray-Vickrey,...

Flunking Out of College, the Causes

Prickhart (2009) writes that what happens to make young people associate in bars and drink, especially in college, is that the per...

Abuse within the Family

from friends and family, and denying the victim access to money or other basic resources" (Domestic violence, 2006). Economic abu...

Child Protective Services (CPS) In Arizona

Once considered dependent, the courts engage in a review hearing on the childs behalf no less frequently than at six-month interva...

The Problem with the Abuse Excuse

are so important then no one would be responsible for anything. After all, every like and dislike, and every activity, tied to an...

Substance Abuse And Dual Diagnosis

with mental illnesses may reach out to drugs or alcohol to ease the pain they are feeling. It becomes very difficult to separate t...

Police Deviance And Ethics

principles its members completely and accept without challenge - has indeed proven to be one of the most powerful standards of con...

Bipolar Disorder II And Substance Abuse

that may trigger a Bipolar incident, many of these also trigger using substances. Oliver (2007) identified twelve different "Trigg...

Prevention And Treatment Programs For Alcohol Abuse

prevention of alcohol abuse from a community perspective has made Sacramento, California a precedent setting city whereby extended...

Conflict Theory: Treatment For Outpatient Clients of a Mandated Drug And Alcohol Program

as their economic base shrinks, poor, inner-city, minority neighborhoods become increasingly marginalized, disenfranchised, and po...

“What educators need to know about abused children with disabilities”

abused often become abusers themselves. Abuse also lessens the chances a child has in terms of educational attainment. It can re...

Epidemiology; Intravenous Drug Users in New York

users were admitted, which made up 0.2% of all the relevant admissions and cocaine users, (no smoked) had 12,876 admissions, makin...

Performance Assessment within the National Health Service (NHS)

performance assessments from a legal perspective, a professional perspective and an ethical perspective. 2. Performance Assessment...

How I Survived Being Sexually Abused as a Child

I think of my aunt just inside the door well within earshot of what was happening right under her own roof. My story,...

The Case Against Animal Cruelty

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

The Bluest Eye and Abuse

the abuse of a child, however the reader may not like that. This same critic indicates how it was "Her scratching the back of her...

Corn Woman and Brave Wolf

kept her alive and ultimately took her home to her family who then took it upon themselves to address the violence that Brave Wolf...

Young American Adults from the Ages of Nineteen and Twenty Five and Prescription Drugs

psychological incidents requiring prescription drugs, have a tendency to misuse the drugs to a greater degree than their male coun...

Sexual Abuse in Children

these things to occur. Interestingly, many stories--not involving Priests-- that surface on the news are the ones of horrific t...

Relationship Between Animal Cruelty and Antisocial Behaviors

whether parent or child, often means child abuse occurs in that family."3 At least one study demonstrates that individuals "who e...

Law and Drugs

are responsible for the physical and psychological wounds. People have often heard that if drugs were no longer a problem, ...

Issues Concerning Child Abuse

Tom. Jennifer flatly states that she has been locked out of the house at night in punishment for objecting to being sent to her ro...