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Alcohol Abuse and Women

interviewed more than 40 recovered and active alcoholic women across the United States: young, old; black, white; sisters, mothers...

Substance Abuse and Teenagers

ones life when one experiences an abundance of hostility from external sources, it is during ones formative teenage years; as such...

4 Major Child Abuse Types, Treatment, Prevention, and Statistics

display in addition to the emotional trauma which remains long after the abuse has ended and the scars have healed. Children who h...

Population Control in China

policy," with the goal of leveling out the population at 1.2 billion by the year 2000, and then bringing it down to 700 million ov...

Legal Problems/Family as Public and Private

1992). Women are those primarily affected by the private sphere support group, however in order to be eligible for support, certai...

Case Study on Career Counseling

which have seemingly led also to a sexual addiction. Heidi has been worried about her falling grades as well as her deteriorating ...

Nursing Homes and Abuse of the Elderly

over the age of 60 years in 1995, and that number will probably increase to about 1.2 billion (2002, p.1094) in 2025. Informatio...

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 ...

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...

Domestic Abuse

to the specifics of the abuse. Denov (2004), for example, reports that the long term impacts of sexual abuse in children include ...

Literature and Domestic Abuse

boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy(Roethke). This is...

Song 'My Name is Luka' by Suzanne Vega

want to accept glib explanations for the signs of abuse because they do not want to feel that they have to get involved in a domes...

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 ...

Substance Abuse Treatment and Vocation Training Integration

person can keep his or her employment (SAMHSA, 2004). The good news is that there are several programs that integrate subs...

Uses and Abuses of Fossil Fuels

clay, silt, and mud. Eventually, with the exception of the peat, everything turned to rock and the sheer weight of the mass on to...

'My Papa's Waltz' by Theodore Roethke and Child Abuse

and bravery and excitement. They beg for it many times as they beg to be spun like an airplane or hung upside down. They trust the...

Issue of Elder Abuse and Neglect

in both domestic environments, i.e., private residences, and in institutions, i.e., nursing homes (Jogerst et al, 2003). However, ...

Causes and Effects of Incest

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

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurton and Spousal Abuse

who can take care of her and so Janie is married unhappily to a man named Logan Killicks. In Chapter Four, it is easy to see that ...

Substance Abuse, The Role of Outpatient Clinics

to their addiction (Excerpt from the BSW, 2004). Addicted patients are often "highly resistant to therapy" and "skilled in making...

Service Provider Interactions

in detail the physical environment of the clinic, office or other facility he visited. The setting for treatment of substance abu...

Victims of Child Abuse and the After Effects

these characteristics are the fact that women tend to bond more strongly with children then men do; they tend to prefer "older and...

Unexpected Societal Substance Abuse

substance abuse among medical professionals. Discussion Hines defines...

Senior Citizen Abuse Screening

well taken, because there is still an attitude in society in general that abuse only occurs among "those" people; i.e., the poor, ...

The Case Study of a Child in Need

in order so that it can be determined if all of the childs educational needs are being met. Aiding disabled children in reaching t...

Homosexuality and Counseling for Substance Abuse

be gay, they are unaware of some of the issues that might be impacting this particular community, and this could have a definite o...

Delinquency and Child Abuse Connection

1994). Physical abuse are aggressive acts such as hitting, punching, kicking, shaking, or burning a childe while sexual abuse can...