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Homelessness, Mental Illness, and the Advocate Role

Housing is of obvious concern as is successful intervention in the destructive pattern of behavior that has led to the homelessnes...

Article Analysis: Substance Abuse and Mental Illness

inability to regulate decision-making behavior at such times is critical if relapses are to be avoided (Matto, 2007). In addition,...

Problems Faced by Deinstitutionalized Homeless

In a paper consisting of 5 pages the homeless individuals that are mentally ill are discussed with proposed research regarding a s...

Performance Issues, Job Placement, and the Mentally Ill

Behavior therapy theories focus upon unconscious conflicts that cause anxiety or maladaptive behavior. Aggressive behavior ...

Homelessness and People Who Suffer from Mental Illness

cooperative effort between the psychological establishment and federal, state, and local governments - through policy initiatives ...

MENTAL ILLNESS AND INSANITY - THE LEGAL ISSUE

held criminally responsible for his/her behavior (Not Guilty By Reason of Insanity, 2010). After this particular finding and after...

Right to Die Defense

and the bitterness on both sides of that unfortunate incident have brought the debate about the right-to-die to the fore. Ironi...

Liability and Negligence Chain in the McCollum Case

and that they were negligent in their public dissemination of his music. In other words, they had effectively encouraged McCollum ...

Schizophrenic Patients and Therapeutic Nursing Relationship

(Wichowski, 2004). This certainly appeared to be the case for Elvis, as he complained about the "Croatian people" in his head who ...

Mentally Ill Clients and Therapeutic Relationships Challenges and Benefits

resistance without the benefit of therapeutic relationship. A particularly good example of this resistance to engagement can be f...

United Kingdom's System of Criminal Justice and Mental Illness

range of the problem is quantified 2. What is Mental Illness? 2.1 Definitions of Mental Illness The difficulty with defining me...

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...

Mentally Ill Elderly/Syphilis Screening

A 5 page research paper that offers a summary of evidence relating STD incidence in older populations and how whether nor this con...

Mentally Ill Individuals Who Are Homelessness and Program Services

Table of Contents Page Abstract 1 CHAPTER I. PRELIMINARY...

Geriatric Mentally Ill Patients and Nursing

characteristics of metal disorders may include abnormalities in cognition, mood or emotions; it may include abnormalities in integ...

Why Britney Spears May be Mentally Ill

episodes. While one might say that she is behaving in typical rock star fashion, the truth is that there is a great deal of dark b...

Crime and Punishment of the Mentally Ill

While the insanity defense gets a considerable amount of public attention whenever it is used, fewer than 1 percent of all cases s...

Whites, Blacks, Mentally Ill, and Criminal Sentencing

are mentally ill. One of the questions that then arises from this data is, are the white mentally ill sentenced to incarceration ...

A Review of Blaming the Victim by William Ryan

A 7 page overview of the societal ills of poverty. Ryan contends that is not the poor that are responsible for these ills but rat...

Perceptions and Laws Governing Juvenile Justice

There she has begun a program that brings together police officers and offenders through the use of a four-legged friend: the poli...

Societal Perception of Juvenile Offenders

with these companions (Haynie and Osgood, 2005). Their results indicate that the normative influence of peers on delinquent behavi...

Prisons are Populated by the Wrong Offenders

(Kopel, 1995). Another article supports the notion that the majority of offenders in prison are not violent ("Crime," 1998). Ther...

Juvenile and Adult Courts: A Comparative Study:

vary somewhat from state to state, juvenile justice typically has a similar protocol. At the time a juvenile is arrested, a decis...

Delinquency Concept Evaluation

This usually involves some type of probation arrangement or counseling/treatment (The Center for Young Womens Development Handbook...

Community Corrections and Electronic Monitoring

The concept of "house arrest" is an old one and in the past was accomplished by placing armed guards outside the residence of the...

Sex Offenders, Rights and Control Orders

United States, everyone has equal rights. That charming theory doesnt always play out in practice, however, and sex offenders tend...

Comparison of Juvenile and Adult Courts

In 1899, the first juvenile court case was heard in Chicago as authorized by the Illinois Juvenile Court Act (Penn, 2001). The ju...

Drug Policies in California

under federal law" (Anderson, 2004). The California law allowing the medical use of...

Community Notification on Reported Sex Offenders

is a great deal of difficulty resuming normal life. This is true for any convict, but it is especially difficult for the sex offen...

Communication and Perception

from the West in so many respects, including the manner in which different cultures go about conducting business. Following are e...