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Designing and Implementing a Token Economy for the Mentally Unstable

to avoid changing the economy in response to cost contingencies, to provide reinforcers cheaply, and to include a number of token ...

A Homelessness Analysis

In eight pages this research paper examines David Snow and Leon Anderson's 1993 text Down on Their Luck: A Study of Homeless Stree...

Mentally Retarded Adults and Parents' Support Groups

In five pages this research paper discusses the benefits offered by support groups for developmentally disabled or mentally retard...

Group Counseling for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities

The mentally retarded are the focus of this paper that looks at group counseling. This is not an ordinary approach taken with this...

Frontiers Construction

In six pages the argument that men are largely responsible for establishing and maintaining new frontiers both mentally and physic...

Sandra Z. Kaufman's 'Retarded Isn't Stupid, Mom!'

This paper consists of 5 pages and considers mentally-disabled children and the key ideas and biases often associated with them as...

Handicapped Children and Educational Instruction

benefit from learning (McFarlan, 1998). All people are not born with the same abilities or the same cognitive ability. However, a ...

Astronaut Training

order to provide the necessary protection for themselves and their passengers if ever an emergency should occur (Anonymous, 2001)....

Interpersonal Conflict and Resolution Case Study of Mental Wellness and Deviance

is interesting to note is the extreme to which Johns antisocial behaviors and his substance abuse have determined his job path and...

Post Sixty Woman's Life Interview

In nine pages a woman who is over sixty suffering from MS is interviewed with questions regarding her life, transitions, major eve...

Higher Learning and Educational Policy for the Mentally Disabled

the same time, there is considerable leeway in designing classroom policy. The focus of these policies should not be limited to ...

The Death Penalty and Mental Retardation

arguments about the death penalty run the gamut and include rhetoric embracing issues of constitutionality to morality to fairness...

Feminism in the Work of Sylvia Plath

Slyvia Plath is regarded as one of the earliest feminist. Interestingly, feminism as a social movement was only...

The Medical Benefits of Yoga

the niyamas which are the individual observances, the asana which are postures, pranayama which is breath control, pratyahara whic...

Junior Reserves Officer Training Program

Navy. Research Topic As the literature will demonstrate, JROTC has many benefits for participants ranging from personal to academ...

Program for Reducing STIs in Mentally Disabled Populations

it is often believed that these individuals will not understand the risks involved and will not follow through with contraceptive ...

Public Guardianship

proposes a commission that would develop a recommendation for the State Legislature to create such an office. It further describes...

Addressing A Recurring Crime: Teen Rebelliousness

first element of establishing a proactive approach to addressing the issues of gambling and juvenile drinking problem in the Westw...

"Normal" Personality

meaning that is constantly up for interpretation within the psychiatric community. Clearly, the very concept of normal hinges upo...

The Use Of Nonlethal Force By Police

in order to achieve the same results; beanbag shotguns, tasers, stun guns, pepper spray and light blindness are just some of the a...

California Police Officers: Certain Physique And Weight Management

weight management in California police departments is now a focal point to maintaining a strong police force and decreasing the po...

Politics of Proposition 83

the point is that this issue cannot be discussed calmly. It is loaded with emotion and those who supported the measure counted on ...

Article Critique/Where Terminally Ill Prefer to Die

that puts the topic of this study, as well as past research, within an appropriate philosophical framework. Tang then cites the ...

Sex Offenders and the Correctional System

Even within the segregated unit there is a hierarchy: "People charged with rape and other sex crimes will attack child sex predato...

Intervention/Treatment Programs For Domestic Violence Offenders

is responsible for such behaviors as domestic violence. By exploring how women have dealt with these traumatic and exploitive occ...

Problems of Probation Offices

Community Service" (Probation division, 2001). How It Works Adult services, as the name implies, "is responsible for supervising...

Laws Regarding Sex Offenders and Their Constitutionality

a child sexual offender category but have committed an offense that is related to sexual abuse such as child pornography, solicita...

“The Female Offender” by Chesney-Lind and Pasko

them a growing population in the world of crime and incarceration. The first section of the book deals with such things as "Trends...

Overcrowding in German Prisons

one third during this period ("Where is"). While this increase differed in severity between German states, all states experienced ...

Law: Sexual Offenders

the "Other," its easy to discard them. This population will continue to face challenges in the future; including discrimination,...