1000 Search Results for Child Abuse and Interventions
Nursing
Recent research shows that mental health problems can manifest in early childhood. As many as one in ten Australian children under five exhibit symptoms of social, emotional, and mental disorders including temper tantrums, difficulty adaptin Continue Reading...
Antisocial Behavior in Females with Comorbid Diagnoses of ADHD
Detention centers and residential treatment facilities are replete with male and female youth that have been in and out of the juvenile justice system for many years. Although the majori Continue Reading...
There are also theories on protective factors such as social control theory, which suggests that, absent social control force coming from the individual's bonds to community members (family, peers, school), youth will commit delinquent behavior natu Continue Reading...
Juvenile Delinquent and Mental Disorders
Analyze Empirical
Maltreated youth and delinquent behaviors
Maltreatment, Family and Childhood
Peers and Adolescence
Aging into Early Adulthood
Crime risk and out-of-home care youth
Juvenile Delinquent Continue Reading...
Consequently, aggression and/or hostility may arise. Golden presents practical technique, along with his anger management model, to help group leaders, parents, and others interested in helping teens learn to manage their anger in positive ways. He Continue Reading...
Education Special ED Post-Adoption
In the last fifteen to twenty years there has been a dramatic increase in the number of children adopted by American families, who are from the eastern European nations. This is particularly the case of children fr Continue Reading...
Causes of Juvenile Delinquency
Criminal Justice
The problem of juvenile delinquency is becoming more complicated and universal, and crime prevention programs are either unequipped to deal with the present realities or do not exist. Many developing Continue Reading...
Adolescent Bullying Fact Sheet
Nursing
Etiology/Pathophysiology/Incidence/Prevalence
Opinions regarding the etiology of bullying vary. As with many behaviors, there are those that contend that bullies learn and practice behaviors of aggression and Continue Reading...
Strengthening the Family Unit
Relationship Skills Center
Established: 2005
Populations served: Couples and single parents; families
Prevention of divorce
Conflict management
Communication skills
Problem solving
Mission Statement: To build a b Continue Reading...
Grandparents as Caregivers
An Introduction to the Skipped Generation
Families in the late 20th and early 20th century are not the same as they were prior to World War II and even up into the 1960s. The idea of marriage is both a social and religiou Continue Reading...
The level of accountability of the parents plays a huge role in influencing the drinking habit of the students. In a study that was conducted by Brigham Young University, it was found that when the youth feel their parents are directly accountable f Continue Reading...
Self-Efficacy and Oppositional Defiant Disorder
Oppositional Defiant Disorder
The challenges of adolescence have always loomed large for young people and for families -- for as long as adolescence has been a recognized stage in human development. A Continue Reading...
Principle 1: Family support and responsibilities
Support and supplement parents? And other family members? ability to carry out their responsibilities?
The Act (2006) provides for parents who are attempting to take good care of their families, ev Continue Reading...
However, in the case of this study it is a term that is applied to those children who exhibit successful adaptation even though their personal/home environment places them at heighted risk for maladjusted behaviors (141). It would then make sense th Continue Reading...
Such relationships in childhood begin with the parents, and for Asher, these early relationships are also significant later, as might be expected.
However, as Potok shows in this novel, for someone like Asher, the importance of childhood bonds and Continue Reading...
Categories and Phases of Loss and Grief for Nancy
Diagnostic Statement for Nancy
Nancy is obese and reports feeling anxious and depressed. Nancy has gained 15 pounds does not sleep well, has low concentration ability and is forgetful. Nancy has a s Continue Reading...
Premature Sexualisation
Public hysteria or "sex panic" involving the "sexualisation" of children may be getting a decent outing in Australia at the present moment, but it is certainly nothing new: fifty years ago it was Elvis Presley's hips that po Continue Reading...
According to reports coming out of Japan, teasing is often associated with poor performance, and may be instigated by teachers in many cases. America, it should be noted, tens to have an anti-intellectualism streak in its politics and nature, while Continue Reading...
Alter the Forensic Dynamics during an Interviewing Process
In this paper, we reveal how professional's attitudes, views, and knowledge do not necessarily match forensic research findings. Witness issues will then be discussed concerning research co Continue Reading...
Breastfeeding
Back in the day, when babies were born in homes they were kept close to the mother following the birth. As society evolved and the deliveries started occurring in nursing homes or hospitals, the skin to skin contact (SSC) norm began fa Continue Reading...
Divorce as an experience is never easy for anyone, not the adults and especially not the children, on which the effects of divorce can take a serious toll. However, there are some factors that play a significant role in determining the impact of tha Continue Reading...
Birth Order on Such Factors as Personality
Several people are aware of the expression "birth order" but they have not comprehended what it really connotes, hence allow us to begin with a fundamental description. (Understanding Birth Order: Part I: Continue Reading...
Social Work Dimension of the Primary Teacher's Role." This article is written about the British Education System that is similar to that of the United States. Often teachers have to act as social workers for the students and parents.
STUDY REVIEW O Continue Reading...
Secondary School Parent Involvement
Parental engagement in a child's learning is typically imperative and required for a student to realize their true potential and this is a generally accepted fact for a number of reasons. However, the level of inv Continue Reading...
Juvenile facilities provide intensive and specialized therapeutic programs with brilliant results. The juvenile placed in juveniles' corrections enjoy an education-centered curriculum and trained staff that functions exclusively with the juvenile o Continue Reading...
Health Assessment of Environmental Processes
Assessment of environmental processes includes agents and factors that may cause injury, illness, or death. Choose one of the following age groups: toddler, preschool, and school-age child. List some of t Continue Reading...
(Sampson, R. 1987) in one of the exhaustive juvenile crime studies that exist today, Professor Laub from the university of Maryland followed the lives of juvenile delinquent and non-delinquent boys at age 14, 25 and 32 respectively. All the boys wer Continue Reading...
Autonomy and Pregnancy
Personal autonomy lies at the heart of the pro-choice movement and is an issue that impacts every pregnant woman. Any person who has been pregnant can tell you that pregnancy has consequences to the individual, both short-term Continue Reading...
Dental Health Program for Low-Income Children
Oral Health Promotion
A child's socioeconomic status and gender are significant predictors of susceptibility to life-long dental disease (Broadbent, Thomson, Boyens, and Poulton, 2011). Male children an Continue Reading...
We made every possible attempt to contact as many programs as possible. This was mainly through contacting various advisors, coalitions, staff, networks and directories. There were also several telephone calls as well as reminders (in the form of bo Continue Reading...
This is mostly experienced in case where the trauma caused psychological disorders, phobias, and depression, and this may go as far as inhibiting the maturation process of the child and even interacting with the emerging personality. According to Ne Continue Reading...
e. The exceptions made for impairment and age would open a Pandora's Box of legal precedence. The Death with Dignity Act and any other forthcoming active euthanasia laws will likely continue to follow the same line of reasoning, i.e. that it is the u Continue Reading...
Institutional Review Board
The focus of my research is on the factors which can inhibit the development of at-risk youth in urban locations. Understandably, research performed upon children is always of particular concern for institutional review bo Continue Reading...
Juvenile Crime Prevention
Most people consider delinquency prevention to be crucial to the development of a comprehensive and consistent approach to the problem of youth crime and delinquency. Traditionally, the evaluations have lacked an empirical Continue Reading...
There may be issues dealt with while on deployment that need to be worked through that may not be appropriate in a family setting -- at least at first. The main goals for this family are to open the lines of communication. Communication needs to be Continue Reading...
School Shootings as a Natural Escalation of Less Lethal, Juvenile Violence
The issue of youth violence is one very much in the news since the Columbine High School shootings and the other incidents of schoolyard violence that have occurred with gris Continue Reading...
Anti-Social Behavior in Adolescents
Current essay is a discussion of the antisocial behavior disorder amongst adolescents. The author critically reviewed studies on the topic. The literature suggests that neighborhood and peer holds a great influenc Continue Reading...
Juvenile Community Corrections
Corrections in Community-Based Settings
Community-based corrections: Factors to consider when dealing with juvenile offenders
One seemingly self-evident truth regarding juvenile offenders might seem to be that socio- Continue Reading...
Psychoeducation
Foster Care
Mentoring foster children: Psychoeducation in action
One of the developmental challenges for foster children is finding positive role models, particularly if they experience frequent upsets in their daily routine as the Continue Reading...
Josie Case Study
The author of this report is asked to look at a case study relating to a young girl named Josie. The author is asked to answer to four particular high level questions and provide clear and concrete advice and solution to each of the Continue Reading...