Psychopathy is defined as a risk factor for sexual and physical violence in the future. Although psychopaths are not often motivated to pursue intervention, studies indicate that they can benefit from psychological intervention. Psychopaths are mainl Continue Reading...
Youth Services, Juvenile Justice System America's Cradle to Prison Pipeline: A Children's Defense Fund Report America is still a country in which underprivileged children are discriminated against and "pipelined" into a life of problems and failure Continue Reading...
, sum up what might be revealing about the juvenile justice system in its current incarnation. They say: "It is social institutions in the broader community -- families, churches, schools, social welfare agencies, etc. -- which have the primary mand Continue Reading...
functional casebook and extensively approved text provides valuable, inventive approaches for aiding children who experienced traumatic life situations like parental divorce or death, neglect and abuse, natural calamities and violence at school or i Continue Reading...
Birth Problems: Expecting Mothers Taking Illicit Drugs When women who are pregnant struggle with a drug problem, the drug use does not only affect the mother, it greatly affects the development of the fetus (Ornoy, 2002). This does not only stop dur Continue Reading...
Depression, according to the researchers, is one of the most often felt affects of raising grandchildren. Fuller-Thompson and Minkler (2000) suggest that this psychological problem may stem from a variety of stressors involved in parenting their gra Continue Reading...
Infants Who Witness Violence: Effects and Treatments INFANTS WHO WITNESS VIOLENCE: EFFECTS AND 1 Age Span Differences Effects on Infants A Sleeper Effect Stunt Babies' Intellectual Development Cerebral Effects Disturbance of attachment and its Continue Reading...
Social Work Exercises Preparing for 3 Clients Mrs. Nancy Cannon telephoned from her place of work ( the Capital Insurance Company -- phone [HIDDEN] She sounded concerned. She said that on the previ-ous Saturday night, her 14-year-old daughter Amy h Continue Reading...
The research will address the following research questions, in addition to the central hypothesis. How malleable are generational boundaries? In other words, how willing are teens to adapt to new generational boundary styles? Are generational boun Continue Reading...
Birth Order and Juvenile Delinquency Psychologists have long studied the effects of birth order on a person's personality. Sigmund Freud, for example, believed that "the position of a child in the family order is a factor of extreme importance in de Continue Reading...
Family Policy Integration Family Policy I discourse on family policy integration and education including a systematic approach to family policy and overview of the many reasons family integration helps communities prosper. Detailed analysis of why Continue Reading...
Teenager's Brain A Teenagers Brain The teenage brain is different from the normal adult's brain in which "…various parts of the brain work together to evaluate choices, make decisions and act accordingly in each situation." (Edmonds, 2010) T Continue Reading...
133). In sum, low-income blacks and males continue to be responsible for a disproportionate number of juvenile homicidal acts, but juvenile homicide is not restricted to these age, ethnic or socioeconomic groups (Heckel & Shumaker, 2001). Impac Continue Reading...
Litzelfelner's Factual and Discussion Questions Answers of Factual Questions The CASA's medium size program represented 90 children. The 53% of CASA group reported caregiver substance abuse; however, 35% in Comparison reported caregiver substance 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...
Night Mr. Tom "William is changed by Mr. Tom, but Mr. Tom is also changed by William" ~ Good Night Mr. Tom Author Michelle Magorian's 1981 novel Good Night Mr. Tom tells the story of young William Beech. William is evacuated from London during th 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...
Teenage pregnancy issues should be undertaken by putting into practice programs that will help prevent teenagers from becoming pregnant. Health care providers need to devise intervention programs that allow family, school and society in general to Continue Reading...
Juvenile Crime RISE IN JUVENILE CRIME This paper is about the rise of juvenile crime. It reveals the factors responsible for the high rise in crime and steps on how we can curb it. Juvenile crime is a major problem for people nowadays. Young childr Continue Reading...
" The subject describes how his mother also adamantly refused to consent to the use of Novocain or any other anesthetic when he visited the dentist (despite his pleas and pleas from the dentist) because of her distrust of "chemicals." There is likel Continue Reading...
Teen Violence Imagine being caught in the middle of a crossfire with two students shooting and you are right in the middle of it. Well that is exactly what students and teachers in Littleton, Colorado went through. On April 20, 1999, at approximatel Continue Reading...
D., a senior child-protection specialist with the Christian Children's Fund. "You don't falter. You don't disobey. Any show of weakness and you're killed" (Amber, 2004). Hamer (2010) writes "Child soldiers were portrayed as having no connections in Continue Reading...
seminar was revolving more around why childhood education is important and the various credentials that support increased effort in this arena. Even though there were many related topics covered in this seminar, the major objective and goal is the r Continue Reading...
Social Change, Leadership, And Advocacy Applied The objective of this work is to identify at least one professional or societal problem or issue that concerns you and that would benefit from social change, leadership, and advocacy and explain why it Continue Reading...
Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) program. I chose this program because it is part of a nonprofit organization's attempt to prevent abused and neglected children from getting lost in the welfare system. For this reason, the program chooses cou Continue Reading...
Consequently, these differences in mental abilities necessitate the fact that children or juvenile offenders should be tried separately from their adult counterparts because of their mental abilities. Those in opposition to the juvenile justice syst Continue Reading...
In modern America, there is a sense of a child belonging to his or her parents, and it not being the right of anyone else to interfere or participate in the raising of this child. From this mindset is born the very distinct line drawn between the in 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...
Yellowbird Family Case Study The case of Jason Yellowbird and his family is an all-too-common one: pregnant with him at the age of seventeen, Jason's mother Carol marries Jason's father, Stone Yellowbird, only to divorce him when Jason is four years Continue Reading...
Conference Review Due to a wide and complex variety of social and economic issues, students as young as six or seven years old in American classrooms exhibit behavioral and developmental problems. As a student teacher of young grade school children Continue Reading...
Depression and Teen Violence Few issues in society transcend all economic, educational, ethnic, gender, intellectual, occupational, political, religious, sexual, and social boundaries. Depression and teen violence are two such issues, impacting ever Continue Reading...
Teenage pregnancy can be defined as pregnancy that occurs in young females aged under 20 years (Dickins, Johns, & Chipman, 2012). In Western civilization, teenage pregnancy is treated negatively, because young females are expected to study and on Continue Reading...
Family Involvement Brochure 2143139 How can you ensure the involvement of family members into your plan for servicing your special education population? The need for a collective effort is obvious when dealing with young children in special educati Continue Reading...
According to McGoldrick recognizing these repeated patterns in families can help individuals understand and deal with them today, potentially combating their effects. The work is noted as a guide to dealing with unresolved grief. Though the work is Continue Reading...
Yet the reader can easily piece together this scenario: the harried working mother trying to find a spouse sends away her daughter so that (as an unattached woman) she can pursue romance and remarriage. That the daughter had been shuffled out of the Continue Reading...
This work clearly contributes to the field through a greater understanding of the impact of cognitive developmental level upon depression. This information could dramatically aid councilors and other clinicians in their ability to treat or even pre Continue Reading...
compromised early attachment relationship becomes a risk factor in a child's development by adolescence. The writer explores the theory that it sets the teens on a course for subsequent violence including domestic violence and non-intimate violence. Continue Reading...
Father Abandonment Issues Continued Teen Pregnancy Father abandonment affects females in one area where it simply cannot affect males. When dealing with reproduction, daughters who have absent fathers tend to repeat this cycle of family practice an Continue Reading...
Juvenile Criminals As social systems expand to cover the ever growing social dynamics, the norms governing social behaviors are losing their ability to control behaviors. Over the years, concerns over the rising level of crimes committed primarily b Continue Reading...
Criminals -- Born or Made Since the construction of the first civil society, behavioral rules distinguishing what is acceptable and what is criminal have existed. Even though individuals typically have a concept of conventional moral behavior, crimi Continue Reading...
