995 Search Results for Substance Abuse
Educator PerspectiveHow can community health efforts affect the leading causes of death for the adolescent and the young adult age group?Adolescents and young adults are at a critical juncture in their lives, when many health-related behaviors are es Continue Reading...
Criminal Justice Program Evaluation: Oklahoma County Veterans Treatment CourtA growing body of scholarship confirms that many military veterans, especially combat veterans, experience difficulties in transitioning to civilian life. Although the vast Continue Reading...
African American Youth Mental HealthOverview.This paper summarizes an interview with Tracy Nia about her work as a youth wellness consultant. Her selection is that Tracy Nia, a Black Mental Health Alliance consultant, has diverse experience in mental Continue Reading...
Concept of the Impaired NurseIntroductionImpaired nurses cannot meet the requirements stipulated by the code of ethics that governs the nursing profession and the standards of professionalism dictated. Typically, impaired nurses neglect their fundame Continue Reading...
Factors Influencing Recidivism among Juvenile OffendersApproved by:_____________________________________Spring 2021Table of ContentsTitle Page. 1Table of Contents 2Abstract ...... 3Chapter One: Introduction... 4Statement of the Problem............... Continue Reading...
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This paper explores concerns about aging in the modern-day. It also examines the psychological problems that older people face. The paper sheds light on the social networks and the families within which the aging people operate. There is Continue Reading...
How Internet Addiction Impacts Teens Health
Introduction
The hypothesis of this study is that the Internet influence on adolescence can be negative in terms of mental, social and emotional health if Internet engagement is not moderated.
This research Continue Reading...
Summary/synthesis of what I learned
The goal of the probation program is to help offenders to change for the better and to maintain that change. The probation program also works to ensure communities remain safe even while offenders are given a chanc Continue Reading...
Part 2 Communications and Social Media Tools
The relevance of social media utilization in healthcare contexts for communication purposes has in the past become largely apparent (Thielst, 2013). For this reason, it would be prudent to assess some of t Continue Reading...
Overmedicating in the Military: A Case Study into How Holistic Care and Preventive Practices Can Address the Problem of Substance Abuse among Overmedicated Troops
Abstract
This case study examines the problem of overmedication in the military. It dis Continue Reading...
Introduction
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common neurobehavioral childhood disorders with 5% of school children being affected by the disorder (Czamara, Tiesler, Kohbock et al., 2013). According to the DSM-V (201 Continue Reading...
Recovery can be a difficult journey for many. The reality of having to change old habits for new ones can take a lifetime. The recovery approach/model realizes the struggle of change and transformation and makes it so that way emphasis is not placed Continue Reading...
healthcare policy, using a Congressional bill introduced into the American parliament in its present legislative session.
Introduction/Problem Description
Paul Raeburn was faced with hardly any good alternatives when he required immediate assistan Continue Reading...
National Council for Behavioral Health (n.d.) points out, at least thirty percent of active duty military personnel suffer from a serious mental health disorder that requires treatment, but less than half of these individuals receive treatment. Howe Continue Reading...
Career Assessment Plan for Jeremy
Career planning and development is an important process in personal and professional development that requires comprehensive self-assessment. The need to conduct a self-assessment is attributed to the fact that care Continue Reading...
Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test
It is assessed that at least 20 out of a hundred of adults who visit a physician have had an alcohol issue at one time. Also, in a survey of patients self-proclaimed to an inpatient service, 15 to 30 out of a hundr Continue Reading...
Sobell research was to decide which of the two interventions was most effective. The research methods used by those conducting the interventions were thorough, thoughtful, and meticulous, and totally appropriate for volunteers hoping to at least cut Continue Reading...
Efficacy of Provider Cultural Competency Training for Reducing HIV Prevalence among African-American Adolescent Females
Risky behavior is common among adolescents, some might even say expected, but the risks taken can sometimes lead to tragic, life- Continue Reading...
D.A.R.E. program teaches kids how to recognize and resist the direct and subtle pressures that influence them to experiment with alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, and other drugs. Did you or anyone you know go through the D.A.R.E. curriculum? What do you Continue Reading...
Opportunities to Improve Rehabilitation Programming at Joseph Harp Correctional Center, Lexington, Oklahoma
This paper provides an overview of Joseph Harp Correctional Center, a medium-security prison located in Lexington, Oklahoma, including its m Continue Reading...
Treatment vs. Punishment
Treatment Concept
Juvenile crime is often serious because of the ability to represent a significant proportion in relation to the total criminal activity within the community. The normal assumption indicates that adolescent Continue Reading...
Suicide Risk Management at Veterans Affairs
Suicide Risk Management Issue U.S. Department Veterans Affairs Hospital
Suicide prevention is a major national management issue in Veterans Affairs centers with a system wide suicide prevention program in Continue Reading...
There are, for example, great differences among states regarding the way in which these systems are managed and the rights and responsibilities of officers for both sectors of the legal system.
In New Jersey, the goal of probation is to promote the Continue Reading...
Disorders in Older People
Alzheimer's and Eating Disorders and how they affect Older Adults
Alzheimer's and Eating Disorders and how they affect Older Adults
Disorders in Older People
Alzheimer's-Type Dementia
Eating Disorders
Disorders in Olde Continue Reading...
PDP
The mission of Walden University contains three core components. The first component is the nurturing of a "a diverse community of career professionals." The second component is providing the individual and the community with " the opportunity t Continue Reading...
Values Portrayed in Popular Music: Argumentative Essay
The content or meaning of the words accompanying today's popular music is such that serves to define, direct, inform and ultimately bring about cohesion within society among various views provid Continue Reading...
Advocacy Strategy: Domestic Violence Against Women
Arizona Coalition Against Domestic Violence states domestic violence is a pattern of behavior that includes the use or threat of violence and intimidation for gaining power and control over another Continue Reading...
Perinatal HIV Transmission
Aggregate Population
One of the more tragic consequences of the HIV / AIDS pandemic is the prevalence of infected children. An estimated 4 million children have been diagnosed with the disease worldwide since HIV was firs Continue Reading...
daunting issues in academia is and has always been plagiarism. The age of technology, especially with the introduction of the Internet has made a classic issue like plagiarism even more easily accomplished both by those who have full the intent to p Continue Reading...
Anorexia nervosa is a serious eating disorder that results from an individual's intense preoccupation with body weight. Individuals with anorexia have difficulty maintaining a normal body mass index score, and frequently make continued efforts to los Continue Reading...
For example, Ruiz (2006) points out that, "The role that EAPs play in attenuating these potentially disruptive issues is difficult to assess because companies zealously guard results of their programs from the public eye" (46).
Despite these constr Continue Reading...
These conditions include maternal anemia, maternal diabetes, and maternal high blood pressure during pregnancy, which increase the risk of anorexia in the child. After-birth complications in the newborn infant such as heart problems, low response to Continue Reading...
This essentially would send John to a treatment facility where he will undergo constant monitoring, education, and counseling. (Sims 2005; p. 106; Lewis, 2002; p. 77).
After successfully completing his inpatient treatment program, John still cannot Continue Reading...
" (Bean, 2006) Bean notes that a "dramatic decline in the influence of father involvement has been shown to be correlated with fathers' maintaining a residence other than that of their children." (2006)
According to the work entitled: "Theoretical M Continue Reading...
Athletes may take simulants, narcotic analgesics, anabolic steroids, beta blockers, diuretics, peptide hormones, or engage in blood doping, a technique to increase packed cell volume by re-infusing previously drawn blood. Drug testing is not standar Continue Reading...