138 Search Results for Homeless Veterans
Furthermore, the VA hospitals are devoted to new research on Parkinson's disease in the development of surgical treatment for late-stage patients for whom medical therapy is no longer effective and development of new medications, which are more effe Continue Reading...
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Abuse
This paper will highlight post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and its related causes such as abuse. The main idea here is to overview some of the causes of this disorder and to relate it with physiological Continue Reading...
CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE ON WOMEN INVOLVED IN PROSTITUTION
Conceptual Paper
Millions of children around the globe are sexually abused or exploited. This paper includes several descriptions of studies that relate sexual abuse during childhood to delinque Continue Reading...
London Housing
The research was undertaken to study the link between inequality and depravity, poverty and crime in the housing structures of London. The study found that there is wide spread economic disparity in London. This divide is evident in t Continue Reading...
PTSD (Posttraumatic Stress Disorder)
PTSD (Post-traumatic stress disorder) refers to a mental health condition that is set off by a horrifying event; through either witnessing or encountering it. Some of the symptoms are nightmares, flashbacks and Continue Reading...
Even in modern times, a disproportionate number of homeless people are Vietnam vets. Obviously, the Vietnam War had an impact on American history. However, the end of the Vietnam War had an ever greater impact on the American psychology.
The Vietna Continue Reading...
Poverty
The guidelines for professional integrity are focusing on creating moral standards for everyone to follow. This is achieved through offering leadership in the areas of: duties, responsibilities, communication, interacting with stakeholders a Continue Reading...
Ethical Decision-Making Issues for a QA Project Manager in the Department of Veterans Affairs
Today, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) operates the country's largest healthcare system, and an important part of that system is overseeing the qua Continue Reading...
Some patients feel helpless, hopeless, depressed, isolated from others, belittled, and do not know how to seek appropriate help from others (Rutter 2004). Socially supportive arrangements were addressed as the attributes of socially legitimate roles Continue Reading...
Abstract
Indeterminate sentencing laws allow judges to give convicted felons a window of time rather a specific sentence length. With indeterminate sentencing, the judge provides a minimum and a maximum but defers authority regarding when a prisoner Continue Reading...
Mental Illness and Substance Abuse
Does mental illness cause substance abuse addiction or does substance abuse addiction cause a mental illness diagnosis? Does it go both ways?
A complex relationship exists between substance abuse and mental illne Continue Reading...
Care
Impact the Continuum of Care Plan
As the county assistant of Buncombe County Department of Human Services, I am in charge of Continuum of Care in our county I have created a plan from the Buncombe County, North Carolina Continuum of Care Prog Continue Reading...
Waldie writes of his family home in Long Beach, "Rooms are small in houses that have less than eleven hundred square feet of living area. The room I slept in was ten feet by ten feet" (Waldie 29). Davis goes one step farther when he discusses the di Continue Reading...
Child and PTSD
THE CURSE OF EMOTIONAL TRAUMA
Post-traumatic Disorder
Nature equipped the body with an inherent mechanism to avoid danger or defend oneself against it (NIMH, 2013). But in some persons, this naturally protective mechanism goes haywi Continue Reading...
It is important for an individual to have values. Personal values are the ideals that guide an individual in how they live their life (Barrett Values Center). They express an individual’s motivations and what is most important to them. Values i Continue Reading...
Utilitarianism
The author of this report is to offer a fairly extensive essay about three general questions relating to utilitarianism. The first question pertains to John Rawls and his deconstructions of utilitarianism and what came to be known as Continue Reading...
Human Services Assistant
The main job of human service assistants is to help people overcome very difficult times, or get more support. They give assistance to co-workers, like social workers, and help customers discover community services or benefi Continue Reading...
Group Annotated Bib
Annotated Bibliography
Crits-Christoph, P., Johnson, J.E., Connolly Gibbons, M.B., & Gallop, R. (2013). Process predictors of the outcome of group drug counseling. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 81(1), 23-34. Continue Reading...
Governmental healthcare centers concentrate on providing primary care to individuals and to control and manage the spread of infectious diseases and to manage natural disasters (Christian et al., 2008). However, in the public domain, health care diff Continue Reading...
Vietnam War
A Short Analysis of the Economic Impacts of a War that Changed a Generation
The Vietnam War is a very recent conflict. It is remembered not just by grandparents, like World War Two, but many still have living parents who recall with hor Continue Reading...
Nursing & Women's Roles Pre-and-Post Civil War
The student focusing on 19th century history in the United States in most cases studies the Civil War and the causes that led to the war. But there are a number of very important aspects to 19th cen Continue Reading...
Sociology Discussion Responses
Response to Post #1
The issue your raise in terms of the long-term negative consequences on the lives and well-being of caregivers is an extremely important one. As you mention, there are various sources of significan Continue Reading...
Smoking Ban
Tobacco smoke should certainly be considered a toxic chemical, and its risks to human health have been well-known for decades. Any reasonable person -- or indeed anyone who is even slightly familiar with the medical and scientific eviden Continue Reading...
In most cases thus the violated woman soldier prefers to suffer silently and try to get over it as one of those things that happen in life. There is also the issue of military culture that demands that soldiers suffer in silence and never let their Continue Reading...
Assessing the ability of these individuals to perform basic tasks in their daily lives can also have much significance (Marshall, Warren, Hand, Xie, & Stumbo, 2002). Many older Americans are able to feed and clothe themselves without apparent p Continue Reading...
Human Services
Societies conventionally have chalked out the programs to sustain people who are not able to support for themselves especially old people, people having disabilities, people who do not have family etc. The Code of Hamurabi, devised by Continue Reading...
Introduction
With Elon Musk of Tesla advancing the field of automation at a rapid pace and envisioning a million “robotaxis” on the roads by 2020, the question of risk management is one that has to be considered with respect to the field Continue Reading...
Leadership philosophy denotes the values, beliefs, and principles that define or influence how a leader leads their followers. There are many different leadership philosophies, but one philosophy that particularly resonates with the author’s le Continue Reading...
Liberty Mutual.
Evaluate their product mix, features, prices, distribution and financial performance information
• Identify 2 strengths and two weaknesses for each brand
• Recommend at least two ways that Liberty Mutual can improve sale Continue Reading...
Disaster Management
non-governmental organizations (NGO) provide support during times of emergencies. Your task is to research the various NGOs (at a minimum three such organizations) that provide this support and post your results and cite the sour Continue Reading...
Healthcare as an Obligation of Each Citizen
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The commercialization of services and goods has been on the rise with the prevalence of globalization to an extent that even essential services that human cannot survive without like the health Continue Reading...
Overstock.com
The online environment today has created a world in which companies can become either massive or fizzle out without ever having been known to exist. It is often the case with massive companies that they tend to lose the individual touc Continue Reading...
Pelican Bay State Prison: War Zone
How does the video you selected support a social structure theory?
One social structure theory relates and highlights all the happenings in this video. Social disorganization theory appears to dominate the entire Continue Reading...
Holmes helps to elucidate the connection between the message of faith in the scriptures and compassion required to convey this through the oratorical exhorting of observation.
This helps to highlight once key area of continuity between preaching in Continue Reading...
Transgender Employment Discrimination
There is a growing body of evidence that transgender individuals frequently experience some type of discrimination during the employment process in the United States today. Although there are only a few high-pro Continue Reading...
Legal Book Review: The Buffalo Creek Disaster
The Buffalo Creek Disaster was one of the costliest preventable tragedies in the history of American coal-mining. An impoundment dam burst in a coal mining West Virginia town, precipitating a deadly floo Continue Reading...