social and psychological interventions are important in youth mental health The most productive and creative generation of any nation are the youth, Australia included. Nations largely depend on the youth for almost everything hence the need to be Continue Reading...
17). Likewise, left untreated, mental health problems such as anxiety disorders can result in increased healthcare utilization over the lifespan, but access to effective and proven mental health treatments remains a problem across the country (Gauth Continue Reading...
This is discussed at length by Fusick and Bordeau (2004) "...school-based counselors need to be aware of the disturbing inequities that exist in predominantly Afro-American urban school districts, where nearly 40% of Afro-American students attend sc Continue Reading...
PSYCHOSOCIAL ISSUES AFFECTING African-American STUDENTS PSYCHOSOCIAL ISSUES AFFECTING African-American STUDENTS "They never want to hear what I have to say…it doesn't matter who started a fight, or what a teacher said to you that made you ma Continue Reading...
Community development is concerned with tackling inequities, and with understanding the interconnections and pathways between the various determinants of health for particular communities. The effectiveness of community development in health is enh Continue Reading...
forgiveness on human health. In its simplest form, the purpose of the study is to evaluate human psychological stress that might constitute a risk factor for heart disease. Further, the study will also evaluate the impact of forgiveness on heart dise Continue Reading...
Lesbian Health Care Lesbian Health Issues in a Heterosexual Society The additional burdens placed on the lives of minorities as a result of social exclusion can lead to health disparities. Social exclusion theory has been used in previous research Continue Reading...
Interventions for Mentally-Ill Adolescents Mental illness is a serious health concern in America today. The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) estimates that one in every four adults in America, which translates to approximately 61.5 millio Continue Reading...
(1999) which are: 1) Those with serious mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, bi-polar disorder with major depression and who use alcohol and drugs to self-mediate to cope with the symptoms; and 2) Those with borderline personality and anti-socia Continue Reading...
Psychosocial Aspects of Criminal Behavior Criminality is a multifaceted issue that is influenced by the presence or absence of several factors. The nature of these factors varies from biological and psychological factors, to social and environmental Continue Reading...
, Ellingstad, Timothy, and Brown, Sandra A. (2006). Adolescent Self-Selection of Service Formats: Implications for Secondary Interventions Targeting Alcohol Use. The American Journal on Addictions, Vol. 15, 58-66. The authors employed three format Continue Reading...
In the twenty-first century, women should have easy access to available resources to assist them in their pregnancy. In addition, available technology to detect difficulties during pregnancies is widespread in the medical field; however, disadvantag Continue Reading...
) Therefore, in the light of the above views, a central part of the solution to the problems of poor nutrition in adolescence is an awareness of the problems. This is a first step in the development of any effective program. In other words, the you 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...
Case Study: JasonIntroductionThis case study is of a 28-year-old male who has been transferred from the psychiatric unit to the acute hospital after three episodes of tonic-clonic seizure with subsequent altered conscious state. The purpose of the st Continue Reading...
Child emotional eating: definition, antecedents, and consequencesIntroductionThe latest Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-Fourth Edition-Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR) (American Psychiatric Association, 2000) defines an emotional eating episode as necessa Continue Reading...
Reducing Childhood Obesity in the USAIntroductionObesity among teenagers and younger children has exacerbated epidemic proportions in America, adversely impacting millions of lives. In the last thirty years, childhood obesity rates have increased thr Continue Reading...
(Feldman & Greenberg, 2005, p. 67) Staffing coordinators, often nurse leaders must seek to give priority to educational needs as a reason for adjusting and/or making schedules for staff, including offering incentives to staff not currently seeki Continue Reading...
This is particularly important when making decisions about court processes and sentencing practices in the juvenile court. The ability of youth to recognize that sanctions will drastically increase in the adult system is ample reason to justify the 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...
Research that the authors report in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy -- a peer-reviewed journal -- shows that adolescents abusing substances cause "stress-related symptoms" in parents (Yuen, et al., 2011, p. 250). The stress Continue Reading...
Best Practice/Making Improvements A clinical audit is an integral part of the healthcare system. Ferris (2002) defined Clinical Audit as the comparison of the actual clinical practice against the agreed and documented evidence-based standards in an Continue Reading...
Application of the PAS to the myriad cases that include some rejection of a parent by a child involves the eye of the beholder" (Grief, 1997, p. 134). When the rejection of a parent by a child is taken to the extremes that are characteristic of pare Continue Reading...
Piaget and Play What is / are the research questions explored in this article? Dougherty and Ray (2007) report that an estimated 20% of children and adolescents in the United States have treatable mental health problems and two thirds of these chil 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...
Parenting Style Influence on Excess Alcohol Intake Among Jewish Youth Ross Master of Science, Mental Health Counseling, College, January, 2008 Clinical Psychology Anticipated; December, 2016 The health hazards that are associated with adolescent Continue Reading...
There are many of these individuals, and it is time that this is changed. Parents often look away from these kinds of problems, or they spend their time in denial of the issue because they feel that their child will not be harmed by parental involv Continue Reading...
At one point or another in our lives, we are all beginners. We begin college, a first job, a first love affair, and perhaps a first dissertation project. We bring a great deal to these new situations, including our temperament, previous education, Continue Reading...
Figure 1 portrays three of the scenes 20/20 presented March 15, 2010. Figure 1: Heather, Rachel, and Unnamed Girl in 20/20 Program (adapted from Stossel, 2010). Statement of the Problem For any individual, the death of a family member, friend, pa Continue Reading...
Intervening With Juvenile Drug Crimes Researchers are now focused on developing and evaluating programs designed to break the drug-crime cycle that is common in juvenile delinquents. This paper will summarize existing literature about programs desig Continue Reading...
Curfews, military incursions, targeted killing, movement restrictions, arrests, terror acts, humiliation, poverty, and economic condition have affected every single person, right from infants to aged people. Volatility on a daily basis aggravates anx 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...
" American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 21(1), 111-35. A research team led by Dr. Michael French gathered to estimate the costs and benefits of residential and publically funded treatment programs for addiction issues. The team was derived from Continue Reading...
Cyber Bullying and Its Impact Over the past decade, attention has been drawn to cyber-bullying by the media and researchers. Research on cyber-bullying has covered the various behavior aspects; focusing mainly on demographic and personal factors of Continue Reading...
More and more children are becoming victims of cyberbullying with an estimated range of between 19% and 42% being bullied online at least one time (Wolak, Mitchell & Finkelhor, 2006). Reports also indicate that children who participated in tradi Continue Reading...
(Bower, 129) The Hyperactivity involves fiddling with hands or feet or squirms in seat; does not continue seating when is expected to; excessive running or climbing considered not appropriate in adolescence and adults; feelings of restlessness; fin Continue Reading...
Establishing an NP Led Wellness and Recovery Center for Deinstitutionalized Individuals Historically, nursing, and medicine professions have been loath to utilize tools commonly linked with mercenary aspects of business, such as market research and Continue Reading...
(Siziya, Muula, and Rudatsikira, 2007) The following labeled Figure 1 shows the factors associated with truancy among adolescents in the study conducted and reported in the work of Siziya, Muula, and Rudatsikira (2007) Factors associated with trua Continue Reading...
