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Domestic Violence, Psychological Theory, Culture, and Health Amy E. Contreras California State University, Long Beach Introduction There are a variety of factors that contribute into defining domestic violence. These factors can include physical assault, sexual assault, emotional and psychological abuse, and/or any other action that can be used by a spouse or partner to control or have power over the other person in the relationship. Domestic violence can be explained through…

Newton, & Carson, 2008). The increase in obesity among adolescents is partially due to a decrease in physical activity (Gao et al., 2010). Multiple guidelines suggest that children and adolescents participate in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity for a minimum of 60 minutes a day to improve their health and well-being (Lee, Kuo, Fanaw, Perng, & Juang, 2011). While it’s evident that consistent physical activity is beneficial to one’s health, there continues to be a problem associated with…

On average, 75% of Americans gain the majority of the weight during the holiday season. An NIH study found that people usually gain one to two pounds during the holidays and they almost never drop the weight. While that doesn’t seem like much. Gaining two pounds over the course of 10 years amounts to 20 pounds of weight that will be difficult to come off. Holiday weight gain can be tricky. That’s because you’re likely not noticing that it’s happening. You’re being invited to a ton of parties…

Addiction Recovery “While the path to drug addiction begins with the voluntary act of taking drugs, over time a person 's ability to choose not to do so becomes compromised.” (NIDA, 2009) Addiction is something that takes over your mind and body, changing the person you were before. Most people react differently to drugs, therefore there are many different methods to recover from addiction. Although it is not easy, it is possible. Some of the methods to help an addict…

Johnny Cade is a 16-year-old boy who lives in the neighborhood of Meadowbrook, with his mom and dad. Johnny’s parents are abusive, and he takes his parents’ abuse to him personally. On top of that, he doesn't quite get enough to eat, and he often sleeps outdoors. According to Ponyboy Curtis, one of his close friends, he says he “looks like a little dark puppy that has been kicked too many times and is lost in a crowd of strangers”. To make things even worse, Johnny was brutally beaten by the…

sweet Indian corn, (tapery) beans, squash, lentils and melons. The Sells Rodeo and Parade is another big ceremony that is held every February for the last 74 years. The Tohono O’odham also took advantage of wild game and native plants for food. Their diet largely consisted of crops they grew, fruits from the cacti, mesquite tree beans, acorns, cholla buds, and mesquite candy (sap from the tree.) Over the course of many centuries the Tohono O’odham metabolism had become well adapted to the…

Make sure a psychologist who specialises in personality disorders is involved from the start. The children must trust this person enough to tell them about everything that happens at the narcissistic parent’s house. Do not think that you are protecting the children be telling them that this parent loves them and means well. In the long run, this will do a lot of damage, as they will then believe they are deserving of such abuse. The psychologist must train them to see the patterns of abuse, and…

Homework 5 1. One of the important things that a caregiver must remember is that you cannot shake a baby to make them stop crying. While shaking a baby can lead to many other painful things to the child it can also give the child shaken baby syndrome. As it is stated in the book, caregiver might get frustrated with the child crying, and think shacking it will make it stop but all instead it can lead to this life threatening condition. Shaking baby syndrome is “a motion that ruptures blood…

'prisoners' by surprise. By Sunday evening, the guards were fitting into their roles of the stereotypical harsh guard, demanding that the (put in place/participant) prisoners take them seriously. Though Zimbardo had demanded of them to use no physical abuse, the guards, when they found they had a lack of authority, took it upon themselves to psychologically abuse the prisoners, making fun of them, manipulating them, and using relational aggression. Overnight, the situation intensified, so…

“Addiction a Brain Disease or Excuse” The article “Addiction Is a Brain Disease” by Ernest Drucker attempts to inform readers on the addictive property of “brain disease”. Drucker’s essay begins by describing the origin of the word ‘addiction’. He also includes the cycles of addiction and the relapse and withdrawal that drug users endure. A solid focus is directed towards the phases that drug user’s experience, but he provides modest details on how it is believed to be a brain disease. In the…