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Guidance Clinic diagnosed JoeVaughn with Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder and recommended therapeutic group home housing. However, after reporting that he wished to leave his mother’s home, a psychiatric evaluation was conducted on 12/9/14 by Dr. Reynolds, who diagnosed him with Mood Disorder, NOS, Conduct Disorder, and Parent-Child Conflict and recommended placement in a therapeutic group home. On 12/17/14, JoeVaughn was admitted for a 21-day evaluation at Psychiatric Institute of…

An investigation into whether the knowledge and understanding of food labelling are associated with obesity in particular consumer groups. INTRODUCTION Over the past 20 years, the rates of obesity and overweight have increased significantly (Visscher, 2001) and is diagnosed as one of most serious threats to public health of the time (Katz, 2005). Differences in related policies and health behaviour may be one of the causes (WHO, 2000) or lack of food labelling knowledge in the process of…

From many perspectives, people in America tend to think that race relations have grown considerably worse in the past decade. Within the past century there have many changes to how races in American interact with each other, however, there is still much to be done. Rights’ activists fight for the total equality of the American public, which many Americans like to believe already exists, but is this true? How can I form my opinion on whether or not there is equality and how can I determine the…

Being in this class this spring semester has given me a much more broad perspective on the lives of people who are living in poverty. Before this class I had not known many of the statistics that we have been learning in class, about not only poverty, but also of the ethnic minorities and or caucasian people living in it. This class taught me about the different kinds of poverty, the different people in it, and how we as the people can do something about it. Before I had this class I had…

essentially ignored and placed in the category of “black” or “close to black.” This theory of two dominant racial groups has a descriptive and prescriptive version. The descriptive version makes a descriptive accusation about the basic nature of racism in America. This version looks at how racial groups and ethnicities already operate in America and base all of the different racial and ethnic groups of people off of that. Alcoff stated that Asian Americans and Latinos have been characterized…

experiences of micro-level social care (Wang and Schneider, 2000). Particularly, lv et al. (2014) generate a study, which focuses on the older people with disabilities to analyse the influences of community care intervention. The paper adopts focus group interviews to collect data with 10 older people with disabilities who are suffering chronic diseases, by conducting a qualitative research method, finding community care including friendly interactive relationship, physical and mental health…

provides a comprehensive view of groups throughout the lifespan. The groups looked at are; groups for children, groups for adolescents, groups for adults and groups for older adults. Gladding considers group to be an important aspect throughout the lifespan. Group work with children is looked at by Gladding (2008) as “work with children under the age of 14 that requires a special knowledge of child development and group theory” (p. 245). Consequently, when conducting group work with children,…

Foster care organizations raise and supervise over 200,000 children a year trying to find the right home for the child to grow and mature the right way. In some circumstances the children do not find the right fitting family for them and or make the wrong decisions that end them up into the juvenile justice system. From October 2010 to September 2011, 44 percent of foster care children were arrested at least once. Abuse and neglect that result in the child being removed from the birth parents,…

Introduction As the days closed in on the final deadline of Greek life enrollment here at Central, I found that the decision to join did not get any easier. I had heard so many fun stories from my mother and older friends already in college, that greek life was the way to go and it would give you so many fun activities to participate in. At the time all of my roommates were signed up to rush and it seemed like I was the only one who hadn 't joined yet. The amount of peer pressured I endured to…

manipulation tool in relationships (Merten, 1997, p. 180). This meanness can also revert into the internal group, especially if the power of the group as a whole is threatened or diminished (Merten, 1997, p. 182). If someone of higher status were to be challenged, then the person of higher status could call upon other friends to direct their meanness to the challenger (Merten, 1997, p. 186). Sometimes groups will use a technique referred to as revealing and concealing in which they make it known…