Many families struggled with issues such as poverty, violence, health and mental health concerns. ... The Eastside Family Centre: The Eastside Family Centre is a one-stop, multifaceted, multi-partnered resource that is linked to existing services and community resources on the east side of the city. ... There are no restrictions to individuals or family groups. ... The average wait before seeing a counselor is less than twenty-five minutes. ... In 1991 the Eastside Family Centre provided 260 walk-in sessions. ...

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The root cause of this behavior can be a dysfunctional family, lower family income and family stress. It is known that African American youth from single mother families are at an elevated risk of externalizing behavior, compared to those who are from European American two-parent families. ... Co-parent (an individual, who may or may not be a family member, significantly involves in child rearing and parenting), is present in many African American single mother families, and this can probably explain the variability in adjustment among African American youth from single mother families. ... ...

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Taken into Consideration Pain intensity, disability, and cognitive-affective measures of catastrophizing and depression Subjects 303 subjects participated in this study, and all subjects reported experiencing chronic pain for an average of seven years. The average age of these subjects was 47. ... Pain severity was measured using a scale from 0-10 (1=no pain, 10=unbearable pain) Functional limitations were rated on a scale of 1-5 (1=no limitations, 5-completely non-functioning) Catastrophizing was rated according to the subject's painful/difficult experiences on a sale from 0-4 (1=n...

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A person with Alzheimer's disease will live an average of eight years and as many as twenty years or more from the onset of symptoms. ... It's not clear what specifically causes Alzheimer's, but age and family history are risk factors. ... It is more likely the combination of inter-related factors, including genetic factors, which are passed along family lines of inheritance, and environmental influences, which range from previous head trauma to educational level to one's experiences early in life. ...

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A person with Alzheimer's disease will live an average of eight years and as many as twenty years or more from the onset of symptoms. ... It's not clear what specifically causes Alzheimer's, but age and family history are risk factors. ... It is more likely the combination of inter-related factors, including genetic factors, which are passed along family lines of inheritance, and environmental influences, which range from previous head trauma to educational level to one's experiences early in life. ...

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* Social Support refers to various types of aid and succor provided by one's social networks * Optimism is a general tendency to expect good outcomes * 28% of men and 23% of women smoke regularly in the US * The life expectancy of a smoker is 8.3 years shorter than that of a non smoker * Nutritional patterns play a role in the course and management of diseases * Regular exercise is associated with increased longevity * AIDS means acquired immune deficiency syndrome where the immune system is gradually weakened and eventually disabled by HIV * The average length of survival for pe...

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They are specially trained and qualified to treat infants, children, adolescents, and adults as individuals, couples, families, and groups. ... When diagnosing and treating a patient, the elements of physical, genetic, developmental, emotional, cognitive, educational, family, peer, and social components are brought into consideration. ... Child and adolescent psychiatric training requires 4 years of medical school, at least 3 years of approved residency training in medicine, neurology, and general psychiatry with adults, and 2 years of training in psychiatric work with children, adolescents, a...

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On average, the annual salary of a psychiatrist is approximately $165,000. ... Psychologists work with individuals, couples, and even families to help them in whatever situation they may be in. On average, Psychologists spend seven more years in education after they finish their undergraduate degrees. ...

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Particularly, with the new trend of family diversity, for example single parent households. ... Families play a vital role in adolescent preparation and development into adulthood. ... (Yongmin, 2001) When an adolescent is raised in a house with one parent there is often more stress on the whole family. ... (Ngai-ying & Lau 1993) The average family is changing dramatically, peer groups are becoming more prominent in adolescents lives, and schools are increasingly stressful and difficult places to learn. ... The implications for this begin with the family and branch out into the communi...

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There are different kinds of happiness, such as someone can have an overwhelmingly happy due to the love they from their family and friends even though they have a crappy job as to someone who is the same level of happiness with no family or love but lots of money and wealth. There has been scientific evidence that one's average level of happiness and life satisfaction are both relatively stable (Costa, McCrae, 1984, 1986, 1988; Diener, 1994; McCrae, 2011). ...

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On average, young children watch about 100,000 acts of violence before they are through with their schools. ... The impact of T.V violence may be immediately evident in a child's behavior or may surface years later and young people can even be affected when the family atmosphere shoes no tendency towards violence. ...

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Introduction Often, when we think of a happy family, we think of the average nuclear family consisting of a husband, wife, and possibly two kids. ... Within the last century, the types of families we'd primarily see have changed significantly. ... According to Statistics Canada, "About 8 in 10 lone-parent families were female lone-parent families in 2011, accounting for 12.8% of all census families, while male lone-parent families represented 3.5% of all census families". (2011)The problem is that both fathers and mothers end up leaving their children's lives at young ages ...

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This compared with 19 percent of a control group, although methodological concerns have been raised over the socio-economic background of the control group; who were private school educated, a factor which may have affected their average physique. ... Information from the British National Survey suggested that rather than being larger than average, delinquents who commit serious crimes were in fact, smaller. ...

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However, possible causes include biological, family, school, and cultural factors. ... Family factors (such as domestic violence) are also considered to be strong contributing factors to emotional disturbance. ... Although various factors such as heredity, brain disorder, diet, tress and family functioning have been suggested as possible causes, but research has not shown any of these factors to be direct causes of behaviour or emotional disturbance. ...

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However, he had little adoration for his father who was unattached, verbally abusive man to the entire family. ... Ed then ran the family's 160-acre farm by himself. Physically speaking, Gein was an average man with a regular build, brown hair and light eyes. ... However, he still missed his family and in his solitude, Gein began to withdraw from reality. ... Expressed emotion is a definition for certain levels of criticism, hostility, and emotional involvement in an afflicted individuals life by the individual's family. ...

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However, his transition was low as he had no support from his family so when a major transition happened like bereavement he resorted to alcohol. ... Informal Learning takes place in a number of settings such as at home, youth centres and through daily interactions with family, friends and other people. ... The worker is based in the Rossmere area of Hartlepool and evidence from the Office for National Statistics (2013) shows the main areas of concern are low educational attainment at GCSE, increased levels of deprivation, child poverty at more than double the national average and poor health...

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His 'abnormal family set up' or movement through various foster homes caused him to remain in the phallic stage because he developed a sense of anxiety over his own perceived inadequacy as he came to associate his foster-fathers abusive nature with his own self worth. ... When his girlfriend, Skylar, presses to know about his past and family, Will becomes infuriated and violent. ... Maslow noted that on average, only one in a hundred people are able to become fully self-actualized/reach their full potential (Simply Psychology). ... His friends were such that they never questioned W...

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And the difference in one aspect between two children or adults can be greater than that between an average child and adult. ... For example adults can talk about family problems and the quest for extraterritorial. intelligence while a seven year old child could hardly find anything to say even if she is clever to understand what the two concepts are about. ...

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In the statistics section, we discussed terms involved with sorting data such as mean (average), median (distribution above and below 50 percent of the other scores), mode (most frequent), range (highest number-lowest number), and standard deviation (difference of a set of scores from their mean), which also are very useful when discussing data for collecting info and data in surveys. ... Nurture Analysis as it made me think about how I got my personal traits such as hard-working, which through this I discovered was both nature and nurture due to my family and adapting to the friends I'v...

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If creativity is about imagination and original ideas, defining the word creativity is not creative. So how do we 'define' creativity? In modern society people tend to have systems, structures, organizations and definitions for everything. There are too many definitions of creativity due to th...

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According to Forbes, in the 2011 Super Bowl, when compared to advertisements with animals, the average non animal Super Bowl ad was 14% less effective, and advertisements containing celebrities were 21% less effective (Forbes). ...

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About Cosima Niehaus Cosima Niehaus, in one term is, 324B21. In the series Orphan Black, Niehaus is a clone, a part of an experiment to study genetic identicals. Despite her genetics being a blueprint, Niehaus has developed her own life and own personality compared to that of her genetic sisters. She is on her way to complete her PhD in Experimental Evolutionary Developmental Biology, putting her at the far right curve in terms of intelligence. Niehaus, however, is eccentric and is often unconventional in her methods, but is still kind-hearted, incredibly ambitious, and can adapt to practicall...

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In the recent years, many disciplines have focused on understanding childhood. Researchers from psychology, sociology, human development, religious studies, and other disciplines have sought to analyze childhood. However, the fact that all these disciplines have held varying perspectives without the existence of a childhood studies as a core subject of study like feminism. This has limited the possibility of addressing research in childhood as a central subject of knowledge. Evidently, these disciplines have embarked on research, yielding interesting findings that have served to shed light on ...

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