Describe two possible interventions or tasks that you might be involved with in working with each population. ... I will also make my client aware of the devastating outcomes of living on the streets and being involved in risky behavior. ... They are also greater risk of severe anxiety and depression, suicide, poor health and nutrition, and low self-esteem. I will help my client get the medical attention that heshe needs because living on the streets and being involved with multiple sex partners can pose a great risk. ... National Runaway Safeline (NRS) mission is to help keep America's r...

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Describe two possible interventions or tasks that you might be involved with in working with each population. ... I will also make my client aware of the devastating outcomes of living on the streets and being involved in risky behavior. ... They are also greater risk of severe anxiety and depression, suicide, poor health and nutrition, and low self-esteem. I will help my client get the medical attention that heshe needs because living on the streets and being involved with multiple sex partners can pose a great risk. ... National Runaway Safeline (NRS) mission is to help keep America's r...

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Based on the findings, it is argue that participation in combat sports can distance individuals from nonstructural risk factors in behavioral, community/social and economic spheres. ... It was clear that the traditional philosophical and psychological elements were vital to being effective in reducing risk factors associated with offending. ... Ironically, because of the ethical issues involved in researching those less than 16 years, the focus is exclusively on adults. ... It has shown that combat sport participation can act as a protective factor which distances participants from socio-cultu...

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Risk factors associated related to the child's home environment often influence school aggression. ... Concern about violence reduces quality of teaching, limits teacher availability to be involved with school. ... Availability of guns, alcohol, and individual's perception of risk and reward influence the likelihood of violence. ... If a student has the chance to make healthy risks like being in a play or winning an academic award, taking risks and getting rewards will be a positive experience with a positive outcome and they will learn what risks are safe to take. It costs $62...

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A family history of depression does, however, appear to increase your risk. ... • Stressful situations - Going through a stressful life event doesn't mean that you"ll become depressed, but it can increase your risk. 1. ... Job Stresses • Past Experiences - people who have survived deeply upsetting events in the past, are at higher risk of developing depression. 1. ... Growing up with an alcoholic • Chemical Dependence - Dependence on alcohol or drugs can increase your risk of depression. ... But for some health conditions, it's often helpful to have a special...

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When the sufferer is a child, the family is ultimately involved in all aspects of the experience from onset diagnosis, to remission and recovery. ... Mood stabilizers are usually prescribed along with antidepressants, to minimize the risk of manic symptoms worsened by a antidepressant. ... Because the adverse-effect profile of SSRI's is less prominent, these have fewer side-effects, and there is less risk of overdosing (AACAP). ... However these psychotropic drugs are filled with stimulants, anti-psychotics and mood stabilizers, carry major risks for serious side effects, which include ...

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It is associated with the willingness to take physical, social, legal and financial risks for the sake of an experience. ... Risk takers on the other hand are quite similar to the hedonists. ... They achieve this by taking risks, which at times may be life threatening. Risk takers are involved in activities such as cliff diving, jumping out of an airplane and such like activities. ...

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Home chaos has been related to poor cognitive competence, less adequate language development, greater likelihood of a more difficult temperament, reduced mastery motivation, and an increased risk of accidental injury in children. ... Parents in chaotic homes have been shown to be less responsive, less involved, less likely to show objects to the child or to demonstrate how something works, less vocally stimulating and more likely to interfere with infant exploratory activities (Corapci and Wachs, 2002). ... Parenting Behavior as a Risk Factor for Children Maladaptive parental behavior has ...

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Curiosity is another main cause of how people become involved with this bad habit. ... Long-term effects include an enhanced cancer risk, a decrease in testosterone levels and lower sperm counts for men, an increase in testosterone levels for women and increased risk of infertility, and a psychological dependence requiring more of the drug to get the same effect. ...

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Later on in life children may be seriously affected by divorce, but divorce also increases the risk that a child will have behavioral issues or problems while the divorce is being dealt with legally. ... They are also more likely to become involved with substance abuse, breaking the law, and appear in juvenile court than children from intact homes. ... Risk factors such as high conflict with parents, the loss of important relationships and remarriage of the custodial parent or both parents can be the result of divorce. ... For years families avoided divorce because they feared it would be detr...

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Diffusion of responsibility means a reduction of a sense of urgency to help someone involved in an emergency or dangerous situation under the assumption that others who are also observing the situation will help (Gilovich, Keltner, Chen, & Nisbett 538). The way that this can be related to sexting is that teenagers get themselves involved in some dangerous situations if they are not careful. ... I have known a few people that have sexted before, and it really isnt worth the risk that it poses, as, they can get in a lot of trouble with what they send even through texting. ... You would not want ...

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In the book Integrity by Stephen L. Carter, Carter defines Integrity as requiring three steps: 1) discerning what is right and wrong; 2) acting on what you have discerned, even at personal cost; 3) saying openly that you are acting on your understanding of right and wrong. I think that according to...

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Identify what is meant by risk and protective factors as they relate to mental disorders. ... Risk factors can include biological, psychological, or social. Risk factors are associated with an increased probability a disorder will develop, but do not imply cause. Protective factors are the flip side of risk factors. Protective factors are associated with lower risk of mental disorders. ...

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The risks of overuse are more serious in the pediatric/adolescent athlete because they cannot handle as much stress as the mature bones of adults. (1243) This is precisely because children's coordination and motor skills are still developing, and their bones have not finished growing and hardening. ... As more children are becoming involved in organized and recreational athletics, the incidence of overuse injuries is increasing. ... The Committee on Sports Medicine and Fitness point out that "Anecdotal reports suggest risks of 'burnout' from physical and emotional stress, miss...

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Persons must have experienced or witnessed an event that involved actual or threatened death, serious injuries, or sexual violation." ... Though a traumatic event is widely accepted as the source of PTSD, researchers have discovered several different risk factors that affect an individual's susceptibility. "The risk of developing PTSD seems to be influenced by: the severity of the event, how long the traumatic event last, the proximity to the traumatic event, the type of traumatic event, whether the traumatic event was deliberately planned or accidental, and whether the person was previou...

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The experiments Asch conducted show a tendency for people to ignore their own senses rather then risk appearing different from the majority. ... Some of the first experiments involved college students who were asked to state their opinions about certain subject matters. ... Asch's first experiment involved seven to nine male college students. ... Acsh's next modification involved the "desertion" of the subject, i.e. the partner leaving the group. ...

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The symptoms can vary from mild to extreme depending on the individual involved. ... One study showed that, in addition to the previous finding, there is an increased risk of dying after bereavement for the recently bereaved, and there is a gender difference in that risk. ... They are different from adults in that their risk of mortality does not increase but their stress response reaction in the form of post traumatic stress disorder and depression risk does increase (Spuij et al., 2012). ... Different forms of treatment are utilized for adolescents and children. but they are still at risk o...

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This field is only one of the roles that psychologists can be involved in with the criminal justice system. ... Therefore psychologists have become involved with legal decision-making since that time. ...

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This can be seen from the fact that the researchers had to assure the human participants that by participating they faced no risk of withdrawal of health services from them or their children. ... The first method involved personal interviews with the participants. ... The second method involved obtaining data from the medical records of the children. ...

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After a series of questions were asked based on their family life, it was stated that men and women who grew up in families where fathers were genuinely involved from childhood were positively related to educational and occupational mobility. ... "Laine explained: being a non-residential parent I feel like I have to be involved with the school as much as I can... being in touch with the teachers." ... According to DiVerniero, "research shows that children in father-absent families have a heightened risk of delinquency and deviant behaviour.... Both Flouri(2006) and Stewart(2003) identifi...

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This essay shall outline the psychosocial influence on biological health and disease in general, specifying, where possible, mechanisms involved. ... Variety of biological and psychological conditions affecting a mother during pregnancy can have profound effects on a child's development and adjustment and hence are at significant risk for a variety of maladaptive behavior with diminished abilities to handle life challenges. ... Gross brain pathology (that in, physical malformation of or damage to the brain) neurotransmission irregularities, imbalanced biochemical system places a person...

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In this essay I shall look at the meanings of media effects and violence within psychology, the different methods used to study this phenomena and the ethical issues involved in each of these methods. ... Correlational studies into the effects of exposure to media violence have usually involved the participants detailing what programmes they like to watch and how often they watch them, these programmes are then assessed for violent content. ... There should also be no undue stress put on the participant and no greater risk than they would experience in their normal life. ...

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Personally, I believe that children learn much better when they are having fun, they become more involved in the lesson and are even eager to find out more on the subject and do independent learning after the school day ends. ... For example, the teacher may invite the head into his/her classroom and involve them in the lesson; show how the children can understand better when they are actively involved. ... Also, there is the risk that pupils may view this kind of learning as 'playtime' which may lead to lack of attentiveness. ...

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For example, Harvard Medical University conducted a research that involved three groups of adult volunteers who could play the piano. ... It could risk a teen's relationship with another person or people, it can affect their education (i.e., lower grades) or career opportunities because they're so involved in the internet. ...

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A student who is achieving less than her potential, is academically below grade level, or whose behavior at school has negative impact on her academic or social development may be an at-risk student. ... Unfortunately, the process has become so tedious and so misunderstood by people involved that there are several ways it needs to be improved. ...

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