Cohen & Wills, 1985; Kazak, 1989) . With enhanced treatments, HIV infection is now becoming a long-term chronic illness affecting hundreds of thousands of families . As a seri ous chronic illness, HIV infection is creating pressure o n health care and social and mental health service providers to design comprehensive systems for fami lies . For each of the more than 688,200 persons in the United States with AIDS, there are parents, siblings, aunts and uncles, and friends and partners in the fam ily
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perpetuate with his/her busy life and simultaneously be able to stay connected with his/her dear ones? The answer is to create a profile on social networking sites (SNS) like Myspace or Facebook, connect with the friends, and start sharing your thoughts and memorable moments of life by uploading the pictures or videos at your leisure. Post 1999, online social network sites like Myspace and Facebook have become common destinations for young people in the United States. Throughout the country, young
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Are College Campuses Doing Enough to Educate and Prevent Female Students from Domestic Violence Abuse? (Introduction) Domestic violence represents a severe and ongoing problem in the America as well as in other countries. Domestic violence can take place between partners of the same sex, and at times men are also victims of female partner abuse. However, in the vast number of cases, the victims are women who were battered by their male partners. In fact, each day the statistics on domestic violence
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Hate Group Paper By: Lynda Haynes CJHS/430 Instructor: Justina Smith The history of hate crimes shows us that we as Individuals have always had differences, and with the differences came crimes against others, murders, rapes and even loitering against those we did not feel were equal to us. In Virginia, The Ku Klux Klan has just started to reemerge itself into areas where they feel their work will most likely be appreciated, with of hopes of recruiting new members who like themselves are
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A STUDY ON DRUG ABUSE AMONG YOUTHS AND FAMILY RELATIONSHIP <<青年濫藥與家庭關係的研究 青年濫藥與家庭關係的研究>> 青年濫藥與家庭關係的研究 THE FINAL REPORT (FINAL version) February 2011 1 PREFACE The project on the study on “DRUG ABUSE AMONG YOUTHS AND FAMILY RELATIONSHIP” (“the Study”) is being undertaken by the Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention and the Department of Social Work and Social Administration at the University of Hong Kong (“the Consultant”). The research team comprises the principal investigator (PI), Professor
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Addis Ababa University School of Social Work Community Assessment Report Community: ANKORCHA By: Genene Yilma Yohannes Feyyisa Melsew Kibret Melese Yirga Mengistie Tegenie Feyisa Negashu Mussie Atlabachew Zebib Nesru Submitted to : Wassie Kebede(PhD)
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Research proposal Gender Discrimination and the Role of Education to Overcome it A. Introduction: 1.1 Background Discrimination is a growing problem in each and every society and it is deep rooted in the culture of many societies, which affect the everyday working life in innumerable ways. Discrimination is a well established phenomenon, which poses a great threat to economies, organizations and individuals
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the organization culture. My chosen organization is Weiser Park Youth Center (WPYC): an after school facility located in Fort Wayne Indiana. I will do an evaluation on Mr. Kweku Akan, who was the site director. I choose this organization because I was once an employee there for several years and will like to better understand how having Mr. Akan as a leader affected the organization culture. Organization Description Weiser Park Youth Center is a community center located in Fort Wayne Indiana. It
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International Research Journal of Finance and Economics ISSN 1450-2887 Issue 60 (2010) © EuroJournals Publishing, Inc. 2010 http://www.eurojournals.com/finance.htm Determinants of Generation Gap among Parents and Children in Multan City, Pakistan Tehmina Sattar Department of Sociology Ghulam Yasin Department of Sociology Muhammad Ishaque Fani Department of Pakistan Studies E-mail: fanibzu@gmail.com Saima Afzal Department of Sociology, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan (Pakistan) Abstract
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Over the years, it has been a topic of interest among researchers as to how some children manage to overcome adversity and thrive, while others suffer psychological and physical distress. As a result, much of the early research carried out on resilience looked at “three sets of factors implicated in the development of resilience: (1) attributes of the children themselves, (2) aspects of their families, and (3) characteristics of their wider social environments” (Vanderbilt-Adriance & Shaw, 2008
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