Category: Abuse

According to Pezdek, Blandon-Gitlin, and Gabbay (2006), imagination can induce false autobiographical memories. When plausible events are imagined, they elicit false memories which are not common in implausible events. They categorized childhood sexual abuse as being an implausible event questioning therapists’ claims of inducing false memories. The best measure for plausibility could be gotten after…

Abuse of methamphetamine by pregnant women is a significant cause of concern among health practitioners due to the effects of prenatal and postnatal exposure of children to the drug. Scientific research on the impact of prenatal methamphetamine exposure illustrates the adverse effects of the drug on the gestational age and birth weight. Children of methamphetamine…

Table of Contents Personal reactions Effects of my reactions to my interactions Effective strategies for managing these reactions References Personal reactions The case of a 3-year-old boy, Juan Hernandez, abused by his father, is quite a shocking and thought-provoking experience. Unfortunately, child abuse is not a rare occurrence and, therefore, needs to be studied to…

Table of Contents Introduction Main body Conclusion Introduction It is evident that there is great controversy over the truthfulness of recovered memories of sexual abuse. The significance of the topic of child sexual abuse is heavy enough to make society pay sufficient attention to the issue so as to find out how to verify adulthood…

Table of Contents Introduction Description of the current event Description of the relevant theory Application of the theory Reference List Introduction This paper is aimed at analyzing a current event from a social psychological perspective. In particular, it is necessary to focus on the case related to the so-called Penn State child sex abuse scandal.…

Erin Merryn had reached her seventh birthday when a neighbor stole her innocence (Blad, 2014). When she was thirteen years old, a family member raped and molested her. All her abusers had threatened to kill her if she spoke about it. Merryn transformed her silence into a childhood diary. She later turned the childhood diary…

Table of Contents Introduction Background information (overview of the topic) Conclusions References Introduction The problem of substance abuse is of great importance for designing various initiatives preventing addiction among different population groups. The paper aims to examine the reasons why people get addicted to a substance from their psychological and biological perspectives and the effects…

Descriptive statistics were employed in the study to examine the data and spot trends in substance abuse among college students. The techniques are suitable since they enable the researchers to investigate the prevalence of various chemicals used in e-cigarettes and comprehend how college students see these items. However, reliance on self-reported data, which may not…

This paper reviews the specifications of senior citizens abuse. The contemporary evaluation studies of the elderly citizens’ emotional stability prove that there is a consistent percentage of offensive treatment towards the seniors both in the family environments and asylums. Thus, the old people are regularly abused by those individuals who are entitled to provide them…

The selected article is written by three scholars from The Berkeley Media Studies Group, an independent group that promotes public health. The work is devoted to the problem of representation of child sexual abuse and the ways of prevention in American newspapers between 2007 and 2009. Introducing their article, the authors explain the significance of…