The awareness of addictions is growing at an alarming rate in the United States. Many health care professionals are working overtime in treating people with disabling addictions. But within the mental health care profession‚ many are divided as to the arising issue and cause of addiction. Deaths caused by drug overdoses have risen drastically over the pass decade. Many health care and drug treatment professionals are working overtime in treating people with disabling addictions. Within the mental
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Reflection Paper ________________________________________________________________________ At the beginning of the semester‚ I was not looking forward to this course the most. This is because I knew there will be group discussion with my classmates whom I am not familiar with. In addition‚ I need to give a speech in front of my classmates which made me worried and nervous since those are my weakness. However‚ after attending the lectures and tutorials for a few weeks‚ I started to gain interest
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graduated from the adoption process would count their blessings every day because of the peace and joy that their new family life offer. If a child’s parents are no longer able to adequately care for them or single motherhood is considered unacceptable‚ as is the case in some countries‚ then plans for adoption are made. Children are also abandoned near an orphanage in order to be adopted. Some parents involuntarily lose their rights because of child abuse or neglect due to alcohol or drug abuse. The child
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Reflection Paper PCN 500 July 26‚ 2010 Lynn Lunceford‚ Psy.D. Holly Willis A counseling theory has certain qualities‚ such as clear operational definitions so that it can be tested further. To be most useful‚ a counseling theory should be parsimonious yet comprehensive enough to include known related empirical findings. It should stimulate new discoveries and predict events deductively within its purview and preview. A counseling theory also should serve an organizing and explaining function
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Reflection Paper North of Manila‚ the island of Luzon tempted me with some wonderful mountainous areas‚ volcanic landscapes and a beautiful coastline dotted with heavenly beaches. Heading up the west coast from Subic‚ the Zambales coast amazed me being dotted with laidback resorts‚ while the Hundred Islands ‚ as they say‚ a favourite weekend trip from Manila‚ gave me an idea on what to visit this summer. As I remember‚ further along the coast‚ the province of La Union draws visitors particularly
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Reflection Paper A niece of mine had been diagnosed with a mood disorder when she expercied the death of a close classmate at the age of 16. She exhibited all the signs of a major depressive episode depressed mood for most of the day‚ nearly every day had lost interest and pleasure in all‚ or almost all‚ activities‚ for at least two weeks. She slept most of the time over a two week period‚ than she tried to kill herself‚ by taking a whole bottle of aspirin. Suicide lead to her hospitalization for
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Newborns and Addiction Many states are passing new laws‚ laws that will prosecute a mother‚ and remove the child from the home. Are you wondering what exactly these laws are being implemented for? As unbelievable as it may seem‚ and as sorrow inducing as it truly is‚ there are hundreds of thousands of newborns that are being born with active drug addictions. Unheard of by many‚ the reality of newborn addictions is something that has been on the rise for quite some time. In fact‚ the number of babies
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Reflection paper When I first entered the Cyborg Millennium Class I didn’t really know what to expect. When I went to the class on the first day on the fall 2008‚ I got a bit skeptic and I was thinking that maybe it was a bad idea to register to this class‚ because I thought that this class was for people that liked computers and technology and also that had to know a lot of things that had to do with computers. I certainly wasn’t one of these people that knew a lot about computers or that liked
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Reflection Paper Rebecca Lewis INF 103 Debra Austin March 14‚ 2011 What are the advantages and disadvantages of synchronous and asynchronous learning in an online class with students from different professions living all over the united states-just like Ashford? To be able to understand the advantages and disadvantages of Asynchronous and Synchronous‚ we have to know what they mean. Asynchronous learning is defined as‚ no set times for everyone to gather together. Synchronous learning is
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Reflection Paper – “Logically Social” The article is titled “Logically Social” on which it tackles the role played by Logic in man’s social being. As I study man’s social being‚ I have learned that it will involve language‚ the fundamental tool for communication. A good example is a relationship between speakers and listeners whereas the speakers must establish the truth of what they say and express and uses reasoning as a way of relating to listeners and the listeners play their part by understanding
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