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Salvador Minuchin's structural family therapy: concepts and applications

Salvador Minuchin and his structural method of family therapy. We will discuss a brief history of Minuchin's life, his peers and influences.

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Unskilled wages and the impossibility of ending poverty

Cure" for Poverty? With most unskilled labor jobs in America paying no more that six or seven dollars an hour, there will never be an end to poverty.

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Human dimensions research and landscape morphology in environmental management

As an extension of the sciences of geography and physical morphology, human dimensions research explores various concepts associated with human fairness, risk, biodiversity and sustainability and provides methods to measure public satisfaction and identify different communities of interest,…

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Weight-based discrimination and bias in American society

Bias against overweight and obese individuals is perhaps the last form of acceptable discrimination. Overweight people are subject to both subtle and blatant forms of discrimination, from childhood to adulthood. Discrimination occurs in family, social and professional situations as well.

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Ibn Sina's contributions to philosophy and medicine in medieval Islam

The great Avicenna or Abu Ali al-Husayn Ibn Abdullah Ibn Sina, born in 980 was often known in the West by this Latin name. Among all the Islamic philosopher-scientists this Persian physician became not only the most famous but also an influential figure (Edward G, 1921).

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Child abuse and compassion in Hayden's and Roethke's poems

Robert Hayden's "The Whipping," and Theodore Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz" describe child abuse. Both poets have similar approaches to this weighty and sensitive subject matter.

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Intergroup relations through communication and psychological perspectives

The society that we live in today is comprised of many groups, and many units in the society are characterized as groups, such as the family, political, economic, and other important institutions that functions in the society.

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Case studies of two children and Piaget's developmental stages

The writer uses two case studies, a nine-year-old and a 14-Year-old, and provides the reader with the results of the study conducted on the children.

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The controversy surrounding repressed and recovered memory

Repressed and recovered memory has been the topic of much debate for the past ten years. Many feel that these psychological issues have been used to create chaos in the legal system and to destroy families.

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Chapter one summary of key concepts in sociology

Sociology is the field of study which seeks to "describe, explain, and predict human social patterns" from a scientific perspective.

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