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¶ … misdiagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. The writer explores the question of medical vs. social cause and the legitimacy of diagnosis. In addition the writer discusses treatments and what harm they…

Clinical child psychology as a practice field directly addresses the mental health needs of children and their families by providing professional services that seek to improve the effects of life events when these experiences dispute the anticipated course of development. The main role of clinical child psychologists is to provide therapeutic services for the wide range of cognitive, emotional, developmental, behavioral, social, medical, and family problems presented by youth from infancy through adolescence.

Health inequities have become a major problem in the United States. Hofrichter stresses in Tackling Health Inequities Through Public Health Practice:

Violence in schools has been a subject at the center of debate for several years. School violence is a problem throughout the world, but in recent years a great deal of attention has been given to violence in American…

The Koran's message on page 14 (2:41) seems to be saying to the "Children of Israel" - if you stay true to your beliefs and I stay true to mine we will co-exist. "Seems" is the operative word here.

Dick Grasso was paid compensation that was deemed to be excessive. Grasso's compensation at one point was in the same ballpark as what the NYSE made. The scandal had poor optics - it looked bad on the NYSE to have paid…

To place our nation's health care under the very government that is now at the center of our fiscal problems, and which is piling up debt by the trillions even without health care, while the jobless rate continues to…

Oppression, Repression, and Madness in "The Yellow Wallpaper"

¶ … hypertension is a condition that concerns blood pressure and causes other serious conditions, including heart disease and possible arterial aneurysm. It is the most common form of hypertension, affecting an…

Substance use and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) are often interrelated conditions. Although globally, injection drug use is related to between five and ten percent of HIV…