A NEATS Analysis of Childhood ADHD

Children with ADHD require special care. This article describes ADHD, illustrates main points with case examples, and provides guidelines for parents and professionals. The article covers neurobio...

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Protecting Children from Child Sexual Abuse

This article provides guidelines for protecting children from sexual abuse and what to do if children have been sexually abused. Parents, educators, and social service professionals will find these...

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How to Fall Off a Horse

Falling off is part of riding a horse. Knowing how to fall can mean the difference between an injury and a reason to joke about taking a header. This article shows how to ride safely and, when fall...

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How to Know if You're Ready to Own a Horse

This article tells a story of what it is like to own a horse—the love, teamwork, commitment, and, yes, money that it takes. She writes, “If there is a heaven, let it be a horseback ride in the spri...

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What Child Sexual Abuse Means to Abusers

Based on interviews with sex offenders against children, this article answers the question, Why do they do it? In perpetrators’ own words, readers learn that child sexual abuse means many things, ...

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My Mother in Heaven, a Prose Poem

This is a prose poem about my mother’s life in heaven, where she relives happy memories and unhappy events on earth turn out as she had hoped. Rose Gilgun died more than three year ago. I hope she...

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The Development of Violent Behaviors; Class 3

This presentation is based on years of research and shows not only how individuals become violent but also what violence means to perpetrators at the time they commit violent acts. The presentati...

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Critical Theory and Abuses of Power

Abuses of power are everywhere, in families, in communities, in the economic system, and in government. Critical theory gives a vision and a language to identify and to stand up to abuses of power....

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The Missing Children in Public Discourse on Chi...

This article shows that public discourse on child sexual abuse leads to policies and programs that focus on punishment and incapacitation of perpetrators, but neglects child survivors and their fam...

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Evidence-Based Practice & The Importance of Des...

This article shows the importance of descriptive research in evidence-based practice. Using research on resilience, neuroscience, and gender, I show how important descriptive research is to case p...

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Most Sexual Abusers of Children were not Sexual...

Many people believe that sexual abusers of children were sexually abused themselves. This is not so. This articles shows that people who abuse children sexually disconnect from what is good for c...

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Deductive Qualitative Analysis & Family Theory-...

This article describes an deductive approach to qualitative research, meaning that researches begin their studies with hypotheses to test or they use theory to guide their research. Either way, th...

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The 4-D, a Strengths-Based Assessment for Child...

This article describes the 4-D, a strengths-based assessments for children and youth in care. They are based on Reclaiming Youth at Risk, a book widely used in youth-caring agencies and that draws ...

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How Reasonable Are Reasonable Efforts

This article discusses the reasonable efforts clause of the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997. Through focus group research, we found that reasonable efforts require careful assessment of si...

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Child Abuse & Neglect Prevention: A Course Syll...

This is a syllabus for an undergraduate course in child abuse & neglect prevention. The course emphasizes squarely facing what abuse and neglect means to children, to perpetrators, and their famil...

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Sometimes We Laugh

This article describes a case of a man who shoved his wife and caused a skull fracture. The man thought his wife was dead. He set the house on fire. He took off and lived in Oregon for four years u...

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Coping With the Effects of Child Sexual Abuse

This article shows that coping with the effects of child sexual abuse is challenging, but survivors are not condemned to lives of misery. The key element to surviving well and even thriving is a co...

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Easy Clam Chowder

This simple recipe shows you how to make delicious clam chowder. There also directions to turn the chowder into a gourmet fish stew with shrimp, fish, and sherry

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Shock and Disbelief as Reactions to Disclosure ...

Seemingly wonderful people abuse children sexually. This article describes the reactions of family members and friends when they learn that individuals they know and sometimes love have been acc...

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What is Trauma?

Many people have experienced trauma that affects the quality of their lives. This article explains what trauma is, how it affects both emotional responses and brain structures, and outlines what i...

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