Essays on Intervention Program

Bullying is a continued concern in schools around the world, including the United States, and determining the most effective approaches for prevention is an ongoing concern. Given the varying ways in which bullying adversely impacts children and youth, it is more important than ever to find effective methods of bullying prevention - additional research is required to determine ideal methods to prevent school-age bullying in significant ways. Using a mixture of perspectives, from public health to psychology and educational professional development, it is possible to find a comprehensive method of lowering incidents of school-age bullying while arming victims of ...

As a mental health worker, working with refugee children is a very critical assignment that requires careful considerations before taking up the task. In this case, the children have been relocated from a refugee camp in central Nigeria to live in my city with some foster families. The children include boys and girls, increasing the need to be sensitive in dealing with both genders. Coming from poor living conditions in the Nigerian refugee camps, the children have been exposed to food scarcity, brutal violence, diseases, and sexual assault. They have undergone traumatizing experiences such as seeing their families murdered ...

Physical Activity and Level of Depression among Youths in the United States

A00493777 Physical Activity and Level of Depression among Youths in the United States

Introduction

According to a recent presentation by The Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention, frequent physical activity among youths and adolescents is an important factor in enhancing strength and stamina, and it is helpful in building healthy bones and muscles (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2015). It was also discovered that physical activities are a critical factor in reducing stress and depression among the youths. Failing to engage in regular physical activity has been established to cause obesity and overweight as well as other health ...

Down syndrome was said to be the first intellectual disability syndrome and, at the same time, the most common form of genetic intellectual disability. People started to become aware of this syndrome when Esquirol (1845) wrote about it, although it was Down (1887) who first created an accurate description of the said syndrome (Scorza et al., 2011, p.719). It is one of the most common congenital chromosome anomaly, in which there happens to be “one extra copy of chromosome 21 in cells in the body” (Down Syndrome Ireland, 2013, p.3). This irregularity may thus, affect the physical and intellectual ...

Diabetes is a chronic disease that requires continuous medical care, ongoing patient self-management education and support to prevent its advancement and the occurrence of acute complications. It also requires evidence-based recommendations and management to reduce the risk of long-term complications. Of importance to note is that diabetes care is a complex endeavor that revolves around many issues that go beyond the glycemic control management. Research has shown that other interventions are required to support the improvement of diabetes outcomes (Burant, 2012). These are caring standards provided by patients, researchers, payers, and clinicians. These standards address how children suffering from ...

The Association between Physical Activity and Level of Depression among Youths in the United States proposal

Introduction According to a recent presentation by The Center for Disease and Control and Prevention, frequent physical activity among youths and adolescents is an important factor in enhancing strength, stamina and is helpful in building healthy bones and muscles (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2015). It was also discovered that physical activities are a critical factor in reducing stress and depression among the youths. Failing to engage in regular physical activity has been established to cause obesity and overweight as well as other health related complications (Azevedo Da Silva et al., 2012). Thus implementing a regular physical activity ...

Obesity can be defined as a medical condition in which a person has excessive level of fat in his/her body. Obesity can be determined with the help of Body Mass Index or BMI. A person is considered overweight if his/her BMI is higher than 25 and less than 30. However, a person is considered obese if his/her BMI is 30 or above. Obesity is adversely affecting the society, especially children. If it continues to grow at its current pace the U.S. health care system could face major problems, and it calls for major steps to be undertaken by the ...

HIV intervention Budget and Justification

Personnel Compensation The intervention program requires 12 funded positions namely: A: Disease Intervention Experts (DIE) (8 positions): USD 240,000. These positions would be under the HIV/Aids prevention unit of the Ministry of Health. Even though they would be housed in various community health care centers, they would have similar role or functions; HIV testing and counseling. These employee would be involved with HIV testing and counseling on a full time basis. They will also collaborate with various agencies to offer testing and counseling to population at risk of contracting HIV; particularly the minority groups. In essence these ...

Thesis: There is a need of improvement in child obesity intervention programs to address behavioral, genetic, and environmental factors causing disparities in child obesity cases. Introduction (short): Obesity is the major problem in children that does not allow them to remain healthy and active. The intervention programs are available to provide knowledge for how this issue can be resolved, but there is a lack of attention of children and parents towards this (Voigt, Nicholls and Williams 212). Food and physical activity of children are important in maintaining and ensuring a healthy and happy life. The problem is in ...

The Association between Physical Activity and Level of Depression among Youths in the United States

Prospectus: The Association between Physical Activity and Level of Depression among Youths in the United States Introduction According to a recent presentation by The Center for Disease and Control and Prevention, frequent physical activity among youths and adolescents is an important factor in enhancing strength, stamina and is helpful in building healthy bones and muscles (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2015). It was also discovered that physical activities are a critical factor in reducing stress and depression among the youths. Failing to engage in regular physical activity has been established to cause obesity and overweight as well as ...

Introduction

In their study, “Effects on Leaders of an Art – Based Leadership Intervention”, Julia Romanowska, Gerry Larson and Töres Theorell (2013) present an interesting primary research conducted on Swedish leaders, for understanding how the art – based, or the Shibboleth leadership intervention, affects leadership style, as compared to the conventional intervention. The study performs a comparison between the art – based and conventional leadership interventions, presenting the results of a research that lasted 18 months. Both intervention methods were evaluated in terms of Sense of Coherence - SOC (resilience to stress) and Agreeableness (social supportive behavior), as well as Laissez – faire ...

The Association between Physical Activity and Level of Depression among Youths in the United States

Prospectus: The Association between Physical Activity and Level of Depression among Youths in the United States Introduction According to a recent presentation by The Center for Disease and Control and Prevention, frequent physical activity among youths and adolescents is an important factor in enhancing strength, stamina and is helpful in building healthy bones and muscles (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2015). It was also discovered that physical activities are a critical factor in reducing stress and depression among the youths. Failing to engage in regular physical activity has been established to cause obesity and overweight as well as ...

English 1312.04

Carrera-Carrillo, Lore. "“Some of us are learning Spanish and some of us are learning English”: A comparison of second language programs in Texas." Thesis. 2003. Carrera-Carrillo observes how dual language programs are gaining popularity throughout the United States and targeting both the minority language students as well as the majority language students. Studies have revealed that there are many advantages which are associated with the learning of the English language. The native language enables students acquire content with better insight and can relate more to these concepts later in the English language. Not all facilities which have embraced ...

The Association between Physical Activity and Level of Depression among Youths in the United States proposal

Introduction According to a recent presentation by The Center for Disease and Control and Prevention, frequent physical activity among youths and adolescents is an important factor in enhancing strength, stamina and is helpful in building healthy bones and muscles (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2015). It was also discovered that physical activities are a critical factor in reducing stress and depression among the youths. Failing to engage in regular physical activity has been established to cause obesity and overweight as well as other health related complications (Azevedo Da Silva et al., 2012). Thus implementing a regular physical activity ...

The purpose of this paper is to outline a six-week program intended to deliver a basic heart health education program to adult Syrian Refugees. A well-delivered health education program supports preventive medicine, reduces health care costs, and helps save lives (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, n.d.) . The reason for choosing Syrian refugees is because at this point in time, they represent a vulnerable population (Strong, Varady, Chahda, Doocy, & Burnham, 2015). As a group they have been under the stress of civil war for at least five years and are likely to have been displaced internally or externally. ...

Description of the case

Vivian is an 18-year-old student who was diagnosed with asthma at the age of eight years. Her impairment includes chest tightness, periodic wheezing, coughing, and shortness of breath. Coughing is most prevalent in early in the morning or during the night. Such impairments result in various limitations throughout her life. For instance, she finds it difficult to breathe due to the insistent airflow obstruction, especially at night. In addition, these impairments restrict her from social participation such as school sports and ability to maintain normal activities such as exercise and school attendance. However, despite these limitations, personal factors such ...

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Literature review3

Goals and objectives for the group6 Type of group6 Evaluating success.7 Activities.8 Conclusion10 Introduction Grief is the emotional process an individual goes throughout after the loss of a loved one. Mothers go through an unbearable amount of emotions after losing a child. Considered to be one of the most traumatic experiences an individual can endure, losing a child can have a detrimental impact on a mother. These individuals generally do not consider treatment during the midst of their grief. Most individuals believe their grief is normal under their circumstances. However, the longer the grief lasts the more ...

Abstract

Gun violence has been a bone of contention in the United States for the last several decades. The US government has taken a number of legal and strategic initiatives to fight this serious issue. However, it remains to be an unresolved issue in the US political scenario. A growing number of adolescents are involved in firearm violence. It was in this regard, the Boston Police Department started the intervention program called Operation Ceasefire to reduce the gang-related youth homicides. The Operation Ceasefire program helped the city improve its crime rates to a great extent. The program particularly focused on ...

Description of the population

Hispanic and Latinos population is comprised of Spanish speaking society living mostly in South America. Average number of population is about 55, 3 million people, which is almost 17% of the total population in the United States. (US census bureau) The list of countries that considered as Hispanic or Latinos group consists of: Spain, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, El Salvador, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela. The majority of Hispanic ethnic group takes the roots from Mexican origin and the minority from other countries listed above. Hispanics ...

Description

This research paper focuses on the Homeless Veterans in Southern California. Veterans make up 34% of the population in the US. Three percent of all veterans are women. Eleven percent of the veterans are considered homeless with about 400,000 falling to the problem of homelessness every year (Tsai, Pietrzak & Rosenheck, 2013). As a community of interest, the Homeless Veterans in Southern California comprise of men and women that survived wars such as the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, and the Afghan and Iraq wars. The ages of the veterans tally with the age and time when they were ...

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Literature review3

Goals and objectives for the group6 Type of group6 Evaluating success.7 Activities.8 Conclusion10 Introduction Grief is the emotional process an individual goes throughout after the loss of a loved one. Mothers go through an unbearable amount of emotions after losing a child. Considered to be one of the most traumatic experiences an individual can endure, losing a child can have a detrimental impact on a mother. These individuals generally do not consider treatment during the midst of their grief. Most individuals believe their grief is normal under their circumstances. However, the longer the grief lasts the more ...