OBJECTIVE To present an explanatory theory-based model of child neglect. This model does not address neglectful behaviors of parents with mental retardation, alcohol or drug abuse, or severe mental health problems. In this model parental behavior aimed to satisfy a child's need is considered a helping behavior and, as a consequence, child neglect is considered as a specific type of non-helping ...

INTRODUCTION Previous cross-sectional studies have shown a high prevalence of chronic disease and disability among the elderly. Given Brazil's rapid aging process and the obvious consequences of the growing number of old people with chronic diseases and associated disabilities for the provision of health services, a need was felt for a study that would overcome the limitations of cross-sectiona...

With health and wellness advocacy as a part of their role, medical-surgical nurses should do their best to address patients' hidden health care concerns such as drug misuse and abuse, and lead them to treatment resources. By gaining knowledge of prescription drug abuse and misuse, nurses will be more prepared to recognize these problems in their patients.

Student assistance (SA) professionals regularly encounter youth involved in a variety of highrisk behaviors — substance experimentation, high-risk sexual activity, sensation-seeking, intentional self-injury and acts of aggression toward property and people. Particularly striking to many long-tenured SA professionals is the growing co-occurrence of these behaviors and the lowering of the age at ...

Background The Drug Addiction Treatment Act of 2000 created an opportunity for primary care physicians and addiction treatment agencies to integrate, as primary care physicians became able to prescribe opiate treatment medications from their practices. Fourteen years later, a National Institute on Drug Abuse evidence-based practice implementation trial in Ohio is finding that physician capacity...

University of Bristol, Psychopharmacology Unit, School of Medical Sciences, University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TD, UK (D J Nutt FRCPsych) Drug addiction, or as it is also called, drug dependence, is a serious health problem; in addition to the huge direct health costs (psychiatric and physical), there are massive costs in terms of crime, loss of earnings and productivity, and social damage. The drug...

Health service professionals devote their lives to helping people and often have difficulty accepting it when they need help themselves. Health service professionals are more susceptible to alcohol and drug addiction then the general population. Many perceive medication as the only appropriate care for their ills, including emotional or physical pain. Some have easy access to a supply of prescr...

Health information is often sought online, despite varying credibility of online sources, and may shape health behaviors. This investigation builds on the Selective Exposure Self- and Affect-Management model to examine selective exposure to online health information from low- and high-credibility sources and subsequent effects on attitudes toward health behaviors. In a lab study, 419 participan...

As a component of comprehensive pediatric care, adolescents should receive appropriate guidance regarding substance use during routine clinical care. This statement addresses practitioner challenges posed by the spectrum of pediatric substance use and presents an algorithm-based approach to augment the pediatrician's confidence and abilities related to substance use screening, brief interventio...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com either become traumatized or live an abnormal life. Therefore, family addiction in the family affects daily living issues causing particular emotional, interpersonal, or even clinical mental health concerns. However, according to renowned research article, there available interventions, including family therapy interventions and counseling support f...