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Youth Work/Youth Development
No emotion left behind-examines how social and emotional factors influence academic performance and argues that schools who want to increase test scores should help students develop social and emotional competencies (New York Times, 2005)
Restraining Disorder—focuses on the youth of physical restraint in juvenile detention centers and highlights the challenges that residential youth workers face (Philadelphia City Paper—May 2005)
Family Violence
Domestic Violence is down but problem remains huge-examines recent trends in domestic violence statistics (Phila Inquirer article)
Muslims strike at spouse abuse-examines efforts in the Muslim community to combat spouse abuse (Phila Inquirer)
Sex offender zones assailed-examines recent proposals to create zones where registered sex offenders would not be allowed to reside
Protection from
abuse orders-a lengthy article looking at the PFA process in
Psychology
Do parents really matter?—examines the influence that parents have on their children’s development (from Psychology Today, February 1998)