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Coping with Pain and Stress

Friedman, Richard A. "Understanding Empathy: Can You Feel My Pain?" The New York Times (April 24, 2007: F5(L). The New York Times. 

Greely, Henry, et al. "Towards responsible use of cognitive-enhancing drugs by the healthy: society must respond to the growing demand for cognitive enhancement. That response must start by rejecting the idea that 'enhancement' is a dirty word, argue Henry Greely and colleagues." Nature 456.7223 (2008): 702-705. Academic OneFile. Web.

Lally, Robin M. "The Sounds of Healing." ONS Connect 22.2 (2007): 8-12. Academic Search Premier. Web.

Maki, Nancy, et al. "The Responses of Male and Female Managers to Workplace Stress and Downsizing." North American Journal of Psychology 7.2 (2005): 295-312. Academic Search Premier. Web.

Modesto-Lowe, Vania, Kate Johnson,and Nancy M. Petry. "Pain Management in Patients with Substance Abuse: Treatment Challenges for Pain and Addiction Specialists." American Journal on Addictions 16.5 (Sep. 2007): 424-425. Academic Search Premier. Web.

Pirtle, Jennifer. "Stressing Yourself Sick." ABA Journal 92.9 (2006): 34-40. Academic Search Premier. Web.

Rubin, Lawrence C. "Merchandising Madness: Pills, Promises, and Better Living Through Chemistry." Journal of Popular Culture 38.2 (Nov 2004 ): 369-383. Academic Search Premier. Web. 

Addiction ~ Substance Abuse  (also see Work for Workaholism)

Brody, Jane. "Addiction: A Brain Ailment, Not a Moral Lapse." New York Times 30 Sept. 2003. F.8. LexisNexis.

Leshner, Alan I. "Addiction Is a Brain Disease."  Issues in Science & Technology 17.3 (Spring 2001): 75 (6). Academic Search Premier. Web. 

Peele, Stanton. "Hungry for the Next Fix." Reason 34.1 (May 2002): 32 (5). Academic Search Premier. Web. 

Uhl, George R. "Are over-simplified views of addiction neuroscience providing too simplified ethical considerations?" Addiction 98.7 (July 2003): 872-873. Academic Search Premier. Web. 

Violence and Conflict Resolution

(also see Violence and Conflict Resolution in Schools)

Dickerson, Debra. "Who shot Johnny?" Essence 29.1 (1998): 130. Academic Search Premier. Web. 

Hagenbucher, Greg. "PROGRESS An Enhanced Supervision Program for High-Risk Criminal Offenders." FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin 72.9 (Sep 2003): 20(5). Academic Search Premier. Web. 

Kaplan, Arline. "Virtually Possible: Treating and Preventing Psychiatric Wounds of War." Psychiatric Times (April 1, 2005): 1. Academic OneFile  Web.

"Transcript: Naomi Shihab Nye: A Bill Moyers Interview." 10 Oct. 2002. NOW with Bill Moyers. Web. <http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_nye.html>

Youngs, Gillian. "Private Pain/Public Peace: Women's Rights as Human Rights and Amnesty International's Report on Violence against Women." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society 28.4 (Summer 2003): 1209-1230. Academic Search Premier. Web.

Violence and Conflict Resolution in Schools

Brooks, David. "Mind Over Muscle." The New York Times. Late Edition. 16 Oct. 2005. Section 4. 12. LexisNexis.

Cheng, Jesse Christopher. "Gangs in Public Schools: A Survey of State Legislation." Brigham Young University Education & Law Journal 2003.1. 285(14). Academic Search Premier. Web. 

Hazler, Richard J. "When Victims Turn Aggressors: Factors in the Development of Deadly School Violence." Professional School Counseling 4.3 (Dec. 2000): 105(8).  Academic Search Premier. Web. 

Discrimination / Gender Roles

Gender

Alicea, Ines Pinto. "Move Over, Glass Ceiling: This One's Adobe." Education Digest 68.8 (April 2003): 56-60. Academic Search Premier. Web. 

Barnett, Rosalind Chait. "Ageism and Sexism in the Workplace." Generations 29.3 (2005): 25-30. Academic Search Premier. Web.

Belle, Deborah, and Joanne Doucet. "Poverty, Inequality, And Discrimination As Sources Of Depression Among U.S. Women." Psychology of Women Quarterly 27.2 (June 2003): 101-113. Academic Search Premier. Web.

Cohen-Eliya, Moshe, and Hammer Yoav. "Advertisements, Stereotypes, and Freedom of Expression." Journal of Social Philosophy 35.2  (June 2004): 165-187.  Academic Search Premier. Web.

The writers examine stereotypical messages in ads, how the messages are absorbed, and how they may cause people to discriminate against minorities and women.

Hegewisch , Ariane, and Hannah Liepmann. “The Gender Wage Gap by Occupation.” Institute for Women's Policy Research.  April 2010. Web. 5 Nov. 2010.  <http://www.iwpr.org/pdf/C350a.pdf>

Heilman, Madeline E., et al. "Penalties for Success: Reactions to Women Who Succeed at Male Gender-Typed Tasks." Journal of Applied Psychology 89.3 (2004): 416-427. PsycINFO and Business Source Premier.  Web.

Herbert, Bob. "Why Aren't We Shocked?" The New York Times. 16 Oct. 2006. A19. Academic One File.  Web.

Morris, Betsy. et al. "How Corporate America Is Betraying Women." Fortune 151.1 (10 Jan. 2005): 64-74. Academic Search Premier. Web. 

Racial Discrimination

Hebel, Sara. “Segregation’s Legacy Still Troubles Campuses.” Chronicle of Higher Education 50.36 (14 May 2004): A24-A27. Academic Search Premier. Web.

"Justice Delayed." Economist.  375.8431 (18 June 2005): 29(2). Academic Search Premier. Web.

Olson, Steve. "The Genetic Archaeology of Race." Atlantic Monthly 287.4 (April 2001): 69-80. Academic Search Premier. Web.

Staples, Brent. "On the Sidelines of the Most Important Civil Rights Battle Since 'Brown.'" New York Times 18 April 2005. A18. Academic One File. Web.

Family Issues, Parenting (also see Divorce below)

Boudin, Chesa. "Children Left Behind." Nation 277.9 (29 Sept. 2003): 5 (3). Academic Search Premier. Web.

Crouter, Ann C. and Matthew Bumpus. "Linking Parents' Work Stress to Children's and Adolescents' Psychological Adjustment." Current Directions in Psychological Science 10.5 (Oct. 2001): 156(4). Academic Search Premier. Web. 

Herbert, Bob. "Dad's Empty Chair." The New York Times. Late Edition. 7 July 2005. A23. New York Times. LexisNexis.

Regalado, Michael et al. "Parents' Discipline of Young Children: Results From the National Survey of Early Childhood Health." Pediatrics 113 (Jun 2004 Supplement): 1952 (7). Academic Search Premier. Web.

Whitehead, Barbara Dafoe. "Single mothers: the costs of going it alone." Commonweal 134.2 (Jan 26, 2007): 6(1). Academic OneFile.  Web.

Williams, Joan and Nancy Siegel. "The New Glass Ceiling: Mothers and Fathers Sue for Discrimination." November, 2002. Program on Gender, Work and Family. American University College of Law. Web. <http://www.wcl.american.edu/gender/workfamily/chilly_climate0211.pdf>

Divorce

Karpf, Mitchell K., and Irene M. Shatz. "The Divorce Is Over-- What About the Kids?" American Journal of Family Law 19.1 (Spring 2005): 7-11. Academic Search Premier. Web.

"Those Young Americans."  Economist  368.8340 (6 Sept. 2003): 31 (1). Academic Search Premier. Web. 

Whitehead, Barbara Dafoe. "What We Owe." The Atlantic Online. February 1997. Web.

Poverty

"Household Income Rises, Poverty Rate Declines, Number of Uninsured Up." 28 Aug. 2007.  U.S. Census Bureau News. Web.

Latham, Buffalo. "The ART of Homelessness." Humanist 62.1 (Jan. 2002): 20. Academic Search Premier. Alden Library. Quinsigamond Community College. Worcester, MA. Web.

Lee, Kyunghee. "The Bidirectional Effects of Early Poverty on Children's Reading and Home Environment Scores: Associations and Ethnic Differences." Social Work Research 33.2 (2009): 79-94. Academic Search Premier. Web.

Pogrow, Stanley "Accelerate the Learning of 4th and 5th Graders Born into Poverty." Phi Delta Kappan 90.6 (2009): 408-412. Academic Search Premier. Web.

Proctor, Bernadette D. and Joseph Dalaker. U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Reports, P60-222. Poverty in the United States: 2002.  Washington:: GPO,  2003. Web. <http://www.census.gov/prod/2003pubs/p60-222.pdf>
Use the index to select appropriate sections for printing. Appendix tables begin on page 22.

Whitman, David, et al. "The White Underclass: Does the rise in out-of-wedlock babies and white slums foretell a social catastrophe?" U.S. News and World Report. 9 October 1994. Web.

Zakaria, Fareed. "The American Dream." Fareed Zakaria GPS. Itunes.apple.com. 1 Nov. 2010. Podcast.

Work

Levine, Robert. "A Geography of Busyness." Social Research 72.2 (2005): 355-370. Academic Search Premier. Web.

Powers, Rebecca S. "Doing the Daily Grind: The Effects of Domestic Labor on Professional, Managerial, and Technical Workers' Earnings." Gender Issues  21.1 (Winter 2003): 3-23. Academic Search Premier. Web.

Reiss, Matthew. "American karoshi." New Internationalist 343 (March 2002): 16-17. Academic Search Premier. Web.
Karoshi is a Japanese concept that means working to death.

Robinson, Bryan E. "A Typology of Workaholics With Implications for Counselors." Journal of Addictions & Offender Counseling 21.1 (Oct. 2000): 34. Academic Search Premier. Web.

United States Department of Labor. 2010. Web.
Use the site's index to find laws and statistics that apply to workers in the United States.

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