Anand is 8 years old and is a quiet, obedient 3rd grader. Lately, his teacher has noticed that he is having trouble concentrating in class. His mind wanders during classroom tasks, he has trouble remembering oral instructions from his teacher. […]
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South Asian culture, being influenced by Western images of beauty, has shifted to value thinness in recent years. With this transition, and newfound pressures to maintain unreasonable thinness, comes the belief that being overweight or obese results in feeling depressed.
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One of the strongest values in South Asian culture is modesty. At a young age, children are taught that arrogance and showing off are unacceptable behaviors and that a good person is a master of humility. Culturally acceptable reactions to
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Emotional abuse is a type of domestic abuse that uses fear, humiliation, intimidation or manipulation to brainwash, resulting in low self-confidence, self-worth and a loss of personal value for those who are abused. Others notice that the abused person no
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According to the US Department of Justice, approximately 1.3 million women and 835,000 men are physically assaulted by an intimate partner annually in the United States. A study conducted in 2002 found that 40% of South Asian women reported having
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The family that we grow up with (called the family of origin), as opposed to the family that we create after marriage, is where we develop into the people we are now. Our family of origin shapes who we are,
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