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Direct linkRowan-Szal, Grace A.; Joe, George W.; Bartholomew, Norma G.; Pankow, Jennifer; Simpson, D. Dwayne – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2012
Increasing numbers of women in prison raise concerns about gender-specific problems and needs severity. Female offenders report higher trauma as well as mental and medical health complications than males, but large inmate populations and limited resources create challenges in administering proper diagnostic screening and assessments. This study…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Females, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Correctional Institutions
Japuntich, Sandra J.; Piper, Megan E.; Leventhal, Adam M.; Bolt, Daniel M.; Baker, Timothy B. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2011
Objective: Most smoking cessation studies have used long-term abstinence as their primary outcome measure. Recent research has suggested that long-term abstinence may be an insensitive index of important smoking cessation mechanisms. The goal of the current study was to examine the effects of 5 smoking cessation pharmacotherapies using Shiffman et…
Descriptors: Smoking, Drug Therapy, Program Effectiveness, Whites
Blankenship, Jason; Starling, Randall; Woodall, W. G.; May, Philip A. – International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 2009
New Mexico experienced a surge in the gaming industry during the mid-1990s with the initiation of a state lottery and other new gaming opportunities, as well as the development of many Indian gaming establishments. This paper explores patterns associated with gambling in two random samples of the adult population (N = 2674) in the entire State of…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Females, Correlation, Gender Differences
Glenn, Lane A.; Van Wert, Suzanne – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2010
A few years ago, Mathew McConaughey and Sarah Jessica Parker generated big laughs and big box office sales in "Failure to Launch," an absurd comedy about a 26-year old man still living in his parents' basement, spending his days watching television and playing video games while the world passed him by. The film was closer to the truth…
Descriptors: Females, Gender Differences, Males, Higher Education
Download full textKommers, Piet, Ed.; Issa, Tomayess, Ed.; Isaias, Pedro, Ed.; Hol, Ana, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2017
These proceedings contain the papers and posters of the 5th International Conference on Educational Technologies 2017 (ICEduTech 2017), which has been organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society and co-organised by the Western Sydney University, held in Sydney, Australia, 11-13 December 2017. ICEduTech is…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Bibliometrics
Ohtsuka, Keis; Chan, Chi Chuen – International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 2009
This article examines portrayals of female gamblers in recent Hong Kong movies. The authors report that the depiction of female gamblers is very different from that of male gamblers in the movies made in the same period. Whereas the male gamblers are pitching a lonely and desperate battle against an evil opponent, the female gamblers portrayed in…
Descriptors: Homemakers, Social Change, Foreign Countries, Addictive Behavior
Wenzel, Hanne Gro; Dahl, Alv A. – International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 2009
Recent evidence indicates that more and more women gamble and develop gambling problems and pathological gambling (PG). Research has further indicated that female and male PGs differ in their clinical characteristics. The aim of this study is to do a critical review of the literature concerning clinical characteristics of female pathological…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Therapy, Addictive Behavior, Risk
