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"do the right things," rather than only "doing things right" (Juran quoted in Zwetsloot, 2003). One of these "right things" is it...

Manual (DSM) III, transgenderism has long been described as a psychological problem due in great part to the manner by which child...

conflicts -- is gaining momentum within school districts across the country (Spence, 2003). Knowing how to diffuse an escalating ...

on to indicate that medication for bipolar disorder is only a small percentage of the direct costs to the patient, roughly 10 perc...

loved ones. One means of instilling a better understanding of PTSD is education. The National Center for PTSDs (2009) website sho...

body and thought patterns, and can be triggered by a variety of events (Lucas 5). For example, the stress of starting a new job o...

the increased distance from the equator. In Studies in North America Rosenthal (1983) observed a prevalence in the winter of 1.4%...

with some type of cognitive deficit disorder such as dementia or Alzheimers. In order to anticipate the percentage of those who w...

is that the efforts of bulimic patients to restrict food are interspersed with periods of extreme overeating, or "binging," which ...

therapy than other types of psychological disorders, and require a lengthy recovery period often lasting several years (Vanderlind...

practitioners with information to determine whether a patients symptoms can be explained organically as a result of an actual heal...

up in practice, and learning about new modalities and new research from experts in the field, conference attendees will leave with...

The writer uses results from research conduced by the student with the aim of assessing whether or not there is a correlation betw...

incident mentioned in the case study in which Ben presented the "gift from Jesus" to a pedestrian does lead to a definite lack of ...

2000). Diagnosing Autism Autism is not a disorder that can be easily diagnosed through some simple process such as a blood ...

this disease impacts a much larger segment of the population than one might suspect. Congenital heart defects occur in approximat...

addicted to something else such as alcohol, gambling or compulsive shopping (Spencer, 2006). The realization that this is a proble...

is a distinct difference between relatively simple shyness and the disorder. According to a report from the Ascribe Higher Educati...

that if left unchecked, the latter can develop into the former. The extent to which children with problems tend to "slip through t...

extreme discomfort (Pallanti, 2008; Hill and Beamish, 2007; Poyurovsky, 2007). As can be implied from the foregoing information,...

or a loved one; these fears often present themselves as disturbing thoughts (Definition of obsessive-compulsive disorder, 2002). T...

emotional growth and learning [through] a short term effort between a therapist and a horse professional [whereby] the participant...

food poisoning; from that point forward in young Ruth Deanes life, she was controlled by an invisible force that made her life a l...

life, though they may never be completely free of the disease (Wilkins, 2007). Its important to recognize that OCD is different f...

habits are partially responsible for keeping him at arms length from the rest of the world. Considered for decades to be a diseas...

actually felt the building shake, for example, are at the most risk for the disorder (2001). At the same time, one psychologist cl...

p. 7) of children and adolescents. Scientists had long suspected that a major component of the problem is a malfunction in the br...

conjunction between visual input and the organisation of complex behavioural patterns. Studies which have compared the higher cogn...

In five pages anxiety orders are considered along with an examination of how family members can offer patient support by encouragi...

As already noted, Kendall makes a strong case for getting to know the individual child before "pigeon-holing" him or her into a pa...