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OCD and CBT

and emotionally unbalancing illnesses they truly are to the adolescent population. Studies have pinpointed six cognitive elements...

Children and the Psychological Effects of PTSD Associated with Hurricane Katrina

illness. Post traumatic stress syndrome can result from diversity of causes including the horrors of war, sexual abuse, or even s...

Evaluation of a CBT session

on too long, she says things that do not need to be said, like the comment about not wanting to overwhelm him and they will go thr...

Studies in OCD

OCD. However, the authors do note that a previous study did indicate beneficial results, thus indicating there may be possibilitie...

A Case Study of Advanced Counseling Techniques

chest, perhaps indicative of a desire for protection from contact that may be painful. Marge did not shake my hand at the onset o...

Middle Aged Women and Eating Disorders

their bodies. However, the study also reveals that this concern with appearance does not diminish with age, which is not the resu...

Overview of Sleep Apnea

symptoms (Zepf, 2003). The "gold standard" for diagnosing sleep apnea is to use polysomnography in a sleep laboratory (Zepf, 2003)...

Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy as a Treatment for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

put into place active behavioral modification plans, and require the use of pharmacological support. Understanding treatment opti...

Psychotherapy and Bipolar Disorder

this basis; however, rather than using the Freudian concepts of ego, superego and id, Berne found the concepts of parent, adult an...

Psychological Overview of Depression and Anxiety

that anxiety is both a physiological and psychological response to stressors. Generally, anxiety is considered a negative emotion...

The Impact of Adult ADD/ADHD on Education

diagnosis of ADD is an extremely complex process, which is complicated by the fact that the symptoms are very similar to other emo...

Overview of Hemoglobinopathies and Hemoglobin Electrophoresis

elbow, with the help of an elasticised band placed around the upper arm in order to restrict blood supply and make collection easi...

Overview of Conversion Disorder

to: "weakness, paralysis, sensory disturbances, pseudoseizures, and involuntary movements such as tremors. Symptoms more often af...

Alcoholics and ADHD

Disorders (DSM-IV) of the American Psychiatric Association outlines the criteria for making a diagnosis of ADHD (Wilens, 1998). Ac...

Eating Disorders and Successful Treatment Approaches

use behavioral modification to redirect the negative self talk that many of these people engage in. Bulimia Nervosa is a combina...

Use of Lithium Within The Field of Psycho-Pharmacology

notes that another five percent are victims of occasional despondency, with one of every six people succumbing to a "serious, or m...

Behavioral Disorders in Students and the Value of Early Identification and Intervention

encouraged. Activities such as these lead to a number of behavioral problems and in some cases can lead to either voluntary or in...

Overview of Behavioral Disorders

Additionally, both disorders can be hereditary, but environment can also play a factor. Both disorders are affective disorders of ...

Manifestation Differences and Dyslexia

between 5% and 15% of all Americans (Health & Medicine Week, 2004). Padget has given a good definition of the condition, which it ...

Impact of Bulimia

a result, bulimics tend to go through cycles of bingeing and purging repeatedly. Overview of the Research In cases of bulimia ...

Eating Disorders, Body Dissatisfaction and the Media

attempting to do now is to determine what "diverse factors" make these people susceptible to the impact of the media images, while...

When Adolescents with Bipolar Disorder Attempt Suicide

of risk and the impact for families. Research suggests that there is a need to consider the approaches for assessing suicide ri...

Arguing Against Ritalin Use

think of how prevalent these conditions of hyperactivity have been throughout history? These are two of the most important questio...

Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Bipolar Disorder

have been shown to help patients, including "cognitive behavior therapy and interpersonal therapy" (Oerlinghausen, Berghofer and B...

Autism and Treatment

that are characterized as "autism spectrum disorders." This paper lists these conditions and then, because it is a short essay, co...

Bipolar Disorder

year 1650 when Richard Burton, a scientist, wrote "The Anatomy of Melancholia" which was a work that detailed depression. In fact,...

Issues in Psychology

A positive life leads to health in all areas, physically, mentally and spiritually. The negative side is a general lack of consist...

The Varied Manifestations and Causes of PTSD

Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) results from a...

BIPOLAR DISORDER AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT/SOCIALIZATION

bipolar disorder experiences either an overexcited or overjoyful state (manic episode) or a hopeless or extremely sad state (depre...

Psychological Evaluation of Hughes

age 70. He was a legend as well as a mystery throughout his lifetime. He was a millionaire several times over as soon as he inheri...