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Discussion of Bipolar Disorder I and II

bipolar II is characterized by: "recurrent major depressive episodes with a lifelong history of one...

Clinical or Counseling Practice Personality Assessments

can be understood through as an extension of Kellys Personal Construct Theory, which suggests that individuals sometimes demonstra...

ADHD and a Male Black Teen

of ADHD. Another disorder that is frequently associated with school failure is Conduct Disorder (CD), which is characterized in ...

Sppech Pathology and ADHD

Center for Health Statistics, approximately 6.7% of children aged 5 to 17 were reported to have ADHD in 1997-2000" (Attention Defi...

Biographical Sketch of Bipolar Disorder

(APA, 2003) and "These rates are consistent across diverse cultures and ethnic groups" (APA, 2003). The rate for bipolar II is abo...

Overview of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory II

created in the 1940s by Starke R. Hathaway and J. Charnley McKinley (NCS, 1998). Essentially, the MMPI-2 is an updated version of...

Disasters and Their Psychological Impact

a main area of study being the normative reaction to non normative events. The impact of stress created by disasters is argued to ...

Implications of New Dual Diagnosis Terminology

there are others as well (Glossary of Terms, 2004). For example, MICAA is an acronym for Mentally Ill, Chemical Abusers a...

Overview of the TAT Personality Test

the criminal justice system, an alliance that provides for better understanding of "the vast psychological perspectives" (Diviny e...

Overview of Oppositional Defiant Disorder

a purposeful and intentional desire to bother and irritate others (What is Oppositional Defiant Disorder? 2004). Interestingly, ...

Career Paths for Information Technology Workers

Many of the IT workers following this type of path may be working within non IT companies managing the internal IT operations. Whe...

ADD Treatments

Chung , 1997). Within six years time the name was changed again and is now well know by the acronym ADHD (Calhoun, Greenwell-Ioril...

Disorder and the Chain of Being in Shakespeare's "Macbeth"

and "too full of... kindness" (I.ii.77, I.v.18). Once Macbeth steps outside the bonds of the social order by killing Duncan, howev...

The Challenge of Categorizing Psychological Disorders

with "conscious awareness or memory", a state in which one can often carry on an active life about which one remembers nothing at ...

Projective versus Objective Tests

This paper begins with an overview of the history of personality assessment. The writer then explains the differences between obje...

Anxiety Disorders

the many different ways in which the disorder can manifest. For instance, it is possible for the disorder to manifest bodily, such...

Attention Deficit Disorders

affected children at risk for developing anxiety and depression (Capano, et al, 2008). In general, the behaviors associated with ...

Bipolar Effect on Learning

& Adolescent Bipolar Foundation, 2007). The advanced imaging technologies have allowed scientists to scan the brains of bipolar p...

Adolescent Development of Individual Identity

This research paper offers an overview of adolescent identity development and the issues associated with this stage of personality...

Oppositing to Medicating Children with ADD or ADHD

with ADHD/ADD has only a very limited effectiveness, and the side effects and risks associated with it are simply too great. The ...

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Used in the Treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

a result, more diagnoses have been made (Grinage, 2003). It is now something that is also associated with trauma stemming from chi...

ADHD Diagnosis And Assessment

in grades Kindergarten through 8 (Erford and Hase, 2006). It has 24 items that are rated on a scale of 1 to 5, almost never to alm...

Five Models of Personality as it Relates to Health

most advantageously. Neither is there any consistency in the types of personality and coping responses that least effectively dea...

Genetic Disorder - Breast Cancer

Hecht, 2008). Breast cancer in both men and women is a genetic disorder but it is not necessarily hereditary (U.S. National Librar...

Bipolar Disorder

there is very little information about predisposes people to these episodes (Swann, 2006). Therefore, for the most part, nursing a...

Personality's Biological Basis According to British Psychologist Hans Eysenck

2002). His theory states that an individual inherits a tendency to respond to the environment in a certain manner; however,...

Bipolar Disorder Diagnosis and Treatment

manual, Bipolar I is a clinical course characterized by one of more manic or mixed episodes (APA, 1994). Generally, individuals wi...

Overview of MBTI

of human personality understandable and useful to people in their daily lives. MBTI Measurement The MBTI indicates the responden...

Carl Jung's Archetypes and Eating Disorders

archetypes can only become conscious secondarily (1981). The archetype is merely an example of a perfect form or prototype (Lohff,...

Processes and Theories in Career Counseling

subordinate roles, and achieves goals through conformity. 5) Enterprising -- person prefers verbal skills in situations, which pro...