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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...

Homework, Students, and ADD/ADHD

Students attempt to complete their homework in a very different setting than that in which they received instruction (Bryan and Bu...

Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Bipolar Disorder

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

Students with ADHD and Educational Strategies

can be cared to asking the student what steps they need to take to complete the assignment (Salend, Elhoweris and Garderen, 2003)....

Arguing Against Ritalin Use

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

An Article on ADD Critiqued

suffered frontal lobe damage are often misdiagnosed as having ADD, as the symptoms tend to mimic each other (Shelley-Tremblay et a...

Physician's Role and Dementia

attributed to the increased sophistication of the diagnostic methodologies, technology, and increased understanding. WHY IS CONDI...

Murderous Children and Poor Parenting

this concept, and in his attachment theory, he explained, "Evidence is accumulating that human beings of all ages are happiest an...

Opposing Ritalin Prescription

very controversial and many say that children are "doped" which is a chemical alternative to treating the real problem ("Britain" ...

New World Disorder by Todorov

the Bush regime as "of the original Trotskyist and Marxist formation", a somewhat surprising observation perhaps in view of the lo...

New Medications for Bipolar Disorder/A Research Proposal

bipolar disorder will participate in this study. Diagnostic procedures will include DSM-IV multiaxial evaluation, physical examina...

Symptoms Prior to Diagnosing Childhood Onset Bipolar Disorder

around 8 or 9 oclock at night, depending on their age. So they have a lot of trouble getting to sleep, and there is a tendency fo...

Children and Causes of ADHD

a correlation of Attention Deficit Disorder with differences in thyroid hormone receptors. Researchers have found "a small subset...

Causes and Effects of Incest

marriage of close relatives is to prevent inbreeding, or consanguinity. The reasoning behind such prohibitions revolve around the...

ADHD and ADD and School Compulsory Medication

conspiracy to boost the sales of Ritalin (Lan, 2001). The case, Hernandez v. Ciba Geigy alleges that that the APA colluded with th...

Anorexia Nervosa and Its Possible Basis in Biology

and anxiety has long been considered indicative of triggering behavior inherent to the eating disorder. An impulsive personality ...

Literature Relevant to Adolescent Developmental Disorders

relationship with both the mother and her family and the father and his family (also in relation to property and/or inheritance la...

Bone Disorder Osteomalacia

healthy individual this process typically takes about three months from start to completion. This process takes place through mit...

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...

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...

Psychological Overview of Depression and Anxiety

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

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...

OCD and CBT

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

Quality of Life and the Effects of OCD

that ultimately triggers the beginning signs of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in children who have suffered a bout of strep ...

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...

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...