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Projective versus Objective Tests

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

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 ...

Anxiety Disorders

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

Mental Health Changes on TV

For decades, the media has portrayed people with mental illnesses or disorder in such a way that others did not want to be around ...

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder DSM-IV and DSM-5

There are many differences between the two latest versions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The diffe...

Substance Abuse and Depression: Concurrent Disorders

This 3 page paper gives an outline of depression and substance abuse as concurrent disorders. This paper includes the general info...

Overview of Concurrent Mental Disorders

This paper defines and discusses concurrent mental disorders. The writer indicates what this classification of mental disorders r...

Are More Childen Really Bipolar

The number of children and adolescents being treated for bipolar disorder has soared exponentially over the last decade. Some expe...

BiPolar Disorder on Television

Stereotypes and stigmas about mental illness have been consistently fostered by the media but in recent years, there are some tele...

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...

Overview of Oppositional Defiant Disorder

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

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...

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 ...

Clinical or Counseling Practice Personality Assessments

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

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...

Will Hunting

inherently linked to learned and imitated processes. Will Hunting is a character who demonstrates vast intelligence and a...

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...

Psychiatric/Mental Health Web Site Analysis

many other disorders. Given the prevalence of both ADD/ADHD and Depression, this user linked to each of these disorders. The ADD/A...

Substance Abuse And Dual Diagnosis

with mental illnesses may reach out to drugs or alcohol to ease the pain they are feeling. It becomes very difficult to separate t...

Bipolar Disorder II And Substance Abuse

that may trigger a Bipolar incident, many of these also trigger using substances. Oliver (2007) identified twelve different "Trigg...

Theories in Psychology: Freud and Erikson

genetics and psychosocial stimuli (Boeree, 2002). In their normal progression stage one occurs between infancy and two years of a...

Fear And Anxiety In Children

for anxiety" (The Childrens Center for OCD and Anxiety, 2006; also see National Center for Health and Wellness, 2006). There are m...

Aspects of Body Dysmorphic Disorder

of their unhappiness caused by the supposed defect. Phillips (1991) comments that "body dysmorphic disorder has been colorfully de...

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...

Discussion of Bipolar Disorder I and II

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

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 ...

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...