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Overview of Dyslexia

the last 30 years (Singleton, 2000). Essentially, making positive diagnosis of dyslexia involves establishing that: 1. The childs ...

Overview of Sleep Apnea

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

DSM IV Disorders and the PDSQ

ideation is measured on the basis of six specific components found on the Depression scale. Each disorder is matched with respect...

Major Depressive Disorder, An Overview

This paper presents a comprehensive overview pertaining to this disorder. Fourteen pages in length, twenty-five sources are cited....

Prevention of Health Care Access: Stigmas

This 10 page paper gives an overview of health care access problems. This paper includes mental illness, substance abuse disorders...

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

of the condition. In the film, he was so obsessed with germs, he brought plasticware to a diner everyday instead of using ordinary...

Learned Mothering: Raising a Child with ADHD

ADHD as they can impact social worker response and even the response of educators. Methodology The subjects of this study were...

Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy

cause of a childs disease or malady or because they use the accusation of MSBP as a ploy to avoid malpractice suits (Johns, 2007)....

Assessment, Program Development and Program Evaluation for Students with Special Needs

(ODD). Conduct Disorder (CD) The behavior of children with conduct disorder typically violates the rights of others and it can b...

Separation Anxiety and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD): The Case of "Jordan"

for OCD based on Jordans mothers report that his grandmother likely had the disorder. From the viewpoint of behavioral psycholog...

The Pathophysiology of ADHD

Rubia, Smith, Brammer, Toone, and Taylor (2005) report on the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to demonstrate t...

Manic Depressive

The title manic depressive was changed about three decades ago but it is still referred to by this label. Today, it is called bipo...

Generalized Anxiety Disorder Overview

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at generalized anxiety disorder. Factors associated with diagnosis are examined in some...

Developmental Disorders, Psychosis, and Schizophrenia

are considered "axis 2" disorders by the DSM IV-TR, suggesting their involvement in serving as a foundation for higher-level axis ...

Borderline Personality Disorder, An Overview

Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) defines borderline personality disorder (BPD) by listing nine diagnostic criteria, which...

Overview of the Anorexia Eating Disorder

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...

Models of Counseling and Female Orgasmic Disorder

the process of building a developmentally based clinical intervention" (Geidner, 2009, pp. 370-371). Sexual history interview que...

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: The Cosmetic Surgery Addiction

physician Enrique Morselli back in 1891 as dysmorphophobia, BDD has been defined as "the fear of having a deformity" (Hunt, Thienh...

Child Language Disorders

produced or vowels, dipthongs, and consonants (Toppelberg, Munir, and Nieto-Castanon, 2006). One of the primary culprits ...

ADHD and the Role of the Psychiatric Nurse

motor vehicle crashes, substance abuse, and illegal behavior" (Visser, Lesesne and Perou, 2007, S99). Symptoms include irritabili...

Panic Disorder Sufferers and Cognitive Behavior Disorder Effectiveness Experimental Research Design

the issue is included, as well as a suggested (and very basic) framework for the specialized investigation the student addressing ...

Mathews and MacLeod's 'Cognitive approaches to emotion and emotional disorders' Reviewed

In five pages this report reviews and article featured in 1994's Annual Review of Psychology. There is 1 source cited in the bibl...

Conversion Disorder

such as tragedies, deaths, serious injuries or threatening situations, require the human being to respond in a way that intensifie...

Suicidal Ideation Not Necessarily Associated With Bipolar Disorder

benefit from the combined benefits of pharmacotherapy and psychosocial therapy. Inherently associated with suicidal tendencies, b...

Effects Of Hypothyroidism

a sense of low self image just as readily. With the prevalence of at least some weight gain being one of the most commonly experi...

Nutrition and HIV

mineral supplement" every day (Ungvarski, 1996). Empirical evidence shows that there is a "synergistic and interactive relations...

Malaria

the liver of the individual where the the parasites will mature, then moving on to the red blood cells (Davis; Shiel, 2008). What ...

The Industrial Revolution

was far higher. As an example of some of these changes Rempel notes that "In 1784 a machine was patented which printed...

Bay of Pigs

Khrushchev, the Soviet premier. The plan anticipated that support from the Cuban people and perhaps even from elements of the Cuba...

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

there. He has grown up in a society that talks about the World State and so he is curious. He is a reader of Shakespeare and a man...