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Essays 151 - 180

Interventions for Patients

This essay provides information and insight on different psychotherapeutic interventions for different mental illnesses. Psychodyn...

Senior Citizens with Chronic Illnesses and Social Deprivation

involved, the elderly can be put aside. Whether living at home or in a skilled nursing facility (SNF), the lives of the elderly w...

Mentally Illness Treatment in Geel, Belgium

seems that the seriously mentally ill must live in a hospital setting for their own safety and the safety of others. Yet, in Geel,...

What Leads to Homelessness?

are many people in the lower and middle income brackets who have little put away. If they have no credit, and no one to bail them ...

Overview of the Social Service Agency

into mainstream society. The WCC has completely removed the stigma of the developmentally disabled and positively changed the way...

Ethnicity and Health

more difficult to conduct trials in populations with varied ethnicities. She states that "other studies have shown that the effect...

Legal Excuse of Mental Illness

rationale for this plea and the heart of its meaning. The desirability of even raising these questions seems hardly to have been n...

A Comparison of The Snows of Kilimanjaro” and The Yellow Wallpaper

his insistence that he does not love her, is accounted for by the delirium which is affecting his mental faculties. However, the g...

Overview of Health Psychology

in health psychology has focused on three core questions: 1.) who gets sick and why do they get sick; 2.) of those who get sick, w...

Penal System and Mental Illness

population. The figure had been in line with a previous literature review which suggested that about 6 to 15% (1999, p.210) of peo...

Families and the Effects of Prolonged Illness

for the family. Finances have been destroyed with assets being wiped out, the stress such illness creates in the other family memb...

Illness in Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag

from the plethora of emotionally-charged meanings that unnecessarily increase the suffering of those stricken with this disease. E...

Disease of Schizophrenia

known to manifest various peculiarities or disorders of thinking and behavior. Correctly speaking, however, these are diseases of ...

Mental Illness from Ancient Times to the Present

the cause (2003). Again, while today it seems that psychology has focused on physical causes, as history progressed from ancient t...

Health Care and the Culture of Greece

without mentioning their love affair with olive oil, and the esteem which this precious ingredient holds in this culture (Miller, ...

An Analysis of the Text The Sexual Politics of Sickness

growing fears about it; and potential illness as a result. The standard birth takes place in a clinical hospital where the patient...

Patient Care and Individual Differences

and sustaining without yielding, they contend that bearing is a reaction which is more passive than coping but an activity which p...

Shift Work Rotations and Circadian Rhythms

but cant or b) individual knows they must move but give themselves every excuse in the book not to (Circadian Rhythm Room 2002, ...

Mothers Who Murder Their Infants

performed. Indeed, there is no argument that mothers who kill their children suffer from mental illness, yet it is the manner by ...

Three Theories of Human Psychology

presents a discussion and his belief that the unavoidable conflict is created in every individual by the demands made by their ind...

Literature Review of Psychosocial Treatment of Mental Illness

more common in boys than girls (Silka and Hauser, 1997). Determining the cause of retardation can be difficult and hard to pinpoin...

Literature Review of Psychosocial Interventions

In five pages this literature review considers noninvasive treatment of learning disorders, mental retardation, and mental illness...

A Review of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder As Reflected in the Movie Good As It Gets

habits are partially responsible for keeping him at arms length from the rest of the world. Considered for decades to be a diseas...

Amniocentesis and Amniotic Fluid

In five pages this paper discusses the aspects and medical implications of amniotic fluid and amniocentesis during pregnancy in te...

19th Century Russia, Medicine, and Health

which is before the communists would seize control, how did Russian peasants fare? It should be noted that the years mentioned de...

Literature and Male Cruelty

on love, but rather an arrangement. This book sheds light on the cruelty of arranged marriages, but things get worse. It is not me...

Lindlahr's Natural Therapeutics Compared to Five Articles

The natural approach to treating illness and maintaining health has become popular in recent years. Philosophy of Natural Therapeu...

The Treatment of Mentally Ill Women in the 19th Century

This 5 page paper discusses the way mentally ill women were treated in the 19th century. The writer argues that mental illness oft...

Mind and Body Connection of Thomas Szasz

In five pages this research paper examines the correlation between the mind and body within the context of Dr. Thomas S. Szasz's T...

Mental Illness and Sigmund Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents and The Id and the Ego

In six pages this paper discusses how mental illness is addressed in these two essays by Sigmund Freud. Three sources are cited i...