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Abnormal Psychology Depression

This all contributed to a lack of stability in his life. He got a job at a printing company in 1960 and within a year, he married...

Borderline Personality Disorder, An Overview

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

Four Interventions for OCD

This essay briefly explains four clinical approaches to treating obsessive compulsive disorder. The philosophy and foundation of e...

Homosexuality, Shifting Societal Views

This essay draws on sources to describe the shift from viewing homosexuality as a criminal offense and a mental disorder to a more...

Fatal Attraction and Borderline Personality Disorder

(BPD) is subject to period of extreme emotional turmoil, as these individuals tend to see themselves in a distorted fashion, which...

O’Nell/Disciplined Hearts

Part three continues this analysis, focusing on narratives of experience. In creating these discussions of data and the issues the...

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...

Effects of PTSD on Louise Erdrich’s ‘The Red Convertible,’ Ernest Hemingway’s ‘Soldier’s Home,’ and Tim O’Brien’s ‘How to Tell a True War Story’

are particularly harrowing in soldiers that were at some point POWs (Dikel et al 69). Furthermore, the age of the traumatized per...

2 Studies on Phonological Disorders and Reading

should be explored by future research, which should investigate the specific nature of the developmental process. The author furth...

Prevention And Treatment Programs For Alcohol Abuse

prevention of alcohol abuse from a community perspective has made Sacramento, California a precedent setting city whereby extended...

Sickle Cell Disorders

circulation problems (Bennett, 2005). When oxygenated properly, the cells may return to the normal round shape, unless they are al...

BILLY PILGRIM: PTSD OR SEVERELY PSYCHOTIC?

shelters to get corpses out "as a sanitary measure," is how he puts it (Hayman et al). Even more gruesome was his description of t...

Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome And The Counting Method

upon as wholly overwhelming. II. SUMMARY The individual conjures up a traumatic memory while the therapist counts from ...

Panic Disorder and Marriage Therapy

for no real reason. Symptoms can include: Trembling...

Relationship Between Language-Based And Learning Disabilities

Beyond that, however, is the fact that any student who is struggling with language will not be able to read and write as well as a...

Research Design To Test The Hypothesis That There Is An Inverse Relationship Between Memory Recovery Of Child Sexual Abuse And The Development Of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

by using standard PTSD models there is a limiting of the understanding of the conditions that are suffered and that there is the ...

Borderline Personality Disorder

reckless driving, overspending, stealing). [Again, not including suicidal or self-mutilating behavior covered in Criterion 5] (Ame...

Parenting Styles And Attachment

parents provide the kind of nurturing and care the baby needs, the five senses are positively stimulated" (Smith, no date). Pare...

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...

Dissociative Identity Disorder: Behavior Analyst Explanation

in a single multidimensional self" (Stephens, 2005). Key indicators include: * The presence of two or more distinct identities, ...

Interventions For Aggressive Preschool-Age Children

out of them but that is not true. Studies consistently demonstrate that at least half of the children exhibiting aggressive behavi...

Bipolar Disorder

their moods tend to swing between extreme poles of emotion. A depressive episode is characterized by symptoms such as depressed mo...

Vets with PTSD

with sudden flashbacks intruding on thoughts (Fagan and Freme, 2004). Other symptoms include: an exaggerated startle reflex, sleep...

Bipolar Disorder

the brain has long been thought to be the cause, but researchers at Washington University have discovered possible structural abno...

Bone Density And Dieting: Professional

track and cross-country runners, that physicians need to take note of amenorrhea and/or a history of stress fracture, and have sus...

Neurosis and Psychosis (Overview)

Neurosis," 2007). Many are familiar with anxiety as it is common in society in addition to depression. OCD is obsessive compulsive...

Nutrition Concerns in AIDS

at best, death usually occurs within a few months to a few years after the virus attack on the human system. Maintaining proper n...

Harris & Weiss/Topics in Autism

the "Yu Family," with parents Harold and Grace. Eddie is their oldest child. Eddie is such a "good" baby, demanding little attenti...

Hypothetical Marijuana Study

such that their motives are interpreted as malevolent, beginning in early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts" (DSM-IV,...