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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...

Overview of the TAT Personality Test

the criminal justice system, an alliance that provides for better understanding of "the vast psychological perspectives" (Diviny e...

Overview of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory II

created in the 1940s by Starke R. Hathaway and J. Charnley McKinley (NCS, 1998). Essentially, the MMPI-2 is an updated version of...

Bipolar Disorder

there is very little information about predisposes people to these episodes (Swann, 2006). Therefore, for the most part, nursing a...

Children's Developmental Disorders and Reading

part to the implementation of a fairly new technology: interactive computer programs. Particularly evident of this success is the...

Child Language Disorders

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

Overview of Conversion Disorder

to: "weakness, paralysis, sensory disturbances, pseudoseizures, and involuntary movements such as tremors. Symptoms more often af...

Special Education and ADHD

programming has become a scapegoat for traditional educators. Perhaps one of the most notable problems related to the onset of ...

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...

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...

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...

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)....

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 ...

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...

Overview and Treatment of Pain Disorders

can take. It is generally considered to be a very slow and progressive form of arthritis and more often associated with people who...

Etiology of School Age Children's Seizure Disorder

developing epilepsy; the changes increases to three percent at seventy-five years of age. The typical nature of epilepsy is to st...

Genetic Disorder Marfan Syndrome

abnormally" (The National Marfan Foundation, 2005). Physicians who followed also noted similar problems in other patients which al...

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...

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)...

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...

Intelligence and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

at any other time of his life. He always wanted to do well, but always seemed unable to perform to standard: My earliest recogni...

Overview of OCD

plans in place which have proven themselves useful for normalizing the behavior and thought patterns of OCD individuals. These tr...

Bipolar Disorder from Ethical, Legal, and Cultural Perspectives

have a variety of manifestations and patients are typically classified as either Bipolar I, Bipolar II, or Unipolar based on the s...

OCD

In seven pages this paper presents a pathological overview of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in a consideration of its signs, vario...

Adult Abuse Survivors and Theory

However, the role of temperament and personality is a critical component of crisis intervention, inasmuch as that singular individ...

The Use of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in the Treatment of Panic Attacks

completely harmless. In many ways a panic attack is reminiscent of the fight-or-flight response which arises in frightening situat...