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Causes and Effects of Incest

marriage of close relatives is to prevent inbreeding, or consanguinity. The reasoning behind such prohibitions revolve around the...

Opposing Ritalin Prescription

very controversial and many say that children are "doped" which is a chemical alternative to treating the real problem ("Britain" ...

Issues in Psychology

A positive life leads to health in all areas, physically, mentally and spiritually. The negative side is a general lack of consist...

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

with attention; hyperactive behaviors; and impulsivity. Children who have this condition have great trouble concentrating and payi...

Genetic Disorder Marfan Syndrome

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

The Varied Manifestations and Causes of PTSD

Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) results from a...

BPD Difficlut to Diagnose

a relatively new mental illness category. Gunderson (2001) explained that borderline personality disorder "is layered between neur...

Social Work: History and Application

large, multifaceted group that is its own entity in a sense. After all, we tend to prescribe certain qualities and judgments to so...

DSM-IV-TR Axis 1 Disorders

manual used by psychiatrists, psychologists, and many others who work in the mental health field. This manual is referred to simpl...

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 ...

Paraphilias, Learning Theory and the DSM

The learning theory perspective provides a basis for creating functional change when fetishism or paraphilias are particularly pro...

Setting Appropriate Goals for Children with Disabilities

reduce fluid retention in the brain and the ability to control for fluid retention (often resulting in the implantation of stents ...

Different Topics in Psychology

share many of the prevalence characteristics of ASDs. As a result, the classification of Aspergers Syndrome as a PDD can have a n...

Anxiety Disorders and the Impacts on Adolescent Suicide

of risk and the impact for families. Research suggests that there is a need to consider the approaches for assessing suicide ri...

Autism Spectrum Disorder and Whole Word Instruction

is an abstract concept that can be interpreted many different ways. The whole word method stems from an understanding of literacy ...

Value-based Accounting Still Relevant in the 21st Century

elements such as the direct materials and the direct labor (Chadwick, 2007). By deducting the variable costs from the revenues it ...

Eating Disorders, Body Dissatisfaction and the Media

attempting to do now is to determine what "diverse factors" make these people susceptible to the impact of the media images, while...

ADHD as a Predictor of Social Development

academic performance is widely written about and accepted. Studies indicate conclusively that ADD is associated with poorer academ...

Cyber Bullying

properly! Schoolyard bullies have long made lives miserable for their victims who typically endure unrelenting taunting and phys...

Students with ADHD and Educational Strategies

can be cared to asking the student what steps they need to take to complete the assignment (Salend, Elhoweris and Garderen, 2003)....

Homework, Students, and ADD/ADHD

Students attempt to complete their homework in a very different setting than that in which they received instruction (Bryan and Bu...

Overview of Eating Disorders

In twenty pages eating disorders are examined in terms of etiology, presentation, treatment, research, and preventive measures wit...

An Article on ADD Critiqued

suffered frontal lobe damage are often misdiagnosed as having ADD, as the symptoms tend to mimic each other (Shelley-Tremblay et a...

Borderline Personality Disorder, An Overview

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

Nursing and Adolescent Pregnancy

their infants, and this factor is associated with increased morbidity and mortality, as well as significant financial expenditures...

Somatoform Disorders and DSM-V

one-third of patients with major depression experience remission using the first medication prescribed. This leads the doctor will...

Overview of PTSD and Trauma

world in which they live and these changes in cognition may lead to co-morbid conditions, such as alcohol or drug addiction (Willi...

Trying Juvenile Offenders as Adults

part of the American judicial system that juvenile offenders could be transferred to adult court under a waiver system; however, b...

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...

An Overview of Thyroid Disorders

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at thyroid disorders. Topics covered, in the form of a Power Point presentation, includ...