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Mental Prototypes, Language and More

course, prototypes and categories can get us in trouble. The assignment asks for an example of mistaken identity. I was in a store...

MENTAL PROTOTYPES

Gregg is his outward enthusiasm, slight build and effeminate behavior, a collection of characteristics that led me to believe he i...

Answers To Therapy Questions

decisions on her vulnerability to her sisters disorder may be negatively impacted by a number of thinking processes. First, her p...

Mental Health Counseling and Self-Supervision

their practices for lapses in technique, identify areas of improvement, and continue to grow as professionals. This paper will pre...

Issues in Psychiatric Genetic Research

twin research (Joseph, 2010b). However, the EEA is controversial because it posits that the same environment and psychological b...

Innocent by Reason of Insanity

The concept of insanity has been shaped by a number of forces. Generally, however, the concept of...

Contesting a Will on Grounds of Mental Capacity

the family home, where Jill still resided, $150,000 in bank deposits as well as some antiques and personal chattels to her grandch...

Issues in Psychological Testing

Korkmaz, 2010). Gardners theory has gained a great deal of support but there is one major problem-there is no way to assess it. If...

THE PROFESIONAL MENTAL HEALTH NURSE AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS

No matter what the specialty, nurses are on the front line of healthcare - theyre the individuals who interact directly with the p...

The Stigma of Therapy

early detection and treatment would insure a healthier population (Blumenthal, 2011). A study of nearly 800 college students foun...

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...

Decision Making and Creative Intelligence

a renewed need for professionals to leverage any competitive advantage they can find. It is for this reason that chronically under...

The Creation of a Testing Measure for the Topic of Healthcare Reform

that mental disorders may have genetic, neurobiological and behavioral causes is helpful in legitimizing the application of method...

Changing the Views on Mental Health Care

is dedicated to the memory of Linda Anderson, research writer, mother and friend....

Is There a Need for Clinical Supervision

either manager or educator. Proctor (1994) described this kind of method or approach to both instruction and organizational inte...

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...

Issues in Abnormal Pscyhology

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

Creative intelligence and Mental Models

the four styles of creative intelligence are: Intuitive, Innovative, Imaginative, and Inspirational. The person whose style is int...

Developmental Life Issues and Mental Retardation

and federally mandated law support the idea that children with mental retardation should spend "some or much of their school day i...

Cyber Bullying

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

The Impacts of Down Syndrome

Introduction Down syndrome results from a chromosomal anomaly. Instead of a child having the normal twenty chromosomes the...

Program to Promote Good Mental Health in a Refugee Community

not just to the move, but the circumstances under which the individual became a refugee. In general terms for all migrants the pot...

HEALTH CARE ACT AND MENTAL HEALTH

this rhetoric was how the act would impact the millions of people in the United States who suffer from emotional or physical disor...

Addressing the Problem of Native American Suicide

water for a significant percentage of these people. The dissolution of the nuclear family is another problem that should be mor...

AN OVERVIEW AND ANALYSIS OF DREAMING

be some disagreement as to what dreams signify and how to interpret them (Marszalek and Meyers, 2006). Still, most of those in the...

Family Therapy - Three Different Models

Batesons cybernetics model (Niolan, 2002). Tucker (2002, PG) notes that to Bateson familial problems exist in a system of units a...

How Mental Agility Can be Achieved During the Aging Process

phenomena occur in the brain and are directly associated with the hippocampus area in particular. The physiology of the phenomena...

Health and the Effects of Gender Roles

the need to purge what one had just consumed in order to "return for additional eating, drinking and merriment" (Kuehnel, 2002)....

Overview of Mental Health Courts

is not an issue in Missouris Boone County, however. There, the local Mental Health Board of Trustees has the power to bypass the ...

President John F. Kennedy's 1963 Community Mental Health Law

a problem that is difficult to define adequately. There is much competition in the health field, and in the mental health field t...