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Treatment and Rehabilitation of Female Offenders

were carried out by women who had, had it with the system which had failed to protect them from an abusive spouse. Says Nadler, "F...

Overview of OCD

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

The Genetic Basis of Anxiety Disorders

Bouton, Mineka and Barlow (2001, 4) comment: "Anxiety, an anticipatory emotional state that functions to...

Bipolar Disorder Discussion

In 1875, Falrets findings were called Manic-Depressive Psychosis and considered a psychiatric disorder (Caregiver.com, 2003). ...

Coexisting Disorders and Recommended Treatment

well, and is defined as a psychiatric disorder that can occur following the experience of witnessing a life-threatening event such...

A Rehabilitation Program Evaluation

would relapse into drug use within the first three months after completion. More than likely, the number would be closer to 8 out ...

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Generalized Anxiety Disorder is feeling much more anxiety than the normal person feels everyday (National Institute of Mental Heal...

Diagnosis and Treatment of Placenta Disorders

be accounted for approximately 15 percent of perinatal mortality (Angelini and Menihan, 1996). The diagnosis of placental ...

Adult Abuse Survivors and Theory

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

Overview of Pediatric Asthma

would be inhaled corticosteroids. These work very well on pre-school and school aged children alike and the negative side effects...

Clozapine Compared To Effects of Other Pharmaceuticals

Willwerth, 1992). Anxiety and depression are common (Wallis and Willwerth, 1992). Approximately eighty percent of individuals tr...

Mood Disorders Diagnosis and Treatment

suffer from bipolar disorders (Simon, 2001). For those who do not respond well to the traditional medications offered to stabiliz...

ADHD Children and Using Family and Group Therapies

age children, considered more than 3 million in the United States alone in the year 2001. Although the disorder has been reported ...

Consideration of Bipolar Disorder

used to describe common patterns within bipolar disorder such as bipolar I disorder where a person may experience manic or mixed e...

Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment and Effect on Families of Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder

patients experiencing either symptoms or full episodes of depression much more frequently than those of mania or hypomania" (Micha...

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...

Gender Identity Patient Disorder Diagnosis, Treatment, and the Film Boys Don’t Cry

by persistent discomfort with ones sex" (Meyenburg, 1999, p. 305). This gender identification with the opposite sex typically com...

Assessment in the Counseling Process

Thomas Sexton (1997 shows that the effectiveness of counseling is significantly influenced by the first session with the client. D...

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...

Borderline Personality Disorder

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

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...

Definition and Types of PTSD

Hurricane Katrina is one of the most recent examples of an event that resulted in PTSD among some victims. Szegedy-Maszak (2005) ...

Literature Review on Borderline Personality Disorder

order to make a diagnosis of BPD, the client should demonstrate behavior that indicates five or more of these characteristics (Pal...

Overview of Behavioral Disorders

Additionally, both disorders can be hereditary, but environment can also play a factor. Both disorders are affective disorders of ...

Manifestation Differences and Dyslexia

between 5% and 15% of all Americans (Health & Medicine Week, 2004). Padget has given a good definition of the condition, which it ...

Overview of Conversion Disorder

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

Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy as a Treatment for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

put into place active behavioral modification plans, and require the use of pharmacological support. Understanding treatment opti...

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...

Adolescent Depression from a Clinical Perspective

2003, p. 7). The manner by which depression overtakes each gender is a varied as how the illness is ultimately manifested. While...

The Impact of Adult ADD/ADHD on Education

diagnosis of ADD is an extremely complex process, which is complicated by the fact that the symptoms are very similar to other emo...