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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...

Conduct Disorder: A Review of the Literature and a Proposed Study

children. When these families perceive a problem they are often reluctant to seek help for that problem because of the labeling t...

Fear And Anxiety In Children

for anxiety" (The Childrens Center for OCD and Anxiety, 2006; also see National Center for Health and Wellness, 2006). There are m...

Psychiatric/Mental Health Web Site Analysis

many other disorders. Given the prevalence of both ADD/ADHD and Depression, this user linked to each of these disorders. The ADD/A...

Multiple Personality Disorder And Consciousness

(Sancar, 1999). It often begins as a defense mechanism to escape the pain of what is happening at the moment but as this defense i...

Substance Abuse And Dual Diagnosis

with mental illnesses may reach out to drugs or alcohol to ease the pain they are feeling. It becomes very difficult to separate t...

Bipolar Disorder II And Substance Abuse

that may trigger a Bipolar incident, many of these also trigger using substances. Oliver (2007) identified twelve different "Trigg...

ADHD and a Male Black Teen

of ADHD. Another disorder that is frequently associated with school failure is Conduct Disorder (CD), which is characterized in ...

Sppech Pathology and ADHD

Center for Health Statistics, approximately 6.7% of children aged 5 to 17 were reported to have ADHD in 1997-2000" (Attention Defi...

Aspects of Body Dysmorphic Disorder

of their unhappiness caused by the supposed defect. Phillips (1991) comments that "body dysmorphic disorder has been colorfully de...

Overview and Characteristics of MPD or DID

one of the primary causes of MPD, most especially when the trauma is related to child abuse. Findings over the last two decades i...

Questions About Treatment and the 1999 Film Girl Interrupted

is a misconception that can lead to problems in effective treatment Dr. Grohol believes that the best approach to treatment is to ...

Discussion of Bipolar Disorder I and II

bipolar II is characterized by: "recurrent major depressive episodes with a lifelong history of one...

ADD Treatments

Chung , 1997). Within six years time the name was changed again and is now well know by the acronym ADHD (Calhoun, Greenwell-Ioril...

Alan Cavaiola and Neil Lavender's 'Toxic Coworkers: How to Deal with Dysfunctional People on the Job'

make a primarily positive impact or a primarily negative impact in the workplace. Workplace productivity is affected by a...

Overview of Oppositional Defiant Disorder

a purposeful and intentional desire to bother and irritate others (What is Oppositional Defiant Disorder? 2004). Interestingly, ...

BiPolar Disorder on Television

Stereotypes and stigmas about mental illness have been consistently fostered by the media but in recent years, there are some tele...

Are More Childen Really Bipolar

The number of children and adolescents being treated for bipolar disorder has soared exponentially over the last decade. Some expe...

Substance Abuse and Depression: Concurrent Disorders

This 3 page paper gives an outline of depression and substance abuse as concurrent disorders. This paper includes the general info...

Overview of Concurrent Mental Disorders

This paper defines and discusses concurrent mental disorders. The writer indicates what this classification of mental disorders r...

Children, Adolescents and OCD

This research paper investigates the subject of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in children and adolescents and includes the e...

Communicative Disorders: Stuttering and Dysarthria

This research paper presents an overview of dysarthria and stuttering, which are both communicative disorders. The paper discusses...

Mental Health Changes on TV

For decades, the media has portrayed people with mental illnesses or disorder in such a way that others did not want to be around ...

The Central Nervous System and the Peripheral Nervous System

This 3 page paper gives an overview of diagnosing disorders of the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous systems. This...

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...

Attention Deficit Disorders

affected children at risk for developing anxiety and depression (Capano, et al, 2008). In general, the behaviors associated with ...

Bipolar Disorder

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

Genetic Disorder - Breast Cancer

Hecht, 2008). Breast cancer in both men and women is a genetic disorder but it is not necessarily hereditary (U.S. National Librar...

ADHD Diagnosis And Assessment

in grades Kindergarten through 8 (Erford and Hase, 2006). It has 24 items that are rated on a scale of 1 to 5, almost never to alm...

Classification of Personality Disorders

may overlap. The groupings would be as follows: Isolated Group: Antisocial personality disorder, schizoid personality disorder, s...