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Children and the Psychological Effects of PTSD Associated with Hurricane Katrina

illness. Post traumatic stress syndrome can result from diversity of causes including the horrors of war, sexual abuse, or even s...

Evaluation of a CBT session

on too long, she says things that do not need to be said, like the comment about not wanting to overwhelm him and they will go thr...

Studies in OCD

OCD. However, the authors do note that a previous study did indicate beneficial results, thus indicating there may be possibilitie...

Overview of Sleep Apnea

symptoms (Zepf, 2003). The "gold standard" for diagnosing sleep apnea is to use polysomnography in a sleep laboratory (Zepf, 2003)...

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...

Anorexia Nervosa and Its Possible Basis in Biology

and anxiety has long been considered indicative of triggering behavior inherent to the eating disorder. An impulsive personality ...

Psychological Overview of Depression and Anxiety

that anxiety is both a physiological and psychological response to stressors. Generally, anxiety is considered a negative emotion...

ADHD: Legitimate Medical Diagnosis or Socially Constructed Disorder? - Ethical Concerns

and school- or community-level factors associated with receiving a diagnosis of ADHD" According to recent...

Parenting Styles And Attachment

parents provide the kind of nurturing and care the baby needs, the five senses are positively stimulated" (Smith, no date). Pare...

Attachment And Separation

for their future relationships and interactions (Pendry, 1998; Practice Notes, 1997). There are three conditions for attachment de...

Mental Retardation & Psychopathology

mental illness. One area of practice where this factor in Christian psychiatric practice may prove effective is in regards to the...

Vets with PTSD

with sudden flashbacks intruding on thoughts (Fagan and Freme, 2004). Other symptoms include: an exaggerated startle reflex, sleep...

How Does ADHD Affect Learning

impossible for this individual to learn or achieve in school. This is not because they are not intelligent enough to do so, it is ...

Interventions For Aggressive Preschool-Age Children

out of them but that is not true. Studies consistently demonstrate that at least half of the children exhibiting aggressive behavi...

Bone Density And Dieting: Professional

track and cross-country runners, that physicians need to take note of amenorrhea and/or a history of stress fracture, and have sus...

Neurosis and Psychosis (Overview)

Neurosis," 2007). Many are familiar with anxiety as it is common in society in addition to depression. OCD is obsessive compulsive...

Harris & Weiss/Topics in Autism

the "Yu Family," with parents Harold and Grace. Eddie is their oldest child. Eddie is such a "good" baby, demanding little attenti...

Discussion of PTSD

disorder, or a family history of anxiety and neuroticism" (Grinage, 2003). The body responds in measurable ways to various stress...

Research Proposal on Hyperactivity

inherent weakness of being 18 years old. Therefore, much of its information is out-of-date. Jensen, et al (1998) conducted a stu...

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) ...

Graves Disease/Proposed Research

variety of immunologic features that are similar to autoimmune hypotheroidism, such as "high serum concentrations of antibodies ag...

Effects of PTSD on Louise Erdrich’s ‘The Red Convertible,’ Ernest Hemingway’s ‘Soldier’s Home,’ and Tim O’Brien’s ‘How to Tell a True War Story’

are particularly harrowing in soldiers that were at some point POWs (Dikel et al 69). Furthermore, the age of the traumatized per...

The Pathophysiology of ADHD

Rubia, Smith, Brammer, Toone, and Taylor (2005) report on the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to demonstrate t...

Critique of Qualitative Study/Nutrition

their level of obesity, but, until this study, little was known as to whether or not there is a "relationship between dieting and ...

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...

Criminal Behavior: John Wilkes Booth

and Bernstein, 2007, p. 78). While Eysenck apparently did not develop his theory of behavior specifically with regard to crime, la...

O’Nell/Disciplined Hearts

Part three continues this analysis, focusing on narratives of experience. In creating these discussions of data and the issues the...

BILLY PILGRIM: PTSD OR SEVERELY PSYCHOTIC?

shelters to get corpses out "as a sanitary measure," is how he puts it (Hayman et al). Even more gruesome was his description of t...

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...

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...