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Overview of Major or Unipolar Depression

In eight pages this major depression overview includes such issues as incidence, its diagnosis and treatment along with a discussi...

Therapy and Dental Phobias

to be completely outdated in dentistry. Indeed, the history of dentistry is gruesome to say the least. Dental fillings have been...

An Introduction to Attention Deficit Disorder

In five pages this paper provides an outline of ADD that includes symptoms, causes, diagnostic approaches and tests, treatments, m...

Methamphetamines

been increased clandestine production. Abusers are predominantly White, lower middle- income, high-school educated, young adults ...

Inner Childhood Issues and Group Therapy

of another individual, many adults tend to bury these fears and issues deep within themselves, a forced internalization that psych...

Homosexual Reparative and Conversion Therapies

In seven pages causes and possible treatments of homosexuality are considered with a comparative examination of conversion and rep...

Diagnosing and Treating Pathological Gambling

In five pages this paper discusses pathological gambling in terms of the DSM IV diagnostic criteria and then considers various mod...

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...

Biographical Sketch of Bipolar Disorder

(APA, 2003) and "These rates are consistent across diverse cultures and ethnic groups" (APA, 2003). The rate for bipolar II is abo...

Broken Leg Healing

because many bone-breaking accidents also can involve damage to the knee. The leg will be X-rayed both for diagnosis and confirma...

Critiquing the Research Approach of Measuring Children's Anger

the most common reasons for the referral of children to psychological and psychiatric services. Seventy-five percent of the child...

MS and Its Psychological Impact

function. Paralysis or loss of vision are common in severe cases, and it currently is not possible to predict what individuals wi...

Pessimism of Sigmund Freud on Alcoholics and Psychoanalysis

seek to regress to an infantile state where there is no clear differentiation between fantasy and reality, so alcoholism is theref...

Nail-biting: CBT as a therapeutic option

The problem of fingernail and cuticle biting in response to anxiety-provoking situations or stimuli has been noted in the current ...

Bipolar Disorder Discussion

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

'Shame' from Dick Gregory's Autobiography

his own money, earned from doing odd jobs. With trepidation, Gregory describes waiting for his change to give, but the teacher doe...

Women and Alcohol Abuse Effects

have different physiological responses to alcohol (Blume, 1990). Some important issues for women are that alcohol dependency can ...

Substance Abuse and Child Abuse

When it comes to the child welfare system, parental substance abuse and child abuse have been major issues - and very much linked ...

Examination of the Disease Leukemia

However, as the disease progresses, it may cause a low-grade fever as well as night sweats and fatigue (1996). Also, leukemia may ...

Overview of Malaria

fact that malaria parasites have built up a tremendous tolerance to the standard drugs administered to fight the disease. The ext...

An Alcoholism Overview

and forgetful. It can be a very serious problem for the elderly who are often on a smorgasbord of necessary pills to treat a varie...

Rights, Empowerment, and Social Work Legislation

Rights The concept of human rights have been a part of discussions on ethics and the ethical treatment of many different populati...

Managing and Treating Sexual Offenders

reentry of certain criminal populations into the general society. When sexual abusers, for example, are reintroduced into society...

Language Impairment and Broca Aphasia

or language disorder that prevents them form expressing themselves or limits their ability to understand what other are telling th...

A Depression Case Study

Inventory (BDI) 27, Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) 15, and Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS 15). The student has sought out thera...

Research Proposal on the Effectiveness of Treating Lower Back Pain with Acupuncture

participants in the study required some kind of practitioner response as a result of their lower back pain. The second assumption...

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...

Overview of Behavioral Disorders

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

Children and Elective Mutism

condition in which children dont speak because they dont want to (Leung and Kao, 1999). Those with elective mutism will speak when...