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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 Hemoglobinopathies and Hemoglobin Electrophoresis

elbow, with the help of an elasticised band placed around the upper arm in order to restrict blood supply and make collection easi...

Overview of Conversion Disorder

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

Alcoholics and ADHD

Disorders (DSM-IV) of the American Psychiatric Association outlines the criteria for making a diagnosis of ADHD (Wilens, 1998). Ac...

Use of Lithium Within The Field of Psycho-Pharmacology

notes that another five percent are victims of occasional despondency, with one of every six people succumbing to a "serious, or m...

Eating Disorders and Successful Treatment Approaches

use behavioral modification to redirect the negative self talk that many of these people engage in. Bulimia Nervosa is a combina...

Arguing Against Ritalin Use

think of how prevalent these conditions of hyperactivity have been throughout history? These are two of the most important questio...

Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Bipolar Disorder

have been shown to help patients, including "cognitive behavior therapy and interpersonal therapy" (Oerlinghausen, Berghofer and B...

Overview of Eating Disorders

In twenty pages eating disorders are examined in terms of etiology, presentation, treatment, research, and preventive measures wit...

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and REBT

The designation "shell shock" was replaced by "combat fatigue" in the Second World...

Students with Autism or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Education

Within six years the name was changed again and is now well know by the acronym ADHD (1997). While the names have changed, that d...

Homework, Students, and ADD/ADHD

Students attempt to complete their homework in a very different setting than that in which they received instruction (Bryan and Bu...

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Russell Barkley

that the individual suffers constantly, since childhood, and that the symptoms continue throughout life and are quite severe in ma...

Rare Kidney Disorder Known as Nephrogenic Diabetes Insipidus

controlled in the future through the use of procedures such as gene therapy. At present, however, NDI can only be managed, not cu...

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) ...

Mood Disorders and Schizophrenia

environment which fed the development of the disease, relapse is not uncommon ("Schizophrenia," 2006). Complete recovery is a poss...

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...

Eating Disorders and Differing Perspectives

bulimia it is helpful to first examine the so-called facts. According to these "facts" eating disorders affect females more frequ...

PTSD and Employee Management

Is The American Psychiatric Association has specific guidelines for diagnosing PTSD, specifying that the ordeal which has t...

Children Suffering from Antisocial Personality Disorder

has a direct correlation with unattached disorders, with institutionalized children reflected as being particularly compromised in...

A Look at the BDIS-2

The Theoretical Base The theoretical base for this test is linked to the belief that behavioral and emotional problems often go h...

DSM IV Disorders and the PDSQ

ideation is measured on the basis of six specific components found on the Depression scale. Each disorder is matched with respect...

Etiology of OCD

(i.e., taking more than an hour a day) or when they cause marked distress or significant impairment for the individual (Diagnostic...

Biological Perspectives on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Through Eye Movement Desensitization Treatment

memories is about as easy as holding ones breath: it just cannot be done without help; as such, those suffering from PTSD must be ...

Problems Associated with Eating Disorders

One set of arguments, those that argue that unusual eating behaviors such as anorexia and bulimia are not in actuality eating diso...

Discussion of PTSD

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

Provisions in Education for Adolescents with ADHD, Asperger's, and Autistic Spectrum Disorders

1998). This is enshrined in both political rhetoric and policies and papers such as the policy documents Excellence in Schools and...

Quality of Life and the Effects of OCD

that ultimately triggers the beginning signs of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in children who have suffered a bout of strep ...