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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...

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 Therefore, much of its information is out-of-date.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...

Workplace Mental and Physical Diversity

1998). However, the attitude of hiring physically and mentally challenged individuals is changing. There is a rising appreciation...

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...

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) ...

Children Suffering from Antisocial Personality Disorder

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

Women's Mental Health/Depression

minority groups. They are frequently poor and have little education. Scrandis, Fauchald and Radsma describe a "Charlottes Web of C...

Extreme Mental Illness And Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)

that depression is experienced, as well as the inability for young adults to understand why they are depressed at such a vulnerabl...

Psychotherapy and Bipolar Disorder

this basis; however, rather than using the Freudian concepts of ego, superego and id, Berne found the concepts of parent, adult an...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Reaction Paper to the National Commission on Sleep Disorders Research Report 'Wake Up America: A National Sleep Alert'

they are tired, or not getting enough sleep, they can quickly understand how a large number of people in the nation could make a b...

Overview of Dementia

strikes first in the medial temporal lobe, memory recall, confusion and forgetfulness are typically the first identifiable symptom...

Sexual Abuse as a Cause of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)

was missing during the formative years, this search most often leads to a superficial fix time and time again due to the individua...

OCD and CBT

and emotionally unbalancing illnesses they truly are to the adolescent population. Studies have pinpointed six cognitive elements...

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 ...

United Kingdom's System of Criminal Justice and Mental Illness

range of the problem is quantified 2. What is Mental Illness? 2.1 Definitions of Mental Illness The difficulty with defining me...

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 ...

Senior Citizen Mental Illness Workplace Management and Prevention of Violence

to nonadherence to medication in the mentally ill elderly is attempting to successfully pinpoint a single yet comprehensive connot...

Literature Relevant to Adolescent Developmental Disorders

relationship with both the mother and her family and the father and his family (also in relation to property and/or inheritance la...

Behavioral Disorders in Students and the Value of Early Identification and Intervention

encouraged. Activities such as these lead to a number of behavioral problems and in some cases can lead to either voluntary or in...

Mental Health Services and Limited Use by Asian Americans

that the theory which best describes the underlying expected relationships among variables is related to the stratification hypot...

Psychological Overview of Depression and Anxiety

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

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...

An Analysis of an Article About Mental Illness and Attitudes of Teens

can speculate that the attitudes of peers complicates or causes depression in adolescents who suffer from mental illness, or it ma...

A Case Study of Advanced Counseling Techniques

chest, perhaps indicative of a desire for protection from contact that may be painful. Marge did not shake my hand at the onset o...