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Autism and Treatment

that are characterized as "autism spectrum disorders." This paper lists these conditions and then, because it is a short essay, co...

Bipolar Disorder

year 1650 when Richard Burton, a scientist, wrote "The Anatomy of Melancholia" which was a work that detailed depression. In fact,...

Issues in Psychology

A positive life leads to health in all areas, physically, mentally and spiritually. The negative side is a general lack of consist...

The Varied Manifestations and Causes of PTSD

Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) results from a...

BIPOLAR DISORDER AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT/SOCIALIZATION

bipolar disorder experiences either an overexcited or overjoyful state (manic episode) or a hopeless or extremely sad state (depre...

Bulimia and rincess Diana

considered a condition influenced solely by psychological, physiological and environmental factors, researchers now believe there ...

PTSD and its Effects Upon Soldiers' Lives

But all that stress accumulates" (McGirk, 2009, p. 40). With lengthy tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, PTSD is unfortunately...

Multi-Axial Categorization of Psychological Disorders

beliefs. Evans (2006, 37) notes, however, that "The factors that serve to perpetuate an eating disorder may have little to do wit...

ADHD as a Predictor of Social Development

academic performance is widely written about and accepted. Studies indicate conclusively that ADD is associated with poorer academ...

Study on Obesity - An Analysis

relationship between childhood abuse and obesity in young adulthood. The abstract of that paper says that the study was of young a...

Eating Disorders, Body Dissatisfaction and the Media

attempting to do now is to determine what "diverse factors" make these people susceptible to the impact of the media images, while...

Autism Spectrum Disorder and Whole Word Instruction

is an abstract concept that can be interpreted many different ways. The whole word method stems from an understanding of literacy ...

Psychotropic Medications

J. (2009, April 8). When to avoid antidepressants in bipolar patients. Psychiatric Times, 26(4), 5+ Loganathan, N., Lohano, K., Ro...

Psychiatric Drugs

is excreted from the body. By the time the drug goes through membranes and organs, less than 100 percent of the drug is available ...

Three Personality Theories

internal conflicts that must be resolved for the personality to develop. Major theorists in this area are Freud, Erikson, Adler, J...

Psychological Evaluation of Hughes

age 70. He was a legend as well as a mystery throughout his lifetime. He was a millionaire several times over as soon as he inheri...

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

with attention; hyperactive behaviors; and impulsivity. Children who have this condition have great trouble concentrating and payi...

DSM-IV-TR Axis 1 Disorders

manual used by psychiatrists, psychologists, and many others who work in the mental health field. This manual is referred to simpl...

Cyber Bullying

properly! Schoolyard bullies have long made lives miserable for their victims who typically endure unrelenting taunting and phys...

Personality Theory and the Jewish Holocaust

Personalists like John MacMurray study the relationships that emerge in the state of being a purpose, in internal aspects...

Social Work: History and Application

large, multifaceted group that is its own entity in a sense. After all, we tend to prescribe certain qualities and judgments to so...

When Adolescents with Bipolar Disorder Attempt Suicide

of risk and the impact for families. Research suggests that there is a need to consider the approaches for assessing suicide ri...

Mood Disorders and Schizophrenia

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

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) ...

Individual Personality Trait Identification and Hierarchy of Needs by Abraham Maslow

positive contribution to a successful life, defined as far more than only financial success as many see it. True success includes...

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...

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...

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...