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Disasters and Their Psychological Impact

a main area of study being the normative reaction to non normative events. The impact of stress created by disasters is argued to ...

Children's Developmental Disorders and Reading

part to the implementation of a fairly new technology: interactive computer programs. Particularly evident of this success is the...

Overview of Sleep Disorders

most likely the cause of this inability to fall asleep (2000). One thing is that changes in sleeping can affect ones ability to sl...

2 Articles on Multiple Personality Disorder Reviewed

In five pages this paper considers 2 articles in a contrast and comparison of dissociative identity disorder and multiple personal...

ADHD and ADD

In this paper of twelve pages the differences between attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and attention deficit disorder are ...

Themes of Order and Disorder in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

A paper illustrating themes of spiritual order and disorder in the prologue to Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The author dr...

Closer Look at Bulimia

In seven pages the most common of eating disorders is examined in terms of definition, who it affects and how along with physiolog...

Eating Disorders in Women

This 11 page paper examines eating disorders in women. The writer compares two common disorders, bulimia and anorexia nervosa, as ...

Anxiety Disorders and OCD

In ten pages anxiety disorders are examined in a consideration of their relationship to Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Eleven sou...

Overview of Gender Identity Disorder

In five pages the various theories involving gender identity disorder are analyzed and include patterns, occurrence, development, ...

Narcissistic Disorders, Theories, and Interventions

In thirty pages the disorder known as narcissism is analyzed in terms of the various psychological theories associated with it and...

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Conduct Disorder Causes

In six pages four causes of conduct disorders are examined with the focus on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Seven sour...

ADD and ADHD from Sociological Perspectives

In forty five pages this research paper presents a sociological overview of the implications of an Attention Deficit Hyperactivity...

Borderline Personality Disorder and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Treatment

to have their first interactions with a person with BPD as a result of emergency room visits following suicidal attempts. The the...

An Overview of Anxiety Disorders

so they change their everyday activities, in some cases there may bouts of anxiety that lead to intense periods of the person bein...

Carl Jung's Archetypes and Eating Disorders

archetypes can only become conscious secondarily (1981). The archetype is merely an example of a perfect form or prototype (Lohff,...

MPD DID Overview and Treatment

(DID) but the meaning of the disorder is based on the diagnosis that two or more personalities seem to reside within one person. D...

Discussion of Bipolar Disorder I and II

bipolar II is characterized by: "recurrent major depressive episodes with a lifelong history of one...

Sppech Pathology and ADHD

Center for Health Statistics, approximately 6.7% of children aged 5 to 17 were reported to have ADHD in 1997-2000" (Attention Defi...

ADHD and a Male Black Teen

of ADHD. Another disorder that is frequently associated with school failure is Conduct Disorder (CD), which is characterized in ...

Aspects of Body Dysmorphic Disorder

of their unhappiness caused by the supposed defect. Phillips (1991) comments that "body dysmorphic disorder has been colorfully de...

Questions About Treatment and the 1999 Film Girl Interrupted

is a misconception that can lead to problems in effective treatment Dr. Grohol believes that the best approach to treatment is to ...

Overview and Characteristics of MPD or DID

one of the primary causes of MPD, most especially when the trauma is related to child abuse. Findings over the last two decades i...

Alan Cavaiola and Neil Lavender's 'Toxic Coworkers: How to Deal with Dysfunctional People on the Job'

make a primarily positive impact or a primarily negative impact in the workplace. Workplace productivity is affected by a...

Children, Adolescents and OCD

This research paper investigates the subject of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in children and adolescents and includes the e...

Substance Abuse and Depression: Concurrent Disorders

This 3 page paper gives an outline of depression and substance abuse as concurrent disorders. This paper includes the general info...

Overview of Concurrent Mental Disorders

This paper defines and discusses concurrent mental disorders. The writer indicates what this classification of mental disorders r...

Are More Childen Really Bipolar

The number of children and adolescents being treated for bipolar disorder has soared exponentially over the last decade. Some expe...

BiPolar Disorder on Television

Stereotypes and stigmas about mental illness have been consistently fostered by the media but in recent years, there are some tele...

The Central Nervous System and the Peripheral Nervous System

This 3 page paper gives an overview of diagnosing disorders of the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous systems. This...