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Assumptions About The Male Gender And Eating Disorders

eating disorder can affect those who are average-sized, as well. It is estimated that one to two percent of American adults are b...

Critique of "Does Race Exist?"

groups on the basis of at least 60 Alu polymorphisms, but only narrowly enough to identify their continent of origin. They report...

Conduct Disorder: A Review of the Literature and a Proposed Study

children. When these families perceive a problem they are often reluctant to seek help for that problem because of the labeling t...

Aspects of Body Dysmorphic Disorder

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

Fear And Anxiety In Children

for anxiety" (The Childrens Center for OCD and Anxiety, 2006; also see National Center for Health and Wellness, 2006). There are m...

Comprehensive Discussion of Autism

is demonstrating symptoms (Pasco, 2010). Autism interferes with the normal development of the childs brain, particularly in the ar...

Disorder and the Chain of Being in Shakespeare's "Macbeth"

and "too full of... kindness" (I.ii.77, I.v.18). Once Macbeth steps outside the bonds of the social order by killing Duncan, howev...

Psychopharmacology and GAD

anxiety disorder is prevalent in our society. It is important for all clinicians to have a firm grasp on this disorder as well as ...

Discussion of Bipolar Disorder I and II

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

ADD Treatments

Chung , 1997). Within six years time the name was changed again and is now well know by the acronym ADHD (Calhoun, Greenwell-Ioril...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

Seasonal Affective Disorder and Somatoform

written about this because it is having a devastating effect on girls and women who try to fit the image. It is societys pressure ...

Psychological Diagnosis Case

he is ready to really do something about his illnesses. Identifying Client Information: Name: Eric Beck; Age: 32 Race: Caucasia...

POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER

trauma. Other symptoms that can have an impact include memory problems, hallucinations, difficulty concentrating, difficulty in ma...

Anxiety Disorders

the many different ways in which the disorder can manifest. For instance, it is possible for the disorder to manifest bodily, such...

Identity in the Work of Cindy

Sherman Cindy Sherman is a noted photography, with her work often categorizing her as an artist. In her work she presents images w...

Genetic Disorder - Breast Cancer

Hecht, 2008). Breast cancer in both men and women is a genetic disorder but it is not necessarily hereditary (U.S. National Librar...

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...

Bipolar Disorder Diagnosis and Treatment

manual, Bipolar I is a clinical course characterized by one of more manic or mixed episodes (APA, 1994). Generally, individuals wi...

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...

ADHD Diagnosis And Assessment

in grades Kindergarten through 8 (Erford and Hase, 2006). It has 24 items that are rated on a scale of 1 to 5, almost never to alm...

Classification of Personality Disorders

may overlap. The groupings would be as follows: Isolated Group: Antisocial personality disorder, schizoid personality disorder, s...

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Used in the Treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

a result, more diagnoses have been made (Grinage, 2003). It is now something that is also associated with trauma stemming from chi...

Girl, Interrupted And Borderline Personality

the DSM IV-TR (Therapydoc, 2007). The next one is due sometimes in 2012 (Therapydoc, 2007). It will no doubt change etiologies, di...

Book Review: "Understanding Leadership" By Gayle C. Avery

culture, processes and changing systems. Averys (2004) attempt to define leadership in its broadest terms can readily be interpre...

Wealth Inequalities in American Society

while another might only have a Bic lighter and a camp fire. The blue collar worker category, in turn, also has its share...

Borderline Personality Disorder

require a combination of therapeutic approaches that may include behavior modification plans, psychoanalysis and even the use of p...