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OCD and CBT

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

Adolescents and Challenging School Behaviors

students in 2004 from 24% of students in 2003 (MORI, 2004). Bullying and threatening behaviour are increasing and it was found tha...

Review of Behavior Therapy

of self-monitoring used in the majority of studies evaluating the effectiveness of self monitoring. These are self-assessment and...

Behavioral Explanations of Darwin, Pavlov, Piaget, and Freud

as being a form of "wish fulfillment" (Gay, 1995, 151), contending that people dream of that which they are being deprived, i.e. m...

Cancer Interventions

care professionals and systems because of previous negative experiences. The literature emphasizes that all women, regardless of...

Elementary Student Studies Considered in 2 Article Critiques

goal of this study was to discern if a successful intervention could be devised that would have a beneficial effect on inappropria...

Public School Behavior Issues and Discipline

The school uses a block scheduling system so class periods are long. The schools solution was to lock the bathrooms during class ...

Childhood Learning And Behavioral Development: Practice Responses

- but just as critical a component to the overall success of this system - is gaining the involvement of family members, determini...

Oedipus Rex: Behavioral Perspective And Interactionist Theory

"childhood and neurotic mental processes" (Appel, 1995, p. 625), Freud was able to create a link between family relationships and ...

Behavioral Intervention in Early Childhood Education

problems in regard to proper student behavior in the educational setting and that to address these problems we must utilized a num...

"Children Placed At Risk For Learning And Behavioral Difficulties" - Brief Analysis

be learned about keeping children with the potential of being categorized as at risk out of the statistical pool by prescreening a...

Decision Making Models

of their own limited abilities or because of the conditions that exist in the organization (Lahti, 2003). Other assumptions includ...

American Children and Obesity

In this six page essay, the writer explores the growing issue of childhood obesity and offers behavioral solutions to this epidemi...

Approaches to Literacy

productive programs and pedagogies). Proponents of this thinking dont see literacy skills developing in a vacuum unconnected to ot...

Behaviorism

- can condition (train) him to be whatever professional he chooses. This, he argues, is the basis upon which behavior is founded:...

Williams Syndrome in Children, Problematic Behavior, and Pain Management

behaviours: one of the reasons for the study was to assess whether there were elements of the playschool environment which were tr...

Turnover of Employees and Contribution of Management

Years of tradition dictate that employees will work harder and more productively just for the promise of higher pay. Practice and...

Nonverbal Behavior Norms Violations

by stepping back, as she directed me in answer to my question. Concentrating on her answer, the salesgirl did not even seem to be ...

Social Psychology and Application of Aggression Theories

et al, 1990). In the clinical setting, the two most commonly displayed behavior disorders are grouped under the heading of disr...

Overview of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

integrates what has been defined as "behavior modification techniques," or interventions that are introduced to break the cycle be...

Psychotic Depression Application of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

emotional reaction to certain situations, and so listening becomes one of the fundamental tools in the learning of new skills (Sta...

CBT, an overview

integrates what has been defined as "behavior modification techniques," or interventions that are introduced to break the cycle be...

Adult Learners, Motivation, and Curriculum Development

David Kolb (1984) developed what has been deemed a linear processing approach to learning. Kolb (1984) asserted that experiential...

Dominick in Wally Lamb's I Know This Much is True

In ten pages a behavioral character analysis of Dominick's personality as presented in Lamb's text is examines and also compared w...

Senior Citizens, Young People, and Suicide

to 14. Considering only adolescents 15 to 19, the suicide rate is "was 8.2 deaths per 100,000 teenagers, including five times as ...

Behaviorism and B.F. Skinner

The main point of Skinners theory was that learning was the result of a change in overt behavior, and those changes in behavior we...

Correctional Counselors and How They Can Use a Behavioral Approach

issue of crime and criminality in the United States has been a considerable focus in recent years, extending from an increasing pr...

Survey Question Examples on Family Business, Morale, and Behavioral Consequences for Nonfamily Members

and then answer the questions below the list. a. Treats everyone the same b. Is fair in dealing with non-family members as well ...

Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Bipolar Disorder

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

Article Reviews on Early Childhood Education Behavior Management

each day; the teacher always needs to control themselves so as not to get drawn into a bad situation; provide numerous opportuniti...