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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...

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...

THE CASE OF BEN AND A PERSONALITY DISORDER

incident mentioned in the case study in which Ben presented the "gift from Jesus" to a pedestrian does lead to a definite lack of ...

Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Effective Education Strategies

2000). Diagnosing Autism Autism is not a disorder that can be easily diagnosed through some simple process such as a blood ...

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...

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 ...

Bipolar Disorder Treatments

improvement, and 57% of those using psychosocial interventions showed no improvement (Keks, 2009). Clearly, the administration of ...

Different Topics in Psychology

share many of the prevalence characteristics of ASDs. As a result, the classification of Aspergers Syndrome as a PDD can have a n...

Anxiety Disorders and the Impacts on Adolescent Suicide

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

The Use of RTI for Children with Language Disorders

RTI can be designed to address those limitations or factors that influence the acquisition of literacy skills. The premise behind...

Developmental Disorders, Psychosis, and Schizophrenia

are considered "axis 2" disorders by the DSM IV-TR, suggesting their involvement in serving as a foundation for higher-level axis ...

Paraphilias, Learning Theory and the DSM

The learning theory perspective provides a basis for creating functional change when fetishism or paraphilias are particularly pro...

A Definition of Bipolar Disorder

In a paper of three pages, the author reflects on the difference between bipolar I and bipolar II and provides definitions of both...

Congenital Heart Disease and Blood Disorders

this disease impacts a much larger segment of the population than one might suspect. Congenital heart defects occur in approximat...

Setting Appropriate Goals for Children with Disabilities

reduce fluid retention in the brain and the ability to control for fluid retention (often resulting in the implantation of stents ...

Differential Diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder and the Misuse of Mood Stabilizers

of Bipolar II are more likely to develop the disorder, and this hereditary component has become the center of genomic research int...

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 AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT/SOCIALIZATION

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

Study Critique/Bipolar Disorder Cost Evaluation

on to indicate that medication for bipolar disorder is only a small percentage of the direct costs to the patient, roughly 10 perc...

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...

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...

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...

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...

BPD Difficlut to Diagnose

a relatively new mental illness category. Gunderson (2001) explained that borderline personality disorder "is layered between neur...

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

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

Personality Disorders: Case Study Analyses

2008). He saw both his mother and his fianc?e as weak and lacking their own lives (Mendelowitz, 2008). The use of this case study ...

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...