SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Transgenderism A Psychological Disorder

Essays 121 - 150

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...

Mental Health Changes on TV

For decades, the media has portrayed people with mental illnesses or disorder in such a way that others did not want to be around ...

Communicative Disorders: Stuttering and Dysarthria

This research paper presents an overview of dysarthria and stuttering, which are both communicative disorders. The paper discusses...

Discussion of Bipolar Disorder I and II

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

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...

Cognitive Therapy With Iraq Veterans

therapy is a particularly useful approach in helping Iraqi war veterans deal with - and ultimately put aside - the intrusive prese...

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 ...

Aspects of Body Dysmorphic Disorder

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

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...

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...

Substance Abuse And Dual Diagnosis

with mental illnesses may reach out to drugs or alcohol to ease the pain they are feeling. It becomes very difficult to separate t...

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...

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...

Bipolar Disorder

there is very little information about predisposes people to these episodes (Swann, 2006). Therefore, for the most part, nursing a...

Borderline Personality Disorder

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

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...

Multiple Personality Disorder And Consciousness

(Sancar, 1999). It often begins as a defense mechanism to escape the pain of what is happening at the moment but as this defense i...

Bipolar Disorder II And Substance Abuse

that may trigger a Bipolar incident, many of these also trigger using substances. Oliver (2007) identified twelve different "Trigg...

Psychiatric/Mental Health Web Site Analysis

many other disorders. Given the prevalence of both ADD/ADHD and Depression, this user linked to each of these disorders. The ADD/A...

Classification of Personality Disorders

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

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...

Attention Deficit Disorders

affected children at risk for developing anxiety and depression (Capano, et al, 2008). In general, the behaviors associated with ...

Bipolar Effect on Learning

& Adolescent Bipolar Foundation, 2007). The advanced imaging technologies have allowed scientists to scan the brains of bipolar p...

Oppositing to Medicating Children with ADD or ADHD

with ADHD/ADD has only a very limited effectiveness, and the side effects and risks associated with it are simply too great. The ...

Comprehensive Discussion of Autism

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