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Contrasts Between Culture and Medical Science in The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

experience, particularly that immigrant experience as it occurs within the modern medical environment, revolves around cultural un...

Overview of Psychogenic Shock

what accompanies significant pain ("Shock," 2004). From the loss of a loved one to a car accident to the discovery that ones spous...

Depression and Assessing the Benefits of Pharmacotherapy and Psychoanalysis

to be a disease of the insane, depression has finally been recognized for the debilitating and emotionally unbalancing illness it ...

Children and Elective Mutism

condition in which children dont speak because they dont want to (Leung and Kao, 1999). Those with elective mutism will speak when...

Overview of Conversion Disorder

to: "weakness, paralysis, sensory disturbances, pseudoseizures, and involuntary movements such as tremors. Symptoms more often af...

Tumors of the Brain

Overall, there are two types of brain tumors - these are primary brain tumors that begin in the brain itself, and metastic brain t...

Comparing Alcohol Abuse in Heterosexuals and Lesbians

alcohol and drugs (McDaniel, 2001, 86). Abuse is a part of the lesbian experience as it is for all areas of society, but...

Growth Factors and Parkinson's Disease

to receptors that are on the surface of nerves (Pressman, 2004). What happens then is that they are transported to the cell body t...

Adolescent Type I Diabetes Care Plan

much sugar remains in the blood and too little energy is transferred to other cells. The diabetic needs to take externally adminis...

Dementia and Evidence Based Practice

severe behavioural problems, the only viable option for care is within NHS long stay facilities, although there should be wide ran...

Treating a Hispanic Alcohol Abuser

are distinctive patterns of drug and alcohol abuse within the Hispanic population. Overall, Hispanics use alcohol at rates simila...

Literature Review on Borderline Personality Disorder

order to make a diagnosis of BPD, the client should demonstrate behavior that indicates five or more of these characteristics (Pal...

Biographical Sketch of Bipolar Disorder

(APA, 2003) and "These rates are consistent across diverse cultures and ethnic groups" (APA, 2003). The rate for bipolar II is abo...

Broken Leg Healing

because many bone-breaking accidents also can involve damage to the knee. The leg will be X-rayed both for diagnosis and confirma...

Critiquing the Research Approach of Measuring Children's Anger

the most common reasons for the referral of children to psychological and psychiatric services. Seventy-five percent of the child...

Research Proposal on the Effectiveness of Treating Lower Back Pain with Acupuncture

participants in the study required some kind of practitioner response as a result of their lower back pain. The second assumption...

Language Impairment and Broca Aphasia

or language disorder that prevents them form expressing themselves or limits their ability to understand what other are telling th...

Rights, Empowerment, and Social Work Legislation

Rights The concept of human rights have been a part of discussions on ethics and the ethical treatment of many different populati...

Manifestation Differences and Dyslexia

between 5% and 15% of all Americans (Health & Medicine Week, 2004). Padget has given a good definition of the condition, which it ...

Overview of Behavioral Disorders

Additionally, both disorders can be hereditary, but environment can also play a factor. Both disorders are affective disorders of ...

A Depression Case Study

Inventory (BDI) 27, Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) 15, and Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS 15). The student has sought out thera...

Examination of the Disease Leukemia

However, as the disease progresses, it may cause a low-grade fever as well as night sweats and fatigue (1996). Also, leukemia may ...

Overview of Malaria

fact that malaria parasites have built up a tremendous tolerance to the standard drugs administered to fight the disease. The ext...

An Alcoholism Overview

and forgetful. It can be a very serious problem for the elderly who are often on a smorgasbord of necessary pills to treat a varie...

The Australian Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 Division 7A, Section 109B to 109ZE, and Private Companies

full at the end of the relevant financial year (Australian Taxation Office, 2003). If all of these criteria is made then a private...

MS and Its Psychological Impact

function. Paralysis or loss of vision are common in severe cases, and it currently is not possible to predict what individuals wi...

Pessimism of Sigmund Freud on Alcoholics and Psychoanalysis

seek to regress to an infantile state where there is no clear differentiation between fantasy and reality, so alcoholism is theref...

Nail-biting: CBT as a therapeutic option

The problem of fingernail and cuticle biting in response to anxiety-provoking situations or stimuli has been noted in the current ...

Bipolar Disorder Discussion

In 1875, Falrets findings were called Manic-Depressive Psychosis and considered a psychiatric disorder (Caregiver.com, 2003). ...

'Shame' from Dick Gregory's Autobiography

his own money, earned from doing odd jobs. With trepidation, Gregory describes waiting for his change to give, but the teacher doe...