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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...

Overview of Malaria

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

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...

Women and Alcohol Abuse Effects

have different physiological responses to alcohol (Blume, 1990). Some important issues for women are that alcohol dependency can ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Managing and Treating Sexual Offenders

reentry of certain criminal populations into the general society. When sexual abusers, for example, are reintroduced into society...

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...

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...

Substance Abuse and Child Abuse

When it comes to the child welfare system, parental substance abuse and child abuse have been major issues - and very much linked ...

A Depression Case Study

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

Overview of Behavioral Disorders

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

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 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...

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 ...

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...

The Common Sports Injury of a Sprained Ankle

a step or jumps inadvertently onto an opponents foot with an inverted foot (Lynch, 2002). Often, the foot is plantar flexed when t...

Stetler Model and Decision Making

studies have reported more satisfactory results for the Norton and Braden scales, but that the researchers nonetheless "have confi...

Cultural Audit of Hilton Hotels

factors. Holton already claims that they are the most well known hotel chain in the world with a very high level of brand recognit...

The Devil in the White City by Larson

is something that cannot be ignored. It was after all the Civil War that freed the slaves. Black people, or Negroes as they were r...

Diagnostic Testing in an AIDS Analysis

rather than late (Poznansky et al, 1995). To determine if this was the case, researchers compared 97 newly diagnosed HIV p...