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Mental Illness and Juvenile Delinquency

age of sufferers continues to drop as depression in young people is on the rise. "Runaway, homeless youth as compared to nonhomel...

Mental Illness and Sigmund Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents and The Id and the Ego

In six pages this paper discusses how mental illness is addressed in these two essays by Sigmund Freud. Three sources are cited i...

Community Elders and Depression

In five pages this mental health consideration focuses upon the community problem of depression among senior citizens. Eight sourc...

Discrimination and Mental Illness

In two pages this paper examines how discrimination regarding individuals with mental disorders vary according to gender and race ...

Mental Illness and the Law

In two pages insanity is defined and the ways in which the law dictates mentally ill individuals are to be treated by society are ...

Disabilities and Discrimination

In ten pages disabilities are considered in the forms of mental illness and dwarfism in a discussion of discrimination against peo...

Labeling and Deviant Behavior

In four pages this research paper relates labeling to deviant conduct and also applies the same concept to sexual deviance, drugs,...

Dog Dangers and K9 Units of Detection

This paper consists of seven pages and examines the K9 detection units in a consideration of the mental and physical dangers these...

Third Essay of The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche Analyzed III

In five pages this paper examines the work's 3rd essay in a consideration of such issues as asceticism, religion, and mental illne...

Psychological Benefits of T'ai Chi

In five pages this research paper examines the mental health exercise known as t'ai chi chu'an in terms of the psychological benef...

Sample of a Community Health Assessment

As well, a full seventy-five percent of low-income citizens lack even the most basic of medical screenings, having typically gone ...

Isolation in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In seven pages The Scarlet Letter is analyzed in terms of the author's uses of social, mental, and physical isolation. Four other...

Asylums and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

In five pages this paper considers the practice of institutionalizing people who are mentally ill but still capable of functioning...

The theme of insanity in The Yellow Wallpaper

"I must put this away,--he hates to have me write a word." This shows how controlling John is over her as both husband and docto...

Feminist ideology in The Yellow Wallpaper by Gilman

A paper which argues that although Gilman's narrative is primarily concerned with the oppression of women leading to mental deteri...

Robert James Waller's The Bridges of Madison County

have held a job, had a hobby, read a book, or expressed an opinion since the Korean War. Still, this hunk from National Geographic...

Improving Rene Descartes' Psychology Limitations with the 'Conscious Mental State' of William James

In two pages this paper examines how William James sought to improve upon Descartes' seventeenth century psychological philosophy ...

Concepts of Normality

symptoms" (Grohol, 2007). Diseases are more typically thought of as being related to a physical organ or system; the brain obvious...

Adjustment To Physical And Mental Aging

In order to have quality of life, the students father must be in such a frame of mind and body where life is a pleasure...

"The Gift Of Therapy" By Irvin D. Yalom, M.D.: Reactionary Report

a wide range of mental illnesses plague a considerable percentage of the general population, the authors apprehension about the le...

What Are The Differences Between Managers And Leaders?

This 9 page paper looks at the differences between managers and leaders, defining the role of managers and leaders and looking at ...

The Necessity For Counselors To Work Within The Code Of Ethics And Practice

practitioners. There are no limitations to having such a comprehensive approach to ethics, inasmuch as the industry would cease t...

Creative Intelligence And Mental Models

is the ability to go beyond the traditional by generating new and innovative ideas (Gavarny, 2007). The use of creative intellig...

Why Britney Spears May be Mentally Ill

episodes. While one might say that she is behaving in typical rock star fashion, the truth is that there is a great deal of dark b...

Homelessness, Mental Illness, and the Advocate Role

Housing is of obvious concern as is successful intervention in the destructive pattern of behavior that has led to the homelessnes...

Georg Simmel, Saul Bellow and “Looking for Mr. Green”

postman, then the stores and trades people, then the neighbors (Bellow, 2002). "But youll find the closer you come to your man, th...

Nanotechnology and Its' Use in the Human Body; It is Desirable or Ethical?

potentially large number of benefits there are also a wide range of ethical and acceptability issues that need to be considered a...

Childhood Mental Illnesses

ADHD assessment tools"; he also questions how ethical it is to give "dangerous and addictive drugs to children" (Stolzer, 2007, p....

Gestalt Therapy And Field Theory

mind. Field theory illustrates how human perception is based upon much more than merely the obvious; rather, what one perce...

Pet Therapy for the Elderly

topic has been anecdotal in nature, therefore, Banks and Banks (2002) designed a study utilizing pet therapy, or as they term it, ...