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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...

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...

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...

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...

Classification of Personality Disorders

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Family Differences and Cultural Values

Such a person would not have felt any need to leave his beloved homeland, and his sons desire to do so would have been traumatic f...

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 ...

Alan Cavaiola and Neil Lavender's 'Toxic Coworkers: How to Deal with Dysfunctional People on the Job'

make a primarily positive impact or a primarily negative impact in the workplace. Workplace productivity is affected by a...

ADD Treatments

Chung , 1997). Within six years time the name was changed again and is now well know by the acronym ADHD (Calhoun, Greenwell-Ioril...

Example of a National Heritage Grant Proposal

used to study this particular family, because this goes to show that extended family doesnt necessarily have to be made up of bloo...

Overview of Oppositional Defiant Disorder

a purposeful and intentional desire to bother and irritate others (What is Oppositional Defiant Disorder? 2004). Interestingly, ...

Substance Abuse and Depression: Concurrent Disorders

This 3 page paper gives an outline of depression and substance abuse as concurrent disorders. This paper includes the general info...

Overview of Concurrent Mental Disorders

This paper defines and discusses concurrent mental disorders. The writer indicates what this classification of mental disorders r...

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder DSM-IV and DSM-5

There are many differences between the two latest versions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The diffe...

Children, Adolescents and OCD

This research paper investigates the subject of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in children and adolescents and includes the e...

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 ...

EBP Approach to Substance Abuse Disorders

This 3 page paper provides an overview of how Evidence-based practice is used to treat substance abuse disorders. This paper inclu...

Communicative Disorders: Stuttering and Dysarthria

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

Stop Smoking in Psychiatric Ward

Numerous articles conclude that people who have mental health disorders are more likely to smoke than people who do not have such ...

Physician's Role and Dementia

attributed to the increased sophistication of the diagnostic methodologies, technology, and increased understanding. WHY IS CONDI...

Anorexia Nervosa and Its Possible Basis in Biology

and anxiety has long been considered indicative of triggering behavior inherent to the eating disorder. An impulsive personality ...

The Impact of Adult ADD/ADHD on Education

diagnosis of ADD is an extremely complex process, which is complicated by the fact that the symptoms are very similar to other emo...

The Pathophysiology of ADHD

Rubia, Smith, Brammer, Toone, and Taylor (2005) report on the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to demonstrate t...