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Alcohol poses a direct risk as a result of the physical impact it has on the body. The use of alcohol is often seen as a social ...
clinicians rely on the DSM to diagnose their patients. It is credible insofar as it is published by the American Psychiatric Assoc...
on the Mothers Against Drunk Driving (2010) website, the total costs associated with underage drinking and its consequences are $6...
designed to do. These researchers believe they may have discovered something new about the transport process and recommend their c...
using heroin and other drugs" (3). The counselors were focused on getting him into another rehab or recovery program, or going to ...
(Bromwell, n.d.). This approach would also try to have the patient develop different patterns of thinking (Bromwell, n.d.). For ex...
connectedness is to avoid emotional fusion (Johnson and Stone, 2009). The study conducted by Johnson and Stone (2009) indicated th...
This essay discusses two types of training for teenage alcoholism - impulse control and skills training. A one page outline is inc...
This research paper indicates the considerable progress that has been made in regards to the biological foundation of risk for alc...
In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at the process of diagnosing psychological disorders. The five axis diagnosis process i...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at the disease model of alcoholism. Supporting evidence is provided from case studies....
There were a lot of changes made in the most recent edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Some wer...
This research paper offers an overview of alcoholism as it describes the causes, damage to the body and the treatment of this dise...
This research paper/essay describes an ethical dilemma concerning a colleague's alcoholism and recommendations draw on the ethical...
addition to the alcoholism. She is a compulsive shopper and gambler. One of her twin daughters, Sarah, is pregnant and claims that...
abuse despite interpersonal problems or social caused brought about by drinking (Dawson, 2000). Repeated drinking of alcohol on da...
often takes more than 20 years for the effects of cigarette smoke to develop into a detectable malignancy" (p. PG). II. ADOLESCEN...
This research paper discusses in five pages alcoholism and its causes and includes sociological, physiological, and psychological ...
parents are much more likely to become alcoholics themselves than do those who grow up in nonalcoholic households (Powell and Garc...
to certain diseases (Wastyn and Wastyn, 1997). According to a study performed by Kenneth Blum and his colleagues at the Universit...
these individuals. There are several key correlates among those that abuse children which could be applicable to abusive ...
Disorders (DSM-IV) of the American Psychiatric Association outlines the criteria for making a diagnosis of ADHD (Wilens, 1998). Ac...
what can be termed as an adrenaline rush of energy and after a brief struggle, turned the knife back on her father. II. LITERATUR...
ever been exposed to. As he grows to realize it is his family displaying the dysfunctional behavior and not that of his friends, ...
it represented a quantitative approach, which begins with an idea that is usually articulated as a hypothesis. From there, throug...
time at home with his wife and family. It is his father who will introduce young Pete to alcohol, and Hamill will write of it as ...
well, and is defined as a psychiatric disorder that can occur following the experience of witnessing a life-threatening event such...
are the personal and societal costs. There is no way to predict which families will suffer from the direct and indirect impacts of...
of drug addiction (alcohol included) and they engage in criminal activity to support that addiction. Statistics support this obs...
are alcohol related" (Clifford; Soares, 1990; 26). In addition, an alcoholics life expectancy is less than it is for most healthy ...