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Psychological Disorders: Categorization and Classification

is used to categorize symptoms and disorders to aid in a standardized diagnosis between professionals. This has led to an industry...

Substance Abuse in Older Populations

processes, and appropriate diagnosing, as well as proposing specific interventions that can be used and preventative strategies fo...

Criminal Offenses and Substance Abuse

with 0 meaning definitely not and 100 meaning definitely. A definite score indicating mental illness caused the person to commit t...

The Elderly and Substance Abuse

then developing a quantitative instrument for assessing risk behaviors related to the onset of substance abuse behaviors among the...

MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING AND THE ROAD TO RECOVERY

principles: 1) express empathy; 2) develop discrepancy; 3) avoid argumentation; 4) deal with, or "roll with" resistance and 5) sup...

Adolescent Obesity Interview and Discussion

In five pages this paper discusses the topic of adolescent obesity from an adolescent's perspective. Six sources are cited in the...

Androgynous Female Adolescents and Self-Image

This paper addresses the issue of self-image among androgynous, female adolescents. The author contends that androgynous female a...

Adolescent Behavior and Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

in the life of dealing with an adolescent who has ADHD, and for the adolescent to be able to deal with the disorder. Volumes of r...

Annotated Bibliography on Teen Pregnancies

America (1986) CWLA Standards of Excellence for Services for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention, Pregnant Adolescents, and Young Pare...

Rite of Passage

and, thus, in the religious duties and responsibilities of being an adult male within this community. The boy, in turn, receives a...

Prevention and Management of Constipation

healthcare provider to assess the potential risk of constipation and helping to get preventative measures (Campbell et al, 2001). ...

Adolescence: Erikson and Piaget's Staging Theories Compared

one that they find fits them ("Eriksons Psychosocial Stages of Development," 2007). In other words, they do not know who they real...

Adolescents and Drug Addiction

a beautiful young lady...There is no way to describe the daily misery and agony I went through while addicted to heroin" (The Agon...

Jean Piagot’s Contribution to Adolescent Psychology

The time of Piaget was a time when new awareness was also coming to the specific condition of children, as they were seen as separ...

Teen Alcohol Abuse Socioeconomic Policy Control and Proposition

pricing adolescents out of the alcohol market. As Robert Heilbroner and Lester Thurow state, the theory of supply and deman...

Literature Relevant to Adolescent Developmental Disorders

relationship with both the mother and her family and the father and his family (also in relation to property and/or inheritance la...

Children, Adolescents, and Ethics of Psychologists

that other psychological associations would do well to emulate. For example, it provides a student for decision-making that Canadi...

Drugs and Their Negative Impact on Teens

grade, "21.3% had been drunk, while 44.0% and 61.6% of 10th- and 12th-graders, respectively, had been drunk at least once in their...

Adolescent Children of Alcoholic Parents

In a paper consisting of ten pages the impact of parental alcohol abuse upon adolescent children's behavior and effects upon their...

Counseling Adolescents and Adults Similarities

In five pages this research paper discusses the counseling similarities between adolescent and adult clients regarding the issue o...

Adolescent Drug Abuse, Diminished Social Skills, and Low Self Esteem

In six pages this paper examines the problem of adolescent drug abuse in a consideration of various issues and the determining fac...

Children of Mothers Dependent on Substances Who Are in Treatment and Empowerment

In five pages this paper considers empowerment strategies that may be applied to children whose mothers have been treated for subs...

Effects of Cocaine

In an overview consisting of five pages cocaine is examined in terms of its physical, social, and psychological effects along with...

Allergies, Stress and Treatment

were never repeated so it cannot be proven conclusively that GMOs were a factor in their allergies (Vartan, 2006). However, tests ...

Getting Addicts into Treatment

This essay explains and discusses motivational interviewing and crisis intervention as approaches to persuade substance abusers to...

Elderly Women and Drug Misuse

This is a two-topic paper. The first part reviews a journal article about older women using or misusing substances, mostly legal d...

Family Substance Abuse, Violence, and Women

In ten pages this paper examines these issues from a social work perspective. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

Body Image: Journal Articles Overview

to lose weight, media pressure to gain weight, and media pressure to increase muscle tone (McCabe et al, 2003). Both studi...

Substance Abuse in the Elderly Population

as many addicts often die early. But there are cases when substances are not abused early in life, but get picked up when the indi...

Article Analysis: Substance Abuse and Mental Illness

inability to regulate decision-making behavior at such times is critical if relapses are to be avoided (Matto, 2007). In addition,...