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to a Veterans Administration (VA) inpatient program for the treatment of substance abuse. Research has definitively established ...

manual used by psychiatrists, psychologists, and many others who work in the mental health field. This manual is referred to simpl...

properly! Schoolyard bullies have long made lives miserable for their victims who typically endure unrelenting taunting and phys...

large, multifaceted group that is its own entity in a sense. After all, we tend to prescribe certain qualities and judgments to so...

bipolar disorder experiences either an overexcited or overjoyful state (manic episode) or a hopeless or extremely sad state (depre...

relationship between childhood abuse and obesity in young adulthood. The abstract of that paper says that the study was of young a...

age 70. He was a legend as well as a mystery throughout his lifetime. He was a millionaire several times over as soon as he inheri...

that are characterized as "autism spectrum disorders." This paper lists these conditions and then, because it is a short essay, co...

year 1650 when Richard Burton, a scientist, wrote "The Anatomy of Melancholia" which was a work that detailed depression. In fact,...

A positive life leads to health in all areas, physically, mentally and spiritually. The negative side is a general lack of consist...

Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) results from a...

a relatively new mental illness category. Gunderson (2001) explained that borderline personality disorder "is layered between neur...

with attention; hyperactive behaviors; and impulsivity. Children who have this condition have great trouble concentrating and payi...

is excreted from the body. By the time the drug goes through membranes and organs, less than 100 percent of the drug is available ...

J. (2009, April 8). When to avoid antidepressants in bipolar patients. Psychiatric Times, 26(4), 5+ Loganathan, N., Lohano, K., Ro...

is an abstract concept that can be interpreted many different ways. The whole word method stems from an understanding of literacy ...

of risk and the impact for families. Research suggests that there is a need to consider the approaches for assessing suicide ri...

attempting to do now is to determine what "diverse factors" make these people susceptible to the impact of the media images, while...

The learning theory perspective provides a basis for creating functional change when fetishism or paraphilias are particularly pro...

In a paper of three pages, the author reflects on the difference between bipolar I and bipolar II and provides definitions of both...

improvement, and 57% of those using psychosocial interventions showed no improvement (Keks, 2009). Clearly, the administration of ...

academic performance is widely written about and accepted. Studies indicate conclusively that ADD is associated with poorer academ...

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so because if such fears and problems are dealt with quickly, before they become firmly imbedded in a patients mind, they can be m...

purchase expensive consumer goods. The stress and psychic pain of this situation causes chronic insomnia. A disinterested and unsy...

259). Furthermore, the nature of the classroom environmental and the curriculum can also produce symptoms that mimic those of atte...

and Perou (2007) report that an estimated five to eighteen percent of youth in the US are diagnosed with ADHD and most receive so...

Although the subject of eating disorders are quite well publicized when it comes to girls and women being affected, a little appre...

difficulty in viewing the behavior of people who suffer from mental disorder, such as bipolar, in terms of illness. Susan Crosby, ...

the characteristics inherent in personality disorders are present in everyone, just to a lesser degree. Randolph Nesse, a psychiat...