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The Suffering of Anorexia

In seven pages the eating disorder known as anorexia is interpreted as a kind of suffering in terms of its characteristics as a so...

DSM-IV-TR Axis 1 Disorders

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

Cyber Bullying

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

Social Work: History and Application

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

When Adolescents with Bipolar Disorder Attempt Suicide

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

Study on Obesity - An Analysis

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

Psychological Evaluation of Hughes

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...

Autism and Treatment

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

Bipolar Disorder

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

Issues in Psychology

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

The Varied Manifestations and Causes of PTSD

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

BPD Difficlut to Diagnose

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

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

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

Psychiatric Drugs

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

Psychotropic Medications

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

Autism Spectrum Disorder and Whole Word Instruction

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

ADHD as a Predictor of Social Development

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

Eating Disorders, Body Dissatisfaction and the Media

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

Paraphilias, Learning Theory and the DSM

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

A Definition of Bipolar Disorder

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

Bipolar Disorder Treatments

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

ADHD: A Critique of the Research

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

Eating Disorders: Health Concerns for Men

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

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Hospital Setting

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

Cronkite on Mood Disorders

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

Shyness And Social Anxiety Disorder

contract, not smiling at appropriate times (Bressert, 2006). The incidence of shyness is much less than that of social phobia bu...

Abnormal to Norma

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

Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment and Effect on Families of Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder

patients experiencing either symptoms or full episodes of depression much more frequently than those of mania or hypomania" (Micha...

PRINT REFERENCES AND LANGUAGE DISORDERS AMONG CHILDREN: LITERATURE REVIEW

childrens response through talking increased among the adults who were trained (Ezell and Justice, 2002; see also Rabidoux and Mac...