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School Bullying/The Effect on Bullies and Victims

(Ahmed, 2008). Witnesses may participate in bullying, either by providing verbal support for the bully; remaining silent and tryin...

Hypersexuality in Sexual Offenders

In a four page paper, the author considers the issue of hypersexuality in sexual offenders. Many sexual predators have been the v...

Insights about Teaching and Educational Psychology

of performance measures that reflected a practical motivation, often creating a disconnect between learners and the educational fo...

A Girl with ADHD: A Case Study

sometimes problematic, and found that she can react physically to other children, sometimes grabbing and pushing them. In the scho...

Counseling: Exploring the Therapeutic Value

therapeutic value primarily because it is built upon a foundation of solid psychological premises and ideas. It is these ideas whi...

Qualitative Observations: Age-Related Behaviors

for most of the night, a group that spent their evening at the bar, and a group that appeared marginalized, and spent their time o...

Dietary Changes

period of the program, I began to implement changes in my diet in stages, first by introducing portion control and later by introd...

Piaget Affirmed Through Naturalistic Observations

Numerous theories have been formulated to explain a childs relationship with their world....

Competing Views of Abnormal Behaviors

characteristics that clinicians would place within the scope of mental disorders would not necessarily be perceived as problematic...

Milgram’s Shock Experiment and the Stanford Prison Experiment

Human interaction varies in accordance with a number of factors. Not surprisingly, this interaction is one of the favorite subjec...

Psychologists and Social Change

earn a good deal less for doing the same job. Lips (2003) reported that the earnings gap has persisted for decades and it does not...

Effectiveness of CBT With Schizophrenia

that precedes the first episode of psychosis in schizophrenia is referred to as the "preprodromal period...and the prodrome" and i...

Efficacy of CBT with Bulimia

could impede progress in therapy (Martin, 2011). Beck coined the term cognitive therapy. As the theory evolved, it was soon appa...

Consumer Behavior

they have always purchased (Postrel, 2009). Consumers can no longer purchase a simple chocolate bar or a package of laundry deterg...

Cognitive Therapy and Personality Disorder

hopelessness; he feels he is not good enough and not worthy. (2) affectivity (i.e., the range, intensity, liability, and appropri...

Important Developments in Nursing

prove that the reason for the higher mortality rate was poor hygiene and overcrowding (Glass, 2002). The research was suppressed...

Treatment for Sex Offenders

that Scheela supervised, she heard the gruesome details of the abuse that one member of the group endured as a child, as well as t...

Adult Children of Alcoholic Parents - Assessing the Negative Impacts

and effectively determine the true scope of the impact upon adult children of alcoholic parents, one must recognize that such data...

Predicting Adolescent Crime

external controls are social and legal. Socialization is the reason for law-abiding citizens. Hirschi later offered a social bond...

Personality Issues and Police Character

character, which means that trustworthiness, and respect and love for honesty are factors that are integrated into their personali...

Personality and the Impacts on Situational Behavior

and the situational behaviors related to personal history can have a significant impact on how traits are integrated and behaviors...

Internet CBT for OCD

disorder that is characterized by obsessions, i.e., thoughts, and/or compulsions, acts that must be done. The acts become rituals....

Issues in Addiction and Maladaptive Behavior

important to understand the difference between use, abuse and dependence because these terms denote the stages of maladaptive beha...

Human Nature and Behavior: Jews and World War II

Primo Levis classic book "Survival in Auschwitz" is an account of the authors capture and deportation to...

A DISCUSSION ABOUT MOTIVATION

calories and getting more exercise. This is an example of extrinsic motivation; in other words, doing something for the sake of so...

Communications and Consistency Theory

Austrian psychologist Fritz Heider developed one of the earliest consistency theories, balance theory, which focused on the relati...

Microsoft and Monopolies

competing Netscape equated to exclusive dealings and were anticompetitive (Lapotka, 2009). Not all charges were upheld; the second...

The Elderly and Substance Abuse

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

Topics Pertaining to Learning

it draws on what students already know, which aids them in assimilating new material. The learning environment should be both chal...

Analysis of Four Videos on Gang Behavior

group originally formed spontaneously, and then integrated through conflict" ("Frederic"). According to Thrasher, gangs are charac...