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Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Psychological Conditions

of waves. Stevensons grandfather was Britains greatest builder of lighthouses. Since his childhood Stevenson suffered from tubercu...

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...

War, Memory, and PTSD

that might not necessarily be equated with CIS. However, other more telling symptoms like chest pain, weakness, dizziness, vomiti...

Literature Review of Psychosocial Treatment of Mental Illness

more common in boys than girls (Silka and Hauser, 1997). Determining the cause of retardation can be difficult and hard to pinpoin...

Literature Review of Psychosocial Interventions

In five pages this literature review considers noninvasive treatment of learning disorders, mental retardation, and mental illness...

PTSD and its Effects Upon Soldiers' Lives

But all that stress accumulates" (McGirk, 2009, p. 40). With lengthy tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, PTSD is unfortunately...

Bulimia and rincess Diana

considered a condition influenced solely by psychological, physiological and environmental factors, researchers now believe there ...

Multi-Axial Categorization of Psychological Disorders

beliefs. Evans (2006, 37) notes, however, that "The factors that serve to perpetuate an eating disorder may have little to do wit...

Diagnosis and Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder

diagnosis. There is insufficient data to asses this criteria. The third criteria is identity disturbance, such as unstabl...

OCD And Environmental Influences

and compromises the overall individuals mental health status. Checking to make sure the light switch is turned off even though th...

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...

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...

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...

BIPOLAR DISORDER AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT/SOCIALIZATION

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

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...

Literature Review and ADD Interventions That Are Effective

In thirteen pages this paper reviews 3 articles that discuss successful outcomes for children suffering from Attention Deficit Dis...

Williams Syndrome

of an embryo. The absence of these genes affect both the embryos physical and mental developments and result in the loss of basic...

Causes, Treatments, and Consequences of Bulimia and Anorexia

In a paper consisting of seven pages gender and age groups are considered in an analysis of causes, treatments, and consequences o...

An Overview of Antisocial Personality Disorder

In ten pages a diagnostic overview of antisocial personality disorder is provided along with a discussion of culture, features of ...

Depression and Eating Disorders

In ten pages this paper presents the argument that a relationship does exist between eating disorders and depression but that its ...

DSM and Axes I through Psychological Assessment

In twelve pages this paper considers the diagnostic techniques the American Psychiatric Association uses and the definitions assoc...

Questions on Psychosocial Issues

In fourteen pages this paper answers student posed questions regarding love, gender identity, attention deficit disorder, depressi...

Hypothetical Study on Ritalin

In eight pages this paper offers a hypothetical study on whether or not a child with attention disorders receives behavioral benef...

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway and PTSD

In 5 pages this paper discusses Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as it applies to the relationship between Jake Barnes and Brett Ash...