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A Discussion of Three Concepts

IQ and has long been a widely used method, particularly with regard to gifted or educationally-challenged children. The results o...

Ionesco's The Rhinoceros, Kundera's The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Politics and Laughter

part political tract, part musicology, and part autobiography (as the New York Times described it), The Book of Laughter and Forge...

Laughter as Therapy

In eight pages this paper discusses the psychological and physical therapeutic value of laughter and humor. Nine sources are cite...

Techniques of Family and Marital Therapy

In twelve pages various types of family and marital techniques including behavioral family therapy, transgenerational family thera...

Brief Psychological Therapy

In six pages brief therapy methods are examined and include psychodynamic therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and strategic sol...

Reality Therapy

(and) Do you want to figure out a better way?" (Passaro, et al, 2004, p. 503). Dr. Glasser has continued to evolve Reality Thera...

Cognitive Therapy : Addiction & Trauma

specifically the division of artificial intelligence (Boeree, 2000). Some of the major players are Tolman, Piaget, Bandura, Chomsk...

Social Constructionist and Other Models

needed to be devised for this approach so the Milan approach today is sometimes referred to as Post-Milan to indicate the impact o...

TwoTypes of Therapeutic Interventions

There is confusion when someone talks about cognitive therapy or behavioral therapy alone because since the 1960s, these have give...

Comparing the Family Therapies of Brief Family Therapy and Eriksonian Therapy

In ten pages this research paper discusses therapeutic approaches, techniques, and outcomes of each type of family therapy. There...

Process of Cognitive Behavioral Group Therapy

A group therapy setting is featured in this research paper consisting of ten pages in which cognition is described in terms of the...

Assessment of Insulin Pump Therapy in Effectiveness of Treating Type I Diabetes Mellitus Study

In twenty five pages the effectiveness of insulin pump therapy in the treatment of Type I Diabetes Mellitus as opposed to magnetic...

Physical Therapy as a Career

health care fields have provided a substantial body of information about their professionals, physic therapy has not assessed thes...

Adolescents and Art Therapy

This research paper examines literature that discusses the utilization of art therapy in regards to meeting the counseling needs o...

REBT by Ellis

Ellis joined cognitive therapy with behavioral therapy and introduced it as Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy in the mid-1950s. ...

Test Anxiety and Animal Assisted Therapy

challenging mathematical exercises alternating with periods of sitting quietly, during which further measurements were taken (Alle...

Substance Abuse and Therapy

(Bromwell, n.d.). This approach would also try to have the patient develop different patterns of thinking (Bromwell, n.d.). For ex...

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...

Family Systems Theory

goes on to say that the nature of the family is its members being "connected emotionally" (Bowen Center for the Study of the Famil...

Existential, Client-Centered And Gestalt Therapies

Sharf, 2007). Other central foundational concepts of this approach include the striving for self-awareness, the goal of freedom an...

Pet Therapy for the Elderly

topic has been anecdotal in nature, therefore, Banks and Banks (2002) designed a study utilizing pet therapy, or as they term it, ...

Therapy: Alexander Technique

is not. It is not a form of relaxation or a set of exercises to improve posture. Neither is it an alternative therapy; although ra...

Behavior Therapy Article Reviews

In sixteen pages psychology articles related to the issue of behavior therapy are reviewed....

Three Early Family Therapy Theorists

Three family early family theorists/therapists are discussed in this report: Virginia Satir, Carl Whitaker, and Salvador Minuchin...

Beckett's "Endgame" - Theatrical Passage

as audience members question the correctness of snickering at something so obviously bleak. Still, they are hard pressed to avoid...

The Yellow Wallpaper and Laughter and Tears

believe I am sick! And what can one do? If a physician of high standing, and ones own husband, assures friends and relatives that ...

Khalil Gibran and Love

In 5 pages this paper discusses how the Lebanese poet expresses love in terms of oneness and harmony in such works as 'Song of the...

Laughter and Its Power in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

In six pages this paper discusses how throughout One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest the author thematically portrays the power laught...

Literature and Laughter

away in the most inaccessible part of the abbeys labyrinthine library, where it remained for decades" (Essay on The Name of the Ro...

Lysistrata and Laughter According to Bergsonian Criteria

representation did not lack a more serious undercurrent, it was the manner in which it was approached that, according to Bergson, ...