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or a loved one; these fears often present themselves as disturbing thoughts (Definition of obsessive-compulsive disorder, 2002). T...

extreme discomfort (Pallanti, 2008; Hill and Beamish, 2007; Poyurovsky, 2007). As can be implied from the foregoing information,...

to reduce the anxiety. Frequently occurring disturbing thoughts or images are called "obsessions," and the rituals performed to tr...

activity to reduce the anxiety. Frequently occurring disturbing thoughts or images are called obsessions, and the rituals performe...

In six pages OCD is examined within the context of therapeutic effects of medication and behavioral therapy. Six sources are cite...

p. 7) of children and adolescents. Scientists had long suspected that a major component of the problem is a malfunction in the br...

range from simple personal habits like repeating words in certain situations, to more serious conduct, such as excessive hand wash...

habits are partially responsible for keeping him at arms length from the rest of the world. Considered for decades to be a diseas...

to help herself. For example, being afraid to touch things without the aid of a barrier (tissue, etc.) for fear of contracting ge...

will make up for what the sexual abuse compromised during the formative years, this search most often leads to a superficial fix t...

anxiety disorder is prevalent in our society. It is important for all clinicians to have a firm grasp on this disorder as well as ...

the many different ways in which the disorder can manifest. For instance, it is possible for the disorder to manifest bodily, such...

(Rowney, Hermida and Malone, 2009). Comorbidity is common with both generalized anxiety disorder and panic attacks with overlappin...

format and move towards problem solving, which is more interactive and more exciting for students. Mathematics Anxiety and Test A...

This essay identifies many of the disorders and conditions a psychiatric technician need to understand. Each disorder or condition...

29 percent of the entire group of patients at the beginning of the study (Weeks, 2004; NIMH, 2005). This rate was reduced in all f...

of their unhappiness caused by the supposed defect. Phillips (1991) comments that "body dysmorphic disorder has been colorfully de...

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

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

test a positive experience, suggesting to students ways they can study for the test and teaching students skills they need to take...

immediately discounts any justification for same-sex marriage that appeals to individual "rights" (Jordan 414). He justifies this ...

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

chest, perhaps indicative of a desire for protection from contact that may be painful. Marge did not shake my hand at the onset o...

a main area of study being the normative reaction to non normative events. The impact of stress created by disasters is argued to ...

so they change their everyday activities, in some cases there may bouts of anxiety that lead to intense periods of the person bein...

when one considers the premise that depression has been associated with reproductive factors, including a womans menstrual cycle ...

p. 5). Nevertheless, the fact that a diagnostic criteria is listed in the book, detailed and complex, tends to encourage the perce...

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

school" as an activity that "big boys and girls." Parents will be advised to introduce the topic by saying something like "Now tha...

In twenty pages a hypothetical research project regarding separation anxiety and preschool children is proposed. Twenty sources a...