Introduction Society is the many-sided form of existence for people. It is represented in many different ways through the life of every member of society. Political system and its conditions is the issue due to which any society of any state exists. Then comes the social obligations put both on...
Topic: Abuse
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Introduction In psychology, the problem of nature and nurture is one of the most controversial one. Behavioral geneticists have extensively explored the nature and nurture of general cognition, the etiology of specific abilities has received comparatively little attention. Conclusions about the relative impact of genes and the environment on different...
Topic: Psychology
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This paper is to give the description and illustration of various concepts of the Bowen theory on differentiation of self, through which his terms such as emotionality, individuality and togetherness will be brought to light. Introduction A Family as unit is the primary source for educating and developing an individuals’...
Topic: Family
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Introduction This research is aimed at investigating the causes and effects of such mental disorder as depression. In addition to that, I intend to analyze various treatment modes and ascertain their effectiveness. This particular aspect interests me, because depression is by far the most widespread mental disorder, and its causes...
Topic: Depression
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Dialogue I happened to meet 17 year old Ryan at one the sessions in his school. To my greeting him, he responded warmly by wishing me back and taking his seat. I: Shall we start by my asking this: What are your hobbies? Ryan: Football. I spend a lot of...
Topic: Adulthood
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Introduction Over the past three centuries mental outcomes war-related syndromes had various names as shell shock, combat neurosis, combat fatigue, mental conflict, or mechanical impact exhaustion (Shalev and others, 1996). Each name represented a theoretical outlook to the cause of mental trauma (Shalev and others, 1996). The diagnosis of posttraumatic...
Topic: Disorders
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Introduction The following research paper is about the relationship bond of an Adult and a child shown in American movies. The paper would explore the meaning of a relationship between an adult and a child and would emphasize its importance as well. The relationship between that particular adult and the...
Topic: Cinema
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Abstract Mind’s thought has been found to control most of the body’s behavior regarding health issues in human life. The argument is, if an individual can focus on a certain control of his/her mind and imagine that he/she is already being subjected to the physical conditions he/she would desire to...
Topic: Health
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Psychology is a rather difficult topic to write about because it involves lots of personal attitudes and opinions, and what is right for one person can turn out to be absolutely wrong for another. But, at the same time, this is quite an interesting topic because of several reasons. Firstly,...
Topic: Self-Concept
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Introduction Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was born on September 14, 1849 at Ryazan. Even during his early study period, he showed a lot of interest in physiology. In 1891-1900, at the Institute of Experimental Medicine, Pavlov did a lot of research on the physiology of digestion. During his study of the...
Topic: Psychology
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It was in the 50s that the concept of stress was initially brought in by Hans Selye. However, he called it General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) and he explained that all individuals respond to all types of threatening situations in the same manner (guidetopsychology.com). Today, we know that the knowledge of...
Topic: Psychology
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Introduction Autism is a pervasive developmental disorder defined by behavioral problems that include social disability, communication impairment, repetitive behaviors, and restricted interests. It is a brain disorder that impairs social interaction and communication, thus causing restricted and repetitive behavior, all starting before a child is three years old. It is...
Topic: Autism
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Abstract Stress can be classified in three categories namely; Mechanical stress which is the average amount of force exerted per unit area, biological which can either be psychological or physiological and music stress. The paper I am writing will entirely deal with the biological stress. First the paper, defines what...
Topic: Stress
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Talking about meditation, I’d like to start with mentioning that meditation as a spiritual practice is considered to be even older than Hinduism which, by the way, is the oldest of five major religions. The roots of meditation travel back to ancient times and primitive hunter-gatherer societies are believed to...
Topic: Health
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In the course of history, parenting has always been a challenging vocation. Since children are not born with “how to raise” manuals, parents usually have no choice but to figure out things for themselves with regards to rearing their offspring. Often, when children become difficult to control, parents resort to...
Topic: ADHD
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Introduction Psychological disorders are reported to be very severe and are usually debilitating resulting in an inability of an individual affected to perform the usual routine practices for example household matters effectively and efficiently. This paper will therefore analyze various psychological disorders that are commonly found to be affecting individuals...
Topic: Disorders
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Every day a person makes a number of choices. To make a good choice an appropriate approach is needed. Different problems can be solved by means of different approaches but all of them this way or another involve people’s senses. In the current paper I will consider how people rely...
Topic: Psychology
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Why do so many people associate the field of psychology with clinical issues rather than science? Since its inception, Psychology has been widely taken as a clinical way of treating mental disorders or working out relationships (PsychNet UK) through counseling. Due to this reason, it is usually perceived to treat...
Topic: Psychology
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Introduction Depression is a focal public health question. In the childbearing period, it is commoner in females than in males with a 2:1 ratio. According to the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse-World Health Organization (2008), postpartum depression is at least an event of non psychotic depression fulfilling the...
Topic: Depression
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Children’s emotional development: Challenges in their relationships to parents, peers, and friends Maria von Salisch. 2001, The international study of Behavioral Development. The article focuses on the relationships between children and their parents, peers, and friends and how they pose a challenge to the emotional development of the child. This...
Topic: Challenges
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Introduction Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychological disorder, which can be viewed as a response to such traumatic events as witnessing or committing homicide, surviving pain, tortures, or extremely harsh physical conditions. The present paper is designed to review three research articles, which explore different sides of PTSD. The...
Topic: Disorders
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Abstract Developing the classification scope of sleep disorders helps to identify possible causes, differential diagnosis and subsequently proper management. This essays aim at providing a brief yet a comprehensive review on the types, causes, and common treatments of sleep disorders. Introduction Sleep and wakefulness are two phases of brain activity,...
Topic: Disorders
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The book by C.S. Lewis titled the Abolition of Man provides information on the education in schools and the orientation which should be adopted by the educators when teaching children. The specific subjects that are to be taught to children that are highlighted in the book include English, natural laws...
Topic: Psychology
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Introduction Using physical force as a means of punishment is also known as corporal punishment. This is causing intentional physical pain and discomfort to a person with an aim of making the person amend his behavioral ways. Main text This method of physical correction has for a long time been...
Topic: Psychology
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Human brain is considered as the highly evolved organ to execute diverse environmentally adapted functions which may rely on the interaction between the cognitive and visual skills. Disorders associated with the mental function may lead to abnormal psychological behavior. I am having keen interest in understanding the psychopathology of certain...
Topic: Psychology
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The purpose of the conducted study, described in the article entitled “Test Anxiety and Academic Performance in Undergraduate and Graduate Students” is to determine the levels of test anxiety and academic performance in large cohorts of graduate and undergraduate students and to investigate how these levels are related to one...
Topic: Academic Performance
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Introduction Intergroup conflict is a common occurrence in any environment and it requires a thorough approach that would allow illuminating bias and coming up with a coherent solution. However, in many cases, an attribution bias obstructs individuals from seeing the actual information and making fair judgements. This issue is illustrated...
Topic: Conflict
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The issue of the widespread use of technologies among children has never been as relevant as it is today. An overarching majority of rising generations is not learning how they can expand their minds without the use of technologies and later in life, social media. Thus, what used to be...
Topic: Technology
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Sexual abuse and harassment remain prevalent in contemporary society and have a significant influence on the lives of many people. For the most part, these issues affect women, but men may also suffer from them. One of the key problems that emerge in association with sexual harassment and abuse is...
Topic: Abuse
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Due to the availability of numerous counseling modalities, those specialists, who engage with this practice, often face the necessity of adjusting the general concept and ideology underlying the sessions to the patient’s needs and become extremely selective in applying the approaches to specific cases. The present paper is designed to...
Topic: Counseling
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Introduction Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a collection of problem behaviors related with weak attention span. ADHD may include impulsive behavior, restlessness, inattention, hyperactivity and usually prevents them from learning a socializing in a normal manner. ADHD is considered to be a neurological disorder, and effects 5% of people...
Topic: ADHD
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Introduction This model was developed by Joseph Luft and Harry Ingham in 1955 to describe human interaction. It tries to define personal awareness in a quadrants manner. It has four quadrants which each illustrate a different view of personality in terms of communication and relationships. Each window represents a kind...
Topic: Psychology
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Modern technological advancements have enabled the use of a variety of technologies that are now used to educate children of all ages in schools. Their convenience has also led many parents to resort to various child-oriented electronic tools in everyday life. As such, the idea of using digital media to...
Topic: Technology
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Teenagers may be the most complicated population group to understand. This hardship in communication stems from the fact that all adolescents are undergoing drastic emotional, hormonal, and physical changes, as well as social ones (Newman & Newman, 2017). It may be natural for teenagers to test the limits of their...
Topic: Psychology
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Introduction Life is a continuous flow of events. Some of them are pleasant others are stressful. Everything that is happening around a child is leaving its imprints on the child psyche as their minds are very impressionable. It is like ponds filled with water where the ripples of events are...
Topic: Disorders
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Introduction The evolution of psychotherapy over time has come from grim days for the psychologically disturbed to the modern age where efficient systems of therapy have arisen. Functional assessment was the method of therapy previously. Eminent psychoanalysts have studied and evaluated their findings and found the emotional factor to be...
Topic: Psychology
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All types of living beings that subscribe to sexual mode of production excessively give in before the two most fundamental natural impulses. They are sex and taste. These are the two very forces or the stimulus, which are responsible for keeping them alive from times immemorial. Theories of evolution are...
Topic: Food
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Cognitive-behavioral therapy is the most effective in treating anxiety disorders because it uses performance-based and cognitive interventions to change the way a patient thinks, feels, and behaves. Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is of particular value for patients of the elderly group and children. It is applied with the external environment as...
Topic: Anxiety
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Introduction Professionals working in the mental health field have sought to measure people’s personalities to understand why they behave in specific ways. Projective and objective methods of personality measurement are the most common methods of assessment (Gregory, 2014). Objective methods, such as measures of self-reporting, depend on the personal responses...
Topic: Disability
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Abstract This proposal presents details for a research project that will investigate the lived experiences of first-generation Latino veterans who decided to stay in the US after military service. Up to ten former military members will be recruited from locations that offer veteran services. The project will then use semi-structured...
Topic: Veterans
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Introduction While research is frequently employed to determine relationships between phenomena, it can also be used for descriptive purposes. Descriptive designs are defined by their aim of describing rather than inferring, and while they are often qualitative, quantitative studies can also qualify (Houser, 2016; Polit & Beck, 2017). Quantitative descriptive...
Topic: Psychology
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Introduction Both the effects and aftermath of stress remain acute research topics, which may be primarily due to the subject’s prominence among various population strata. Older adults who experience stress have a lower quality of life, as their physical and mental health deteriorates under psychological duress (de Frias & Whyne,...
Topic: Psychology
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Abstract The paper is dedicated to a discussion of the links between the relational factors in therapy on patient outcomes. Empathy and goal consensus between, the core elements of the client-therapist alliance, are the strongest predictors of favorable intervention outcomes. However, such patient-specific factors as severity and chronicity of mental...
Topic: Relationship
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Introduction Power structures permeate any regularized society and control the inner workings of its aspects. One way to interpret power is to analyze the means of its execution, especially those that are not exactly obvious at first glance. Sex is a natural human activity and an intimate process. At the...
Topic: Psychology
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Introduction A person lives in the space of culture, which accompanies life in all its manifestations. Culture programs the life activities of people and defines its socialized ways. Each individual lives and acts by building his or her life path according to programs that are determined by social conditions and...
Topic: Psychology
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Introduction The assigned case involves a 28-year-old employee at Data Analytics Ltd., whose name is Steven. He has been working in the company for eight years and showed excellent results in the first years of his employment. However, a traumatic event that occurred five years ago affected his mental health,...
Topic: Depression
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Introduction This manual is dedicated to a psychotherapeutic group that is intended for patients with mild-to-moderate depression. It will be a short-term psychoeducation group that will use cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). The aim of this manual is to provide direction and employ high-quality sources dedicated to depression and group therapy to...
Topic: Depression
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Abstract Bereavement is a health problem that health experts and stakeholders should examine carefully in an attempt to present powerful initiatives to deal with it. Around 10 percent of the United States population suffers from complicated grief. Those who face this mental health problem lack high-quality medical support. After analyzing...
Topic: Psychology
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Introduction Depending on the approach, different stages may be identified within a group process. Corey (2015) distinguishes a transition stage, which is similar to the storming one as defined by Pessagno (2013). To be more specific, Corey’s (2015) transition is characterized by conflict, which stems from members’ anxiety, worry, and...
Topic: Challenges
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The phenomenon of the so-called human factor as the justification for and explanation of an error is quite well-known. Implying the completion of a routine activity and making an involuntary mistake in the process, the concept of the human error can be found in any area, healthcare not being an...
Topic: Psychology
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Introduction Upon the completion of the working portion of a group, the final stage becomes prominent. It is termed by Corey (2015) as the stage of termination and consolidation, and despite being less time-consuming than the previous phase, it is also crucial for the effectiveness of the therapy. In this...
Topic: Psychotherapy
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Introduction The commonly used framework of the group process, which, for example, is presented by Pessagno (2013), includes the storming (or exploring) stage as its second element. This stage (or phase) is difficult to navigate since it refers to the uncertainty period that is characterized by members experiencing conflicts in...
Topic: Psychology
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Introduction Nowadays, the developed theoretical base and high technology allow scientists to study the human body and brain thoroughly. However, doctors and therapists are still looking for the origins and universal methods to treat many severe physical and mental illnesses and disorders such as depression. One such approach to possible...
Topic: Dance
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Introduction Many intentions to understand human behaviors and the work of the human mind were made in the past and are observed in modern practice. Psychology is one of the crucial fields, the goal of which is to enhance human knowledge through discussing the development of cognitive processes, social behaviors,...
Topic: Anxiety
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Introduction Noticing the dynamics in early childhood development and utilizing appropriate tools for boosting it are central strategies for assisting children in building the required skill set for further critical and creative thinking for various purposes. Malaysian toys, in turn, introduce a vast range of possibilities for encouraging development in...
Topic: Psychology
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Behaviors are shaped by a vast array of factors, yet influencing them to improve one’s leadership skills is possible. A survey that allows identifying the strengths of one’s behaviors and the weaknesses thereof is a crucial tool in shaping ones’ leadership qualities and improving the quality of healthcare. According to...
Topic: Self-Reflection
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Depression is one of the most common mental health disorders in the United States. Without timely treatment, this condition can have a devastating effect on an individual, impairing his or her abilities to carry out their usual life activities. The latest statistics showed that depression does not discriminate against age....
Topic: Action Research
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In order to properly and thoroughly assess the potential risk factor of bipolar affective disorder (BAD), it is important to overview and analyze the current literature on the given subject. The research studies conducted on BAD can be categorized into two major subcategories regarding their approach to the issue. Some...
Topic: Bipolar Disorder
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Empowering People with SUD The class presentation has identified addiction and substance use disorder (SUD) as some of the health challenges many people in the global society face. The affected victims become stressed, change their behaviors, and find it hard to achieve their personal goals (Robinson & Adinoff, 2016). This...
Topic: Addiction
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Introduction: The Study and the Researcher The previous chapter provided a detailed explanation of the method used to collect primary data and design considered appropriate for analysis. In this chapter, the researcher presents the analysis of primary data. The purpose of the chapter is to analyze and interpret raw data...
Topic: African American
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Background Teresa is an 8-year-old female student who is diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of mental disorders (DSM-5)) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and assigned the Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapy. The patient’s family comes from Mexica and has problems with speaking English, which complicates the...
Topic: Disorders
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The research article by Shin, Cho, Shin, & Park (2016) aimed to analyze the relationship between adolescent psychological adjustment and early peer relationships. This topic is important to consider because the way in which children socialize at the early stages of their development influences their future behaviors. Peer relationships encompass...
Topic: Childhood
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Psychological defense mechanisms protect individuals from experiencing unpleasant emotions, such as anxiety and guilt. Each person without exception utilizes them though may be unaware of this. In my life, there were a lot of situations when various defense mechanisms helped me to cope. For example, some time ago, I started...
Topic: Psychology
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Introduction The concept of psychological explanation has been used as a general term explaining people’s attempts to understand any phenomena linked to intelligent behavior. An adequate psychological explanation is seen as the one that offers enough information for psychologists to predict behaviors and then manage them. The psychological phenomenon of...
Topic: Psychology
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Introduction People’s tendency to explain their own or others’ behaviour constitutes the basis of the attribution theory. The father of the theory, Heider, famously said that each and every person is a psychologist of their own or at least tries to be. After the concept first emerged in the 1950s,...
Topic: Psychology
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Introduction Research into spheres of intelligence, personality and their interplay is often built on discussing various traits or capabilities that unite people. For example, theories regarding personality traits separate people into groups according to their relatability to certain behaviours and feelings (Pérez-González & Sanchez-Ruiz 2014). Similarly, the information processing approach...
Topic: Intelligence
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Postpartum depression (PPD) is a common mental health disorder among first-time mothers. About 15% of women admit that they experience depressive episodes during pregnancy or the first year after childbirth (Sockol, Epperson, & Barber, 2014). In addition, negative mental outcomes and physical changes influence mother-infant and mother-father relationships (Maimburg &...
Topic: Depression
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Introduction Leadership in the military is a complex task given the adverse working environment of officers especially during and after deployment. The long and frequent deployments coupled with consequences of combat, such as exposure to traumatic events, normally test the resilience of service members and their families. Therefore, effective coping...
Topic: Leadership
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Introduction It is necessary to approach the study of mental health comprehensively. It is a well-known fact that even small but acute stresses experienced in childhood can provoke psychosomatic disorders in adulthood. However, data on the degree of pathogenicity of stress factors and the proportion of their participation in the...
Topic: Abuse
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Key Points of Therapeutic Conversation A therapeutic conversation is meant to identify communication needs of family members and encourage them to express feelings. Not only does it help to develop more targeted and age-appropriate intervention strategies but also allows rendering necessary psychological support to patients through the practice of active...
Topic: Family
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Social adaptation to civilian life of former members of the military is a unique and significant area of inquiry. Service in the USA military is voluntary, but the conditions of entering the service do not imply that anyone can randomly join (Leal & Teigen, 2018). An opportunity to serve is...
Topic: Military
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Introduction As social creatures, people have to make difficult choices on a daily basis. In fact, inconsistencies between individuals’ own goal strivings and responsibilities act as a barrier to decision-making. The assigned case presents a dilemma of a student who has to prepare for his exams but wants to attend...
Topic: Psychology
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Introduction A divorce is always an unpleasant event, even if two adults have no complaints against each other and want to stay in a friendly relationship. However, for children, the experience of parents’ separation is especially painful as it leads to the destruction of connections within the family, traditions, and...
Topic: Divorce
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The skill chosen for the project is mindfulness since, currently, it is frequently discussed as a treatment for many psychological disorders, including anxiety and depression. In simple words, mindfulness is awareness of the present moment instead of thinking about past or future experiences. According to Tang, Hölzel, & Posner (2015),...
Topic: Mindfulness
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In 2019, smartphone use reached record levels. It is expected that by 2021, the United States will have a 72.7% penetration rate, meaning that 3 out of 4 people will own and consistently use a smartphone device. People in developed countries use technology for everything ranging from communication to entertainment,...
Topic: Addiction
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Problem List Blame Brittany is dissatisfied with her parents’ moving to another place, and implicitly puts the blame for certain events on them. For instance, she blames her parents for making her attend classes where she feels isolated due to her beliefs and biracial background. She also puts the blame...
Topic: Counseling
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The patient, Maggie, was a 27-year old female who was tall and attractive in an angular way, with dark, intelligent eyes. She was a graduate student in paleontology and she loved her field of study so much that she always talked about it. In the beginning, when she met the...
Topic: Therapy
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Pediatric health and physical evaluation are critical aspects of developmental assessment among school-aged children. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2019), there are two major developmental milestones of middle age, between 6 and 8 years and 9 and 11 years. Both stages determine the development of children...
Topic: Psychology
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Methodology The study uses a quantitative methodology to answer previously identified research questions. Many researchers report that negative emotions have a significant impact on physical development in this age group, and this assumption was used to develop one of the research tools (Dubois-Comtois, Moss, Cyr, & Pascuzzo, 2013; Elsaesser, Gorman-Smith,...
Topic: Childhood
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This paper studies the social motivation on the example of Maggie, who has created a business providing services as a graphic designer and a photographer. The research suggests that her motives are intrinsic and are caused by internal factors. It also explains the reasons behind her motivation based on external...
Topic: Artists
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Introduction Counseling is a rewarding field that is concerned with empowering and addressing the emotional and psychological challenges facing clients. Having completed the coursework successfully, I have acquired and developed superior competencies that can make it easier for me to meet the needs of different groups. This is the reason...
Topic: Counseling
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Introduction The attitude of the society to different social groups is largely due to established stereotypes that form an opinion on the characteristics of behavior. Particular attention is paid to the topic of adolescents as the category of the population, which is considered problematic and is often viewed as the...
Topic: Stereotypes
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The hair-pulling disorder also known as Trichotillomania (TTM) is a psychological condition associated with a compulsive removal of hair from the body. Not only may TTM result in significant hair loss but also cause a marked functional impairment similarly to other types of obsessive-compulsive disorders. Considering that this adverse mental...
Topic: Disorders
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Introduction Premature ejaculation can be listed among the most common sexual problems experienced by men. When it comes to the key definition of the disorder, it needs to be noted that having a “premature” ejaculation involves the release of semen a few minutes after the start of sexual activity, which...
Topic: Disorders
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Despite the feeling of happiness that is usually associated with childbearing, joy is not always constant and not necessarily all-permeating, especially after birth. Pregnancy and child delivery create one of the most stressful conditions for the human body, with hormonal changes making a person susceptible to mental illness. The most...
Topic: Depression
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Autism is one of the most common mental diseases impacting young children. This developmental disability can cause severe complications, so it is necessary to diagnose the problem as soon as possible. There are some popular myths about autism, but scholars dispel such fictitious stories and emphasize the interrelation between autism...
Topic: Autism
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There are many concepts and ideas that, at first glance, seem obvious and quite ingenious. In reality, however, they are complex and profound for understanding. Among philosophers and scientists, there is no consensus on the interpretation of the concept of honor, and this topic has preoccupied the minds of great...
Topic: Psychology
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The Fear of Flying (FOF) has psychological and physiological symptoms. It makes people avoid boarding planes. According to Clark and Rock (2016), this highly common phobia affects about 2.5-40 percent of the global population. These authors associate the misconceptions raised regarding aviophobia with inadequate research in the area of cognitive-behavioral...
Topic: Fear
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The goal of punishment is not to allow certain types of behavior to happen or make them weaker. When defining punishment, it is vital to consider the three elements. First of all, the particular behavior occurs, then consequences follow it, and, finally, the behavior is weakened (Miltenberger, 2016). When an...
Topic: Psychology
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Introduction Apart from diseases equally affecting all population groups, there are the ones that develop only in certain kinds of patients. For instance, women can suffer from various conditions associated with pregnancy and childbirth. Postpartum depression is the most common of all postpartum disorders. According to statistics, postpartum depression develops...
Topic: Depression
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Introduction Social anxiety disorder (SAD), also referred to as social phobia, is a condition under which a person suffers from anxiety in different social contexts. The underlying component of SAD is the fear of being judged by others and not being approved by them. Although the disorder is widely spread...
Topic: Anxiety
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Abstract The prevalence of postpartum depression is quite high as one in seven new American mothers develops this health issue. The illness is associated with such symptoms as anxiety, eating disorders, insomnia, and fatigue. The factors contributing to the development of the disease are divided into three categories: biological, psychological,...
Topic: Depression
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Political violence, as well as any other kind of violence, has various causes at its core. Some people or groups resort to rampage when they want to reach equality. Others behave destructively when they desire to gain more power than they already have. Research shows that individuals are often motivated...
Topic: Psychology
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Introduction The current technological progress has introduced numerous opportunities for the global community, yet it has also entailed a range of challenges and threats. The problem of anxiety among children is one of the outcomes that calls for an immediate change in the current legal and social frameworks since it...
Topic: Anxiety
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Thinking is a complex process that depends on a number of aspects, including the way people acquire information and process it. Due to the differences in individuals’ mentalities and perspectives on particular issues, one fact or act can have different interpretations. However, the majority of them result from the utilization...
Topic: Psychology
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Introduction The mental health of the person is one of the fundamental factors of people’s well-being as it guarantees their ability to socialize, communicate with other people, and remain involved in the processes critical for their existence. For this reason, the monitoring of its status is one of the fundamental...
Topic: Disorders
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Introduction Individuals’ cognitive biases and emotions may exert a significant impact on their lives. People are often known to take action and make decisions based exclusively on their feelings and beliefs, which may lead to severe consequences, a point that is crucial to keep in mind when considering terrorism and...
Topic: Psychology
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Introduction The term Postpartum Depression (PPD) describes a wide variety of physical and emotional adjustments experienced by a significant number of new mothers. Since the hormonal levels of new mothers drop significantly immediately after delivery, this chemical change is likely to result in depression. This condition may also be caused...
Topic: Depression
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Abstract This essay dedicates to the significant influence of parenting styles on the bullying behavior of children. Various researches demonstrate that specific parental styles promote bullying by children, while optimal parenting may decrease interpersonal aggression and victimization. The paper describes four main styles of parenting, and it highlights their peculiarities...
Topic: Bullying
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Abstract The paper focuses on the analysis of laughter as a therapeutic method. At first, the mechanics and physiology of laughter are explained, and the most common types of laughter are identified. Further, facial expressions with laughter are described, along with the likelihood of females to fake laughter in comparison...
Topic: Psychology
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Family-based interventions include parent training, family therapy, and multisystemic therapy (Carr 130). Family therapy aims at resolving the problems of young people by using a family-based intervention that involves family members. Family therapy is the treatment of mental disorders with the potential to solve the issues and minimize stress by...
Topic: Family
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The individuals with dementia experience memory loss and the reduction of cognitive abilities caused by the degenerative processes in their brain. Today, more than 47 million worldwide are diagnosed with dementia, while it is anticipated that their numbers will grow (Livingston et al., 2017). Dementia is identified by the scholarly...
Topic: Dementia
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Developmental Summary The information obtained through observing the child allows creating a summary of her skills. The following domains of development have been analyzed: cognitive, social and emotional, speech and language, fine motor skills, and gross motor skills. Data gathered during informal observations, which are reflected in brief reports and...
Topic: Psychology
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Explaining Subjective Mental Experiences Through Physical Processes The subjective mental experiences that take place usually depend on the perceptions of the subjects. Physical science provides some explanations of why a person may feel some things, such as depression, which is a mental problem, being linked to the decrease of serotonin...
Topic: Functionalism
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Introduction — In a world that is becoming increasingly competitive, many individuals struggle with stress management and finding a healthy outlet for their negative emotions. Chronic stress has the potential to take a toll on all the aspects of an individual’s life, affecting his or her job performance, personal relationships,...
Topic: Counseling
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Summary The article primarily emphasizes the importance of knowing your own mate value. Mate-value accuracy, defined as “knowing how much other people are interested in you as a mate,” plays a significant role in a person’s social life (Back, Penke, Schmukle, & Asendorpf, 2011, p. 984). People, who accurately estimate...
Topic: Psychology
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Pages: 5
Labor motivation is understood as the organization of the company’s work in a way that encourages everyone to fulfill professional duties. In other words, each employee receives an internal incentive that increases productivity and is aimed at achieving a common goal. To produce a competent staff incentive, a manager has...
Topic: Motivation
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Introduction The assessment of school-aged children is a vital part of preventive healthcare. The process of monitoring young patients’ progress through the developmental changes allows clinicians to see whether children are meeting their age-related milestones and if there are any signs of developmental issues that can be addressed promptly. Patients’...
Topic: Child Development
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Potential Benefits The concept of emotional intelligence (EI) is an integral part of all areas of human development. However, as with many other scientific ideas, scientists still cannot agree on what emotional intelligence is. There are many definitions of emotional intelligence. Some define emotional intelligence as a set of non-cognitive...
Topic: Emotional Intelligence
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Introduction Specific brain changes that are observed in adolescents include the development of synaptic pruning and axon and myelination growth. As a result, the number of neurons used for effective brain functioning decreases, but useful synaptic connections become stronger because of the growth of myelin in nerve cells (“Inside the...
Topic: Psychology
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Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a topical health problem due to the challenges that medical professionals face when treating this disease. To assess the difficulty of interventions and the variability of measures about this problem, one should consider the diagnostic criteria for PTSD, psychological responses, maladaptive patterns, and possible therapeutic...
Topic: Disorders
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Along the second half of the nineteenth and at the turn of the twentieth century, Mary Cassatt explored the relationship between mother and child in most of her paintings. American of origin and French by adoption, Mary Cassatt moved from the States to Paris, where she played an active role...
Topic: Modernism
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Strong emotional distress resulting from loss and grief frequently becomes a part of the caregiving experience. This paper will provide an analysis of grief-related issues facilitating or complicating the loss, as well as effective intervention strategies to assist caregivers. Also, the phenomenon of reciprocal suffering of caregivers will be considered....
Topic: Psychology
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Summary The article by Dooley, Sweeny, Howell, and Reynolds (2018) focuses on the issue of partners’ responsiveness during a period of stressful uncertainty. Scholars remark that in the age of massive data availability, there are pieces of information that people sometimes have to wait for a long time. Such occasions...
Topic: Psychology
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Introduction In recent years, researchers and employers have both shown increased interest in exploring contributing factors that shape employees’ attitudes and behaviors in the workplace. It is now argued that the reasons for how employees choose to engage or disengage in workplace activities may be traced all the way back...
Topic: Performance
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Introduction Certain actions of a person as a professional, a leader, or a social agent can be influenced by his or her personality type. According to Carl Jung’s theory and Isabel Briggs Myers’ typology, it is possible to determine a variety of personality types with reference to four different aspects...
Topic: Health
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Introduction At the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century, the western world was characterized by social turmoils, technological innovations, and revolutionary scientific disciplines that contributed to shaping modernity. Inevitably, the progress of humankind influenced the artistic movements, and most of the artworks of that...
Topic: Modernism
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Today, teenagers encounter several challenging issues; depression is one of them. This disorder affects young people’s mental state significantly and may interfere with their daily activities, reducing the quality of their lives, and decreasing their academic performance. This paper discusses depression in adolescents, its symptoms, and the factors that cause...
Topic: Adolescence
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It is thought that all people’s achievements depend on the level of their certainty about their capability to succeed from this perspective, when in doubt; one cannot perform well enough to be productive or successful. However, the question of the relationship between doubt and certainty has long been at the...
Topic: Psychology
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It is universally accepted that the childhood environment influences the development of cognitive functions. Mainstream research has shown that early socioeconomic status plays a huge role in shaping the future performance of individuals. Generally, children growing within a harsh environment characterized by a low cultural level, scarce economic resources, and...
Topic: Child Development
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Investigating Topic of Interest The topic of interest chosen for this project is creating a blog to help people with gaming addiction. I am personally interested in this topic because I am a victim of this problem and I know the challenges that addicts go through. Additionally, I have several...
Topic: Addiction
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Introduction Since medicine becomes more advanced, it returns people to life from borderline states in many cases. A near-death experience (NDE) is a subjective reality in a terminal form of consciousness, which exists in conditions of gradual degradation of brain functions. It begins from the youngest (the big hemispheres) to...
Topic: Death
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Neurodevelopmental disorders are particularly different to treat in young patients since the latter’s nervous system has not developed yet, which suggests additional complications appearing in the process. Due to the detrimental effects that neurological disorders have on individuals’ cognitive development, including memory, abstract and critical thinking skills, and other essential...
Topic: Disorders
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Abstract This paper is a literature review to gather information on the different causes of suicide in the US military. Ten peer-reviewed articles were selected, and the findings showed that military separation, mental illnesses, problematic intimate partner relationships, childhood trauma, and a history of suicidal ideation are the leading causes...
Topic: Military
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In many cases, the leadership qualities of individuals depend on their personality types and associated characteristics that can determine their reactions and behaviors in different situations. The Jung Typology Test is one of the tools that help determine the personality type concerning Carl Jung’s theory and Isabel Briggs Myers’ analysis...
Topic: Health
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Cultural and emotional intelligence have a certain similarity in the way they work because both require the person to examine the situation before acting upon it. Rash decisions are often incorrect and lack understanding of the subtle intricacies of human behavior. However, while emotional intelligence deals with more universal aspects...
Topic: Culture
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Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is among the most utilized and researched psychological theories in the world. Its pyramid structure is applied in various spheres, including business, healthcare, education, and others. Maslow first proposed the hierarchy in 1943, and the original version includes five different needs that all people experience during...
Topic: Psychology
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Pages: 5
The effects of mindfulness on chronic pain management have been studied extensively, with numerous results of the studies available in the academic literature. However, the quality of evidence is inconsistent, with many studies utilizing methodologies that do not comply with the scientific standards. The following literature review explores the standing...
Topic: Chronic Pain
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Pages: 5
The Big Five personality test allows analyzing such dimensions of one’s personality as openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. That is why the test is frequently abbreviated as OCEAN (“The Big Five personality test,” n.d.). The results of the inventory help to understand one’s abilities to exercise self-discipline and explain...
Topic: Psychology
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Giving birth to a baby is a happy occasion, yet numerous women cannot experience the feeling. The phenomenon of postpartum depression affects the quality of women’s lives, as well as their self-esteem and relationships with their child. To prevent instances of depression and the associated issues, a detailed assessment of...
Topic: Depression
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In the article “The Words Children Hear Picture Books and the Statistics for Language Learning”, the authors have observed the speech development benefits associated with reading picture books to children. The study hypothesis was that there is a link between the degree of a child’s vocabulary development and the quality...
Topic: Psychology
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Human trafficking refers to the sale of people for the intention of prostitution, forced labor, or profitable sexual abuse. Hernandez and Rudolph (2015) aver that human trafficking may encompass “providing a spouse in the context of forced marriage or extraction of organs or tissues including for surrogacy and ova removal”...
Topic: Human Trafficking
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Introduction The 21st century is known as the age of communication. It is now possible for individuals to remain connected with thousands of their peers thousands of kilometers away. However, this progress did not come without a price. The borders of what is considered public and private have shifted considerably,...
Topic: Psychology
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Introduction The study of various psychological theories and concepts may allow taking a new look at the world and changing the perception of usual communication, behavioral, and other habits. After completing this Psychology course, my vision of certain aspects of life has become different, and new views have emerged regarding...
Topic: Psychology
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Dementia Social Activities Dementia is a health condition that manifests in acquired cognitive impairment, which tends to “cause limitations of memory, self-care, and family, social, and occupational functioning” (Perese, 2012, p. 512). As a result, patients with dementia often experience social isolation. At the same time, there is a distinct...
Topic: Disorders
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Stereotypes are Hard to Change Stereotypes are very hard to get rid of, and the reason is connected to the emotional nature of attitudes. Often, when a person is presented with factual information that contradicts their prejudice, they discount it in an illogical manner. Devine’s two-step model of cognitive processing...
Topic: Discrimination
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Define prejudice. How is it explained through the ubiquitous social phenomenon? Prejudice is a disposition towards a specific gathering, sorted with various components, for example, nationality, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religious convictions, and political perspectives (Aronson, Wilson, Akert, & Sommers, 2016). A misguided judgment is that prejudice originates from the superior...
Topic: Prejudice
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Micic et al. (2016) argue that any job that involves ‘shifts’ can lead to a Circadian Rhythm Sleep-Wake Disorder. The fact that the said disorder relies on the breaking of the regular sleep pattern supports the premise. One of the regular jobs that involve shift-taking is nursing. Indeed, nurses often...
Topic: Disorders
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Introduction The outline is based on the article Development screening and assessment instruments with an emphasis on social and emotional development for young children ages birth through five, published on the website of the Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center (Ringwalt, 2008). The four components of a mental status examination The...
Topic: Psychology
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Introduction The problem of managing children’s behavior has always been challenging to the public because there is no unified view on what effective procedures should be implemented for doing so. When it comes to corporal punishment of children, the public has disregarded the problem and did not associate it with...
Topic: Corporal Punishment
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Theories Commonly Applied in this Study Single African American mothers’ experience of relationships with sons is always unique. In this qualitative investigation, the focus is to investigate the experience of these single African American females of being mothers to their adolescent sons. According to Williams and Smalls (2015), single women...
Topic: Psychology
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Alcohol is among the most popular psychoactive drugs in the world alongside caffeine and nicotine. One of its primary pharmacological effects is the inhibition of the central nervous system (CNS), for which reason it was used as an anesthetic in the past. The mechanism of the anesthetic effect lies in...
Topic: Alcohol
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When planning for a research project, one of the most important factors that must be considered is the appropriate research method that should be used. The methodology articulates the steps that should be taken, from the initial stage of data collection to analysis, and finally, the presentation in the most...
Topic: African American
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Introduction Before the session commences, I must ensure I have informed the participants on the length of time necessary during the process helping to deter some people within the group not to use too much of the “air time” when the time for asking and answering questions comes. This will...
Topic: Counseling
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Case You see a 7-year-old child for a WCCU. The mother is present for the visit and reports that during the past 12 months he has become more “clingy”. He will separate from his parent as long as he can see them nearby. For example, he will play soccer but...
Topic: Therapy
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In my opinion, Van Gogh is a perfect representation of a person fitting into the Peak and Decline model. His most famous works were produced between his 20s and late 30s, and in a decade, he created more than 1.000 pieces of art. Although he committed suicide at 37, it...
Topic: Psychology
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Introduction Human behavior is the subject matter of behavior modification. Behavior is what people do and say (Miltenberger, 2011). The characteristics that define behavior are as follows. Behavior involves a person’s actions. It is described with action verbs. Behavior is not a static characteristic of the person. Behaviors have one...
Topic: Psychology
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Language is a unique tool that helps people to investigate a surrounding reality and express their feelings, emotions, and attitudes. At the same time, it apparently impacts the environment as a person sees the world through the prism of his/her mother language (Mio, Barker, & Rodriquez, 2015). It has formed...
Topic: Psychology
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Trait Theorists According to Gordon Allport, an American psychologist and one of the founders of personality psychology, personality is a dynamic feature within an individual’s psychophysical system that determines his or her characteristic behavior and thinking and dictates unique adaptation to the environment. At the centre of the dispositional personality...
Topic: Psychology
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The frustration-aggression hypothesis There is a hypothesis that aggression is conditioned by frustration from some situations. Suggested by Freud, it was further developed by other scholars (Burger, 2015). This hypothesis states that “aggression is always a consequence of frustration … that the occurrence of aggressive behavior always presupposes the existence...
Topic: Psychology
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