Depression in Middle-Aged African Women

Abstract The presented research study investigates depression in middle-aged African women. The mental health of the population is a serious concern of the modern healthcare sector. Moreover, the tendency toward the complication of the situation and the emergence of an increased number of cases every year explains the topicality of...

Chapters 11-12 of “An Advanced Lifespan…” by Erford & Tucker

Chapter 11 Summary The chapter includes a detailed discussion on adolescent development, explaining the stage in detail to help the reader understand more about the teenage period. The adolescent development discussion defines adolescence by giving a brief history of the concept. The chapter encourages one to reflect on their teenage...

Self-Confidence in a Reality Show

Conceptual Definition The construct I am interested in and which will be presented in the study is self-confidence. Self-confidence is the self-perception of oneself, one’s capabilities, and level of professionalism. It is expressed as a positive assessment of one’s skills, abilities, and strengths to achieve meaningful goals. Self-confidence can likewise...

Introducing a Mental Care Group for Women

Introduction and Type of Group Mental care groups have shown effectiveness in working with personal psychological problems and with collective traumas. Group work allows the therapist to reach out to more people, provides participants with different points of view, and teaches them to take care of themselves (Jacobs et al.,...

Personality Characteristics: The Basic Mental Attributes

Introduction Personality characteristics strengths are believed to be are the basic mental attributes that determine an individual’s distinct condition and make him feel real, active, and involved in life. The online Character Strengths Profile, which is formed based on the results of passing the survey, ranks the good characteristics in...

Ethical Principles in Psychology

The ethical dilemma described in the case study is a frequent consequence of the relationship between the psychologist and the patient. Some of the issues in the scenario concern the neglection of the APA standard “Avoiding Harm, 3.04” and the potential violation of “Multiple Relationships, 3.05” (American Psychological Association, 2017)....

Depression and Social Media in Scientific vs. Popular Articles

The selected contemporary psychological issue that is prevalent today is depression and social media use. The popular source states that “people who limit their time on social media tend to be happier than those who don’t … this indicates a relationship between lower social media use and emotional wellbeing” (Nittle,...

“Psychology and COVID-19” Article by Pillay & Barnes

The pandemic has brought the danger of death from epidemiological infection and an unbearable psychological burden for people around the world. Faster spread of the virus; strict isolation measures, COVID-19 has profoundly affected our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. The consequences of coronavirus on the body have not yet been adequately...

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy’s Impact on Memory

Azizi, A., Drikvand, F. M., & Sepahvandi, M. A. (2020). Effect of cognitive-behavioral play therapy on working memory, short-term memory and sustained attention among school-aged children with specific learning disorder: A preliminary randomized controlled clinical trial. Current Psychology, 39(6), 2306-2313. The study attempted to evaluate the impact of cognitive-behavioral play...

Inattentional Blindness and Unconscious Perception

Abstract Inattentional blindness defines the inability to detect externally apparent details of the overall context while focusing attention on individual objects. This effect can be life-threatening and create adverse consequences, especially in relation to crisis situations where maximum attention is required. In the present dissertation work, an experimental method was...

The Intragroup Discrimination Theory Development

Each person in this world is unique and unrepeatable because they were raised by different people with different views on certain things. It can be as simple moral foundations as more profound philosophical questions about life and death. Unfortunately, it is impossible to precisely say whose views on life are...

Depression in Adolescence: Causes and Treatment

Depression in Adolescents Depression is described as a collection of unique symptoms associated with impairment. However, depression is best characterized as a medical condition that manifests symptoms through an individual’s functionality and mood. Depression between adults and adolescents has similar clinical and diagnostic features. It is a common mental health...

Theory of Mind in Autistic People

Theory of mind (ToM) is an integral social-cognitive skill encompassing a person’s ability to attribute mental states. It is the ability to determine what others are thinking. The theory was coined by Premack and Woodruff in 1978, triggering various issues in human development (Meunier, 2017). It is one of the...

Child Development: Simulated Field Experience

Introduction After reviewing the third and fourth chapters of the attached book, I chose the four most attractive concepts. Next, I will reveal each of them and justify my choice based on specific preferences. The main criteria by which I chose these concepts are efficiency in practice, versatility, and depth....

Aspects of the Developmental Psychology

Introduction Cognitive learning theorists developed the idea of information processing to understand better how people learn and remember new information. The theory of information processing is often credited as the brainchild of George Miller who found that the average human being’s working memory has room for seven objects (Vuong et...

The Helping People Change Book by Boyatzis et al.

The topic of coaching and training in today’s information-overloaded world is very much in demand. Nothing contributes to success like a clear, sweeping vision of the future and choosing the best path and strategy for development. Emotional intelligence expert Richard Boyatzis and Weatherhead School of Management colleagues Melvin Smith and...

Biopsychosocial Description of Anna from The Woman in the House

Current Complaint The main character in the movie is called Anna, who suffers from abuse. The current complaint with Anna is the murder case she claims she witnessed, but everyone, including the authorities, is turning down her claims. Anna claims to have witnessed Neil killing his girlfriend, Lisa. Despite involving...

Poker Players’ Behaviour at the Table

At the poker table, manners are just as crucial as correct formal etiquette in determining a personality. It requires more than just possessing the correct cards and being able to rank the various poker hands to understand how to play poker. Before the person sits down at the table, there...

“Your Child’s Brain Development: Age One” by Gross

In Your Child’s Brain Development: Age One, Gross touches on several topics related to the upbringing of babies. For example, she explains concisely and straightforwardly to future and new parents how infants’ brains work in terms of biology, neurology, and behavior (Gross, 2015). Gross (2015) also reveals to them and...

The Theory of Mind From Behavioral Perspective

The behavior under study is the Theory of the mind. This term is used in psychology to describe the ability to understand others by attributing mental states to them (Ho et al. 1). Previous research has revealed a lot concerning the Theory of the mind from which further research has...

Why Women Experience Stress Throughout Life

Introduction Women frequently undergo much stress to the point that they neglect their well-being. Whereas it may appear that the condition would get better as ladies age, the reality is quite the contrary. Females may experience more significant difficulties and anxiety as they age than individuals previously believed. Women’s worries...

The Stanford Prison Experiment’s Historical Record

Introduction The Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) was one of the most prominent studies ever undertaken in psychology. The researchers of this experiment were interested in examining how people would behave when placed in situations where they had no choice over their actions or where their behavior was strictly controlled by...

Takeaways from “Helping People Change” by Boyatzis et al.

Helping People Change, written by Richard Boyatzis, Melvin Smith, and Ellen Van Oosten offers a unique personal and professional development approach. Based on decades of research in neuroscience and psychology, the authors explore ways to facilitate lasting change through coaching and self-directed learning. The book covers creating practical goals, building...

Risk in Psychological Research

Risk is a complex phenomenon with different, sometimes opposing bases, which leads to a whole range of possible definitions, disagreements, and contradictions. Finding a common methodological, interdisciplinary basis is complicated, above all, by the fact that in the study of risk, sometimes incompatible methods and models are used. Finding points...

Binary Opposition Theory in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho”

Cinema is one of the comparatively new but powerful arts that is becoming more popular every day. It attracts millions of viewers through interesting plots, actors’ performances, and visual elements. In such a way, a movie works at several levels and affects individuals appealing to various and contributing to creating...

Discussion: The Importance of Coaching

Coaching is critical in personal and organizational development. The process enables individuals to undergo critical transformations in their personal development, with the majority of individuals reporting that coaching had positive outcomes in their careers and personal lives. At an individual level, coaching enables individuals to develop positive attitudes toward their...

The Therapeutic Couple: Non-Working Relationships

Going to a Lunch with a Client All psychotherapists’ codes of ethics contain clauses excluding non-working relationships in the therapeutic couple. The relationship between the client and the psychotherapist is extraordinary. They are different from anything one encounters in ordinary life. This relationship is not symmetrical: it is wholly focused...

When Distance Offers Pain and Hope

After failing the first time in any area of life, it is always encouraged that someone tries a second time. Quitting can protect a person from potential failure and possible victory or happiness. On October 22nd, 2015, a freshman, Annie Danielson, meets a 6’5” sophomore basketball college athlete at the...

A Counsellor’s Practice in a Rural Context

Introduction The economic status of an individual, family, or community significantly influences their social and mental well-being. There is a relationship between an individual’s financial stability and mental health (Gilroy et al., 2021). Most people with low economic status are likely to have low health status. With rising gas and...

The Power of Being Proactive in Various Contexts

Introduction Being proactive is essentially willingly starting a behavior or setting up conditions that address issues before they develop. People that develop this habit frequently foresee requirements, developments, or prospective outcomes related to situations and occurrences. As a result, they frequently accept challenges or put themselves in advantageous positions. There...

Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation in Higher Education

Concerns about how to guarantee that students learn effectively in class and attain academic excellence in their academic pursuits have emerged all over the world in the field of education. This has been related to issues including bad study habits, laziness, inefficient instructional teaching, insufficient course content, and a lack...

Bias in The Lucifer Effect Book by Philip Zimbardo

In the preface of his book, Zimbardo reveals a number of justifications for why he carried out the Stanford Prison Experiment. A significant portion of his motivation for writing this work came from the Abu Ghraib Prison Trial when he served as an independent expert for Sergeant Ivan “Chip” Frederick...

Why Anxiety Is Not Related to Personal Weakness

Anxiety as a concept may be further broken down into the intolerance of uncertainty and the cognitive avoidance aimed to prevent thinking about the uncertainty. It is common to think about anxiety as a response to specific triggers; for example, it is common to hear from people that flying gives...

Response to Suicidal Student Threat

The effective response to the suicidal student includes various assessment procedures. One of the main is the Columbia suicide severity rating scale (C-SSRS). The C-SSRS is a rating scale for suicidal thoughts and behaviors created by academics to assess the risk of suicide. The scale measures a person’s level of...

Multicultural Competency in Psychology

Multicultural competency is the quality considered reliable and effective in diverse contexts within the modern world. Essentially, it is justified by the rapid globalization that occurred because of the major establishment of online platforms and the opportunity to interconnect globally. As people reach new aspects of multicultural communication and understanding,...

Learning Experiences and Environment

Early experiences, parental and peer interactions, and other perceptions guided my behavioral practices regarding individual differences. Specific sensory inputs (such as sight, contact, and smell) stimulate and strengthen neural connections, while others hinder them from disuse (Heino et al., 2021). My upbringing and traumatic experiences caused and taught me how...

A Person-Centered Case Conceptualization

Chad presents with the symptoms of depression and generalized anxiety. The parents’ frequent fighting and discussion of separation align with the son’s onset of changes in his mood and activity. Chad expresses hopelessness about the future; he does not have a good sleeping schedule and experiences both insomnia and excessive...

Dealing With People With Mental Disorders in the Justice System

This reflection will focus on SLO 2, which is concerned with identifying approaches to dealing with people with mental illnesses in the system of justice. Mental illnesses are prevalent among the US population; for example, multiple substance use disorders (SUDs) among US adults taking prescription drugs increased from 1990 to...

Sternberg’s Approach to Intelligence Definition

A completely definitive and accurate summary of intelligence is nearly impossible to achieve. However, it is vital to note that any effective definition of intelligence recognizes the diversity and various functionalities of the concept. As such, this report’s selected definition of intelligence is related to Robert Sternberg’s research (Sternberg, 2020)....

The Effectiveness of Hypnotherapy, Traditional Education, and NLP Knowledge in Patient Care

Abstract Natural language processing (NLP) technologies have been widely acknowledged in clinical informatics research and have led to transformational improvements in recent years. Annotations at the different morphological levels require model-specific attributes and features, such as document content regarding patient status and report type. Document types include medical histories, named...

Family Systems Therapy by Virginia Satir

For a long time, the approach to the treatment of psychological problems has focused on consideration of the characteristics of the behavior, emotions and feelings of the individual. However, in the middle of the twentieth century, this view began to change and more attention was paid to family therapy. Virginia...

Social Work in Groups: The Key Challenges

Counseling multiple people simultaneously is a difficult task for a specialist who lacks the necessary knowledge regarding team dynamics. This diary explores Lawrence Shulman’s strategies and advice regarding social work in groups. The primary subject of the reading is the challenges and stages of group work that must be continuously...

The Importance of Self-Awareness

Self-awareness is a characteristic defined by one’s comprehension of their personality and beliefs. In some way, it can serve as a guide in helping others, depending on the scale of that feature. Unsurprisingly, this implies that self-awareness may play a rather significant role in human services. For the following essay,...

Eating Disorders and Therapeutic Support

Eating disorders are significant mental and physical diseases that entail complicated and harmful interactions with food, feeding, exercising, and self-image or form, resulting in an unhealthy concern with somebody’s existence. In the United States, these illnesses affect roughly twenty million females and ten million males regardless of age, race, socioeconomic...

Counseling: The Therapy Session

Counseling is a significant factor influencing the behavioral change of human beings. Most counselors aim to narrate a story to the victim in a more affirming way to the affected person rather than using the victim’s account to humiliate them, which helps improve the affected person’s self-esteem. Counseling is a...

Biopsychosocial Model for Understanding Behavior

Bill is a 19-year-old male with an 8-year-old history of heavy drinking, whose alcohol abuse requires specific treatment and professional counseling. Sue et al. (2016) recommend the biopsychosocial model as a good approach to understanding the patient’s behavior, covering the existing biological, psychological, and social factors. The chosen model helps...

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy to a Group of Bereaved Patients

Introduction When individuals lose someone close to them, either spouse, friend, or family member, they tend to experience grief. When facing a loss, people manage this traumatic experience in different ways. Some enter into depression, especially children who have not experienced such events. There are two approaches that a therapist...

A Critical Review of Psychological and Behavioral Responses to Coronavirus Disease 2019

Hypothesis The research utilizes seven hypotheses from the big five personality traits and the behavior that people have been portraying since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. The concerns have been made regarding contracting the deadly respiratory virus, regulations enacted to prevent the spread of the...

Theoretical Explanation of Personality

Introduction It is important to note that personality is a term referring to differences between individuals when it comes to their behaviors, emotions, and thoughts. The given assessment is concerned with my personality viewed under the lenses of Freudian and Adlerian psychodynamic frameworks, the social learning theory, and Maslow’s personality...

Diagnostics and Cognitive Science: Critique Analysis

For an accurate diagnosis, the practitioner must have extensive background information. Theoretical and methodological developments can considerably aid curriculum and teaching in biomedicine and education programs in biomedical informatics in the learning and cognition sciences. This is achieved through discussing topics like the methods used to understand medical data and...

Integrating Machine Learning Into the Behavioral Sciences

The first article is about integrating machine learning into the behavioral sciences. The biological, biomedical, and behavioral sciences are currently gathering more data than ever before, driven by ground-breaking technological advancements. To improve human health, it is imperative to develop time- and money-effective ways for analyzing and interpreting these data....

Perception of Random Nature of iPod Shuffle Feature

Music plays an essential role in many people’s lives. Plenty of people enjoy listening to music while doing chores, going on walks, and exercising. Some of them do not want the predictability of knowing what song comes next, which is why the iPod’s shuffle feature is such a convenience. It...

The History of Psychology: Theorists

Psychology as an independent scientific discipline arose relatively recently, approximately in the nineteenth century. Before psychology’s separation, it was considered within the framework of philosophy as a particular form of knowledge of the world. As a scientific discipline, psychology must use experimental methods to test hypotheses. The ability to experimentally...

Biological, Social, and Psychological Variables of Mental Health

Biological Biological variables include the gender of the patient, namely female, the age of the patient, which is forty years old, as well as the absence of children. Previously, the girl was successful, led a healthy lifestyle, contacted people, and had a boyfriend. After the breakup, she began to feel...

The Job of a Marriage and Family Therapist

Introduction The job of a marriage and family therapist presupposes consulting people who are in close and intimate relationships, partners who are thinking about parting, or couples who want to strengthen and deepen the feeling of intimacy. Such therapy allows partners to better understand each other and figure out exactly...

The Impact of Postpartum Maternal Depression on Postnatal Attachment

Postpartum Maternal Depression and its Influence on Postnatal Infant Attachment During the early periods of life, infants are particularly dependent on their mothers. The attachment of a vulnerable newborn to the protective caregiver is manifested through physical, physiological, and emotional contact that is required for a baby to survive (Carlson...

Subjective Predictors of Personality Behavior in Situations of Cognitive Dissonance

In modern conditions, the flows of contradictory information are significantly increasing. As a result, a person finds himself in a problematic cognitive situation when it is necessary to adequately assess and respond to messages coming from different social groups, including authorities. Personality increasingly finds itself in situations of cognitive dissonance...

Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy in Psychotherapy

Rational-Emotional Behaviour Therapy (REBT) is a psychotherapeutic direction based on the sensitivity to the fact that a person experiencing psychological discomfort relies on irrational judgments in his thoughts and actions. The elimination of these judgments is predominantly portable in psychological intervention. The main task of REBT is to change emotions...

Change in Marriage: The Family Therapy

My friend John once had a difficult period in his marriage. He and his wife Kate became estranged towards each other, as the feelings of disappointment and fleeting romantic attraction overwhelmed them. They no longer could see each other as a partner in life, since irritation brought about hidden conflicts....

Trauma-Induced Total Knee Arthroplasty: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Introduction Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA) is among the most affordable and generally successful procedures done in orthopaedics. Patient-reported results indicate a significant improvement in pain alleviation, functional restoration, and overall quality of life. The rationale for choosing Trauma-induced TKA as the clinical issue is its wide prevalence and a major...

Theoretically Informed Planned Change in Work with the Disenfranchised

The word disenfranchised refers to an individual or group of people who have been deprived of their rights and privileges, for instant, substance abuse. Gay men with depression and people living with disability and substance abuse. Human rights are fundamental privileges that all people have regardless of race, language, ethnicity,...

Person-Centered Approach to Family-Centered Pressure

Introduction The following paper evaluates a particular case in which an individual is experiencing physical symptoms of distress and anxiety as a result of family-centered pressure. The therapeutic method selected to address the patient’s needs includes the person centered approach. Due to the client’s diverse background and conflicting perceptions of...

Child Development: Social and Emotional Aspects

Alwaely, S. A., Yousif, N. B., & Mikhaylov, A. (2020). Emotional development in preschoolers and socialization. Early Child Development and Care, 191(16), 2484-2493. Web. This article focuses on the emotional maturity of children of preschool age and shares ideas on how to mitigate current issues with empathetic connections. Alwaely et...

Psychosocial Theories of Toddler Development

Introduction Childhood development has a remarkable impact on further personal development. Of course, no strict rules and dependencies, like in biology or chemistry. But still, based on the social and psychological theories, scholars, childcare, healthcare, and educational service providers can predict the future problems or benefits the particular child will...

Hypnotherapy as an Effective Method for Treating Depression

Depressive disorders are a significant problem that affects many people in the United States and worldwide. The emergence of practice guidelines and evidence-based therapies implies that satisfactory treatments for the condition exist, and not all of them are traditional. Currently, a lot of attention is drawn to the method of...

Behavior Management: Relapse Management

Introduction As already mentioned, framing may be a crucial tool for changing negative thoughts or goals into positive ones. Kennerley & Westbrook (2017) are right to note that reframing may be used to turn the negative ‘dead man’s solution’ goals into more positive targets, but there is more to that....

Aspects of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

The medical field of psychiatry has several methods of treating difficult and debilitating disorders in people. One is cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), which encompasses many treatment activities and procedures – cognitive reappraisal behavioral and motivation strategies, emotional regulation, and psychoeducation. CBT has been proven effective when treating mental illnesses such...

Psychology of Gratitude and Appreciation

Gratitude is a warm feeling of thankfulness, which involves being appreciative and thankful towards specific individuals or the world. The feeling of gratitude enables someone to express warmth, kindness, and generosity to other people. In psychology, gratitude has been associated with various physical and mental health advantages (Jans-Beken, 2021, pg....

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy in School Counseling

Solution-focused brief therapy is highly valued in school counseling settings because it prioritizes finding the solution to the problem. Thus, instead of discussing minor details in the student’s problem, the therapy targets finding a solution to the issue in a limited amount of time. The growing concern about child and...

Psychology: Zimbardo Prison Experiment

Introduction The Stanford prison experiment is a classic example of a psychological study deifying the principles of ethics. The experiments should have been stopped when the participants started to be aggressive with each other under the impact of prison conditions. The violent behavior reported during that experiment is a direct...

Critical Thinking and Its Components

Critical thinking is defined as the ability of people to find cause-and-effect connections between different phenomena and build a rational strategy based on verifying the authenticity and practicality of ideas. In other words, to reason critically means to subject phenomena of the surrounding reality to a thorough analysis. This type...

Cognitive Behavior Therapy in Personal Practice

Counseling is one of the most comprehensive therapeutic techniques to save many lives. I have found counseling particularly fulfilling in my line of study, considering that it provides room for extensive research into what may be troubling a person. The application of counseling theories on various platforms must be carefully...

Critical Thinking Process and Its Importance

Critical thinking is one of the most important processes that have many functions and benefits for a person. First of all, it helps individuals analyze and interpret the information they constantly receive. Moreover, critical thinking is a tool through which people perceive the world around them and evaluate the events...

Relevance of Counseling Theories to Specific Interventions

The foundations of psychoanalytic therapy theories argue that psychological difficulties result from unconscious psychological urges or motivations that result from previous interpersonal connections and experiences. The clients’ past harmful thought and behavior patterns have matured into “cosmological models” that direct them toward continued unhealthy thought and behavior in the present...

Family Counselling and Therapy for High-Conflict Couples

Devlin, J. M., Toof, J., West, L., Andrews, N., & Cole, J. (2019). Integrative family counseling. The Family Journal, 27(3), 319–324. Web. The given article delves into the peculiarities of family counseling and possible therapeutic outcomes. The authors assume that integration affects the counseling profession and can lead to better...

Mental Status Examination and Counseling Services

In the process of providing counseling services, it is essential to use the most effective tools. Among them, a mental status examination or MSE can be distinguished. This method helps get information about the patient’s mental state and is widely used in both non-neurological and psychiatric practice by many specialists....

Subjectivity of Perceiving People and Behaviour

Introduction People see and perceive things differently depending on their cultural background and language. People’s perceptions are often based on experiences and activities they are accustomed. Having lived in Andalusia, Spain, I have observed that the way of life is almost entirely different from that in countries. The eating habits,...

Non-Verbal Communication in Child Development

Introduction Non-verbal is the first type of communication a child can exhibit. Expressions, gestures, eye contact, and body movement are the aspects of non-verbal communication that a child can employ to express emotions, feelings, desires, or thoughts. Thus, educators are to understand such cues and respond to them accordingly. Working...

Sigmund Freud’s Book the Future of an Illusion

Sigmund Freud’s book The Future of an Illusion is a psychoanalytical work discussing the tenets of civilization and the impact of religious ideas on society. Success in any community is dependent on controlling people’s desires and harnessing their collective ability to create wealth. However, wealth congregates around the minority upper...

Autism, Autism Spectrum Sisorder (ASD), and Theory of Mind

Introduction The tendency toward inclusivity in education implies a more significant number of children with disabilities and developmental issues included in the classroom activities. One of the most prevailing issues relevant to education is autism spectrum disorder (ASD), which predetermines children’s cognitive, social, and physical complications. Children with autism have...

Cognitive Therapy for a Client with a Physical Disability

A main goal of cognitive therapy is to modify an individual’s cognitive processing to change how that person evaluates and interacts with the world, and constitute a method of personality change. Therapy is time sensitive and based on a unique cognitive conceptualization of each patient. The therapy requires an active...

Human Memory: Faults and Fixes

Human memory processes are not as straightforward as technological processes, which sometimes makes them distorted. I have experienced this phenomenon myself, as I cannot always recall the events as they were or even remember certain situations in the first place. This misunderstanding causes not only psychological issues for abuse victims...

New Directions in Psycho-Analysis

The most interesting sociological topic for me is group dynamics. The interactions that affect people’s behavior and attitudes when they are in groups are known as group dynamics. In the fields of sociology, psychology, and communication studies, this is crucial. Numerous studies and experiments with a focus on group behavior...

Abuse Subtle Screening Inventory

The Substance Abuse Subtle Screening Inventory, also referred to as the SASSI, was created by Dr. Glenn A. Miller in 1985, revised in 1994 and is now in its third edition. The instrument is a screening questionnaire used on people who depend on substances. It is a brief self-report, easily...

Cognitive Processes: Reaction Time and Accuracy

Human cognitive processes include sensation, perception, attention, imagination, memory, thinking, and speech. “Identifying the cognitive processes underlying social decision making has major implications for understanding human nature” (Chen & Fischbacher, 2020, p. 422). Response time is a natural type of data for studying cognitive processes, the time that elapses from...

Children’s Behavior and Extinction Procedure

Introduction ABA therapy is a practice based on the principles of psychology to identify adverse conduct. The therapy process is conducted by specially trained professionals and aims to eradicate negative conduct. ABA therapy focuses on behavioral changes that are related to social skills, communication, and learning. The extinction procedure is...

Lifespan Development Knowledge in Human Services

Introduction Human development is the continuous change in humans over their lifespan from birth to death in psychological, cognitive, and physical aspects. The psychological part of human development comprises social relationships, personality, and emotions. Physical development entails growth and changes in the brain and body, health and wellness, the senses,...

Deductive vs. Inductive Thinking Methods

Introduction Human thinking has always been one of the most challenging and confusing topics to study. Each person is unique, with their unique qualities, socially, biologically, and psychologically. It is difficult to estimate how educated a person is by referring to his thinking style only. This is a very abstract...

Christianity and Psychology: Article Analysis

The article “How should Christians interact with psychology” does not reject the compatibility of psychology and region outright but does relay that the interplay of both fields is complex. It explains that both contradictions and agreements are shared between the two practices. In fact, because “We are from God, and...

Key Theories of Personality: Social and Personality Development

A theory is a system of interconnected concepts, constructs, and principles that explain specific observations of reality. Personality theories are various assumptions that explain the origin of personality and the determinism of its development (Cattell, 2017). They provide researchers and scholars with an opportunity to understand the nature of the...

Short- and Long-Term Memories of Childhood Abuse

The problem of child abuse and its effects on the subsequent years of a person’s life is of increasing concern to memory scientists and clinicians. They believe that memory loss can be caused by physical, emotional, or psychological stress. Although memories can be forgotten for some time, according to the...

The Strategic Family Therapy Model

Strategic therapy is a treatment created to handle family functioning issues with a focus on adolescent behavioral problems and drug usage. Gregory Bateson and Milton Ericson coined the term ‘strategic therapy’ in the 1950s (Szapocznik & Hervis, 2020). MFT is categorized in the brief therapies group because it has twelve...

Integrative Group Intervention for the Enhancement of Emotional Intelligence

In general, empathy may be regarded as a person’s ability to feel and understand another individual’s experience, reality, and perspective from within his frame of reference. At the same time, according to Teófilo et al. (2018), there are multiple perspectives on the concept of empathy that exist in modern scientific...

Parental Divorce’s Negative Impact on Children

Introduction This study analyze the developmental trend of a child in a family divorce. The primary research methodology will be a survey of existing cases, and an analysis of experiments that have been carried out earlier to confirm specific theories. The main limitation in the course of research is the...

Analysis of Using Psychodynamic Theory

Freud’s Scientific Legacy: The Unconscious Freud’s scientific legacy has ramifications for a wide variety of psychological fields. A series of postulates about “(1) unconscious cognitive, affective, and motivational processes; (2) ambivalence and the tendency for affective and motivational dynamics to operate in parallel and produce compromise solutions; (3) the origins...

Stress and Cognitive Appraisal

I have recently had a stressful experience related to my essay, which had to contain three thousand words and was due in three days. Even though I was familiar with the topic of the essay, I had much work to do, including reading many scholarly articles and analyzing and summarizing...

Awareness and Trauma: The Counseling Program

Introduction Traumatic experiences are a topical issue in the mental health field that affects many young people. Experiencing traumatic events leaves an imprint on a person’s psyche, resulting in emotional or behavioral failures. Trauma is a reaction to an event that left a significant mark and led to symptoms. Often,...

Mental Health of Children of Incarcerated Parents

Introduction Incarceration has a significant impact on a person, but what about his or her children? The key subject of the assessment is the mental health of children with incarcerated parents. The importance and substantiality of parental influence on children cannot be overstated. Not only an incarcerated parent is absent...

Nature vs. Nurture Parenting Styles in Psychology

Parenting is a holistic process that determines the future of children. Numerous activities are involved in the process of bringing up a child. Activities such as interaction, cooperation, motivation, care and creating an enabling environment are critical determinants of a child’s future (Caplan et al., 2019). It is imperative that...

Sensation and Perception Skills in Early Infancy

The early years of children’s lives are associated with intense brain development and acquisition of new skills, with perception maturity being one of the essential tasks. Although infants’ study is related to certain theoretical, practical, and methodological difficulties, there is a significant body of knowledge that attempts to explain which...

Graduate Debt in Psychology: A Qualitative Analysis

Introduction The article by Doran et al. studies the subject of student loans in psychology education. Student loan debts are identified as a major issue that has long-term negative impacts on the citizens and the economy of the country in general. The paper uses a consensual qualitative research methodology to...

Carl Rogers’ Beliefs on Change in Counseling

Carl Rogers’ beliefs on self-acceptable being the catalyst of change offer a number of practical applications of theories of change to an individual’s life. In my personal interpretation of this concept, I believe the thesis message that the only change that is acceptable and sustainable is one that is guided...

Concepts of Critical Thinking

Self-regulation is a personal skill that refers to an individual’s ability to assess and manage his reactions to feelings, strong emotions, such as excitement, frustration, embarrassment, or anger, and environmental factors for behavior control. System-1 refers to quick, reactive, instinctive, and holistic thinking that relies on salient memories and situational...

Video Games’ Harm: Argumentative Analysis

Introduction Video games are one of the most modern ways of storytelling and a channel for media communication. Given this fact, several discourses on young people’s harms and benefits from immersion in these virtual spaces exist. Moreover, some studies cite factors such as uncontrolled aggression, loss of interest in life,...

“Metacognitive Processes” Article by Marulis and Nelson

Purpose of The Research The aim of the study was to explore early metacognition through two developmental measures – declarative and procedural. Another goal of the study was to explore associations between executive function and motivation. Research Methods Used Metacognition was estimated using a metacognitive knowledge interview and a metacognitive...

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Group therapy is an evidence-based psychotherapy method that helps solve many problems, including relationship issues and personal difficulties. People come to the group to cope with grief, trauma, chemical addiction, anxiety, and depression. One of the most well-known and influential types of group therapy is the cognitive-behavioral therapy group. Compared...

Psychological Attachment to Ideological In-Groups

The issues of understanding the structure of society, its drivers, and attempts to predict its behavior occupy many researchers. To explain complex phenomena, scientists propose theories based on their observations and research. This paper studies and compares two papers discussing different theories and ideas. Devine (2015) considers the concept of...

New Developments and Current Challenges in Psychology

Introduction It is important to note that the given literature review will utilize an integrative conceptual framework, which not only reviews the relevant literature but additionally critiques and synthesizes the acquired knowledge as well as insights. The review will be organized in accordance with the sections below, which include discussion,...

The Development of the Preschool Child

Introduction The summary description entails the video, pretend washing, where the main protagonists are two girls donning yellow and lime dresses. The girls are three and appear to have normal physical development based on size and stature (Pretend Washing, 2013). The girls are happy and attentive as they engage in...

Emotional Processing and Social Cognition

Stefan is a 33-year-old man experiencing a difficult period: his own business does not improve, he has little time to relax, receives no support from his wife, and struggles to find a connection with his toddler son. He deals with this pressure by having at least one beer daily and...

Confirmation Bias and Cognitive Psychology

Introduction Confirmation bias is a common behavioral tendency, which pertains to every person on some level. In its most basic form, it is the habit of overlooking contradictory evidence in favor of the facts that support one’s existing viewpoint (CrashCourse, 2014). It transpires unconsciously and requires high emotional awareness or...

Psychology of Children with Incarcerated Parents

Introduction Incarceration significantly impacts a person, but their children suffer even more due to the emotional vulnerability of their age. The critical subject of the assessment is the mental health of children with incarcerated parents. The importance and substantiality of parental influence on children cannot be overstated. Not only an...

Each of the Twelve Cranial Nerves Is Unique

Did you know that the sensations received through the sensory organs must be processed and analyzed, and the cranial nerves are responsible for these processes? The structures are unique because they connect organs and muscle fibers to the cortical layer, bypassing the spinal cord. For them, there are even special...

The “On Killing” Book by Dave Crossman

Introduction The book titled ‘On Killing: The psychological cost of learning to kill in war and society.’ by Dave Crossman explores the psychology of the killing art in society. The genre of the book is that it offers an illuminating account of how military personnel learn to kill and how...

Postmodern Model Description and Case Analysis

Introduction Compared to other approaches to therapy, solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) is centered on an individual’s current and future situations and objectives instead of previous experiences. Since the therapy is goal-oriented, the target is not the issues or symptoms bringing the person to the therapy but rather the potential outcome(s)....

Methodology of a Collective Psychological Inquiry

The task set in the script for the experiment is to establish the attitude of students toward the survey they have completed. It is required to choose a design that goes beyond the survey and comparison of the control and experimental groups. By comparing various innovative methods of psychological investigation,...

Biopsychosocial Factors of Workplace Absenteeism

Introduction This paper aims to analyze a case study involving Francesca, a 50-year-old woman who presented to counseling upon the request of her employer, who believes that her frequent absences from work are concerned with alcohol or substance use. The client reveals that she has been taking Mersyndol Forte for...

Stimulating Development in Children through Toys

Children learn by discovering and exploring their daily surroundings. Toys foster development in children by creating a natural teaching environment that promotes cognitive, motor, social, and emotional skills. Different toys are designed to help various age groups; therefore, identifying the right one is essential. This paper will explore Pattern Play...

Managing Conflict: Understanding Interpersonal Communication

Conflicts are something that all people encounter in their life, that is why understanding different ways of handling them is important to ensure successful and effective conflict resolution. Bevan (2020) defines conflict as a disagreement or argument, providing certain criteria that should be met for a situation to be considered...

Impact of Different Population Group on Children Development

Modern society is increasingly paying attention to different people, remarkably other population groups. Now more and more classes are starting to be not just ordinary, but those that accept people with various disabilities or social statuses. This kind of change has an excellent effect on society because the active involvement...

Neuroplasticity and Cognitive Activities

Neuroplasticity refers to the brain’s ability to modify its structure in response to experience. Neuroplasticity is primarily sourced from the brain’s ability to develop new connections between neurons. The process is also known as the sprouting of human brain cells. The nature of neurons, which can die and be replaced,...

Meditation and Mindfulness Reducing Recidivism Rates

Introduction Reducing recidivism rates in prisons can be achieved by adopting alternative rehabilitation and treatment methods, such as yoga, meditation, and mindfulness. However, the effectiveness of these approaches remains dubious without thorough consideration. At present, it is clear that the specified solutions correspond to the definition of evidence-based correctional practices....

Cultural Values and Perspectives in a Family

Family Members and Their Roles Felipe Reyes and Emily Reyes are a married couple with two children, Sam and Cass. Sam is the eldest at 15 years, and Cass is 12 years old. Emily is a divorcee and had Sam and Cass with her first husband, Ken Wolter. Felipe and...

How Human Behavior in the World Is Evolving

Background Researchers theorize that human behavior is changing as the world evolves. These changes in behavior have been notable, with short differences in age (Brett, 2019; Ravignani et al., 2017). Further, the world is expected to evolve fast to reach its millennial targets. However, there are concerns about how evolution...

A Mental Model of Occam’s Razor Nowadays

Unfortunately, a mental model like Occam’s razor has stopped working for me lately. According to this approach, one should choose the simplest available option as it is often the right one (Senge, 2006). Bates agrees that the simplest explanation is often the best option (2019). Occam’s razor, for many people,...

Past Prediction on Future Psychology Profession

Annotated Bibliography Innes, J. M. & Morrison, B. W. (2021). Machines can do most of a psychologist’s job. the industry must prepare for disruption. The Conversation.  Innes and Morrison examine that machines can perform most of the work of psychologists and the industry should prepare for disruption. Psychology, social work,...

Rupture of Psychiatrist-Patient Alliance

The rupture of the alliance between the attending psychiatrist and the patient in psychiatry is a complex of different problems that gradually appear between people. There are many factors for this phenomenon, and this is a reasonably typical case among practicing psychiatrists (Safran & Kraus, 2014). Moreover, common treating alienists...

Profile of Psychologist Sigmund Freud

Introduction Sigmund Freud was a psychologist born on 6 May 1856 in Moravia in the Czech Republic. Freud died on 23 September 1939 in London, the United Kingdom (Hollitscher, 2017). When Freud died, he was 83 and was a renowned Austrian neurologist and one of the pioneer founders of psychoanalysis....

Critical Thinking in the Modern World

Naturally, critical thinking is one of the essential elements of people’s lives, as it is part of interpersonal communication. Critical thinking is the concentration and discipline of the mind, attention, and the ability to manage one’s cognitive processes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, n.d.). In professional and everyday life, critical thinking...

Parental Alcohol Abuse as a Family Issue

Introduction Alcohol addiction impacts the human perception of the world and one of the most significant social units – a family institute. Oftentimes, parents cannot assess the effect of the addiction on their relatives and children. They tend to believe that their relationships with alcohol and relationships with family members...

Stress Management Memo: Creative Arts Interventions

Research and analysis of current scientific research and previous practice experience show that several strategies for stress control and management require fundamental changes. The data evaluation results demonstrate that worry, anxiety, tension, and significantly prolonged stress can lead to extremely adverse consequences for a company (Van den Bergh, 2021). In...

Aspects of Pursuit of Happiness

Introduction The pursuit of happiness can be considered a natural aspect of human life because any effort applied both at work and in social interactions is inherently linked to the aspiration for well-being and personal comfort. From a psychological perspective, people subconsciously want to fulfill their individual ambitions and satisfy...

Effects of Distraction on Driver Attention

Driven to Distraction: Dual-task Studies of Simulated Driving and Conversing on a Cellular Telephone The article explored dual-task studies concerning driving and conversing using a cellular telephone. Specifically, the research question was to determine “The extent to which cell-phone conversations might interfere with the driving and, if they do interfere...

Dealing with Trauma: Implications for Professionals

Introduction When working as a counselor with clients who have suffered traumatic episodes, it is essential to provide integrative care that is based on evidence and best practice. The process of working with traumatized populations involves an in-depth understanding of the phenomenon, an accurate selection of approaches, and the mitigation...

Human Memories and Social Interactions

The human brain has the power to keep and erase memories, modify or supplement them, and block some memories for a certain time. However, people did not learn to use this power fully, and they did not know how to control their memories. Research shows that humans remember negative traumatic...

Abnormal Psychology: Think Abnormal to Deal With It

Abstract The work presents a critical and subjective analysis of abnormality from the point of view of psychiatry and the disputes, questions, practices, approaches and perspectives associated with this phenomenon. A: abnormal behavior For me, abnormal behavior deviated from the general moral and social norms accepted in the interacting community....

Arbitrators Are From Mars, Mediators Are From Venus

The International Council for Commercial Arbitration (2020) and other sources, for example, those by Goodwin (2020) and Turner (2019), highlight the fact that women remain underrepresented in arbitration and mediation all over the world. Gender diversity and the intersection of gender and mediation or arbitration are critical topics to discuss...

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Theory and Practice

Maslow’s Hierarchy According to Maslow, human needs can be classified by levels from more basic to higher. In his work Motivation and Personality (1954), Maslow suggested that all human needs are innate and organized in a hierarchical system of priority and dominance, consisting of five levels. Level concepts include physiological...

Disinformation and Its Impact on Individuals

Introduction The existence of news breeds misinformation, whether intentional or accidental. The strengthening of information technology leads to the expansion and eradication of the data flows around the individual, which he needs to process. However, it is impossible to consider the phenomenon of disinformation as an exclusively negative one. It...

Is Attachment Style Just Another Personality Trait?

Introduction The origins of the attachment styles can be found in child psychology and child-parent relationship studies. John Bowlby, a famous British psychologist, described several concepts that defined attachment theory. First of all, Bowlby created the concept of secure attachment, when children are comforted by the attachment figure’s closeness (Sutton,...

The “Everyone Has an Opinion…” Video Critique

Opinions are a vital part of the human experience and people’s understanding of the world. At their core, opinions are how people understand the world, themselves and others, as it is colored by their lens of emotional and logical perception. By holding a series of opinions, individuals form their worldviews...

The Interconnection of Perception, Consciousness, and Attention

Introduction to Perception Perception is “experiences resulting from stimulation of the senses” (Goldstein, 2019) Humans evolved with detailed visual perception Third of the human brain devoted to it Perception = physical energy from outside world ? electrochemical message ? stimulating receptor cells ? received by the brain Perception may be...

Cognitive Development Theories by Vygotsky and Piaget

Similarities of Piaget and Vygotsky’s Theories Both cognitive development theories of Piaget and Vygotsky believe that learning is a continuous process, starting from birth until the death of a person. Hence, learning based on both models should be from people’s daily experiences and events in life, work, and classroom throughout...

Issues of Working With People During the Pandemic

Introduction As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the economy suffered a great deal. This exacerbated the existing global food insecurity and housing crisis. In the beginning, people lost their jobs, accompanied by financial hardship (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 2021). Due to unmet needs, more households had very...

Life Expectancy Development

Attachment can be termed as a toddler’s perception of confidence resulting from a deep interaction with a caretaker. With attachments acting as the basis for future interactions, it is key to establish important self-concepts for toddlers by laying a foundation in which they are confident. Whenever a caregiver ensures uniform...

BetterHelp, an Online Counseling Portal

Today, organized interaction between the client and the consultant is significant, aimed at resolving problems and making positive changes in the activities of an individual specialist or organization as a whole. It is possible to identify the leading provisions related to the essence of the counseling process: counseling helps the...

Mental Imagery and Impact on Emotions

Introduction Numerous complex connections between the emotional and intellectual levels of consciousness exist. Frequently, people are sure that emotions arise from external circumstances and affect mental imagery. However, recent studies have confirmed that mental imagery and beliefs strongly influence emotions and motivation for behavior (Kawahara, 2021). According to Kosslyn et...

Family and Systemic Consultations: The Genogram as a Helpful Tool

There is a significant difference between a systems approach to counseling and an intrapsychic theory that defines the fundamental foundations of therapy. First of all, within the systemic or family approach framework, several people partake in the sessions at once (Madison, 2022). On the other hand, only one person participates...

Psychological Theories in Personality Studies

A person’s personality is a vast and intriguing field for research. For its study, many theories have been developed throughout history, through the prism of which new sides and aspects of man are revealed. It is worth noting that a remarkable influence on the development of people’s personality is played...

Narcissism in Chief Executive Officers

Introduction The selected and presented issue in the case is narcissism, which tends to be portrayed in all classes of people, including political leaders and entrepreneurs. However, the chosen client cohort for the study is the organizational chief executive officers (CEOs). According to the statistical reports, narcissism refers to an...