Nature vs. Nurture Influence on Development

It is important to note that many complexities of human development and growth can be attributed to the mix of influence of nature and nurture. The latter refers to the environmental and social forces shaping how an individual becomes the way he or she is, which means that there is...

Psychosocial Risk Factors for Eating Disorders by Keel and Forney

Eating disorders are a complex and multifaceted problem that is even today far from being resolved. Thus, it is incredibly important to understand what can act as a cause for their occurrence in order to design effective and relevant interventions. The article by Keel and Forney (2013) discusses specifically what...

Trauma Associated With Severe Mental Illness

Introduction Severe mental illnesses are psychological disorders that negatively impact people’s health and may cause trauma and mental harm. Presently, these diseases are widely spread and lead to negative consequences. Furthermore, severe mental illnesses are associated with traumatic events that harm a person’s mental well-being and might lead to mental...

Consequences of Secondary Trauma as a Result of Social Media Exposure

The media today occupy an ever-increasing place in human life. It is not easy to imagine a modern person who has never turned on a TV or held a newspaper in his hands. The media has invaded people’s lives hard and uncompromisingly; it is impossible to escape from information, especially...

Childhood and Adulthood Mental Disorder

Introduction Mental disorders are health conditions that determine emotional and behavioral changes in an individual. Teens and adults experience episodes of disorders ranging from high to low depending on one’s daily activities. Discussion Childhood and adolescent mental disorders are compared to adult mental disorders in various ways. These include; they...

Personality Tests and Their Application in the Future

Since personality tests are utilized to diagnose psychological issues and screen applicants for various sectors in current society, they play a significant role in psychological evaluations. The measurement and evaluation of personality characteristics, emotions, sense of humor, attitudes, values, interests, worldview, acculturation, cognitive and behavioral styles, and associated individual qualities...

Human Development Theories by Piaget, Vygotsky, and Erikson

Introduction Having an understanding of the core aspects and stages of human development is critical for identifying the relevant issues and determining the core factors affecting a specific psychological concern. Presently, several perspectives on the phenomenon of human development exist. These are represented by the framework designed by Piaget, Vygotsky,...

Behavior Management Interventions

A behavior support plan is important for building positive behavior and getting rid of unwanted ones. It may include enhanced communication, developing positive relationships, and using critical interventions (Kaiser & Sklar, 2017). For example, the teacher observed three behaviors demonstrated by Jose. These behaviors include teasing and sarcasm, responding rudely...

Schizophrenia: Chapters 15-16 of Psychology by Spielman et al.

Introduction Schizophrenia is a complex psychological condition characterized by Delusions, hallucinations, and aberrant thinking and behavior. Schizophrenia makes it difficult to carry out routine responsibilities and is caused by genetic and environmental factors. Schizophrenia is a severe mental condition in which people have abnormal perceptions of the world around them....

Social Media Impacts on Adolescents

Summary of Topic The phenomenon of adolescence as a stage of growing up is typically defined by the transition from childhood to adulthood. The chapter in question handles the topic of adolescence as a part of cognitive and biological development. Specifically, complex biochemical and sociocultural alterations affecting people’s behaviors and...

Meditation, the Quality of Sleep, and the Role of Mental Separation

Abstract The influence of meditation on work restoration in this study was investigated using a daily diary methodology. The initial purpose of the research was to look at the association between meditation and quality of sleep and the role of mental separation as a moderator from a day-to-day viewpoint. Another...

Psychology of Long-Term Explicit Learning

The straightforward learning process, which is frequently assumed to be similar to the processes involved in conscious problem-solving, is thought to involve attempts to construct a task representation, a directed search of memory for similar or analogous task-relevant information, and consciously deriving and testing task-related hypotheses. People’s mental, physical, and...

Psychological Assessments of Childhood Anxiety

Introduction The three standardized tests identified and considered for the psychological assignment are; the Inventory of Callous–Unemotional Traits (ICU), Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA), and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) tests. The Inventory of Callous–Unemotional Traits (ICU) is one of the copyright-protected 24-item surveys designed to offer a comprehensive assessment of callous...

The Concept of Modeling Behavior in Psychology

Introduction Although people may be unaware, they learn most things by observing and imitating others. Albert Bandura’s work, commonly known as the social learning theory, lays the foundation for modeling behavior (Spielman et al., 2020). Behavior modeling enables individuals to learn fresh behaviors through observation. When a behavior is demonstrated...

The Development of Child Attachment

Introduction The development of attachments is central to the growing child’s psychological health and the ability to form meaningful relationships in the future. Studying how children develop basic trust provides insight into impulse management and managing young learners’ refusal to explore the world. Attachments to mothers and fathers are dissimilar...

Cognitive and Behavioral Concepts

Introduction From the time a person is born, their cognitive development commences. Children and adults have short-term memory (recalling a small amount of database from a recent period) and long-haul memory (the capacity to remember information from a long time ago). Various parenting approaches are highly associated with impacting the...

Guided Reflection: Foundations in Early Childhood Education

Child rearing represents a highly responsible and demanding task since it means upbringing a full-fledged member of society. No one knows what is right or wrong in this world, but many parents strive to communicate it in the best possible way. Therefore, the discussed concepts include punishment and child-rearing patterns...

Unlocking the Potential of Behavioral Health

Behavioral health is an essential part of every person’s well-being. However, it is different from mental health even though it has many points of contact, and in fact, mental health can be called part of it. Behavioral health is about how people’s emotions, habits, and behavioral singularities can affect their...

Swipe Right, Swipe Left: Social Anxiety Disorder

Introduction The article concerns the behavioral aspects of people who suffer from social anxiety disorder (SAD) before they engage in a relationship. To investigate this subject, Rozen and Aderka (2022) conducted a study based on previous findings that state that people with SAD have more difficulties in developing and engaging...

Prejudice, Types, and Their Origins

Introduction There have been numerous attempts to define prejudice by scholars. The meaning of prejudice is negative attitudes toward individual members of a particular social group (Dovidio et al. 1). The target of prejudice can include women, immigrants, asylum seekers, the elderly, and people with mental illnesses. In some cases,...

Developmental Research: Human Development

Introduction Human development is a continuous process that occurs not once but throughout one’s life. Developmental research is the study of how a person changes as they mature. According to Davis-Kean and Ellis (2019), developmental research may entail studying behavioral aspects that could be the effect of chronic illness against...

What We See: Perception of Imagery vs. Reality

Visual culture has always been a major part of art. The first cave paintings depicted scenes of life, hunting, or burial. Then ancient authors and medieval icon painters showed Greek and Roman gods or Christian saints on canvases: Jesus, Madonna, and apostles. Since the Renaissance, artists have focused on portraits,...

Emotional Behavior in the Utku Family Members

The behavior model in the Utku family shows typical Eskimo traits such as the man’s dominant role and respect for older family members. However, in the Inuttiaq family, there are differences from this pattern in the very favorable treatment of children. A characteristic feature of behavior in the Utku family...

Children Eyewitness Testimony and Its Peculiarities

Introduction The significance of testimony in general and the relationship between suggestibility and memory must be understood when debating whether children can give credible eyewitness evidence. The challenges of working with kids in a forensic context, the influence of memory on eyewitness evidence, and the use of in-depth interrogation techniques...

Choices: Change Process in Counseling

Introduction A change is letting go of dysfunctional patterns of relationship, self-sabotaging behaviors, and irrational beliefs and replacing them with positive, proactive, and conscious modes of operation that result in wellness, happiness, and success. Counselors build a therapeutic relationship by understanding how people go through a behavior revolution since it...

Learning Disabilities in Middle Childhood

Learning disability refers to a specific disorder of academic learning that affects a particular task at school and lowers the child’s educational performance. Teachers and parents should be aware of children learning disabilities. A child with a learning disability may be delayed in either reading, writing, speaking, or solving mathematics....

The “I Never Knew I Had a Choice” Book by Corey

The book “I never knew I had a choice” is a book that aims to teach individuals that they can take charge of their lives. It starts by explaining that we have a choice regarding our lives. Our options can break or destroy us, and everyone is responsible for their...

Psychoeducation Group for Native Americans with Trauma

Introduction The purpose of the psychoeducational group is to assist Native American individuals with trauma in the provision of high-quality therapy. The group is being created to use all the benefits of psychoeducational procedures to address social, psychological, and life complications among Native Americans. In terms of modality, the psychotherapy...

Psychological Model of Student Departure

Introduction The Psychological Model of Student Departure is one of the most popular models in higher education. It has been used to explain student departure from colleges and universities worldwide (Renn & Reason, 2013). It is based on the premise that college students often leave school due to a lack...

Applied Psychology: Social Alliances for Fundraising

There are a number of evidence-based methods used by Industrial-Organizational Psychologists during employee evaluations. For instance, there is a popular approach called 360-degree feedback. This aptly called approach takes into consideration the comments, judgments, and evaluations of an employee’s performance from their network of coworkers (Cascio & Aquinis, 2019). It...

Reaching Healthy Lifestyle: Joe’s Case

Introduction People develop habits over time when they consistently think, experience, and act in a certain way. These habits affect not only their behavior but also their memory systems. Episodic memory (recalling experiences), Semantic memory (knowledge), and procedural memory (understanding how to do things), are regarded as implicit types of...

Integrative Literature Review in Developmental Psychology

Name of the Domain Developmental Psychology Rationale Yau et al. (2021) highlight the existence of the relationship between societal expectations and individual performance, which eventually results in various courses pursued during the transition to adulthood. Similar conclusions and results may be related to the results of the study by de...

Leadership Qualities: Nurture vs. Nature

The question about whether leaders are born or made has been a subject of many debates and speculations. Studies have supported different arguments from both sides of this question, and there is still controversy whether leadership traits are inherent in people in nature or developed through life experiences. If the...

Cognitive Functioning Evaluation in Team Members

Introduction Cognitive biases often prevent people and the entire team from efficiently resolving their problems, and when team members have physical issues they intend to solve, the situation is even worse. There are various sources: other members’ perception of each team member and specific group biases, such as group polarization....

Stress Response Plan for Massachusetts

Introduction Respondent’s stress is one of the unpleasant consequences of emergency events. People who are the first to experience such crises experience significant psychological and physical pressure (Feuer, 2021). The Massachusetts Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan (CEMP) does not currently address respondent stress (Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency, 2019). Therefore, identifying, managing,...

Cognitive Load Theory in Psychology

Plass, J. L., & Kalyuga, S. (2019). Four ways of considering emotion in cognitive load theory Cognitive load theory is a psychological model which describes two elements of human memory: long-term and working memory. It is a good background for describing emotions, and this article describes the four ways how...

Therapeutic Work With Childhood Sexual Abuse Survivors

Introduction Sexual abuse in childhood is an urgent social issue, which reverberates into adulthood. People who have been subjected to sexual crimes need professional psychological help long after the event transpired. However, despite the overall understanding that therapy is important for healing child sexual abuse (CSA) survivors, the scientific data...

A Child’s Behavior With Sensory Processing Disorder

A child with SPD has difficulty understanding and controlling the feelings their body and the environment produce. SPD affects children differently: some may be quickly overwhelmed by senses, but some are under-reactive. Apart from therapy and treatment, various practical actions can be taken, which lead children to develop self-help skills....

Counseling: The Role of Leadership and Advocacy

Areas of Interest My long-term research goal is to develop and implement a stigma-free advocacy support model for all first aid agencies, including individuals and their families across the country. The application of the understanding that the first respondent is experiencing physical and emotional stress at work and his family...

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...

The Role of Resistance in Family Therapy

The Importance of Fighting Resistance At any stage of seed therapy, the specialist has to face resistance from clients. This is caused by different factors and causes but equally exacerbates the process of therapy. The fact is that such a phenomenon gives rise to individuals not only unwillingness to cooperate...

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...

The “A Child Called “It” Book by Dave Pelzer

One of the tasks of psychology is to study the processes in the minds of individuals and determine the reasons for their occurrence. In the course of such activities, scientists have built several concepts that play the role of a tool for understanding the human being. Thanks to some manifestations...

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.,...

Application of the Behaviorist Theory

Introduction If I had a ton of money and no need to work for income for the rest of my life, I would dedicate my time to obtaining knowledge related to other cultures and learning foreign languages in particular. Although there is a list of languages I wish to learn,...

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...

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...

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...

Self-Control in Early Childhood

The self-control concept in children is the ability to express and cope with deep emotions correctly. The concept mentioned above also entails children having to tell apart the impulses they have to act on, which influences the development of thinking skills in childhood. The ability to sustain the concept of...

“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 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...

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...

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...

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...

Dermatophagia Behavior: The Operant Associative Learning

It is important to note that the identified bad habit is cuticle biting, which is similar to fingernail biting. I have developed this problematic behavior within the past few days through associative learning. It is a mild form of dermatophagia, where one engages in an obsessive-compulsive activity. It is harmful...

Mary Ainsworth: Attachment and the Growth

The main purpose of the research Mary Ainsworth aimed at exploring the development of feelings associated with love in infants toward their caregivers. This information was then purposefully used to understand the effect of the first emotional relationship on the following loving connections. Ainsworth explored the similarities between the first...

The Concept of ‘One at the Beginning, One at the End”

The concept of ‘one at the beginning, one at the end” involves making a resolution or an aspiration at the start of the day and acknowledging the achievement or the reason for failure. For instance, an individual can state that they will not sleep at work on a particular day...

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...

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...

The Scope of Practice for a Personal Trainer

A personal trainer is a licensed individual working one-on-one with a client to assist them in reaching their fitness objectives by providing a fitness schedule that is specially adapted to their requirements. These sessions can be done at home with an online personal trainer, but they often occur in a...

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...

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...

Aspects of Psychological Counseling

Introduction Psychological counseling is one of the most popular services today. Humanity is currently experiencing one crisis after another, and many need psychological help to cope with it. Discussion The article “Privilege and Oppression in Counselor Education: An Intersectionality Framework” made a strong impression on me. It talks about how...

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...

Psychological Assessments and Intervention Strategies for Depression

Mr. J. was admitted with a diagnosis of major depressive disorder, severe with melancholic features, and MMPI-3 computer test results. Indicators L, K, F are generally expected; however, F has relatively high values, which may be associated with reduced performance due to overwork, a painful condition, or a desire to...

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...

Phobias: Triggers and Treatment

Weaving the (Neuronal) Web: Fear Learning in Spider Phobia The article by Schweckendiek et al., “Weaving the (Neuronal) Web: Fear Learning in Spider Phobia,” explores the neurobiological difference between the standard mechanism of fear manifestation and the formation of dysfunctional brain response, that is, a spider phobia. The research includes...

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...

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....

Development: Middle Childhood

Introduction The observation took place in the house of my friend’s family. We sat in the kitchen and had a session after some quick lunch and coffee. The child who was interviewed is the younger brother of my close friend. During the process, the child, their mother, and my friend...

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...

Impact of the Personality Tests Results

Personality tests are psychological tools to understand personal traits and draw a stable pattern from his thoughts, feelings, and behavior. A person who completes the personality tests can evaluate their behavior more critically to work on them so that his personality benefits him in particular environments and conditions. Many personality...

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...

The Effectiveness of Psychodrama in Reducing Irrational Behavior

Introduction Psychodrama is a form of therapy that helps people control their activities through dynamic actions. This approach incorporates group dynamics and role-playing to help people who do not understand their emotions like anger, happiness, and fear. Individuals who undergo this form of therapy want to clearly understand their roles...

Psychology of Leadership Theories

Introduction Systems of opinion that describe how particular people emerge as leaders are known as leadership theories. While many of these theories concentrate on the qualities of effective leaders, others look for the actions that individuals may do to enhance their individual leadership skills in various contexts. Historical research on...

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...

Adolescent Psychosocial Development

Background Psychosocial and psychological developments in adolescent years are crucial for individual’s future development. It is highly affected by physical brain development and social environment. Erikson suggests that people progress through a series of stages as they grow and develop through their life. Each stage is linked to an essential...

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...

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Advantages & Disadvantages

Current cognitive‐behavioral therapy is a general concept for scientifically validated treatment for well-diagnosed psychopathologies with particular therapeutic approaches. According to David et al. (2018), CBT is the most investigated kind of psychotherapy, and no other type of cognitive therapy can be deemed substantially stronger than CBT. Cognitive behavioral therapy has...

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....

Human Development in Early Adulthood

During their life, a person goes through many development stages, each associated with specific activities. At the moment, like many of my acquaintances, I am in my early adulthood. This period is significantly different from the previous stage, adolescence, primarily due to the many opportunities that open up (Huffman et...

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...

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...

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...

Practical Ways to Use Existential Therapy

Introduction: Existential Therapy Existential therapy refers to a therapeutic style that emphasizes on the holistic nature of the human condition. Such therapy aims at a positive approach that recognizes human abilities, but also takes into account the limitations of human resources. Over the years, many philosophers such as Soren Kierkegaard...

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...

The Lucifer Effect Book by Philip Zimbardo

In his book, Zimbardo identifies three psychological truths that emerge from Escher’s Image. The first truth is that the world always has and will always be filled with good and evil people. Zimbardo states that the barrier between good and evil is permeable and nebulous in the second truth (3)....

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....

Positive Reinforcement, Classical Conditioning Learning, and Semantic Memory

Introduction Semantic memory, positive reinforcement, and classical conditioning learning are the three concepts I learned in psychology class. Each of these concepts plays an important role in psychology for a variety of reasons. Classical conditioning is important because it assists people in understanding how they learn and remember certain occurrences....

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,...

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...

Attachment Styles Impact on Personal Development

Attachment styles play a critical role in shaping the emotional response in the child and, subsequently, in the emotional functioning of the adult. The relationship between the child and the caregiver allows for the conceptualization of oneself and others, which forms the concept of emotional connections in the early stages...

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...

The Change Process in Psychological Counseling

Regressions and other types of effective research must be supplemented by change process research, which examines the mechanisms through which change happens in psychotherapy. The many sorts of psychological therapies that are now being used have long dominated the area of psychotherapy. An explanation of the continuous improvement idea is...

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...

Cognitive & Emotional Development in Children

In their study, Frick et al. (2018) empirically determine that maternal sensitivity and sustained attention are important predictors of emotional development in newborns. Along with the infant’s temperament, the care environment is a significant aspect that determines the strengthening of cognitive skills at the initial stage of life. This suggests...

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,...

Complex Cultural Backgrounds and Identities

Psychologists are gauged based on their ability to embrace cultural differences in improving people’s lives. In service delivery, an organization must learn ways of serving people from different cultures (Tanriverdi, 2017). About 7 billion people are living globally, and none of them is a replica of the other. Individual differences...

The Two Major Approaches to Personality: Key Principles

Evaluation of the main approaches to personalities is essential in the context of understanding human nature and psychology. It includes reviewing existing theories and creating a personality profile that includes key behavioral and psychological traits. In addition, one should consider the chosen approaches from the perspective of a theoretical basis,...

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...

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 Image in Cognitive Psychology

In the psychology of perception, the development of psychological thought proceeded from the study of individual sensations to the understanding of perception as an integral process. Subsequently, the connection between perception and thinking was discovered to a great extent. A natural question of what comes first – perception or thinking...

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...

Cognitive Psychology, Neuroscience, and Neurophilosophy

Abstract This paper highlights various secondary sources’ operational definitions of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and neurophysiology. The research explains different psychological theories and supports them with content from secondary sources. The writing is concerned with information process and social-cultural theory, which relates to creating a social hierarchy by relating it to...

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...

Traumatic Influences on Family Systems

Introduction Child upbringing in any society and context is a collective effort, with the immediate social environment playing a pivotal role in the child’s development. This connection and interdependence between parents, immediate caregivers and remote environments like schools is brought out even more clearly in the case of traumatic experiences....

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...

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,...