180). Effectively, social constructivism is helping "reconstruct" the field of psychology (Bohan, 1990, p. 86). In that, it seems the future of social constructionism can only grow and alter, just as the field of psychology has grown and altered sin Continue Reading...
Introduction Several ethical issues, dilemmas, and problems apply to various aspects of psychology, including educational and scientific practices. The expansive body of literature on ethical issues shows that ethical issues are normally multifaceted Continue Reading...
Scientists need to do much more research in the area of female alcohol abuse, and sounder methods of treating this debilitating disease need to be developed. Society treats women alcoholics differently from men - there is still a stigma that alcohol Continue Reading...
A more definitive explanation is; "... A proposed explanation for a phenomenon." (Scientific Reference) a hypothesis should be able to be tested and functions as a directive for further research. In my research study for example, the hypothesis tha Continue Reading...
Hypothetical Counseling Plan Substance Use Disorder Counseling Maria is married and has an addiction to alcohol that is damaging their family's chances at reuniting with their daughters, as well as many marital problems in general. It seems as if s Continue Reading...
Psychology Treatment For most of U.S. history up to the time of the Community Mental Health Act of 1963, the mentally ill were generally warehoused in state and local mental institutions on a long-term basis. Most had been involuntarily committed by Continue Reading...
Psychology Theory Demographic Information Mr. C, a 38-year-old married male recently contacted a faculty anxiety clinic seeking treatment. At the time he contacted the centre, he self-reported that he experiences social anxiety in different setting Continue Reading...
Environmental Psychology: The field of environmental psychology is a specialized discipline within psychology whose major developments have been totally adopted into mainstream psychology. In past few decades, the much of the positive and negative v Continue Reading...
Treatment for a Person Who Is Suffering From Schizophrenia Schizophrenia is commonly considered to be one of the most severe of all mental illnesses, with a relatively poor treatment prognosis. Although understanding of the disorder has expanded co Continue Reading...
Conflict Resolution To strike a balance between personal and professional life is a can of worms. In personal and professional life both, an individual meets numerous people. Some become acquaintances, some become friends, some become competitors an Continue Reading...
Clinical Focused The humanistic psychology was established in early 1940s and 1950s as an option to conservative behavioral and psychoanalytic techniques. A novel method of dealing with client referred to as humanistic therapy followed the developm Continue Reading...
There were two major ideas of the origin of abnormal behaviors. The somatogenic perspective viewed the abnormal behaviors came from biological causes, while the psychogenic perspective believed that psychological factors were more dominant in the ex Continue Reading...
Abnormal Psychology is often misunderstood as a field of psychology because it deals with behavior that "creates a problem for an individual or society" -- and hence, the question immediately arises as to just what is "abnormal" and what is "normal"? Continue Reading...
Roots of Abnormal Psychology Abnormal Psychology The recognition that mental disorders exist goes all the way back to primitive societies (Hansell and Damour, 2008, p. 26). Ancient skulls with holes drilled into them suggests animistic cultures pra Continue Reading...
Depression and other serious mental disorders are the most frequent causes of suicidal thoughts or actions. Certain groups of people are at a higher risk of this tendency than others. These can be prevented by watching out for symptoms like changes Continue Reading...
Media Violence A Study on Youth Exposure to Media Violence In a 2005 study by Kronenberger et al., researchers enter into the oft-discussed subject of media violence and its impact on youth behaviors and tendencies. Published in the Journal of Clin Continue Reading...
Cognitive Behavior Therapy is a treatment procedure that bases treatment on the cause directly. It explains that it is the thoughts of the people that cause feelings of being ill, and other behaviors. The benefit of the treatment is that it helps cha Continue Reading...
Tori J. is a 12-year-old girl who was removed from her family at the age of 8, when she was placed with a foster family. Although her foster mother discussed some episodes of violence and defiance in the home, Tori was not initially violent or defia Continue Reading...
psychology's contribution to the war effort during WWI. 2)Describe the results of the original Hawthorne Study regarding the relationship between lighting and efficiency. What was significant about this study? Industrial Organizational (I/O) Psycho Continue Reading...
Skinner also proposed a full social model of an ideal society based on his principles of behaviorism. The growth of cognitive psychology (aided in no small part by advances in neuroscience and medicine) has served to both discredit many behaviorist Continue Reading...
Without further examination, one can only note the similarities in isolating behavior between Asperger's and OCD patients. In Jake's particular case, the symptoms while he was a child included insistence on sameness, preference for symmetry, and sys Continue Reading...
Washington on August 28-29 On this day, more than 200,000 Americans congregated in Washington, D.C., for a civil demonstration referred to as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Planned and prepared by some civil rights and religious grou Continue Reading...
Clinical Psychology / Bulimia Nervosa The beginnings of clinical psychology date back to the year 1492, and it has changed from the mere treatment of mental illness to an entire field of research and experimentation, which has helped those individua Continue Reading...
Thus, giving the patient a 'bird's eye view' of his/her life gives him/her a chance to reconsider past actions committed and change these to improve his/her relations with a partner or family member. As in family brief therapies, reconstructing a fa Continue Reading...
therapy, also called "Solution-Focused Brief Therapy," uses practical strategies to help clients make significant, positive changes in their life as a result of their therapy in a relatively short period of time. Brief therapy focuses on what is goi Continue Reading...
history of science has existed for many decades. This is considering that it is a well-established discipline of scholarly research. The scholarship of science initially concentrated on the physical and the biological sciences. However, it now inclu Continue Reading...
Cognitive Psychology This is the branch of psychology that is predominantly occupied by the mental process. These would include how people think, perceive ideas and things, recall and also learn. It is related to other disciplines like philosophy, n Continue Reading...
Cognitive therapy provides a structured framework for change. Describe your understanding of how this form of therapy works. According to Cherry (2012), cognitive behavior therapy, also known as CBT focuses on helping clients to understand the thoug Continue Reading...
The most fundamental theorist in this area is Jean Piaget. Additionally, Piaget demonstrated one of the first scientific movements in the filed, with the utilization of direct observation as the best tool for understanding. (Piaget, 1962, p. 107) Pi Continue Reading...
However, when using labels, counselors have to be careful to not pigeonhole or otherwise be biased. Labels are helpful in offering some clear-cut solutions for specific problems, but labels can and should change over time as the client progresses wi Continue Reading...
Mental Health Counselor Professional History with Integration of Class Activities The ability to inspire trust, respect, and self-confidence, along with a powerful desire to help others are key characteristics of mental health counselors. For someo Continue Reading...
Treatment Process To treat dysfunctional modes of either thinking or behaving in Cognitive Therapy three general approaches are applied: 1. Deactivation through distraction or reassurance 2, Modification of content or structure 3. The construction Continue Reading...
According to the principle of habituation, a fear response weakens when elicited repeatedly. According to the principle of extinction, the fear response decreases or weakens when the patient is exposed to the feared situation and does not undergo a Continue Reading...
False Memories Petition The problem of a witness recall of memory based on psychiatric intervention- the evidence of which is unreliable It is humbly submitted that oral evidence all over the world forms the primary form of evidence. What a person Continue Reading...
Multicultural Psychology Japanese Culture Culture is commonly understood as a set of shared beliefs, values, goals and other such common ideas practiced by a group. It is an integration of art, architecture, language, food, music, lifestyle, religi Continue Reading...
Psychology -- Central Park Jogger Matthew Johnson's The Central Park Jogger Case - Police coercion and secrecy in interrogation (Johnson, 2003), posits the reasonable theory that police interrogation is "ripe for abusive treatment" and the equally r Continue Reading...
Racism in Australian Sports History of racism in Australia Self-identity when approached from the concept of sociological perspective identifies it with a reciprocal relationship between the self and society. The influence of self to the society is Continue Reading...
Walt Disney including: a history leader- page applying leadership traits-: inspiration, goal setting, praise recognition, training/coaching, problem solving, planning, Walt Disney: Leadership style Walt Disney was a creative man who built an empir Continue Reading...
