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Freud, Socrates, Christ
I, Socrates, have only questions for the author of Civilization and Its Discontents, Dr. Sigmund Freud. It surprises me greatly that Dr. Freud should so misread the great tragedy of Oedipus Tyrannos by my fellow Athenian, the Continue Reading...
This 14-year-old male is currently in the ninth grade. In the demographic portion of the test, he identifies "restless/bored" as the problem that is troubling him the most. A tendency toward avoiding self-disclosure is evident in this adolescent's r Continue Reading...
Future Considerations
In our Stringer (2007 textbook, in Chapter 9, you will find the deepest probe into the meaning and generation of scientific knowledge and where action research stands as a research endeavor. The complex controversies surroundin Continue Reading...
Depression and Productivity
What is the effect of depression on productivity (professional and personal)? This question is derived both from observations of people with depression as well as a number of research studies indicating that depression le Continue Reading...
Counseling: Its Philosophy, Nature, And Dynamics
It is my view that science has provided an opportunity to discover and delve into the nature of humanity and the daily interactions that occur everyday among people. The development of psychology as a Continue Reading...
Managing Different Perspectives in the Literature
One of the strengths of qualitative literature -- as well as one of its frustrations -- is its innate subjectivity. Different authors may present the reader with different approaches, both of which c Continue Reading...
Goleman et al. (2001) revealed much useful information in discussing their ideas about primal leadership. Eventually this group developed an argument about emotional intelligence and discussed this idea as an extremely important, yet mostly overlooke Continue Reading...
Postmodernism and Post-Positivism
Challenges and Strengths
Post-positivism vs. postmodernism
Two of the dominant paradigms within the modern epistemological discourse are that of post-positivism and postmodernism. They are often used relatively lo Continue Reading...
Minds and Macines
What the Human Mind Can Do That the Computer Can't
Argument Summary
Morton Hunt argues that although there are many things that a computer can do, however the abilities of a computer will never be able to replicate many of the de Continue Reading...
brain is the final frontier, even more so than outer space. Studying the brain is as difficult as studying outer space due to the limitations of technology. However, there are also ethical limitations to neuroscience research, as well as research de Continue Reading...
Melancholia sat in, as the loss I felt became less and less related to my body. I began to court death first symbolically and then literally. Freud would have noted the presence of the death wish in addition to describing the symptoms of "melancholi Continue Reading...
He states,
No one with the faintest glimmering of mythology could possibly fail to see the startling parallels between the unconscious fantasies brought to light by the psychoanalytic school and mythological ideas." (Jung, par 316).
The Theory of Continue Reading...
A commitment to open-mindedness and humility in respect to theory and practice." (Brodley, 1986)
II. COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THEORY
The work entitled: "An introduction to Cognitive Therapy & Cognitive Behavioral Approaches" states that: "The cen Continue Reading...
For example, behaviorism can explain the "fight and flight" response. Psychodynamics can shed light on some of the least understood aspects of the human experience: our dreams. Moreover, psychodynamics can help individuals understand behavior that i Continue Reading...
subjective nature of perception be regarded as an advantage for artists but as an obstacle to be overcome for scientists?
Perception is the way we get the information about real objects that exist independently from our consciousness. Perception re Continue Reading...
Social Science Theory and Methodology
Questions Generated for a Social Science Analysis
Substantive Question.
Significance of substantive question. This section describes the significance of a suitable substantive research question, formulated for Continue Reading...
Policy assessments must be based on the most appropriate data sets. Qualitative data is the most appropriate data set in educational research.
Interactions abound in education. Those interactions create a complex matrix of issues affecting educatio Continue Reading...
Philosophy Field Trip
Realism: A flower is a flower.
Idealism: A flower is an ultimate idea.
Pragmatism: A flower is what I take it to be.
Existentialism: A flower exists for me
Rationalism: A flower is this way for now.
Realism is a developmen Continue Reading...
Business Skills -- Personal Evaluation
Demonstrate effective communication skills
• I have expanded my vocabulary to include standard practical and theoretical business concepts and I have increased my proficiency with digital technology commu Continue Reading...
Food Safety, Urban Sprawl, & Land Use Issues
(01)In the United States, we are fortunate to have an abundant supply of food, and much of this is due to our agricultural technology. However, there are many concerns about our food source, including Continue Reading...
Realism
The universe has a physical reality and I do believe that we must teach the nature of that reality to students. Through experimental science or through hands-on learning, realism should be emphasized in every classroom. Students will have pl Continue Reading...
It is often easier to impose this sort of control in a laboratory setting. Thus, true experiments have often been erroneously identified as laboratory studies" (Woolf, 2012). True experiments rigidly control for validity by attempting to isolate var Continue Reading...
Human Relation -- A Social Science Perspective
Fundamental differences between the social sciences and the natural sciences
Science is commonly taken to be an attempt at predicting, understanding, and explaining our world, using distinctive modes o Continue Reading...
Question 1
All the early pioneers of behaviorism including Watson were important to the development of psychology as a social science (Moore, 2011). In fact, Watson deserves the most credit for being the first person to propose behaviorism as a scie Continue Reading...
Life Span
Lifespan development is a field of study that involves growth patterns stability and change in one's behavior in the whole stretch of life. The definition does not fully capture the intricate process of the study. The study employs scienti Continue Reading...
Crabb's Biblical Model Of Counseling Comparison And Discussion
Goal of Christian Counseling
The goal of Christian Counseling differs from private practice counseling in many regards. For example, a Christian community offers a counselor a unique se Continue Reading...
Police officers are authorized to use force when necessary, a policy that is generally used to protect innocent people from violence and abuse, and protect the general public from harm. However, the authorization to use force can be easily abused. Po Continue Reading...
Journal ReflectionIntroductionCritical thought and ethics are important in every sphere of life, for students as well as for professionals. The best way to appreciate this fact is by thinking about the tremendous responsibility that everyone has no m Continue Reading...
Creative Problem Solving & Learning
Elements of Creativity
Application of Creative Problem Solving in Real-World Situations
Creative Problem Solving as a Tool to Improve Learning
Since problems happen every day and often in new forms and face Continue Reading...
As activists in women's liberation, discussing and analyzing the oppression and inequalities they experienced as women, they felt it imperative to find out about the lives of their foremothers -- and found very little scholarship in print" (Women's Continue Reading...
Spotlighting Samplings 4 Qualitative Research
Research Choices 6 the Phenomenology Method
The Ethnography Method
DEPTH
Four Qualitative Approach Comparison
Strengths and Critiques of Case Studies
"A research design indicates the full research p Continue Reading...
, 2010). The model includes several mediator (e.g., knowledge exchange) and moderator variables (e.g., self-leadership competencies of actors) that explain why and when this approach is effective and looks at leadership in more of a comprehensive way Continue Reading...
It was originally established in the early 19th century by Auguste Comte who tried to unify history, psychology and economics through an understanding of society as a broad paradigm. Emile Durkheim took this a bit further and focused on the way soci Continue Reading...
Recommended during latter phases of research projects.
Recommended during earlier phases of research projects.
Projects in different areas are not linear in approach.
All aspects of the study are carefully designed before data is collected.
The Continue Reading...
The author's method was simply collecting older data through secondary sources like previous studies and researches. He examined the methods used in these studies and critically evaluated them and also mentioned their limitations according to his a Continue Reading...
Good researchers tend to pull methods out of a tool kit as they are needed" (2006, p. 54). Notwithstanding these criticisms and constraints, though, most social researchers seem to agree that classification by some type of research paradigm is a use Continue Reading...
Adolescent Depression
The Family and Teen Depression
Treatment Options for Teen Depression
Adolescent Depression and the Family
Teen depression is a serous condition that has been largely ignored until recent events in the media focused more att Continue Reading...