Human nature allows a person to demonstrate the cognitive, social and emotional behaviors that enable him or her to function in society and satisfy biological, psychological and emotional needs. The drive to display such behaviors is inborn but is sh Continue Reading...
Ethical Issues in Family and Marital Therapy It has been mentioned that insufficiencies of the APA ethical standards for marriage and family therapy have not been appreciated fully. Guidelines that are in regards to the therapist accountability, con Continue Reading...
(PREP Inc. 2012) Bibliography Allen, W. (1997). Replication of five types of married couples based on ENRICH. Unpublished dissertation. University of Minnesota. St. Paul, Minnesota. Browning, DS (2003) Marriage and Modernization: How Globalizatio Continue Reading...
Our senses during the conscious are rarely honed, but our subconscious states, from millenia of evolutionary change, are able to detect subtleties that have freed up our conscious minds for more analytical growth. Many people view this as subtrefuge Continue Reading...
Both of these concrete personality traits, which the MBTI instrument was not designed to measure, were more directly measured through the utilization of other more specifically and concretely designed instruments, and the values recorded by various Continue Reading...
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a tool used to measure psychological or personality types. The MBTI is described, discussing its purpose and design, format, and standardization sample. The psychometric properties of this test are then discussed. Continue Reading...
When one throws the element of ethnicity into the mix, the process of diagnosis becomes even more difficult. Let us take, for instance the effect of religion on the diagnosis of a mental illness. In some religions it is considered to be "normal" to Continue Reading...
It will focus discovering the treatment option, or combination of options that results in the lowest incidence of recidivism for the longest period following the treatment. It is difficult to predict future events, therefore the research will take a Continue Reading...
Strengths-based practice offers a “new paradigm” that focuses on resources and resilience, opportunities and solutions, rather than on problems or pathologies (Hammond, 2010, p. 3). Especially efficacious for young adults like Ifemelu, st Continue Reading...
Self-Care Assessment Stress is an inevitable part of everyday life that affects everyone regardless of their socio-economic status. The inevitability of stress emerges from the fact that some days are harder than others and tensions tend to run high Continue Reading...
Post traumatic stress disorder is given as psychological reaction which take place after one has gone through a stressful event .the characteristics of PTSD are anxiety, depression, recurrent nightmares, flashbacks and avoiding things that are a remi Continue Reading...
Behavior Modification Therapy Effects of Behavior Modification Therapy on Children with Low Self-Esteem Behavior modification therapy is used in changing the behavior of children, adolescents and adults. However, its use in modifying or dealing wit Continue Reading...
Carl Rogers' Theory of Personality Compared to Those of Erik Erikson? Over the past century or so, a number of psychological theorists have provided new ways of understanding human development over the lifespan, including Carl Rogers, Erik Erikson Continue Reading...
Through this experience, I realized that these characters could help other to understand themselves and to resolve the internal conflicts that drive young males in their actions. As I began to study the characters in the novel more closely, I began Continue Reading...
Linguistic analyses of conversational patterns indicate that most pauses can be predicted by linguistic structures, such as clause or sentence breaks" (Levitt, 334) by eliminating some of the non-verbal factors that may tend to undermine these silen Continue Reading...
But once again, these people are likely to fall into the trap of misinformation since they do not rely on calculated scientific measures. Feeling: Feeling is an indication of a person's ability to respond with empathy. These people would respond t Continue Reading...
" (p. 12) According to Cromer (2005) the literature that addresses the relationship between stressful life events and obsessive compulsive disorders does provide some degree of support implicating traumatic life-stress as being a factor in the onset Continue Reading...
Suicide involves the taking of one's own life. As articulated by a prominent suicidologist: "the common stimulus to suicide is intolerable psychological pain. Suicide represents an escape or release from that pain." (Suicidology.ORG, 2003) It defines Continue Reading...
Mental Disorder Suicide- Mental Disorder Beginning with a historical analysis of suicide, the psychopathology of suicide is analyzed. Empirical findings are also presented to address probable causes of suicide. This paper addresses the psychopathol Continue Reading...
Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale Test Title: The Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) Publisher and Date: 1965 by W.W. Norton, New York and Princeton University Press. Description and Purpose: The Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) was developed by socio Continue Reading...
My visit to this location was extremely educational as I had a chance to witness firsthand how mental illness can be treated in this type of environment. I spoke to many people while there, including doctors, nurses, counselors and patients. The exp Continue Reading...
Here, the dependent variable is identified as the proclivity toward suicide. The researchers identify four independent variables due for measurement. These are identified as psychological distress, hopelessness, drug abuse, and relationship discord. Continue Reading...
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-II) The MMPI-II Test is utilized in the assessment of the individual's personality characteristics that affect the individual's personal and social adjustment. Test Publisher The MMPI-II is authore Continue Reading...
Advocating for Your Profession: Indiana Becoming licensed To become a LMHC (Licensed Mental Health Counselor) in Indiana, an individual must have at least a master's degree with 60 hours of coursework in the field, have completed a supervised clini Continue Reading...
Susan Marx is a 31-year-old, right-handed, Caucasian woman who has completed 12 years of education. She was referred for complaints of depressed mood for the past month. When asked why she referred herself she responded, "I am very depressed and cann Continue Reading...
Her cancer and disfigurement distinguish the subject as being in a specific cultural group due for counseling, with many of the strategies used to engage her centering the culture of sickness and its attendant modes of recovery, rehabilitation and r Continue Reading...
Other neuroscientists instead stress processes: like macros for the brain. Neuroscience, in elucidating specific brain structures for different thought processes and types of intelligence, can help scientists develop more sophisticated systems of a Continue Reading...
The primary difference between the two however, is gestalt therapy concentrates more on the ability of the individual to make proper choices regarding their care. This theory or approach to therapy reminds the client of the connection between mind, Continue Reading...
But did she mean well sometimes? Or is she always so rude towards you? Analysis: This example illustrates a long process in a short amount of space, but it helps to point out some aspects of Roger's theory. According to Rogers, such dialogue can be Continue Reading...
humans have been intrigued by the workings of the human mind. Philosophers and physiologists pondered the questions that psychology, as an independent science, now addresses. Psychology is the study of mind and behavior, both in humans and animals. Continue Reading...
Further, "Just as the models of family therapy are, unsurprisingly, isomorphically represented in their corresponding training models and methods, so the development of the clinical reality of family therapy can serve as a methaphor for the training Continue Reading...
Furthermore, people change over time as a result of experience. Thus, the MBTI may capture one's current state, but can not predict one's state in the future. The MBTI is currently the fourth most frequently used standardized test in community-base Continue Reading...
Bandura, A. (1999). Moral Disengagement in the Perpetration of Inhumanities. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 3(3), 193-209. Discusses the moral agency embedded in socio-cognitive theory and other self-regulatory mechanisms responsible for Continue Reading...
Ethical Principles in Research While experimenting and during the research of several diverse subjects ranging from animal testing to human experimentation, from social and scientific transgression to scientific research, there are ethical principle Continue Reading...
Coaching Ideas that can help my Coaching Model I did a lot of online research to try to scan for ideas that could help me be a more effective coach. One of the ideas that came up from several sources is that the coaching relationship is dynamic. Th Continue Reading...
The CFA was performed on the first sample and did not achieve an overall good fit based on the proposed two factors. The researchers performed an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and subsequent CFA on their second sample of students and found that Continue Reading...
Decentering The ability to regulate one's emotions has been increasingly incorporated into models of psychopathology, distress disorders such as depression and anxiety, eating disorders, and substance abuse. Emotion regulation has been conceptualize Continue Reading...
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a psychometric personality assessment questionnaire that measures individual preferences with regards to decision making and worldviews. The MBTI is grounded in the psychodynamic approach exemplified through Carl Continue Reading...
Adult Dysthymia Melancholia, a word once used to describe a multitude of symptoms, has since been shoved aside by more clinical-sounding terminology (Taylor and Fink, 2006, p. 1-9). Melancholia is now referred to as depression, major depression, dys Continue Reading...
However, the authors do not refer to developmental psychology to illustrate their findings. The authors admit that the dimensions may not be distinguishable based solely on self-reports, and also that young children may not draw sharp distinctions a Continue Reading...
