Childhood Depression According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) "Studies have shown that on any single day (called "point prevalence" by epidemiologists) about 2% of school-aged children and about 8% of adolescents meet the criteria Continue Reading...
depression has been known as a "result when individuals forfeit their personal power." (Depression: A Multimedia Sourcebook, p.1) It also has been described in ancient times as "... [an] affliction [that] laid its cause to supernatural intervention, Continue Reading...
Childhood Hunger and Structional Functionalism Childhood Hunger and Structural-Functionalism Theory In this essay, I have discussed about childhood hunger. I have described how poverty, hunger, and lack of education play a major role in childhood h Continue Reading...
At one point or another in our lives, we are all beginners. We begin college, a first job, a first love affair, and perhaps a first dissertation project. We bring a great deal to these new situations, including our temperament, previous education, Continue Reading...
Personality Characteristics of Sexually Abused Children Child sexual assault is a wide spread problem in today's society that presents a severe risk to the victim's mental health, both during childhood and into adulthood. For many sexually abused ch Continue Reading...
An important point emphasized by many theorists was that it was essential for the therapeutic alliance to be flexible in order to accommodate the patient or client's perceptions. Another cardinal aspect that was emphasizes by clinicians and theoris Continue Reading...
CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE ON WOMEN INVOLVED IN PROSTITUTION Conceptual Paper Millions of children around the globe are sexually abused or exploited. This paper includes several descriptions of studies that relate sexual abuse during childhood to delinque Continue Reading...
Juvenile/Child Onset Bipolar Disorder Diagnoses of bipolar disorder in childhood are rare, even among adolescent populations. One of the reasons why bipolar disorder is infrequently diagnosed is the “symptomatic overlap with attention deficit h Continue Reading...
People living with mental illness are often marginalized, demeaned, and seen as being outside the normal boundaries of society. For people with BPD, this is doubly painful as it reinforces their sense of worthlessness and victimization, and may eve Continue Reading...
For example, they should be required to complete at least 20 hours of training on brain disorders. It is ideal if consumers and family members become part of the activity and process. It must also be emphasized that, in most cases, dangerous or viol Continue Reading...
African American Youth with Mental IllnessPart 1: BackgroundObservationThe African American Youth experience unique structural and contextual hurdles as they transition from childhood into early adulthood. While their experiences vary, similar cultur Continue Reading...
Research Proposal Option: Proposal to Conduct an Evaluation(Evaluation Template)Proposed Outcomes Evaluation of the Maryland Department of Housing and CommunityDevelopments Homelessness Solutions ProgramHM893January 26, 2024Note: You are provided rec Continue Reading...
S. were "proficient in reading and math," Pytel explains. These statistics "loudly states that students entering high school" are simply not prepared, Pytel goes on. Moreover, U.S. students do not fare well on the international educational stage. At Continue Reading...
Bipolar Disorder: Causes, Symptoms, And Prevention Every human being is susceptible to mood changes, sometimes feeling happy and energetic, and other times feeling melancholic and miserable. However, a persistent feeling of sadness and hopelessness Continue Reading...
Foster Children/Foster Care Issues of a Foster Child Child Abuse Families and Children Served through Foster Care The Policy Framework This thesis reviews foster care in the United States: the reasons why children fall into the category of child Continue Reading...
Health Care Disparities Race Related Healthcare disparities Serial number Socioeconomic status and health Correlation between socioeconomic status and race Health insurance and health Who are the uninsured people? Causes of health care dispari Continue Reading...
The Fun Principle stated that as "we take the fun out of physical activities, we take the kids out of them" (Martens, 1996, p. 306). Martens said that learning should be enjoyable and that when winning is pursued in the extreme, it produces behavio Continue Reading...
Developmental Psychology Body Image, Body Health, and Pathology Eating disorders and anorexia are becoming more commonplace today, and this is true particularly of young women, although older people and men sometimes also suffer from them. It is im Continue Reading...
Differential Diagnosis The patient has been given a diagnosis of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Major Depressive Disorder. Since depressive symptoms are common in PTSD we would need to consider whether the depression or the PTSD is the pr Continue Reading...
Psychology Analysis of the crime scene After Jeffrey Dahmer was sentenced, he was taken to the Correctional Institution of Columbia, located in Portage; a town in Wisconsin. During his first incarceration year, Dahmer was confined separately in ord Continue Reading...
Hispanic-American Population Assessment POCKETS OF MISERY The Hispanic-Americans of Santa Ana, California are the population to be assessed. National Demographics The total U.S. population is 312 million, according to the latest U.S. Census Burea Continue Reading...
Ethical Practice Involves Working Positively Diversity Difference Counseling is a profession that involves associations based on principles and values ethically. Patients are able to benefit by understanding themselves better and through creating re Continue Reading...
S., experts estimate the genuine number of incidents of abuse and neglect ranges three times higher than reported. (National Child Abuse Statistics, 2006) in light of these critical contemporary concerns for youth, this researcher chose to document t Continue Reading...
Identifying Opportunities to Reduce Income Disparities in South Africa Today and In the FutureDespite the end of apartheid in the early 1990s, South Africa remains racially and economically segregated. The country is beset by persistent social inequa Continue Reading...
Clinical Psychology Dissertation - Dream Content as a Therapeutic Approach: Ego Gratification vs. Repressed Feelings An Abstract of a Dissertation Dream Content as a Therapeutic Approach: Ego Gratification vs. Repressed Feelings This study sets ou Continue Reading...
Henderson A Cognitive Behavioral Study of Steven Henderson: Case Conceptualization and Treatment Plan Theories of Counseling Coun510_D04 This is a case conceptualization of a 26-year-old man who experienced sexual abuse as a child and the haunti Continue Reading...
Violence in Public Schools The recent violence on school grounds (including elementary, middle school and high school violence) has created a climate of fear in American public schools, and the literature presented in this review relates to that fea Continue Reading...
There are many of these individuals, and it is time that this is changed. Parents often look away from these kinds of problems, or they spend their time in denial of the issue because they feel that their child will not be harmed by parental involv Continue Reading...
cognitive therapy is a widely accepted, empirically validated treatment for a number of conditions, including most especially depression. The theorist who responsible for developing cognitive therapy is Aaron T. Beck, a nonagenarian who is currently Continue Reading...
0%), cohabiting parents (61.8%), cohabiting stepparents (71.0%), and married stepparents (65.2-16%). Recall that when we consider all children, we find that the food insecurity rates are significantly lower for children living with married stepparen Continue Reading...
There is no question, however, that immigration issues will remain in the forefront of our national policy debates. Deportation Factors and Crimes Involving Moral Turpitude Research indicates that since the late 1980s, Congress had been tightening Continue Reading...
Family Break Up For a humane, the word 'community' hints at people trying to work out solutions to common problems. The term 'community' generally stands for a group that is bigger and more diverse than a family or any group of people bound together Continue Reading...
Since juvenile records are sealed during ongoing investigations, the authors used multiple sources from available national press reports, each of which was identified by more than one source, to create a list of possible causal factors. Bender, McLa Continue Reading...
" (1995) The authors state: "The amphetamines occasioned dose-related increases in d- amphetamine-appropriate responding, whereas hydromorphone did not. Amphetamines also occasioned dose-related increases in reports of the drug being most like "spee Continue Reading...
history of events in the twentieth century, one might surmise that the twenty-first may not be all that different. Why? Because human nature and the pursuit of self-interest has not changed from one century to the next. To explain what drives intern Continue Reading...
Society Feels About Animals As a first order primate, humans have a natural affinity with animals of all types that has contributed to their mutual relationships throughout history. In fact, animals of different types have been since the time of th Continue Reading...
