Depression in Young Adults Depression in Young Adults In today’s society, many young people are faced with tough decisions and adult situations. With so much stress on our shoulders, young people may easily become depressed. Adolescent depression is a greatly under diagnosed disease that leads to serious difficulty in school and personal life. Depression is usually under-diagnose

Genetics Genetic counselors are health professionals with specialized graduate degrees and experience in the areas of medical genetics and counseling. Most enter the field from a variety of disciplines, including biology, genetics, nursing, psychology, public health and social work. Genetic counselors work as members of a healthcare team, providing information and support to families w

Professional Counseling Professional Orientation to Counseling According to Vacc and Loesch there is no quick and easy way to define or explain the term ‘counseling’, rather they consider the activity of mental health counseling complex, consisting of a number of assumptions. Counselors require a myriad of ‘helping skills’ from what are referred to as intentional and unintentional he

Freud And Piaget Introduction Freud’s psychoanalytic theory and Piaget’s cognitive development theory are two well known theories in explaining the development of personality. They both can explain where children are in their development of their personality. Although they aren’t thought of as useful and ‘true’ theories they are very interesting to see how they apply to children. These

Psychopathology It may be assumed that a high Hits minus False alarms rate implies an effective implicit memory. This is because this rate has taken into account of all four possible outcomes: Hits, misses, false alarms and correct rejection. The following patterns of data emerged: (a) Both letter encoding and rhyme encoding produce better implicit memory, as demonstrated on a visually o

Employee Motivation In The Workplace Employee Motivation in the Workplace Organizational Psychology Motivation is defined in our textbook by the conditions that energize, direct, and sustain work behavior. What is the reason that organizations desire motivated employees' The simple answer is survival. “Motivated employees are needed in our rapidly changing workplaces. Motivated

Emotional And Behavioral Disorders Emotional and Behavioral Disorders Students with chronic or severe adjustment problems are diagnosed as having emotional or behavioral problems. These problems manifest themselves in a myriad of characteristics. Students with these problems are referred to as heterogeneous. This term refers to the fact that each problem differs from student to stud

Ericson - Freud Describe the developmental process and problems that might arise in 1 of the first 3 developmental stages (ericson / freud) and how these might affect the counselling relationship Introduction Freud developed a frame work for understanding the process of human development and broke down the various stages of childhood development into The Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latenc

Stereotypes Stereotypes Discrimination is seen in our minds as images that show a specific feature or trait about one group. These are prejudgments or stereotypes W.T. Lhamon Jr say that: "People simplify the intellectual images they maintain of specific ethnic groups, including their own, often in cruel or damaging ways. Poor white Southerners ("Crackers") are said to be slow, r

Smoking And Anxiety Disorders The prevalence of smoking generally is higher for women with anxiety disorders, bulimia, depression, attention deficit disorder, and alcoholism; it is particularly high among patients with diagnosed schizophrenia. The connection between smoking and these disorders requires additional research. http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/sgr/sgr_forwomen/factsheet_consequen

Counseling The historical perspective of counseling is covered in depth in chapter one. The evolution of the counseling profession was developed in answer to the direct need brought about by the industrial and urbanization of America (Aubrey, 1982; Herr, 1985). The introduction of counseling first emerged as vocational guidance. Frank Parsons is actually credited by many as the “fathe

Racial Experiment I took the racial experiment, and I did not like it at all. I was told to hit the “e” or “i” keys if the word was either good or bad, or if it was a white or black face. At first faces popped up and white was on the left (I would hit the “e” button) side and black was on the right side (I would hit the “i” button). Then words like love, peace, joy (good words) and envy,

Case Study: Group Relations Case Study Questions: 1) Discuss the cohesion/ lack thereof of the crew. 2) Leadership of Jim. Discuss. Problems, good points. 3) What kind of power/ influence is used on crew' Do you notice conformity' 4) Communication structures/ network – both formal and informal. 5) Conflict – intragroup and intergroup. Answers: 1) In the text, Joining Togethe

A Million Little Pieces A Million Little Pieces is a Shattering, honest memoir written by James Frey. Frey tells his story and struggles as a recovering crack head, glue sniffer, gas huffer, and alcoholic. This forthcoming memoir begins with the writer awaking on plane with his four front teeth knocked out, a hole in his cheek, and no recollection of the past two weeks of his life. Havin

Addictions Physical and psychological addictions are very alike and very different at the same time. Addiction means that the person addicted thrives on the substance or action. Physical addictions like alcoholism and heroin are sometimes very noticeable yet, psychological addictions like gambling are very hard to diagnose. A similarity between the two types of addictions are the stages

Adolecent Depression Adolescent depression, often known as “the under diagnosed disease” is a disease that afflicts the human psyche in such a way that the afflicted act and react abnormally toward others and themselves. Therefore it comes to no surprise to discover that adolescent depression is strongly linked to teen suicide. It is now responsible for more deaths in youth aged 15 to 19

Antwone Fisher Sigmund Freud founded psychodynamic theory. The primary focus of the psychodynamic theory is to understand how the client's past experiences affect what occurs in the present. Freud believed people repress or drive from their conscious undesirable or shameful thoughts. As a result, these thoughts become part of the subconscious (Billig, 1999). A major goal of the psych

Autism Autism is a complex developmental disability that typically appears during the first three years of life. This is the result of a neurological disorder that affects the functioning of the brain. Autism is four more times prevalent in boys than girls. Autism shows no racial, ethnic or social boundaries. Family income, lifestyle and educational levels do not affect the chance of a

BPD Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a severe, chronic, disabling, and potentially lethal psychiatric condition. People who suffer with this disorder have extreme and long standing instability in their emotional lives, as well as in their behavior and their self-image. This is a common disorder affecting two percent of the general population. The best evidence indicates that abou

Behavior Therapy Behaviorism is a school of psychology and theoretical viewpoint that emphasizes the scientific study of observable behaviors, especially as they pertain to the process of learning. That is the text book definition of behaviorism, my definition in my own words is, doing something that causes a response in someone or something, and by doing it enough times causes a constan

Case Study Identifying Data and Reason Referral: Lenny Peters is a 48 year-old Caucasian gay male recently admitted for inpatient psychiatric treatment. He was referred for a psychological testing by his psychiatrist to assist in diagnostic clarification regarding personality dynamics and/or Axis I pathology. Evaluation Instruments and Sources of Information: Minnesota Multiphasic Per

Child. Dev Second Paper on Journal Topic Often, research articles are composed of results of new findings and past research. Experimental psychology relies heavily on the researcher’s ability to further expand previous research conducted. Child psychology, in particular, is constantly building unto old research in hopes of uncovering more knowledge about children. More specifically, Bai

Communication Between Men And Women “Effective Communication between men and women” In today’s modern society, communication has become a very important issue in all aspects of our life but especially in relationships. Many times women and men don’t realize that to have a stable relationship they need to learn a good way to communicate. Deborah Tannen and John Gray both agree that me

Clinical Interviewing Given the specific situation of having a limited amount of therapy sessions, it would be difficult in being able to take time in the exploration stage. Naturally, I would reserve the first two sessions for the exploration stage only, given that the reason for the clients visits are not due to more difficult problems (i.e. suicide, rape, multiple personalities). Alth

Development of Intimate Relationships Section One : Relationship Formation The formation of relationships has always been of interest to researchers of social psychology, but it was not until the 1970s that the bulk of theory began to emerge. It was during this time that a wide range of paradigms were developed, but "the domain of relationship development is awesomely vast and incom

Child Psych Over the past five days everyone around the world has done a great deal of thinking about family. Living close to the city, I have been greatly affected by the events that occurred on September 11, 2001. As I sat in my dorm room on that dreaded day I thought about what life would be like without my father who is a New York City police officer as well as my uncles and cousin

Consumer Price Index The Consumer Price Index, which is issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, is compiled to measure the movement of prices on goods and services purchased by consumers in the whole country. It is based on prices of the following: § FOOD AND BEVERAGES (breakfast cereal, milk, coffee, chicken, wine, § full service meals and snacks); § § HOUSING (rent of p

Autism Ignorance of sex education has left our society suffering from a variety of venereal diseases, abortions, neglected children, and most chilling death. This issue is a serious problem, not only for our children today, but also for our children of future generations. Sources of education are available almost anywhere, but they are not useful if the go unnoticed. Sex education

Grief An Loss albert ellis and william glasser By: jerry sowles E-mail: kopulso@texas.net Running head: ALBERT ELLIS AND WILLIAM GLASSER Albert Ellis and William Glasser Jerold F. Sowles Webster University - Kelly Air Force Base Abstract Albert Ellis and William Glasser have been in the mainstream of psychological society for over four decades. Both have contributed greatly to mo

Forgetting Have you ever wondered why you just can’t remember that word that is on the tip of your tongue' Or have you ever moved to a new house, but you just can’t get your old address out of your head' There are many explanations about why we forget information. The explanations are not all concrete, but they are a good start in understanding the human memory and the way it works. On