Personal Story Middle chilhood refers to the time period of when a child is between the ages six and eleven years old. During this time is when school begins to play a major role in the development of a kid along with the guidance of family members. According to Erickson’s Psychosocial Stages, the child begins to work with others and if they receive negative feedback from their experie

Living With Anorexia Nervosa Living with Anorexia Nervosa In American society women are given the message starting from a very young age that in order to be successful and happy, they must be thin. Eating disorders are on the rise; it is not surprising given the value which society places on being thin. Generally in Western cultures “thin is beautiful”. Television, newspapers and ma

Self-medication The New Epidemic Self Medication: The New Epidemic Untold damage and suffering is caused by alcohol and drug abuse. Each year substance abusers, as well as their families and friends are suffering needlessly. The suffering may continue, treated as addiction rather than as an underlying physical or psychological disorder. The substance abuser may have many reasons to

Mental Illness Dysthymic Disorder is described as chronic depression, but is less severe than a major depression. The main symptom for dysthymic disorder is an almost daily depressed mood for at least two years, but without the necessary criteria for a major depression. Low energy, sleep, appetite disturbances, and low self-esteem are signs of having this mood disorder. People who h

Teenage Suicide Suicide has been said to be a permanent solution to a temporary problem. It has been estimated for every successful suicide, there is between two hundred to three hundred people who will attempt it (Vannetta 1996). According to statistics provided by National Center for Health Statistics (2000), an average of 30,000 suicide deaths occur in the United States each year.

Dibs In Search Of Self In most cases, play therapy is used to observe the acts of a child. Doctor Axline used play therapy with Dibs to help him feel more comfortable. In the room she could have observed him and how he interacted with the items. If she were in her office, she might not have had any luck in helping him. The environment of a play therapy room must be familiar to the patien

Control Through Coercive Persuasion CONTROL THROUGH COERCIVE PERSUASION How does one define control' Webster’s dictionary defines control as “to exercise restraining or directing influence over” or to regulate and rule. (Merriam-Webster’s p. 252) There are many methods of control used by people and organizations. Propaganda and persuasion are two methods of exerting influence over

Atypical Depression Depression affects an estimated eighteen million Americans each year, more than cancer and almost as many as heart disease. It not only affects thinking and feeling, but acting as well. It is a total body illness which alters a person’s thoughts, feelings, behavior, physical health and appearance. More women are likely to become depressed than men, especially if they

Communication In today’s fast paced world we could all benefit from being better listeners. It seems most of our communication problems come from misinterpreting information. Some of the bad listening habits we seen to have include fraudulent and monopolistic listening. Also while we are supposed to be listening we sometimes complete, avoid, or attack before all the information has be

Reefer Maddness The Webster’s Online Dictionary defines marijuana as the dried leaves and flowering tops of the pistillate hemp plant that yield THC and are smoked in cigarettes for their intoxicating effect. The heated debate over whether or not reaching this intoxicated state is illegal has been heating up recently. If you read any government funded articles, marijuana i

Restaurant Tipping The purpose of this study was to determine the different factors that can have an effect on restaurant tipping. While party size, weather conditions, day of the week they are visiting, alcohol consumption and method of payments have all shown to be factors in a tipping percentage these studies focused on different gestures and mannerisms that the server can administer

Review And Evaluate Evidence For A Biological Basis To Personality. Personality is often described as simply one’s distinctive personal character. However, personality is a much more complex area in which biologists and psychologists have pondered over for many years. It can be defined as the relatively unchanging and distinctive patterns of one’s thoughts, behaviors and feelings, whic

Review Of 3 Magazines Magazines such as Cosmopolitan, Playboy, or Sports Illustrated Swimsuit are 3 very different magazines. I will start with the beginning. The cover. Cosmo will usually put an actress or supermodel on the cover of their magazines. The current is a model. She is wearing a top that shows off a lot of cleavage, some of her midriff, and tight pants. The top story i

Review Of “Prior Interpersonal Trauma: The Contribution To Current PTSD Symptoms In Female Rape Victims.” The purpose of the study described in this article was to separate the effects of prior childhood sexual or physical abuse from the effects of prior adult sexual or physical abuse as determining or predicting factors in the development of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD. The

Reviving Ophelia Book Summary & Review on Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls By Mary Pipher, Ph.D. Summary: Astonishingly, more adolescent females are growing up in today’s society only to endure many more hardships than in preceding generations. In her book, Reviving Ophelia, Mary Pipher attempts to deliver insights into the reasons why adolescent femal

Personality Types Personality types The enduring characteristics of an individual's behavior, attitude, and feelings in everyday social situations make up personality. There are many influences on an individual's personality, including culture, genetics, and early family life (as an infant or young child). Certain studies have shown that people with certain personality characteri

Run For Your Life Run for Your Life In this chapter, the experiments set out to test whether physical fitness, life stress, and health are directly related to each other. To test this, the researcher used correlational studies. Correlational research is an investigation of the relationships between two variables. The data found is reported as a correlation coefficient, which is me

Roles Association To Social Behavior Do people have control over how they act or do the roles in which they are placed determine their behavior' Philip K. Zimbardo, professor of Psychology at Stanford University, began researching this question, by setting up a mock prison. To do this, he placed an advertisement in the Palo Alto City newspaper, stating that male college students were nee

Roles Of Parenting Adolescence: Whose Hell is It' Essay written by: uhcroll Throughout the article, “Adolescence: Whose Hell is It'” by Virginia Rutter, there is an astonishing analysis on the way teens behave today and how parents are responding to their behavior in return. Rutter points out that as the adolescent rates of depression, suicide, substance abuse, delinquency, sexual acti

Sadness The Sadness of People Introduction What is my Topic' The issue that I will research is the extent to which people experience depression. The reason why I have decided on this topic is because I have many loved ones who have suffered from this condition, and who don’t understand any aspect of the illness. After defining the illness, as well as researching symptoms and beha

Sadomasochism The sadist in the sadomasochistic pair is the person who inflicts the pain or punishment; the masochist is the person who submits to the pain, humiliation or control of his or her partner. What appears to the outsider to be painful, even very painful, is experienced as somewhat painful but mostly pleasurable and very sexually arousing to the sadomasochist. Many peop

Schizophrenia Schizophrenia Schizophrenia is a mental health issue or disease that affects the brain; it causes major problems with the thinking, emotions, and behavior process in the brain. Schizophrenia by all means is not a split personality, but a rare disorder; it is different than all other disease. Schizophrenia has a biological base; its not caused by bad parenting or persona

Beliefs Of My Life It is not always easy to determine the values and beliefs in which a person lives their life. Some people devote their lives to religion, or to make other people happy, and some a varying amount of things. When I was asked to determine what values and beliefs I live my life by, I had to look deep inside myself, and in doing so I have established three tenets which I

Saving Human Life Saving Human Life For many years people from all over the world have been arguing whether assisted suicide should be legalized. Assisted suicide is when a doctor or medical staff person prescribes a lethal amount of medication with the intent of helping a person commit suicide. The patient then takes the dose or turns the switch (Gregory). Groups of Americans believ

Schizophrenia Types of Schizophrenia Schizophrenia is a group of disorders that are characterized by the loss of contact with reality, and the marked disturbances of thought and perception as well as bizarre behavior. This mental disease is among the most debilitating and complex mental disease. Roughly one percent of the world is afflicted with this particular illness. Schizop

Schizopherina Schizophrenia is a common mental disorder striking one percent or one in one hundred people worldwide. It knows no boundaries affecting people of all races, of all cultures, and of all social classes. The emergence of schizophrenia is more common between late adolescence or early adulthood. Men seem to develop the disease at a younger age then women. The disease is very com

Schizophrenia Schizophrenia is one of the most serious and complex disorders of the mind. The disease is an abnormal decay of the person’s mental functions. Schizophrenia is an often-misunderstood disease; it is usually confused with Multiple Personality Disorder. According to Webster’s Dictionary Schizophrenia is defined as any of a group of psychotic disorders usually characterized by

Schizophrenia Schizophrenia is a group of mental disorders that involve disturbances in thought, perception, affect, behavior, and communication, which usually lasts for longer than six monthes. Schizophrenia is a disease that takes place in the brain. The exact causes for it have not been identified. It does appear however that Schizophrenia is somewhat genetic. It has also be

Schizophrenia The Causes and Symptoms Schizophrenia Schizophrenia : A life destroyer. Schizophrenia is one of the most common serious psychiatric illnesses in the United States. “In fact schizophrenia hits one person in every hundred. In the United States alone there are a minimum of two million schizophrenics” (Walsh 52). The causes for schizophrenia are not fully known and are still

Schizophrenia Schizophrenia Schizophrenia is a serious, chronic mental disorder characterized by loss of contact with reality and disturbances of thought, mood, and perception. Schizophrenia is the most common and the most potentially sever and disabling of the psychosis, a term encompassing several severe mental disorders that result in the loss of contact with reality along with maj