Borderline Personality Disorder Borderline Personality disorder 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

Bottoms Up I often have to blink my eyes several times when I see something that surprises me. Recognition is a key element of our human culture. How we perceive something determines how we will act, react, or feel. There are certain ways our mind interprets things we encounter in the world. Our mind can fundamentally follow one of two approaches: bottom-up or top down processing. These

Brain The understanding of how the neuron (the basic functional cell of the nervous system) works is fundamental to all processes such as sensation, perception, memory, emotion, cognition, etc., in health and in disease. In this article, the second of a series on the fundamentals of the neuron, you will learn how inorganic ions, the cell membrane and basic processes, such as diff

Brain Discuss The Relationship Between Brain Size And Intelligence The brain is the most complex machine in the world. It is the thing that we think, wonder, create, and perceive with. However, little is known about this amazing machine, this is not to say that there has been little research done on the brain, merely that there is such a vast amount that remains utterly inexplicable to

Bullying -Bullying- Bullying among children is understood as repeated, negative acts committed by one or more children against another. These negative acts may be physical or verbal in nature – for example, hitting or kicking, teasing or taunting – or they may involve indirect actions such as manipulating friendships or purposely excluding other children from activities. Bullying us

Business Communication _Unemployment and it's effects _ By: Felix Hernandez Unemployment Ever think about what happens to people when they loose their job' Where do they go' What do they do' How do they provide for their family' These are everyday facts about unemployment, one of the largest measuring sticks for an economy. Unemployment is an important facet of every economy. Althou

Can The Use Of Linguistic Power Persuade Us' Can the Use of Linguistic Power Persuade Us' Which style of languages do we use to persuade someone' Do we speak with more assertiveness and confidence in our tone of voice' Do we communicate with our body language' Do we tend to pay more attention to the opposite sex addressing the message' The key thing that studies have shown is that indi

Carl Jung (Yellow Wallpaper-Intgraversion/Extraversion) Carl Jung attributes two psychological types of human nature as the reason behind our actions and personalities: introversion and extraversion. Jung describes that in the case of the extravert, it is like “…the object works like a magnet upon the tendencies of the subject” (Jung 11) and in the case of the introvert, “…the subject i

Career Decision Making: Evaluating And Applying Current Theoretical Models Due to the difficult process of career-decision making for the majority of the population, researchers have formulated four main theories to better understand the complex relationships between the different factors that influence this important decision. Self-efficacy, abilities, interests, and personality types

Career Paper I wish to become a counseling psychologist in the future. I have done some research on what psychologists do and I think I would like to become one. I would like to get my master’s degree so I could work under the supervision of a psychologist and may also be able to go into counseling. I don’t know where or which college I’ll enroll in to study. According to the Occupatio

Carl Rogers Gudoo! Don’t you have any manners' You are eating like an animal!” slap! “Look at the time!” slap! “Is it the time to play'” “If you don’t study you will become one of the street beggars!” “How many times have I told you not to run around the house' Now I won’t let you out of your room for two hours!” How many times have the parents around the world used these kinds of s

Brain Psychology Another study of psychology is learning. Learning is relatively permanent change in behavior that arises from experience. A type of learning is classical conditioning. Classical conditioning is a “simple form of associative learning that enables organism to anticipate events.” The types of classical conditioning are delayed, simultaneous, trace and backward condit

Chemical Biological Warfare CHEMICAL BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS Chemical biological weapons (CBW) have become a startlingly real threat during the past century. At http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/chemical.html, (you might have to copy and paste this link if it does not work automatically) I found a wealth of declassified government documents relating to chemical biological warfare. Th

Autism Autism Children with autism will grow and can learn, even if it might be at a different development rate than other children. Many professionals in the field of autism agree, developing an appropriate community-base education and treatment program for an individual with autism at an early age is an important step to ensure the child will reach his or her potential. Not to s

Child 101 The child on which I am writing this paper is completely imaginary. First of all allow me to lay out the bio of the child; he is 5 years old, both of his parents are together, normal height and weight, good student, comes from a hard working middle class family. The behavior that I am seeking to change is a gross bad habit. That bad habit is placing chewed bubble gum under

Autism Autism Sleep deficiency, having a high pain and fear thresh hold, poor social skills and echolalia are all common characteristics of autism. Autism is a "neurobiological disorder" that impairs communication and social skills. There is as of yet no clear consensus on the exact cause of autism. Still there are many theories and assumptions made by parents and their physicians. Thi

Child Abuse Today in America, there is an increasing interest in the treatment and prevention of sexual assault of children and adolescents. There have been several attempts to defining what constitutes sexual abuse. Perhaps no single act causes such strong emotions as the act of child sexual abuse. Child molesters can not even find refuge in prisons where rapists and murderers are c

Child And Adolescents Article Review Summary The article review is from the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Titled Life Course Outcomes of Young People With Anxiety Disorders in Adolescence. The specific aims of the study were to document associations between the extent of anxiety disorder in adolescence and (14 – 16 years) and a r

Autism Autistic individuals typically have problems processing auditory information. One auditory processing problem occurs when a person hears speech sounds but he/she does not perceive the meaning of the sounds. For example, if someone says the word ‘shoe,’ the person may hear the speech sound, but he/she does not understand the meaning of the sound. Sometimes the lack of speech compre

Child Development Theories Understanding how children and adolescents grow and determining the stage process is a complicated compilation of theories. Many philosophers and doctors have their own philosophy of how the body and mind develop. There is no right and wrong in their philosophies, they are estimates of human growth. While some theories can be directly applied to a person, so ca

Child Labor I. INTRODUCTION In a developing country like the Philippines, the child labor phenomenon remains widespread. Today, we find hundreds of thousands of Filipino children being deprived of the oppurtunity to share in the prospects of development. The door of the opportunity is close on them simply because their “childhood is wasted in premature work (ILD 1994) rather than nur

Child Psych Abstract An important question for child care researchers today is how characteristics of the home and the child care setting together affect children’s development. There is mixed opinion on how differences and similarities between professionals’ beliefs, values and practices for raising children impact their development. There is strong theoretical support for the id

Childhood Depression Childhood depression Childhood Depression In recent years, we have heard of depression and the affects of the disorder, and what medications and theories help to prevent depression in adults. Many people are not aware that not only is depression diagnosed in adults, recently studies show that depression is diagnosed in adolescents. Not only adults become depressed.

Children And Latchkey Depression is a deteriorating and serious illness that involves the body, mood and thoughts. It changes the way a person eats and sleeps, the way one feels about oneself, and the way one thinks about things. It also is a disease that does not discriminate. Many adolescents suffer from depression and it’s popular link teen suicide. Its no surprise that Latchkey chi

Children And Television We live in an era where both parents are often working and children have more unsupervised time. Watching television is the number one after-school activity for children. They spend approximately twenty-two to twenty-eight hours per week viewing television, making this activity the most common out of all child activities, besides sleeping. Each year children sp

Clinical Psychology Clinical Psychology The word psychology can translate to mean “the science of the soul.” Since Aristotle, psychology has become both a science and a profession. As a profession, it is the application of understanding people and their behavior to help solve human problems (Careers, 1993). A psychologist usually concentrates on one specialty that is of particular intere

Civil War Meets Social Psycology Civil War Meets Psychology Psychology is always a major part in wars of the world. Wars come about because of people who think differently than others. The Civil War was a war where basically only Americans were involved. This war had the most American casualties. The Civil War was one of America’s worst wars, because the winners were also losers.

Civilization And Its Discontents For many years Ireland has been internationally recognised as a nation who enjoy the odd tipple. You only have to browse through the various mementos on sale in such shops as Mary’s on O’Connell St, or O’Carrolls on Grafton St, to understand why this image of a boozy nation is so renound worldwide. We intentionally export the jovial image of the drunken

Classical Conditioning Classical Conditioning Have you ever wondered why your mouth waters when for example the microwave beeps that it is done' Or why your dog gets hyper or drools when he hears you from a far distance yell dinnertime' The way we learn these things are through a process called Classical Conditioning. It started when a Russian physiologist named Ivan Pavlov found th

Cognitive Therapy For Depression Cognitive behavioral therapy helps improve people’s moods and behavior by changing their way thinking; also, how they interpret events and talk to themselves. This form of psychotherapy helps guide people into thinking more realistically and teaches them coping strategies to deal with their depression. Cognitive therapy is in most cases a short- term