Thus, in order to define the most essential dilemmas, it is purposeful to analyze the challenges and measure to be taken to meet the requirements of professional psychologists.
The traumatic experiences that the police officers encounter and endure during the course of their duties make them susceptible to suicide.
To answer the research question "What is the rate of depression in adults, ages 40-60 years, caring for loved ones with Alzheimer's disease compared to adults of the same age group in the general population?", [...]
Experts at the same time continue to participate in a continuous process of collecting evidence about the role and importance of recognizing the impacts of vicarious trauma that is of developing healthy personal solutions, and [...]
Examples of these techniques include methods of reporting and the formal and informal announcements that violence and other forms of verbal abuse and aggression are not tolerated in the work environment, or even outside of [...]
Confirming presence of cultural bias in psychological assessment and testing, Samuda discussed psychological testing in minority ethnic and cultural groups in the United States.
The Overview of the Environment in Which the Children of Divorce Live The most recent research show the great increase in the number of divorces across the world, which is mostly due to the shift [...]
Group affiliates also have the right to be on familiar terms with the intention of the group, an explanation of the group arrangement, the credentials of the grouping person in charge, the charges and any [...]
Brownmiller argues that rape results from the prevalent male-female struggle in the society where men seek to reclaim their perceived social status and domination through humiliation and degradation of women and this may take the [...]
Bermudez suggests that cultural bias awareness of a therapist can help her to overcome the bias and be effective across cultures.
One of the strength of abstinence is that it offers a permanent solution to the problems caused by drinking alcohol. One of the weaknesses of abstinence as a method of treatment is that it ignores [...]
Patient education is important in order to eradicate any form of misconception that the patients may have about PTSD, and enhance the levels of understanding of the patients, along with an improvement on their ability [...]
Drug and alcohol use among adolescents in the United States tends to increase, and the lack of monitoring the adolescents' behaviors by parents and teachers can lead to developing this tendency in the future.
Because of the increased interracial children in the US, it is projected that the future of this federation will witness a doubling of the number of interracial population.
Item selection is the other component that is used in developing the computer adaptive test where the psychometrics of the test chooses the next item to be administered to the examinee.
Another reason why psychologists have a very valuable training is that, apart from the requirement of receiving medical training, psychologists with the right to prescribe are required to work hand-in-hand with the physician of the [...]
The counselor assumes the emotions and feelings of the client and provides counseling according to the perceived feelings. To achieve this, the counselor shall inform the client of the need to disclose the situation to [...]
It also reveals that the success of any company relies on how the employees shape learning process and how they insert the constant learning processes into the daily routine. This theory offers way to the [...]
According to Getsios and Marton most of the economic models that evaluate the effects of smoke quitting rehabilitation consider the influence of a single quit attempt.
Stigmatization towards individuals with mental health disorder results in different kinds of exclusion and discrimination in the social spheres or the place of work.
The level of TBI has to be defined by means of the analysis of the results of three types of tests: the Glasgow Coma Scale, the duration of post-traumatic amnesia, and the duration of the [...]
The article "Social Impairment in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder" identifies the major challenges facing many people with autism. The authors wanted to examine the social problems and difficulties encountered by individuals with Autism Spectrum [...]
In this study, the researcher seeks to discuss a diagnosis done on a patient, and some of the theoretical models of psychology that can be used to address the problem once it is detected in [...]
The pain begins on the muscles of the back, neck and the shoulder and then spread to the upper and lower extremities.
This narcissist will have a fragile perception of the self in the helpless state, so they may feel compelled to do something to preserve the integrity of the self.
In addition, it is necessary to mention that some of the symptoms which the children in the case study displayed could to be considered as the ones of ADHD.
However, when considering Buss's research in a more general way, one can consider that the answer to the question "Why should humans seek similarity or equity?" summarizes the goal of Buss's research in a nutshell.
In addition, the treatise offers a comparison between the behavior of 'a child of an addict' and 'an adult child of an addict' in order to establish appropriate approaches for offering counseling for each of [...]
The study seeks to confirm the position of the hypothesis that sleep deprivation leads to poor academic performance in college students.
Owen states that an alcohol addict will be unable to control his or her drinking because of the pleasing properties of alcohol and the powerful coercion to drink.
The case of Wilma, a counselor in a community agency, and Donna who is a client suffering from an anxiety disorder and panic attack is a real dilemma. The most appropriate course of action in [...]
Generally, learning is a permanent change in behavior as a result of exposure to a stimulus. This result to a better learning or change in the behavior of the learner.
To this end, the leaders' act remains ethical and professional in the context of group therapy and the ACA Codes of Ethics.
The family is the basic unit of social development meaning that it influences the life of an individual in a number of ways.
The individuals with this disorder largely depend on conflict and desire to self-assert themselves. Childhood disintegrative disorder belongs to the group of autism spectrum disorder.
The test allowed for assessing the scale of the problem that the healthcare specialist had to deal with. In addition, it also provided the measurement of Carla's progress and the efficiency of the intervention.
The article's discussion notes that according to the study's results, 'BTPI is a valid tool in the prediction of premature termination from counseling'.
Alcohol is a depressant that alters the transmission of messages between the brain and the rest of the body. There is a lot of advocacy on the dangerous effects of alcohol and cannabis use.
A meta-analysis of numerous studies relating to attachment and parental rearing behaviors have revealed that the quality of rapport between children and their caregivers is of intrinsic importance to the children's development, and some studies, [...]
Autism largely is connected to communication abilities of a child, a situation that later results into the child experiencing disability problems in effectively encoding and decoding communicative messages.
However, it is possible to conclude that the reason for Brandon's stress is his biased attitude towards his father and his father's girlfriend, not only in his being abused by his father.
In some cases, the patient may be forced to grapple with the pain for a very long period even if the doctors are sure that the chances of the pain going away are minimal to [...]
It is due to this that numerous fields of study have come about specifically to answer such questions yet this creates a second challenge; namely the fact that each particular field of academic research has [...]
It is applicable in the sense that the relationship between personality and behavior has been brought out in the interview to indicate the delicate interplay in determining the affects of change in an organization.
As an aide to the natural memory, the parallel distributed processing in the brain is capable of recognizing and visualizing similar images and patterns.
One of the end results of divorce is the change of the emotional and mental state of an individual. Counseling was introduced in the country in the 1950s owing to the recognition of the vitality [...]
If the physical setting of an organization is favorable for the employees, they will desire to stay there longer and deliver the best of their abilities in the services they offer.
The point is that those people who suffer from chemical addiction are not always ready to cope with anxiety, passion, and weaknesses caused by the required cessation of using drugs, and the main task of [...]
If a person had a history of ridicule and humiliation as a child, he or she may develop an excessive fear of the same in adulthood and will go through great lengths to avoid ridicule.
In the preceding discussions, the fundamental concepts of research methodology in psychology are highlighted through explaining the scientific method, distinguishing between quantitative and qualitative data, and finally describing the process of scientific theory construction and [...]
The effects of the use of marijuana can be comparable to those exhibited by the removal of this important part of the brain.
The mean of the scales will be used to determine the level of the physical attractiveness of the female models to be used in the advertisement.
It is important to understand the aspects of drug abuse and addiction in order to contribute substantially in the prevention programs formulated to curb the vice.
Alcoholism is the taking of alcoholic beverages to an extent that it can interfere with the physical behavior and activities of the alcoholic person.
Method Variance is when the correlation of different trait and one method is stronger than different traits and different methods. This is the only validity measurement that uses multiple traits and methods to measure a [...]
The variables used in the study were gender, difficulty of the tests, and the perception of stereotype threat. The results of the data were that the implication of stereotype threat did in fact negatively affect [...]
From the results of the three experiments, the authors conclude that action video playing results to improvement in visual-spatial attention for VGPs and trained NVGPs.
The problem of discussion in this project is the issue of suicide among the elderly persons in the world and in the United States of America in particular.
While reducing the amount of sleeping hours to seven and less can possibly lead to sleep deprivation and the further changes for the worse in a human body, eight hours are no longer the borderline [...]
For these criteria to be effective in diagnosing a child with ADHD, the following symptoms have to be present so that the child can be labelled as having ADHD; the child has to have had [...]
One thing which is common in computer use is that computers have increased efficiency and minimized the time spent on tasks. In the end, computers have destroyed the friendships, families and the very relationships that [...]
As high levels of depression in women depend on ovarian function, estrogen has been observed to be the cause of depression in women, and is, thus, a possible agent for the management of depression.
In psychology, competence ensures clients are treated for the respective disorders and the diagnosis is for the right ailments. Competence is the key to successive and objective professionalism.
The woman is carrying a pregnancy she did wish to have and it was forced into her, the psychologist is faced with the dilemma when advising the mother on whether the conceived fetus has rights [...]
A general manager who is the head of a management team executes the goals of a team and for the manager to perform his duties; he has to work closely with the technical bench of [...]
As such, using the ideas formulated by evolutionary psychologists, it makes sense to argue that human behaviors are as a result of psychological adaptations that evolve in a bid to cope with the environment, social [...]
The reasoning for this test is that the higher a participant's response to physical appearance compliments and corrections, the higher the reliability of their answers.
Depression in the elderly differs from depression in the young in a number of ways. Older people with depression are twice as likely to develop cardiac diseases, and the consequent increase in the risk of [...]
Using this theory, it is evident that children are likely to take the behaviours of other people in the society; especially they are exposed to such behaviours for a substantial time.
Because of that, the eating, personality, and sexual identity disorders are caused by the brain disturbances leading to abnormal communications between the brain and the respective body receptors.
The Hampton-Newport Community Services Board offers a broad range of mental well-being and drug abuse services and care for people with mental and developmental disorders. The agency works together with certified psychoanalysts and psychologists in [...]
The question of nurture and nature as been there since the Darwinian era with the argument taking three sides: some say that culture is to blame; others argue it is instinct and thirdly some argue [...]
The uniqueness of this study stems from the fact that it would provide a clear understanding of the most effective intervention/basis for physicians and parents to pursue in the management of sleep disorders among infants [...]
In the given paper, the issue of psychological disorders is being addressed in reference to the ideas expressed in Chapter 11 "Psychological Disorders" in Carole Wade and Carol Tavris's Invitation to Psychology.
In fact, the researchers intended to categorize the psychopathology incidence amongst the paramedics, as well as the correlations amid the exposure to the crucial events and personalities.
Specifically, the author refers to the concept of personal identity in the context of continuity of memory. The analysis of the latter emphasizes the significance of introducing embodiment and free will to explain an aspect [...]
The test is, at times, employed by forensic experts while determining the state of mind of the offender at the time of the crime. The choice of the test construct is depended on the state [...]
The treatment was randomly administered to 15 of the 31 clients while the remaining 16 clients formed the waiting list control.
In the Psychoanalytic Theory, unconscious processes take place in the form of slips of the mind, dreams and visions along with forgotten memories that still linger in the mind and implicit knowledge.
Conducting a research devoted to human sleep habits in children and feeling the affect on their confidence as adults, the existing data should be evaluated and the conclusions are to be drawn in the sphere [...]
Once learning the effects which nicotine has on people's health and the relation between gender and schizophrenia, one can possibly find the ways to prevent the latter and to protect the people in the high-risk [...]
One characteristic of AEM is the mental time travelling on the subjective time in order to connect the past with the current memory status.
The classifications of anxiety disorder include the phobias, the generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, agoraphobia, social anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, separation anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder.
This essay discusses the research setting and sample, the selection of the setting and the data collection procedure to be used during the project.
Individuals who were exposed to acts of violence in the past are likely to try and expose others to similar conditions. The inability to diagnose is attributed to the fact that the effects of these [...]
It is against this background that this paper summarizes the evidence to support the suggestion that there are differences in brain function between pedophiles and non-pedophiles.
In most cases, these incidences of women abuse occur within the confine of a family set up or relationship where one partner tends to mistreat, mishandle, abuse and assaults the other partner and in most [...]
According to Freud, the most important thing in the history of the Jewish from captivity to return to freedom is not the later but the repression of Moses' murder and its effects.
However, information for the management of the disorder is scanty in the blog. The blog is missing a lot of therapeutic information in addition to the fact that there is no direct relationship between the [...]
The dimension of the baby's head is also seen to decrease in quantity from on third of the whole body at birth, to a quarter at the age of two years and to an eighth [...]
It is believed that people's reactions to stress that they encounter in life is one of the factors that leads to changes in the levels of the chemicals that are involved in bodily changes such [...]
The need to understand the complex interplay between a number of variables, including genetics, environmental factors, clinical, psychological and social processes, in the development of brain disorders and the resultant behavioural and cognitive deficiencies informed [...]
The traumatic experiences that the police officers encounter and endure during the course of their duties make them susceptible to depression, suicide, and alcoholism.
Thus, obedience can be seen to have multiple meanings in the filed of psychology and the work of Ribot and Koocher and Keith-Spiegel turn out to be the source of Milgram's definition of obedience that [...]
This means that it is the presence of the bipolar disorder that alters the functioning of the brain circuits as opposed to the brain circuits leading to the presence of the disease.
The study particularly considered the gender and the race of the participants and the effect the two had on sexual harassment of the victims.
In the case of Mary, who is a police officer, she experienced a traumatic event when she was travelling in a police car; the police car was driven at a high speed at a roundabout [...]
In spite of the fact that governments and agencies across the world have made significant steps in the fight against depression, there is compelling evidence that we are yet to be fully effective in translating, [...]
The manifestation of the disorder and the difficulties that they cause, as posited by the American Psychiatric Association, are typically more pronounced when a person is involved in some piece of work such as studying [...]
The summarized study, titled "Revised Psychopharmacological Algorithms for the Treatment of Mood Disorders in Japan", was therefore informed by the need to develop new algorithms for the psychopharmacological treatment of depression and related disorders, particularly [...]
That is why the investigation was developed to prove or disprove such hypotheses as the dependence of higher rates of anxiety of adolescents with ADHD on their diagnosis, the dependence of ODD and CD in [...]
The model was used to investigate the effectiveness of processes used in testing interference control and task-set management in adults with ADHD disorder.
Lack of transport and communication services and scarcity of funds for sensitive respite seems to be essential determinants of morbidity. Therefore, it is necessary to raise awareness pertaining to psychological wellbeing in relation to the [...]
Abuse during childhood causes MPD as explained in the following paragraph A child who experiences severe abuse in the hands of their parent is often unable to assimilate the action of the loving parent to [...]
It is noted that majority of the people that suffer from anorexia disorder are those that suffer from low-self esteem. The eating disorder makes bodies of people suffering from Anorexia nervosa struggle to manage insufficient [...]
It also requires the role of research and statistics in the field of psychology. Statistics is used in to support the hypothesis and conclusions in research methodology.
By following the steps in the model in a sequential manner, the crisis worker is able to guide the clients into resolution of the crisis.
This research design is correlation since it tends to relate perceptions of the reporters on scientists and their actual behavior by provoking their personalities by sending them harsh judgments.
The purpose of an independent variable was to expose the participants to the prescribed conditions for the experiment, which was to test the influence of social talk on the attitude towards body type.
On the other hand, the goodies that ensue from being obedient form the basis of his courage to adhere to set rules and do the will of his authorities.
The cause of this behavior is the fact that people feel welcomed to a certain group of people and political party due to the views and principles upheld by these groups.
Most aggressive children are likely to experience some rejection and such rejection creates a feeling of rejection, and thus most of the times live as outcasts.
It is based on this that it can be stated that, knowledge of one's ascertained impending demise has the possibility of affecting a person's psychological stability to such an extent that it results in socially [...]
Making the test real to life is a way of increasing validity. Different types of evidence are used to establish the validity of a test.
The paper is composed of a matrix that gives detailed information on the major DSM IV-TR categories of schizophrenia and psychosis, and lifespan development as well as the various classifications of schizophrenia and psychosis, and [...]
The control group listened to the piece of music only at the original tempo. This design of this study aimed to explore the relationship between music tempo and cognitive speed.
Grounded theory is used to explain the manner in which data is analyzed; it is evident that in this method, data is analyzed from the group moving upwards.
Stockhorst, Enck, and Klosterhalfen assert that, proper understanding of the placebo effects and classical conditioning of certain drugs is very important in calculating appropriate dose of drugs to minimize development of tolerance and addiction to [...]
The traumatic experiences that the police officers encounter and endure during the course of their duties make them susceptible to depression.
The victims of such oppression in the societies are usually the minority groups in the society like those with disabilities. The number of times that such experiences have occurred in an individual's life may affect [...]