Psychology

Edited by Schwartz  Cohn (1996), the book, Sexual Abuse and Eating Disorders focuses on the relationship between sexual abuse and eating disorders.  The book provides statistics revealing that there is sufficient evidence to support the theory that many of the sufferers of eating disorders have been sexually abused either in their childhood or as adults.  But, there is contradictory evidence, too, that the book does not shy away from revealing.  Vanderlinden  Vandereycken,...

My lifes joys are really simple. Mostly, it revolves around my family life of being a sister to my siblings, a loving daughter to my parents, a wife to my loving husband, and above all, a mother to the most precious of gifts that I have been blessed withmy kids.  It comes natural then that I aspire to be the best of what I can become in my profession and my education, to serve as a role model for my kids on the true importance of achieving their lifes dreams through higher education. Perhaps...

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder or OCD is a disorder in which the patient feels compelled to perform an activity such as washing or rubbing in a repetitive manner. These activities serve to reduce the anxiety felt by the patient and when the activity is not done, the patients anxiety increases. The paper describes the research conducted upon OCD and the most commonly used treatment. It was found that most people with OCD do not know the treatment for OCD. Surprisingly, even health professionals are...

According to The Merriam Websters Dictionary (2009), attention is defined as the act or state of applying the mind to something. The secondary definition of this term states a condition of readiness for such attention involving especially a selective narrowing or focusing of consciousness and receptivity (Definition of Attention, 2009). In reality this definition is much more complex than the simple wording suggests. Attention involves using ones cognitive skills to focus ones attention, as well...

Recent studies show that the collective rather than the individual is the primary source of intricate meanings in the organizations. The collective becomes the existential focus of differential choices. Indeed, it is often the collective which denotes the conventional idea of sensemaking. The individual becomes an obscure entity of focus. It is the individual which destroys the efficacy of reality it is the engine in which overriding forces like rationality and irrationality converge. Indeed, the...

The question about what human consciousness is all about has presented itself from the very early stages of its conception. Human consciousness does not admit of an exact definition but it is explained by many people from scientific, religious and philosophical perspectives. According to the original description of the Yahwist text, human consciousness is composed of the first testimony of an individuals discovery of his or her own body. Man is a  subject not because of his awareness about...

According to Vaughn (2009), the first year of a babys life is a very significant stage of development. The infancy stage of development is the shortest stage of all stages that a baby undergoes in the process of development. At this stage, the fetus must first adjust to the life outside its mothers womb. The development during this stage is mainly concerned with increase in control of the babys muscles and development of consciousness. The facial structures and the brain of an infant are the first...

In creating a representation of visual system, the brain is entitled to cope with the verity that every given 2- dimensional image of the retina could be the protrusion of innumerable object configurations in 3-dimensional world. As the ambient clarification undergoes alteration, the shape, spectral quality, intensity, and size of the retinal images as well change. To be valuable, perception can never represent the physical image quality, rather, it ought to consider the circumstance in which a...

More than sixty five years ago, Virginia Satir made a debut in the therapy field through her work on family therapy.  She first worked as a school teacher and then a social worker and through her work experience she was able to develop one of the most important models that have been employed in family therapy. From her experience, she came up with an approach which she used to work with families.  Analysts have described Satir as hard working, warm, brilliant, and in touch with her work...

Topic  The main topic that I intend to focus on during my Capstone Project is the Prevention of Juvenile Gang Violence. Gang Violence is one of the more serious issues that are plaguing our society. In areas where gangs hold sway, children and adolescents are not safe from being forced into the gang life, and citizens are not safe from the crimes that gang members commit. The only effective method to deal with juvenile gang violence is to prevent them from joining the gangs to begin with. This...

There are many factors that increase the level of peoples exposure or risk to diseases. Some of them may be environmental, others may be physical while others are social. The human factors include attitudes that people usually have concerning a disease or a certain mode of medication, their cultural beliefs that may bar them from seeking medication and some behaviors that are likely to make them more susceptible to contraction of various diseases. This paper is a research into the risks posed by...

The development and implementation of various drug treatment programs has always been the topic of the major professional concern. While thousands of medical professionals seek to prove the relevance of universal treatment programs and their positive influence on drug treatment outcomes, the issues of culture, ethnicity, and gender are still overlooked. More often than not, drug treatment programs are limited to medicine and environment, with minor attention paid to how the cultural and ethnic backgrounds...

Cognitive behavioral therapy remains one of the most effective methods of addressing the mental disorders due to its ability to identify and indeed modifying the key dysfunctional and emotional thinking. Its effective application is further more effective compared to other therapies in that it factors the input of both the patient and the therapist. In the theory development, Becky Aaron indicated that the negative schemas at any time must be identified and addressed as the basis of generating...

Decision making is a process of purposeful selection of a given objective among a set of alternatives. Decision making has an implication that there are there exists alternative choices to be considered and aimed at identifying only one that has best fits, our  desires, goals, lifestyles, values, just to mention a few and also has the highest probability of effectiveness or success. Decision making is not a separate function of management but as a function, it is intertwined with other management...