Journal Article Analysis

Certain feelings have been known to raise some uneasiness amongst caregivers when dealing with their clients. This is an area that has been overlooked by researchers and has therefore not been able to be addressed in graduate training programs in many parts of the world. This article explores to expose the existence of these feelings amongst therapists and what they say about them. The feelings that will be looked at include feelings of anger, hate, fear, and being sexually attracted to clients. Summary...

Article Review

Since few decades, there has been rapid advancement in the field of science and technology that enabled humans to identify and explain different processes of human intelligence, a major notion for experts globally. The selected article is an attempt of Emily Singer that has played a remarkable role in explaining the notion of intelligence while relating it with human brain. In the earlier section of the article, Emily discussed that since many years, there has been practice of understanding intelligence...

History of Career Guidance Movement from 1900s to 2000

Timeline of significant events related to career guidance movement from 1900 to 2000 I. Beginnings of the concept of Career guidance (1900s) The emergence of the Industrial Revolution and the industrialism The 1910 National Conference on Vocational Guidance II. Rise of the Thinkers for career guidance movement Francis Galton and his student James Catell John Stuart Mill Alfred Binet Theophile Simon John Dewey III. Era of Frank Parsons who is credited with spearheading the career guidance movement...

Axia College Material

Appendix A Final Project Overview and Timeline Final Project Overview Your final project for GEN 105 is a Student Survival Guide. To complete your project, you will draw from skills and information you learned in the course. Your Student Survival Guide will be composed of personal action plans designed to achieve success in six primary areas Using Axias Educational Resources, Upholding Academic Honesty, Setting and Achieving Goals, Managing Time Wisely, Fostering Reading Comprehension and Retention,...

Job Satisfaction Significance to Employees

Jane was so much excited when she finally landed a job as a journalist. She had always dreamt of becoming a print journalist one day and when the Daily Mail gave her the job, she was very happy. Eleven months have now passed and she is not content with her job. What she lacks is job satisfaction. Jane is just an example of so many other people who are not satisfied with the jobs they are having. This essay is aimed at expounding the topic of job satisfaction and other topics that are associated...

The Psychology of Judgment and Decision-Making

As a senior manager recruiting for your company, you might find yourself not agreeing with a fellow manager who is also in the recruiting team due to reasons that he does not give. Therefore, you must come up with the issues that he might be using as basic points that make him not want to recruit the prospective employee. A peek at a few factors that might make him reject the prospective employee are reasons like his general fear of the risk that the company is exposing its operations to another...

Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making

Decision making is defined as the result of cerebral and mental procedures, which directs the individual to select a particular course of action from several options available. The final choice is the outcome of each and every decision making.  Judgment is considered to be the assessment and evaluation of facts, information and data which leads to the formation of decision. In psychological terms, judgment is the cognitive and adjundicational quality of human being, which can influence their...

Memory Process

The  process by which memory is generated and retrieved consists primarily of three phases short-term, long-term and working memory. Each of these phases has unique functions that contribute to the formation and retrieval of memory. Working memory draws information primarily from two sources. (Radstone  Hodgekin, 2003)  These include sensory input (what is being currently perceived by the senses), and information from the long-term memory. (Radstone  Hodgekin, 2003)This stage...

Dysfunctional Relationships

As much as we would wish that the bulk of the relationships people have were stable, the fact remains that a number of relationships devolve into the dysfunctional. As a result, the relationships become problematic and a source of extreme derision. There are many reasons why a relationship can become dysfunctional. The following are three of the most common Loneliness While some may assume that loneliness would strengthen a relationship, it actually leads to a breakdown of the relationship. Those...

Record Keeping

Introduction (This will discuss what a medical record is, what is the purpose of medical record Various purposes will be discussed. The necessity of a record will also be discussed, it will also give a brief over view of the contents of medical record i.e. what constitutes a medical record) Creating and maintaining records Basics of record keeping (SOAP stands for Subjective, Objective, Assessment, Plan.. It is a useful way of record keeping, therefore the paper will discuss how to keep record...

Physical and Sexual Changes in Adolescence

Adolescence is the period in between the beginning of puberty and the capability to take responsibilities of the adult life. Puberty commences with the appearing of secondary sexual characteristics and terminates with the growth of the long bones, where there is no more growth in height (Beckert, 2007). Menstrual cycle begins at puberty in girls. The development of the uterus and the thickening of the virginal walls are promoted by estrogen. There is growth of supporting tissues in the buttocks...

Sexuality Programs

Teenage pregnancy is a concern of the society because of the increasing number of teenage mothers and the impact it has on the society. According to Rathus, Nevid, and Fichner-Rathus ( ), the statistics from www.guttmacher.org demonstrates an estimated birth of half a million from teenage mothers alone per year. In addition to this,  of a million, or roughly 250,000 pregnancies, lead to abortions (Rathus, Nevid,  Fichner-Rathus, ). Among the interventions proposed include artificial and...

Case Study on Sexual Interaction

What factors may explain the changes in Eva and Victors sexual needs and responses Some of the factors which explain the changes in Eva and Victors sexual needs and responses are as follows 1) changes in foreplay, 2) changes in frequency of marital coitus, and changes in coitus. As the person ages, the length in which heshe engages in foreplay increases significantly. However, at age 50, the length in which the individual (which varies from individual to individual  from male to female) engages...

How does the unconscious mind make itself felt

Topic THE Unconscious mind The Unconscious Mind was originally a Freudian notion in which he explained the unconscious to be suppressed memory For decades, all human processes were thought to be of conscious nature only recently have scientists begun to understand the unconscious mind. Over the decades, the term unconscious has been defined as unintentional thoughtsactions. The things we do consciously are influenced by the unconscious mind - our actions are the effects of stimuli which we are...

Employee Selection and Performance Appraisal

My department puts a very high premium on securing, maintaining and developing the talent and skills necessary for its success. The employee selection process is competent and only lets in the candidates who are most qualified for the particular job. The performance appraisal process, during which employees achievements are assessed against their individual goals and the department goals, is equally thorough and rigorous. Employee selection Employee selection at the department is a thorough process...

Measures of Central Tendency, Variability, Skewness and Kurtosis

Measures of central tendency are a group of descriptive statistics that measures the central values of a certain variable distribution. Measures of central tendency include three measures which are the mean, median and the mode. On the other hand, measures of variability are measures that determine the spread of a certain variable distribution. The most common measures of variability are variance and standard deviation. Both measures of central tendency and variability are used to describe the distribution...

Edward Chace Tolmans Behaviorism Theory

Behaviorism is a theory which is sometimes called Learning Perspective, and it focuses on the objectively observable behaviors of both animals and human beings. The theory overlooks mental activities. According to behaviorists, learning is just but a process of acquiring new behavior. According to this philosophy of psychology, everything done, either by acting, thinking or feeling should be counted as behavior.  They point out that, both observable and non-observable processes (mental) should...