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Cancer Has Spread Lymph Nodes
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Anti Social Behavior Long Term Care
1,302 words... be decidedly concluded from this study is that ethnicity is a decided factor in evaluating those who are prepared to undertake group treatment. As indicated, there is no paucity of research in the area regarding anti-social behavior and group conflicts. One study identified 196 homeless and 194 housed, poor families in Los Angeles, CA in order to gain an understanding of events that precipitate anti-social behavior. This anti-social behavior was connected to homelessness in this particular s...
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Electro Convulsive Therapy American Journal Of Psychiatry
1,253 wordsSince its introduction to the world in the mid 1930 s, electro convulsive shock therapy, or ECT, has been one of the most effective and least understood treatments in psychiatry. The technique itself has changed in many ways since its conception and is now considered a safe and effective treatment of patients with major depressive disorder, manic episodes, schizophrenia, and other serious mental disturbances. However, the neurobiological changes critical to the therapeutic success of ECT have no...
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Divorced Children Vs Married Parents Part 2
1,933 words... was significantly more prevalent among those who had experienced parental divorce in latency as compared with those who had experienced it before school age or in adolescence. The prevalence in the two latter groups was very close to that of males from non-divorced families. Among females, the time of parental divorce was not associated with the prevalence of depression in young adulthood. Depression was significantly more common in all groups than among females from non-divorced families. F...
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Rheumatoid Arthritis Chronically Ill
1,957 words... the medical profession. Early reports from the USA suggest that the consequences for patients will be even more unfortunate than we have seen to date. The rising cost of primary care for all patients is tremendous. This often results in ill children being forced out of hospitals before fully recovering. The American Journal of Diseases of Children reports that some aspects of HMO policies were found to operate against the interest of families with chronically ill children. In particular, HMO...
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Corporal Punishment Child Abuse
1,189 wordsChild Abuse and Adult Behavior Child abuse, and its possible effects on the relationship that the children, now adults, form with their own children. Down Nation Adobe Saint Leo University Abstract My experiment will consist of 347 families with a child age 3 through 17 at home. Child abuse information will be obtained from a randomly selected child in each family. Child abuse will be defined as an attack by a parent involving punching, kicking, biting, hitting with an object, beating up, or usi...
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Womens Basketball Physical Characteristics
1,456 wordsEpidemiology of Varsity Sports Varsity sports is in many schools as important as academics, especially in the United States. These schools rely a great deal on the success of their teams for financial stability and enrollment interest. The athletes as well take their sport very seriously, if only for the sake of their pride. It therefore follows that each team strives to be the very best, and only 100 % effort is enough. Unfortunately, when competition climaxes, more often than not injuries resu...
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Personality Traits Ethical Dilemmas
3,643 wordsThe Controversies Surrounding Cosmetic Psychopharmacology Throughout one s life generalizations and characterizations are made about one s personality. It starts almost the second one is born, She has a cranky demeanor, she cries all the time. During the school years children are characterized as outgoing, energetic, antisocial, shy, aggressive, etc. These characterizations lead to the generalizations of the loners, the overachievers, etc. , all of which continue with the person throughout their...
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1,027 wordsCreativity Creativity is the sole heart of modernization, technology and the arts. Without creativity, humanity would still thrive in caves. There is no argument against creativity being an important aspect of our society, there is, however, a question whether creativity is spawned by mental disorder. Albert Einstein came up with ideas that seemed impossible or eccentric. Froyd's psychology theorems were laughed at, but now widely used and accepted. Both men were highly successful with their wor...
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American Medical Association American Journal Of Psychiatry
1,329 wordsDepression and Suicide In Adolescents. As a state of extreme grief and all-encompassing sadness, depression, if left untreated, may lead to a deliberate murder of oneself, suicide. Depression effects individuals with out discriminating against race, gender, or age, yet among adolescents, the incidents of depression have increased significantly. Such increase is the potential cause of the rise of suicide rates amidst adolescents. Therefore it is imperative to treat depression before attempts of s...
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Compulsive Gamblers Legalized Gambling
2,085 wordsGambling is prominent in todays society. This can be seen especially through politics. Everywhere voters are electing people to office who are pro gambling. William Thompson of the University of Nevada (1994) describes politicians by stating, Its part of the American landscape, theyll trade morality for dollars (1). In North and South Carolina, for example, the last governor election showed that the people were for legal gambling by voting in governors who wanted a lottery. Now in the U. S. , 47...
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Loneliness And Isolation Sense Of Community
2,060 wordsEmile Durkheim: Sociology 1. Describe where you searched and the resources you found. Cites your most interesting sources. Our class text book written by Macionis, explained that Emile Durkheim was a pioneer of sociology who studied suicide. Interested to know more, I went to the main library at San Diego State University. I sat down at a computer and opened the SDSU Library PAC. PAC is an acronym for Public Access Catalogue, a database of all the books in the SDSU library. I did an author searc...
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Law Abiding Citizens Los Angeles Times
2,223 wordsIn some cases, gun control may be favored even if the price is more death. Consider, for example, H. Laurence Ross review of Gary Kleck's book Point Blank in the American Journal of Sociology. Kleck's book was awarded the Hindelang Prize, as the most significant contribution to criminology in the last three years; Ross praises Kleck's meticulous research and analysis, and Kleck's debunking of many of the myths surrounding the gun issue. And Ross does not deny Kleck's conclusion that, because han...
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Identity Formation Adoptive Parents
2,253 wordsHaving children is a real task. However, adopted children presents a bigger challenge to many people. Adopted children have many issues with who they are due to a lack of a blood bond with their adopted parents. Over the years, there have been many questions raised about adoptees and their problems with identity formation. Many of top the researchers on this subject agree on the causes of identity formation problems in adolescent adoptees, while many other researchers conclude that there is no s...
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2,156 wordsThere is a large drug problem facing the United States today, and this problem extends to all citizens. It? s not just the poor and the uneducated who are effected by this problem. The most largely used illegal drug in the United States is Marijuana, and thus is the drug law enforcement and the media tends to target the most, costing the taxpayers lots and lots of money. I will show you that Marijuana is not as large and evil as it may appear, and that if legalized the economy would be strengthe...
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Mental Illness Witch Hunts
2,574 wordsBeliefs and theories about mental illness vary greatly throughout the eyes of professionals. Many view mental illness as a serious condition, while others take it less seriously and see it as a part of everyday life. Although many think doctors are always right, they underestimate the influence and power these physicians exercise based upon their own personal views and ideas. Illustrated in the article, ? Social Class, Ethnicity and Mental Illness, ? Ann Vander Step and Bruce Link try to show wh...
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Frontal Lobe Syndrome
1,509 wordsPerception Without Awareness: What Cruel Acts Of Perception Without Awareness: What Cruel Acts Of Fate Teach Us About Brain Function Much of the research and discoveries regarding how our brain functions can be attributed to cruel acts of fate- the brain injuries and disorders which damage key areas of the brain. It is through studying how these injuries and disorders affect human behavior, that we gain insight into how different brain structures contribute to human functional capability. The li...
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Mental Health Association American Journal Of Psychiatry
2,440 wordsAt first it Prozac Abstract At first it was the cure all people were looking for. Then it became the drug they were afraid to take. Somewhere between these two extremes lies the truth about the drug Fluoxetine, better known as Prozac, the most widely prescribed drug on the globe. It is mainly prescribed to patients suffering from clinical depression. It was first brought to the market in 1988 by the pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly co. Even though it was originally prescribed for depression, it ha...
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American Medical Association Washington D C
1,578 wordsPassive euthanasia is the deliberate disconnection of life support equipment, or cessation of any life sustaining medical procedure, permitting the natural death of the patient (EROG). Allowing an individual the right to choose if they want to fight to save their own life or to be allowed to die a nature death is becoming a major issue in todays society. This is not just a present day issue; it has been a topic of debate for many years. In 1906 Ohio drafted Its first euthanasia bill and then in ...
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Sex In Advertising Treatment Of Women
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