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Traumatic Stress Disorder Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
1,835 wordsHave you ever witnessed someone being badly injured or even killed? Have you ever been involved in a fire, flood, or any other natural disaster? The estimated lifetime prevalence of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder among adult Americans is 7. 8 %, with men calculating at 5 % and women at 10. 4 %, twice as likely as men to have PTSD at some point in their lives. This represents a small proportion of those who have experienced at least one traumatic event, for 60. 7 % of men and 51. 2 % of women rep...
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Substance Abuse Psychological Disorders
2,956 wordsResearch Proposal Paper # 3 Revised January 28, 2004 Methods of Research & Discipline Inquiry Course # 1005 Aliya Fonseca, MA 10631 Caminito Brandon San Diego, CA 92131 (858) 536 - 8370 Denise Scatena, Ph. D Saybrook Graduate School & Research 450 Pacific St. 3 rd Fl San Francisco, CA 94133 ABSTRACT The proposal is to identify adolescents with mental health and alcohol and drug issues. The study will build on growing research, which suggests adolescents whom abuse or are dependent on alcohol or ...
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Correlation Between Child Abuse And Schizophrenia
2,275 wordsCorrelation Between Child Abuse and Schizophrenia The purpose of this research is to see whether there is a correlation between schizophrenia and child abuse. There were numerous studies and researches on that very subject, therefore it is not that hard to consolidate all the findings and come up with the justified conclusion. Based on all the research material available, it is evident that there is a direct correlation between child abuse and schizophrenia. Between 1992 and 1996, 27 adolescents...
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Substance Abuse Psychiatric Disorders
1,625 wordsThere are many theories of alcoholism, and some approaches explain and treat certain alcoholics better than others. One of the common themes throughout the readings is that addicts display a range of personal and situational problems. There is no typical addicted personality or emotional problem (Allen, 1996). Because of these facts, it comes as no surprise that there are also no typical assessment or treatment for these individuals. For instance, a medical / disease model of alcoholism may be m...
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Guilty By Reason Reason Of Insanity
1,738 wordsAs the day gets closer to when I will be getting my Associates degree, it is very apparent that Im still undecided as to what I want to do. Though I am extremely interested in forensics, there are many different fields of forensics available. One of the fields that I have been looking into is forensic psychology. I wanted to take this opportunity to research and gain a better idea as to what forensic psychology is all about. I hope to come closer to that decision of whether to further my studies...
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Manic Depressive Illness Coronary Artery Disease
1,457 wordsSchizophrenia is a complex disorder characterized by a constellation of distinctive and predictable symptoms that are most commonly associated with the disease. It is one of the most disabling and emotionally devastating illnesses known to man. schizophrenia is not a spilt personality, a rare and very different disorder. Like cancer and diabetes, schizophrenia has a biological basis; it is not caused by bad parenting or personal weakness. Itis a relatively common disease with an estimated one pe...
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