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Sex Offender Treatment Programs
2,042 wordsSex Offender Rehabilitation: An Analytical Essay Few topics cause as much emotional opinion as sexual abuse and the treatment of the abusers. The development of programs promoting therapeutic changes in sex offenders can be negatively affected by society's emotional responses to these crimes. However, the power of these emotions should not be used to condemn sex offenders as monsters, but to fuel the will to search for appropriate treatments. It is important to understand that sex offenders can ...
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Genetic Engineering In Medicine
888 wordsGenetic engineering and gene therapy are an essential part in today's medicine. They have led to the discovery of many new treatments for "untreatable" diseases. They have provided cost efficient solutions that require much less procedure and can be permanent rather than temporary. The solutions are also more effective then before and through the use of transgenic plants and animals, can be easily produced. Gene knowledge has sparked interest and continues to supply discoveries of new applicatio...
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Behavioral Observations Of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
1,151 words... g something horrible such as harming, offending, or embarrassing you or someone else (Summers, 1999). Of course, there are many more obsessions, and some are less common than others. Other obsessions are religious, sexual, or somatic obsessions, and others involve a need for order and symmetry (Summers, 1999). The important thing to remember is that although "As Good As It Gets" is a comedy, there is not a one funny thing about obsessions. To someone who has OCD, obsessions are intrusions in...
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Animal Experimentation Surgical Procedures
1,360 wordsAn Animal Experimentation uses living animals to find out answers to scientific questions. People in medical research use animals for two main reasons: to make sure that medicines are as safe and effective as possible before doctors give them to people and to find out more about how the body works. Without animal experimentation, many of the most important advances in modern medicine would never have occurred. But for researchers painstaking work with animal subjects, deadly viruses like rabies ...
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Evaluate Evidence For A Psychological Intervention Schizophrenia
1,759 wordsEvaluate the evidence for a psychological intervention for schizophrenia. Is there sufficient evidence to justify its use? There are perhaps two main prongs to the development of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy as an intervention for schizophrenia, the first being based upon the sizable research that centre on family interventions, which have been successful in reducing patient relapse in schizophrenic families (Pilling et al. , 2002). Family interventions are important to consider as they became ...
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Animal Testing Test Subjects
820 wordsFor decades, mankind has used animals to progress efficiently in scientific research. Animal testing is important for medical science and other beneficial experiments. Many citizens criticize scientists for testing on animals for unnecessary means other than medical research. Many of today's current vaccines and disease treatments would have been delayed without the use of animals. People across the globe have been saved through organ transplants by persistent research on animals. Many material ...
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American Cancer Society Survival Rate
1,474 words... boost of treatment to the cancer itself and the area close by. Internal radiotherapy for cancer of the cervix is also known as called 'calcium treatment'. This is because a radioactive element called calcium is the radiation source that is used for the in-patient treatment over a few days. Other radioactive metals can be used, which release radiation more quickly. Treatment can be given in 2 - 5 sessions of a few minutes each. The overall total radiation dose the patient receives will be abo...
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Rapid Eye Movement Hours Of Sleep
952 wordsSleep Disorders What are sleep disorders? Sleep disorders are disorders in the sleep patterns of both people and animals. During sleep, the body rests and the energy levels of the body are restored. Consequentially, if a person does not get enough sleep then, his body does not function effectively. Sometimes, it may lead to abnormal oxygen and carbon dioxide levels in the blood. Some sleep disorders can interfere with mental and emotional functions Insufficient rest adversely affects the frontal...
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The United States Of America Terrorists And Torture
2,832 wordsThe United States of America, the Terrorists and Torture Abstract: The paper will present an argument for the use of torture in rare and extremely serious situations. Arguments against its use will also be presented to give readers a clear view of what is torture and its use all about. A background on the International Law against Torture and the Geneva Conventions will be given to shed light to the differing views and outlooks about the use of torture to extract information and data from captur...
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Subterranean Termites Damage And Control Part 1
1,769 wordsSubterranean Termites (damage and control) Shripat T. Kamble, professor of University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Entomology in Persistence and Bioavailability of Termiticide's to Subterranean Termites investigated termites in the area of Nebraska. The author of the research determined the biology of termites. According to Shripat T. Kamble, termites are ground-inhabiting, social insects that live in colonies. They live in colony or nest that may be located about 18 - 20 feet below the so...
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Human Cloning Foundation Cystic Fibrosis
2,611 wordsWhen one thinks of cloning, what comes to mind? Movies such as? Multiplicity? can give the layperson a much-distorted image of cloning. In this particular movie, actor Michael Keaton plays a father who cannot handle his crazily busy lifestyle. In an effort to be the perfect father, husband and employee, he has himself cloned easily at a nearby medical center. The three clones each have their own personality: one is sarcastic and bitter, one is sweet and sensitive and one is a half-wit but all ar...
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Low Blood Pressure Symptoms Of Depression
2,478 wordsMental disorders are becoming more prevalent in today? s society as people add stress and pressure to their daily lives. The elderly population is not eliminated as a candidate for a disorder just because they may be retired. In fact, mental disorders affect 1 in 5 elderly people. One would think that with disorders being rather prevalent in this age group that there would be an abundance of treatment programs, but this is not the case. Because the diagnosis of an individual? s mental state is s...
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Baby Boom Generation
2,113 wordsDepression: The Sadness Disease In our never-ending quest for happiness in our life, is some of the joy taken away? Have our thoughts for what we always want turned astray? Why has the quest for happiness left us more vulnerable and sad? Are we a society of melancholy people that are all looking for happiness and disappointed with what we find? Leaving us in a state of depression and unstableness. Turning us into not only a society of dismal people, but people that are left spiritless and melanc...
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2,148 wordsDepression: The Sadness Disease In our never-ending quest for happiness in our life, is some of the joy taken away? Have our thoughts for what we always want turned astray? Why has the quest for happiness left us more vulnerable and sad? Are we a society of melancholy people who are all looking for happiness and disappointed with what we find, leaving us in a state of depression and unstableness, and turning us into not only a society of dismal people, but people who are left spiritless and mela...
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727 wordsPeople across the world keep dogs as pets. These dogs are usually a big part of their owners lives and often grow up to truly be, mans best friend, . What, then, can be done for a dog with behavior problems? Through recent research it has been establish hed that dogs, like many humans, do suffer from mental disorders. There is however, a variety of treatments available and a complete cure is often achieved. Dr. Nicholas Dodman, in his book, The Dog That Loved Too Much, says that, Aggression is t...
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Third World Countries American Red Cross
2,441 wordsHealth Care in Third World Countries In many third world countries, disease and hunger are not only existent, but also a way of life. Disease and hunger happen in these countries because of natural disasters and of epidemics that, in our culture would be treated immediately. Due to economic problems, shortage of educated medical workers and supplies to repair damages, the populations of some third world countries are left hungry, sick, wounded, or dead. Imagine the devastation of being without s...
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Blood Clotting Clotting Factor
773 wordsSevere bleeding. Thats Hemophilia Hemophilia Severe bleeding. Thats what happens when a person has Hemophilia. More than 25, 000 people in the United States have Hemophilia (Description of Hemophilia 1). Hemophilia is an inherited deficiency of a blood-clotting factor that results in episodes of dangerous bleeding (Hemophilia 1). As you read through this essay, you will learn more about the disease. Some characteristics should be. First you will learn about the diagnosis and prognosis of Hemophi...
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Health Care Public Interest
779 wordsPosition Paper Hill hoops, Star Wars, slap bracelets, and now beenie babies. During one time or another, they were all popular, and now hold little or no public interest, with the exception of the beenie babies, which can be considered as the current fad. Like merchandise, anything can be a fad, as long as it holds a strong public interest for a period of time, and then drops it as quickly as it was brought up. In the case of careers, and specifically equine sports therapists, fads may be danger...
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Part Of The Body Breast Cancer
1,207 wordsPlease Read This Warning Before You Use This Essay for Anything (It Might Save Your Life) Aspects of Breast Cancer According to the American Cancer Society, in the United States in 1997 alone, 180, 000 people were diagnosed with a horrible disease. Of all types of cancer breast cancer ranks second and is the number one cancer which is fatal in women between ages of 15 to 54. This cancer is within the top three cancers of all women above the age of 15. This awful disease is breast cancer. Breast ...
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