Interpreting Dreams Through Humanistic Sandtray Therapy

23 Apr 2018

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Aaron Glogowski Dr. Michael E. Dunn Swan, K. L., Schottelkorb, A. A. (2013). Interpreting Children’s Dreams Through Humanistic Sandtray Therapy. International Journal of Play Therapy, 22 (3), 119-128. doi: 10.1037/a0033389 Swan and Schottelkorb open this article with a statement on dreams and adolescence. They first not that studies have shown that children as young as three years old are able to recall their dreams. ...

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Assessment Interviews in Therapy

23 Apr 2018

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SCREENING AND ASSESSMENT SOPHIA A. JOHNSON 1. Psychologist in Private Practice Client #1, who is a 28 year old, married, father of a 2 year old and a 6 month old infant, has been referred to our private practice by his office’s free counseling resources. He recently lost a job promotion and also feels overwhelmed at home with a new born baby and all ...

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Intimate Partner Emotional Abuse and PTSD Study

23 Apr 2018

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Abstract The psychological abuse of men by their partners has been acknowledged as an important form of partner abuse in domestic violence research. There is dearth of psychological research on emotional abuse of males by their intimate partners. The sample comprised of 150 males (equal number of married and unmarried/ in an intimate relationship), in the age range of (18-30 years old). Guttman Emotional Abuse Questionnaire ...

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Physical Activity Interventions for Postpartum Depression

23 Apr 2018

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One of the most hazardous occasions for women to indicate depressive symptoms is the period that follows childbirth (Robertson, Celasun & Stewart, 2003). According to http://www.apa.org (2015) the percentage of women that are likely to experience symptoms of postpartum depression ranges between 9% and 16%. According to the same source (http://www.apa.org, 2015) new mothers diagnosed with postpartum depression lose the ability to cope with everyday tasks ...

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Ecological Models in Psychology: Overview and Application

23 Apr 2018

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Ecological models encompass an evolving body of theory and research concerned with the course and conditions that oversee the lifelong course of human development in their actual environment. Following the diagrammatical illustration of Bronfenbrenner’s social ecological theory, is a personal reflection of my childhood as it relates to the five spheres of ecological influence. This is followed by a reflection on the importance of understanding context ...

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Psychology & Christianity: Five Views | Eric L. Johnson

23 Apr 2018

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Review of “Psychology & Christianity- Five Views” by Eric L. Johnson. Title: Psychology & Christianity - Five Views Author: Eric L. Johnson Publisher: InterVarsity Press. (U.S.A.) 2000 Price: £14.37 ISBN: 978-0-8308-2848-7 Introduction: In this book review, I intend to cover the following outcomes: evaluate psychological theories against biblical teaching, discuss the contribution psychology has to make to Christian counselling, assess the compatibility of psychology (research and ...

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Stress: Causes, Effects and Reflection Paper

23 Apr 2018

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LAI Mincong Stress is a common problem that affects us in our daily lives. When we encounter a number of changes, difficulties or challenges in life, for example, change jobs, exams, marital problems, and we will feel pressure. What is Stress? Stress is a state of tension of both physical and psychological phenomenon when we feel there is not enough capacity to meet the ...

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Art Therapy: Benefits and Applications

20 Apr 2018

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Psychology and art therapy might have been in use to heal from thousands of years, for instance, in the 7th century Vaghabhatta in his Ashtanga Hridaya narrates as “Obeisance be, to that unique, unparalleled, rare physician who has destroyed, without any residue, the diseases like lust, anger, greed, arrogance, jealousy, hatred, fear and many such bad emotions” hinting on psychological treatments and awareness that were existing. ...

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Benefits of Music Therapy for Autism Disorder

20 Apr 2018

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Using relevant theories and examples, analyse how music therapy can help to treat autism disorder Outline Introduction: Music therapy is rooted in the work of psychoanalysts (Freud, Jung, and Watzalwick), music teachers (Willems, Dalcroze) allied with in-depth music studies (Schaeffer, Sachs). Definition -Although there are different conceptual models in music therapy, it is possible to distinguish the music practices intended only for sick patients from music ...

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Effect of Interpersonal Touch on Third-party Observers

20 Apr 2018

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Observing Touch Boosts Social Interests Sun Yating   Abstract The goal of this study is to investigate the effect interpersonal touch on third-party observers. Specifically, we aim to test whether observing interactions with touch biases individuals towards social information in their environment. To this end, participants will be presented with prime images that entail touch and no-touch interactions. Primes will be followed by a ...

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Co–occurring Disorders and Their Impact on Addiction

20 Apr 2018

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Deborah A. Young Introduction Comorbidity, is a part of the addiction that is widely overlooked by counselors and those that treat the addicted persons. Meaning that it is more than likely not treated, mainly in part due to the lack of properly trained professionals that can recognize as Capuzzi & Stauffer put it, " for a client to present with a single addiction, without ...

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Psychology Theories for Celebrity Worship and Fandoms

20 Apr 2018

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ATHYNEA BURCHALL Outline and Evaluate what psychological research has shown about celebrity worship and intense fandom. What do you think are the real world implications? The topic of celebrity worship and intense fandom was once a media interest but this new phenomena is now a focus of psychological investigation and has been researched into by social; psychologist. This assignment is going to look into ...

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Generalized Anxiety Disorder Case Study

20 Apr 2018

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Case Study: Anxiety Answer Sheet Diagnosing Tina Student Name: Robert Gianella Diagnosing Generalized Anxiety Disorder: 1a. Refer to the DSM-IV checklist for generalized anxiety disorder. Which of Tina's symptoms meet any of the criteria? (Be sure to match specific symptoms with specific criteria.) The symptoms that Tina exhibits that meet the criteria of General Anxiety Disorder are potential excessive or ...

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Client Directed Outcome Informed Therapy (CDOI) Analysis

20 Apr 2018

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Taryn Slaughter   Throughout the years, therapies have transitioned through different theories of change, model development and extensive research. For decades evidence based models of therapy were argued to be the best treatment for clients. Whilst therapy programs continued and expanded the rates of success did not. Slowly the perception of traditional models and treatments began to change and therapists began looking for alternatives ...

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Experiment: Attractiveness Halo Effect on Human Faces

20 Apr 2018

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Matriculation Number: 140011607 Partial Research Report Abstract The aim of this report was to test for an attractiveness halo effect on human faces. This experiment was conducted in the University of Dundee and the participants were international undergraduate students of both genders. The independent variable was the level of physical attractiveness, while the dependent variable was the estimated IQ score the participants gave to the male ...

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Cognitive View of Depressive Disorders

20 Apr 2018

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Compare and contrast the psychoanalytic explanation with the cognitive view of depressive disorders. Freud debated that people whose requirements weren’t met during the uttered stage of psychosexual occurrence are exposed to emerging melancholy in maturity because this causes low self-respect and extreme reliance.Persons who are exceptionally reliant on another people are notably expected to arise recession after such a demise. Resentment at the death is vicarious ...

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Erikson’s Psychosocial Theory: A Qualitative Study

20 Apr 2018

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From the time of conception until death, humans undergo incessant changes. One would experience biological, psychological and cognitive changes as one progresses in life. It leads to a change in the way one thinks and behaves. Development is the systematic change that takes place in an individual over the course of life (Shaffer and Kipp 2009: 2). The development of a human being is influenced by ...

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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Causes and Effects

20 Apr 2018

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Michael Charvis   Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, also known as PTSD, is one of the most widespread, costly, and least understood of the many anxiety disorders. PTSD is a neurotic condition that is linked to stressors of traumatic events. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is normally a delayed response to the unpleasant effects of extreme events of ...

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Self-Evaluations and Organisational Citizenship Behaviour

20 Apr 2018

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Background and Rationale The current research is aimed at identifying whether there is a relationship between an individual’s core self-evaluations and their organisational citizenship behaviour. Core-self evaluations are defined as a personality trait that reflects how an individual views themselves. For example, people who have high core self-evaluations think positively of themselves and are confident in their own abilities. Organisational citizenship behaviour is a term that ...

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Cultural Differences in Psychology: Indigenous Psychology

20 Apr 2018

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Bedia, Ben Joseph People often attribute culture with cultural products such as the food they eat, the music they listen to, the dance that their body imitates and with psychological constructs such as beliefs, values, and norms. But in order to have a deeper understanding of culture, one should dig in to bodies of knowledge such as superstition, history, and language. In understanding culture, one should ...

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Person Centred Therapy: Overview and Analysis

20 Apr 2018

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Person-centered Therapy Ong Khai Lun   Abstract This article discussed about Person-centered Therapy which is developed by Carl Rogers. Carl Rogers who is the Humanistic psychologist believed that there are needs that needed to be fulfilled by individual in order for the wellness of the individual. Person-centered Therapy is developed based on the Humanistic approach in the psychology field. In this article, whole of ...

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Gender Differences in Emotional Responses to Clothing

20 Apr 2018

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Yinong Jiang Contents (Jump to) Abstract Introduction Method Participants Procedure Chapter 1: Exposed skin 1.1 Specific body parts 1.1.1 Upper & front body (neck, shoulder and chest) a) Results b) Discussion 1.1.2 Back a) Results b) Discussion 1.1.3 Leg a) Results b) Discussion 1.2 How short is too short? 1.2.1 Background information 1.2.2 Results Chapter 2: Color 2.1 ...

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Effects of Oestrogen Changes

20 Apr 2018

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Executive function is influenced by oestrogen- in the brain the area associated to executive functions, memory and attention is the prefrontal cortex (Pettit, 2013). As during the female lifespan the levels of oestrogen changes, and the executive functions experiences some issues when these levels are low, for example after childbirth and around menopause (Craig et al., 2008). Although the low levels of oestrogen after childbirth and ...

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Functional Behavioural Assessment Case Study

20 Apr 2018

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Functional Behavioral Assessments for Sean Siobhan L. Healy Introduction Mrs. Valdez, a second grade teacher at Hacienda Elementary School, contacted me via email requesting my services regarding one of her students. Mrs. Valdez would like me to meet with her and several administrators, including the principal of Hacienda Elementary School, to discuss the student’s behavioral issues. The subject of concern is Sean, a 9 year ...

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Child Signalling Difficulty in Emotion Regulation | Theories

20 Apr 2018

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” The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.” Milton, John (1671) Paradise regained book IV. line 220 British born Poet, John Milton compares how we can attempt to predict behaviour of adults by their experience as a child. The interesting use of the weather as a simile depicts how predictions can be made and can unfold to be true; conversely, weather is unpredictable ...

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Multicultural Counseling Conceptualization

20 Apr 2018

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Ilka I. Bryant Inter-group characteristics The term “African American” is used to refer to Americans descendants of the African tribes mainly from the sub-Sahara who came to America as slaves in the 17th and 18th centuries. As it is common with all unique cultural groups there are bound to be different core values, attitudes and beliefs even within the same group. Despite this, there ...

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Naturalistic Observation Research Results

20 Apr 2018

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Observation is categorised as one of the core skills of user research. Naturalistic Observation is a research method that involves observing the subjects in their natural environment without intruding or changing it in any way. The observer is required to carefully watch the naturally occurring behaviour without letting the subjects know that they are being observed. This type of research is advantageous primarily because it permits ...

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Timeline of the History of Psychology

20 Apr 2018

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The History of Psychology Marisa Alexander The development of psychology took place in eras. The contributors of a period provide the next necessary step for improvement of new philosophies sometime discarding all or part of the previous to provide a new perspective. This essay will explore the major contributors from the ancient Greeks to more modern times and demonstrate the improvement over time to ...

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Intervention of Stroop Effect on Color Naming Task

20 Apr 2018

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Dang Su Rene   Abstract The research shows that the intervention of Stroop effect affects the time taken in completing the color naming task. To do this experiment, 248 participants were randomly selected which are half of the participants are Chinese speaking and another half are non-Chinese speaking. The two type of participants will took this experiment. Their result were recorded and shows that ...

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Influence of Age on Self-Description Changes

20 Apr 2018

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Gemma L Sobah   An investigation of self-descriptions in data collected from two children of different ages, and how their age influences the focal point of their self-descriptions using the findings of Rosenberg (1979) Abstract (166 words) This report investigates the self-descriptions of two children in using the findings of Morris Rosenberg (1979). Rosenberg proposed that young children typically describe themselves using physical conditions, ...

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Models of Personality and Effect in Organisations

20 Apr 2018

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Saarthak Sankalp   INDEX Topic (Jump to) Personality Personality Models Predicting Personality with Social Behaviour Importance of Corporate Brand Personality Traits Role of Personality factors in Coping with Organizational Change Challenges and Concerns with Personality Assessment ...

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Relationship Between Activity Level and Happiness

20 Apr 2018

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Correlation Study of the Relationship between Three Variables   Introduction Personality is one of the key things that psychologists assess, and it is comprised of various things. Happiness, activity-level and sociability are key aspects in the life of every person, and they differ from person to person. These are one of the components of a person’s personality, and there are various causes of the differences in ...

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Speech and Language Therapist (SLT) Role and Ethics

20 Apr 2018

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Role Investigation This essay will investigate a vocational role as a Speech and Language Therapist (SLT). It will cover the role, where the role may be needed and will operate, what qualifications are needed to become a SLT, and what psychological theories are used and applied when working as a SLT. The essay will then cover the ethics required of a SLT and the skills needed ...

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Counselling & Psychotherapy Theories Applied | Case Study

20 Apr 2018

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Case Study: Vignette II Bella. H. T. Lam Theories & Systems in Counselling & Psychotherapy My client Scott, who is a 19 years old male, have lost his father for nine months because of the lung cancer. The major problem revealed by his mum was he had become quite and stayed aloof when he is at home. During the previous sessions, he was just looking downward ...

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Music Therapy for Children With Learning Disabilities

20 Apr 2018

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Music therapy: A psychotherapy for the well being of children with learning disabilities Zahra Sultan Somani Music is an inbuilt piece of every culture. The impact of music in children’s lives may be demonstrated through children’s literature in different languages, through lullabies and traditional plays (Dastgheib et al. , 2013). In my opinion, music therapy plays a pivotal role in shaping different domains of ...

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Adolescent Depression: Causes, Effects and Treatments

20 Apr 2018

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Teenage Depression Urooba Fatima   Depression is defined as a medical condition in which a person feels very sad, hopeless, unimportant and is often unable to live in a normal way (Merriam-Webster's online Dictionary, n.d.). In 2004 alone, it was reported that 11.2 percent of teens suffered from depression (Depression in Children and Adolescents, n.d. para.1). Symptoms that adolescents tend to show when suffering ...

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Impact of Emotions on Child Cognitive Processing

19 Apr 2018

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Using research findings, critically discuss the impact emotions can have on children’s cognitive processing, social behaviour, and physical health. There are different impact emotions have on children’s cognitive processing, their social behaviour and how it affects children’s physical health. The critical discussion of this topic essay, will be centred on the events relating to children in grief for the passing of a parent, maltreated children, and ...

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Development of Cognition and Language

19 Apr 2018

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Michael Leo Glynn Does a thought need language for it to exist? Research in the area of the development of cognition and language has a long tradition; yet, until recently it has not been possible to ascertain how infants think as they are not able to communicate verbally. It could be argued that language provides concepts ...

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Limitations in Person Centered Therapy

19 Apr 2018

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Group counseling Baldev Singh The person-centered counselor must always remember that the client is a guest within his or her own world of experiences. This first sentence encapsulates the essence of person centered counseling. The person centered therapy can be used in individual and also in group counseling.The therapy gives strength to client or groups to understand themselves and also gives them the opportunity to solve ...

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Capgras Delusion: Impaired Face Recognition Process

19 Apr 2018

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Capgras delusion, the belief that somebody is replaced by an imposer. First, this study examines whether Capgras patients, compared to controls, have an impaired face recognition process. Patients show to be hyporesponsive to familiar faces and show to have a decreased activity in brain areas, such as the prefrontal, lateral temporal and mesial temporal regions. The second part of this study examines the belief reasoning processes ...

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Impact of Parenting Styles: A Review

19 Apr 2018

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Farah Nazneen Impact of Parenting Style in Bangladesh: A Systematic Review Introduction Parents are teachers, guiders, leaders, protectors, and providers for their children. Our behavior, thought, motivation, belief, value, personality etc all are directly or indirectly depend on our parenting style. Research on parenting style is so important to determine the positive impact and negative impact on children. There are mainly four types of parenting ...

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Personality Differences of Adolescents with Working Mothers

19 Apr 2018

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Research proposal on A comparative study on personality of adolescents between working and non - working mother in Bangladesh Shinthia parvin   SUMMARY The present study will conduct to investigate whether there will any difference in personality of adolescence between working or non-working mother in Bangladesh. For this purpose 100 students will take from different areas of Dhaka city where 50 students mother is ...

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Personality and Organizational Commitment Relationship

19 Apr 2018

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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION Chapter Overview This study will focus on the relationship between personality and organizational commitment. This chapter includes background of the study, problem statement, research question, research objectives, significant of the study and the scope of study as well. In addition, the conceptual and operational definitions of terms are discussed to provide an understanding on their usage in this study. Lastly, this ...

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Factors Influencing Career Transition in Middle Adulthood

19 Apr 2018

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Introduction The article aims to deliver a theoretical model highlighting the factors influencing career transition (CT) of the middle adulthood population on an individual level and challenges faced by them. The factors include personality, job satisfaction, motivation and lifelong employability mindset. This essay will discuss the theoretical perspectives that are crucial to the study and highlights how factors in theoretical model affect and conflict one another. ...

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Behaviour Modification and Cognitive Processes of Learning

19 Apr 2018

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Pillay Sheryl Amanda Ballen   I will be discussing some important procedures which enable learning. Each and every human being learns any kind of behavior during their life span. There is no human being on earth who does not undergo the process of learning. There are various learning methods through which we obtain beliefs, approaches and skills (Skinner, 1971, cited in Ryckman,2013, p. ...

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Effect of Sleep Quality on IQ Experiment

19 Apr 2018

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Project Report Title: Do sleeping qualities affect IQ? Abstract As sleep is so important that we cannot live without, there must be some reasons. Research has proven that it is associated with many other aspects of our lives such as IQ and mood. It is a process to maintain the wellbeing of our internal functioning and an activity that we necessitate, not an option. The present ...

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Case Study: Challenges to Healthy Ageing

19 Apr 2018

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Triumphs and Challenges in Healthy Aging Stacey Obispo   Everyone has got a story. Your story along with everyone else’s’ develops as you advance through life. Research theorist have studied the stories of different people and have concluded that a persons’ story develops based on; their personal characteristics, the environment in which they live, time, relationships that they have, life transitions encountered and social ...

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Memory as a Constructive and Active Process

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Memory is a constructive and active process. Evaluate this claim. Simon Andrew Agnew To evaluate the notion that memory is a constructive process an assessment of some of the research[p1] on the exploration of memory is required. Brace and Roth (2007) argue that memory is a constructive and active process rather than a “passive mechanism for recording external information” (Brace and Roth, 2007, ...

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Comparison of Erikson & Kohlberg's Developmental Theories

19 Apr 2018

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Name the chosen significant developmental aspects and stages of your adult life & identify key aspects of each of the two developmental theories Adult development refers to psychological and social changes in an human life. These changes could be fast and gradual. Changes occur at the cellular level and are partially explained by biological theories of adult development and aging. (Hayflick, 1998). These biological changes are ...

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Environmental and Consumer Influences Analysis

19 Apr 2018

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Introduction When purchasing an item, there are a number of factors that influence the final decision of the buyer. Whether it is a good or a service, there is a process that drives an individual to go for an item and forego the other. He or she takes an evaluation of the product in regard to the market potential before buying, during the action of buying, ...

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The Complexity of Memory: Literature Review

19 Apr 2018

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Wynham Guillemot I. The first article that I decided summarize is labeled: The Production Effect: Costs and Benefits in Free Recall. The Research report was written by Angela C. Jones of John Carroll University and Mary A. Pyc of Washington University in St. Louis. It is found in the 2014 edition of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. This experiment was ...

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Creating Items and Response Scales

19 Apr 2018

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The major issues in creating items and response scales are to determine the types of survey scales to use. The primary function of the survey scale is to allocate weight and to provide significance to the answers collected. If a scale does not exist than there’s no means to qualify the answers on any particular survey and the entire process becomes like calculating calories without a ...

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Research on Piaget's Developmental Psychology Theory

19 Apr 2018

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The great contribution of Jean Piaget on developmental psychology is undoubtedly. However, in the past 30 years, there are a number of study criticism his suggestion, which the infant younger than six months do not have the permanent object concept. What follows is a discussion of examining when infant would acquire object concept. First, it will explain the proposition of Piaget on this topic. Then, it ...

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Research on Effects of Sibling Birth on Jealousy

19 Apr 2018

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The Birth of a Sibling: Companion or Competition? Samantha A. Sang Sibling relationships that develop a balance of nurturance and conflict can provide numerous learning opportunities for young children (Volling, McElwain, & Miller, 2002). For instance, children can learn other’s perspectives, learn different strategies to resolve conflict, as well as learn to regulate their own emotions. Specifically, younger siblings who experience a balance of ...

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Ethical Issues in Emotional Intelligence Research

19 Apr 2018

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Emotional intelligence   Abstract This paper tries to explore major aspects of emotional intelligence (EI), based on the book the emotionally intelligent workplace by Cherniss and Goleman. In this paper various aspects of EI are examined including various methods emotional intelligence can be applied in solving misunderstandings between two colleagues working in a company together with addressing the discomforts caused by the misunderstanding among them. Various ...

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Drug Induced Schizophrenia: Causation Analysis

19 Apr 2018

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Drug Induced Schizophrenia Often, when people associate schizophrenia with individuals most people very seldom understand that this mental illness disorder can be associated with the abuse of illegal drug use. The impact that drug induced schizophrenia has on the user and the repercussions from the extension of the emotional hardships brought upon the user’s family are staggering. This paper will set in place an understanding of ...

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University Peer Selection and Influences of Social Support

19 Apr 2018

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Phase 1 – Peer selection and influence of perceived social support of university students: do connections matter? Background Perceived social support has been shown to be an important predictor of psychological disturbance where individuals are exposed to distressing stimuli such as earthquakes (Xu et al, 2013) and war (Besser & Neira, 2012). Additionally, perceived social support has also been shown to an important predictor in school ...

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Metabolic Syndrome and Depression in Police Officers

19 Apr 2018

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Laurie Cyr-Martel Introduction Approximately 780,000 sworn police officers are accounted for in the United States, (Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor 2014) and one out of eight officers are female. (U.S. Dept. of Labor Bureau of Justice Statistics 2007) The literature also supports that law enforcement is one of the most demanding professions in our country. (Marmar, C., McCaslin, S., Metzler, T., ...

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Multiple Sclerosis: Therapeutic Options Effectiveness

19 Apr 2018

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Effectiveness and Controversies of Disease Modifying Treatments (DMTs) Pharmacists consider Type I Interferons (IFNs) a safe long-term treatment option for RRMS and they have widely used IFNs in the past two decades. The activity of Interferon-Beta (IFNB) is similar to that of the interferon produced by the body. Studies indicate that they have the ability to reduce the rate of relapse compared to placebos. However, based ...

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Treatment Intervention to Improve Sleeping Habits

19 Apr 2018

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Individual Assignment: Bad Sleeping Habits Koh Ke Mian   Bad Sleeping Habits According to Carskadon and Dement (2011), sleep is both combinations of physiologic and behavioral processes. When sleeping, the awareness to environment stimuli will decrease (Carskadon & Dement). On the other hand, National Institutes of Health (2011) had stated that sleep is just for your brain and body to shut down. People always ...

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Differences Between Classical and Operant Conditioning

19 Apr 2018

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Learning is a constant process moulding our behaviour from pre-birth to death enabling humans to attain an understanding of the world. This area of psychology has been studied since the late nineteenth century by Ivan Pavlov with his classical conditioning theory (learning by association), the early twentieth century with Burrhus Skinner’s composition of operant conditioning (linking a certain behaviour to a certain repercussion of demonstrating such ...

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Methods for Increased Discernment of Deception

19 Apr 2018

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Getting to the Truth A Review of Information Gathering for the Purpose of Establishing the Veracity of Certain Events with Recommendations for Application In consideration of the not simply punishing the guilty but in addition, for the purpose of the prevention of further crime, law enforcement officials have a significant need for information from witnesses and suspects. This information must, above all, be accurate and it must ...

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Mental Health and Care in the Community

19 Apr 2018

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"The issue of the mental health of the patient is complex and value-laden. Paternalism and autonomy interests confront difficulties of definition, diagnosis and the impact of labelling. Paternalism dictates intervention, and that the human right of autonomy be minimalist". (Davies, M., Medical Law, Blackstone Press Limited, 1996, p.182). Discuss critically. Within mental health issues there has always been a large degree of paternalism. Healthcare professionals and ...

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Steps to Overcoming Depression and Developing Healthy Habits

19 Apr 2018

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Joyce Mae Alyssa R. Mandanas Overcoming depression have three major steps, these includes understanding your depression, improving your life, and developing healthier habits. Introduction “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” John 16:33. This bible verse says that, in our life, we’ll ...

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Can False Memories be Implanted?

19 Apr 2018

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Ajantha Uvaraju Abstract This study is to find out that is it possible for memory to be implanted in students. It is hypothesized if the memory constructed for implanting is highly a plausible event then it is more likely for creation of false memory to occur. Thirty participants of first year Monash University students are recruited. Each of them is accompanied with a partner ...

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Causal Judgement and Blocking Experiment

19 Apr 2018

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Michael Arruzza Abstract Recent results of studies which aim to gain a greater understanding of how blocking works and the mechanisms involved have led to some conflicting results. Some research suggest that blocking may be the result of assumptions about the additive nature of outcomes. Others think that it may have more to do with associative learning. This experiment investigates blocking in causal learning ...

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Brain-Imaging Techniques for Cognitive Functions Analysis

19 Apr 2018

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Using examples of fMRI, explain how researchers use brain-imaging techniques and discuss what, if anything, these techniques can tell us about cognitive functions. Here is introduced the method of fMRI, how imaging data is gained and at what cost is involved in getting it. Further to this the experimental designs are discussed and how these might add to the toolbox available to the experimental psychologist. A ...

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Effect of Visual and Auditory Stimuli on Heart Rate

19 Apr 2018

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Introduction Humans, despite being a part of animal family do not behave similar to most of the species. The way to produce a movement is longer and more complex, simply because we undertake a lot of action consciously, or at least we think so. Although we do not know how many of the adjustments and decisions, we make in order to survive, are conscious, it is ...

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Experiment of Long Term Memory Retention

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Abstract: The purpose of this study was to test the retention of long term memory based on retrieval environments. Our research is based on Godden and Baddeley’s (1976) study that focused on the relationship between retrieval environments and learning. The technique known as context-dependency –which is defined as “the belief that what is learnt in a given environment is best recalled in that environment” –is ...

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Middle Childhood Sexuality Education

19 Apr 2018

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Andrew Wilson Abstract Sex education is must for all students but it is vitally important to begin the education as soon as possible. Thus, it is best to start the sex education when normal education begins at the five to nine years of age or middle childhood. Beginning education at this age allows the child to easily assimilate his or her education without a ...

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Influence Motivation Through Appraisals: Activating Goals

19 Apr 2018

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Another way in which emotions may influence judgments is by activating goals or motives. For example, emotions can affect judgments and behavior by priming different goals (Garg, Wansink, & Inman, 2007; Hoch & Loewenstein, 1991; Leith & Baumeister, 1996; Tice, Bratslavsky, & Baumeister, 2001; Winterich & Haws, 2011). One outcome to view the interplay of different motivations is self-regulation. Self-conscious emotions affect self-regulation by way of ...

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Psychiatric Care After Drug Overdose: Case Study

19 Apr 2018

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Case Scenario: Marcella   Helen Farel Marcella is a 15 year old bi-racial female who was admitted to the local community hospital in Chester, Pennsylvania for a drug overdose. The attending psychiatrist, Dr. Miller has referred Marcella to me to be evaluated for a possible substance use disorder and to be screened for the potential risk of future substance use disorder. Carefully describe the ...

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Helping Behaviour Based on Gender, Race and Mobility

19 Apr 2018

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HELPING BEHAVIOUR BASED ON GENDER, RACE AND MOBILITY   Field study on evaluating helping behaviour based on gender, race and mobility Ravindran Ramkumar   Abstract This field study investigated the different factors which influence helping behaviour in humans. The experiment is focused on different factors about willingness to help others based on gender, race of the victim and mobility of the helper. The past ...

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History and Development of Psychology

19 Apr 2018

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DEVELOPMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY The commencement of the history of psychology is difficult to determine, essentially for the reason that it is hard to found accurately what psychology is. Instead, we can simply point that psychology is the study of the mind and its functions particularly those disturbing comportment in a given context. One way to think about the olden times of psychology is to categorize the different ...

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Role of the Mother in Winnicott's Theories: An Analysis

19 Apr 2018

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How was the role of the mother developed in Winnicott’s theories and what is the implication for the development of the child? Evaluate this contribution in relation to thinking today. Donald Winnicott (1896-1971) an English paediatrician and psychoanalyst had a great influence in describing the object-relations theory, focusing on individual relationship with the mother and mother’s role during the transition of developmental stages in the life ...

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Advanced Social Psychology: Overview and Analysis

19 Apr 2018

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Theresa A. Patterson Social psychology is a relatively young science. This branch of psychology includes the study of individual behavior in a social setting as well as factors that influence behavior. Social psychology was established as a formal discipline approximately one hundred years ago (Reis, 2010). Throughout its history, social psychology demonstrated the effects of notable social and political themes of various time periods. ...

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Are Eyewitness Identifications Reliable?

19 Apr 2018

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Eyewitness identifications during identification procedures such as show ups, live line ups and photo line ups are reliable to an extent in the forensic discipline, but are mostly fallible when assisting police with their enquiries regarding suspects and offenders, due to the fact that the reliability is dependent on a variety of factors relating to the memory of the witness and situational context of the crime. ...

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Effects of Music on Human Behaviour

19 Apr 2018

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Zahira Amir Ali Khalfan   ABSTRACT This paper explores the relationship between music and human behavior and its role in treating the mentally ill patients for healthy recovery. Being a student nurse the topic is very significant for my learning. The paper is a part of my Behavioral Psychology Course at the Aga Khan University School of Nursing and Midwifery (AKU-SONAM), Karachi, Pakistan. The ...

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Does Violence in the Media Contribute to Violent Children?

19 Apr 2018

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Alaina Davis While some people may disagree that violent media contributes to violent children, the fact remains that violence is now part of our everyday world. Many tragedies, from the Gulf War to the loss of the World Trade Center Towers were televised nightly or even 24 hours a day on some news channels. I am not suggesting children be deprived of the knowledge ...

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Comparative Analysis of Lawrence Kohlberg and Carol Gilligan

19 Apr 2018

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Emma Haslam Moral Reasoning "Human well-being is not a random phenomenon. It depends on many factors - ranging from genetics and neurobiology to sociology and economics. But, clearly, there are scientific truths to be known about how we can flourish in this world. Wherever we can have an impact on the well-being of others, questions of morality apply." Sam Harris (2015) In many respects, ...

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Cocaine Addiction: History, Effects and Symptoms

19 Apr 2018

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Cocaine Addiction An Overview of Cocaine Addiction What is Cocaine? Cocaine is a stimulant drug that produces a greater effect of ‘high’ than other drugs such as methamphetamine. It comes in a form of white powder or crystal form with a bitter numbing taste. In general, the powder form is mixed with other materials such as talcum powder, icing sugar, cornstarch or other drugs such as ...

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Research Review on Accuracy of Memory

19 Apr 2018

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Meghan Amber-Rose Turnbull   Explain and evaluate what research has taught us about why our memories are not always accurate. Memory[p1] is a mechanism whereby the brain stores and retrieves information to be used in everyday life. Psychologists have come to understand the existence of memory, as we do not continuously re-learn information every time it is of need. This is what lead psychologist’s ...

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Corsi Block-tapping Task (CBT) Performance Experiment

19 Apr 2018

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Abstract The Corsi block-tapping task (CBT) is a widely used experimental tool for assessing visuo-spatial memory in both clinical and research contexts. However, whether information other than those spatial and visual (i.e., motor information) play also a role in CBT performance is still a matter of debate. Here, we investigated such issue through a crossed double dissociation design by observing how motor, visual, and spatial secondary ...

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Case Study: Goal Orientated Counselling Treatment

19 Apr 2018

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Case Study Scenario #1 Angela Townsend Scenario Mario is an illegal alien from Mexico. He has lived in the U.S. for five years and worked various construction jobs in the South. Mario’s family stayed behind in Mexico so he struggles with loneliness and has a poor social network except for an outreach ministry at a local Catholic Church. Mario was pulled over and charged ...

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Theoretical Approaches to Perception Processes

18 Apr 2018

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Cognitive psychologists differ in their views on the processes involved in perception. Outline two theoretical approaches to perception and provide empirical support for each. Introduction Explanations of perception seek to explain and better understand the process that facilitates the transformation of sensory information from the environment into the experience of objects, sounds, and movement. One of the most established fields of psychological research, studies in perception ...

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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Psychosis

18 Apr 2018

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A literature review in chronological order from past 5 years   Introduction The blanket term Psychotherapy covers a multifaceted pluralistic enterprise in which a range of therapies is required to meet a patient’s various needs (Holmes J 2002). The National Service Framework cites cognitive behaviour therapy as being the psychotherapeutic method of choice for conditions that include “depression, eating disorders, panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and deliberate ...

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Social Phobia and Perfectionism: Theories, Types and Models

18 Apr 2018

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Contents (Jump to) Abstract Chapter 2 – Epidemiology of Generalized and Specific Social Phobia Chapter 3 - Etiological Hypotheses and Findings Chapter 4 - The Behavioral Models of Social Phobia   Abstract Derived from the Greek word for ‘fear’, a phobia represents a ‘fight or flight’ response that is described by the American Psychiatric Association as “… an uncontrollable, irrational and persistent fear of a specific ...

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Effects of Transition on Child Stress

18 Apr 2018

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Using evidence, write an essay showing how stress is influenced at the levels of the individual, family, locality and society. Chose one intervention at one of the levels and say why you think it could be effective in tackling the problem.  This essay looks at how stress is influenced at many levels: individual, family, locality and society, and concentrates on the level of family, to describe ...

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Ethical Issues in Forensic Psychology

18 Apr 2018

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1.0 Introduction Forensic psychology refers to the professional application of specialized knowledge in psychology to aid in solving legal problems. Since forensic psychology straddles two great fields- study of human behaviors (psychology) and correctional measures that can deter wayward behaviors (law), its guide on ethics should be two-throng. Robert Wettstein agrees: “Given the interdisciplinary work of forensic psychiatry, questions arise about what principles of ethics should ...

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Sleep Disorders in College Students | Annotated Bibliography

18 Apr 2018

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Cukrowicz, K.C., Otamendi, A., Pinto, J.V., Bernet, R.A., Krakow, B., & Joiner, T.J. (2006). The impact of insomnia and sleep disturbances on depression and suicidality. Dreaming, 16(1), 1-10. The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of sleep disturbances and insomnia on depression and suicidality in a non-treatment seeking sample of college students. Results indicated that insomnia and nightmares were significant predictors of symptoms ...

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Motivated and Enthusiastic Child Psychologist Influences

18 Apr 2018

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Simranpreet K. Sidhu Introduction Child psychology is considered as a ‘new thing’ in the psychology workforce. And not many universities worldwide have a postgraduate course for child psychology. Definition of child psychologist Psychiatry and psychology are quite clearly like a pair of brothers with similar heritage in the general family life (Blain, 1946). Both pediatric psychology and clinical child psychology deal with children and ...

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Lasting Effects of Childhood Trauma

18 Apr 2018

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Dave Pelzer is the victim of the third-worst child abuse case in the history of California. In his book A Child Called “It”, he says, “I knew I was never meant to be loved. I knew I would never live a life like my brothers. Worst of all, I knew it was only a matter of time until Kevin [his baby brother] would hate me, just ...

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Crisis and Emergency Intervention Treatment Options

18 Apr 2018

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John C. Hemby Crisis and Emergency Intervention Tragedy in this day and age is commonplace. The same can be said of school violence and shootings in those schools. As a crisis worker, I need to become familiar with this issue and learn on how to help those who survive this ordeal. First, I will need to look at an incident and study it. I ...

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Concepts of Psychoanalytical Theory

18 Apr 2018

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Human beings have inherited three types personality which are Id, Ego and Superego. The fundamental one is Id where anatomical desires, wants needs are of in need of immediate attention. For example food, water, sex is in need if this is not obtained one can be restless and annoyed. Secondly is Ego, its aim is to fulfill desires of the id with a balance which is ...

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To What Extent Can Psychology Be Considered a Science?

18 Apr 2018

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Examine to what extent Psychology can be considered a Science Rebecca Harris Introduction The question can: ‘Psychology be considered a Science?’ It is important to understand what a Science is in relation to Psychology. Psychology is deemed as the scientific study of behaviour. Science is ‘a branch of knowledge conducted on objective principles involving the systematised observation of an experiment with phenomena.’ So can ...

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Schema as an Active Recognition Device | Experiment

18 Apr 2018

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Written report of a cognitive psychology experiment. Schemas are integrated chunks of knowledge stored in memory allowing us to form expectations and make sense of the world. Rumelhart and Norman (1988) described schemas as having variables or slots where schemas vary in the amount of information they contain and overlap to relate together to form systems. For example, a schema for a picnic may be part ...

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Developing Diversity in the Clinical Psychology Profession

18 Apr 2018

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The profession of clinical psychology is currently predominately predominantly white, female and middle class. What can be done to ensure that we become a more diverse and inclusive profession? Word count:1.256 The question of how the field can be made more – can be made more diverse and inclusive - is one that has been much explored in the clinical psychology community in Britain as well as in other countries. ...

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Theory of Planned Behaviour Experiment Design

18 Apr 2018

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Project plan and questionnaire design for a practical experiment based on the theory of planned behaviour Introduction This experiment was designed to test the role of attitude in the outcome of a particular behaviour. The particular behaviour to be tested in this experiment was student class attendance. The hypothesis was that the more positive the attitudinal variables were, the more likely the behaviour outcome would be. ...

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Early Occupational Therapy Intervention for Schizophrenia

18 Apr 2018

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The Potential value of Early Occupational Therapy Intervention for Adults with Schizophrenia. Introduction (approx 250 words) In this discussion, we would stress on the importance of occupational therapy in the treatment of schizophrenia and in vocational rehabilitation of schizophrenic adults. The discussions begin with examining the causes and aetiology, prognosis and diagnosis of schizophrenia, the symptoms involved and the general outlook of the treatment. We look at ...

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Psycho-Spiritual: Nature of Imagination and Dreams

18 Apr 2018

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PSYCHO-SPIRITUAL THERAPY: DREAMS & THE IMAGINATION with dreams and the imagination? Consider the nature of the imagination and dreams,  and illustrate with examples from clinical literature. ‘The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the psyche, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any ego-consciousness, and which will remain psyche no matter how far ...

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