Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (EAP): Treatment Of Attachment Disorders In Children
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8 pages in length. Animals have a unique way of drawing out the best in people; their nonjudgmental, soothing and uplifting qualities make humans gravitate toward them without really knowing why. This inherent affinity is of a particular benefit to those who have mental or emotional problems that prevent them from interacting with others in the conventional way. Using animals as therapy has proven an unprecedented success as a therapeutic tool with, for example, children who have unattached disorders; the emotional connection absent from those who never had the opportunity to develop the parental bond is recreated in such valuable programs as Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (EAP) with the horse playing the surrogate role as both mother and father in a completely nonthreatening environment. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Erikson and Freud
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A 4 page paper which compares and contrasts the theories of Erik Erikson and Sigmund Freud. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Ethical and Practical Implications of the Medical Approach to Abnormal Behavior
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This 3 page paper discusses the ethical limits, as well as the practicality involved in treating abnormal behavior. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Examining Issues Surrounding Developmental Disabilities
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6 pages in length. The writer discusses the following issues as they relate to developmental disabilities: federal definition; standardized testing; classification; historical trends and treatments; normalization and social role valorization; social services; supplemental benefits; and guardianship. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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Experimental Design for Research into the Effectiveness of Cognitive Behavior Disorder for People with Panic Disorders
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This 5 page report briefly discusses the effectiveness of cognitive behavior therapy in treating people with a panic disorder. It is structured as a literature review and offers suggestions for a study design to determine that measure of effectiveness. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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Extreme Mental Illness And Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
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19 pages in length. To understand the ongoing controversy surrounding ECT, it is important to gain a working knowledge of the procedure, indications, risks and common misconceptions about this alternative approach to treating severe mental illness that has been in place for a number of decades. The process of ECT has undergone such significant modifications that it hardly resembles what by today's standards is considered archaic application. That contemporary approaches to ECT have wholly metamorphosed - and in some cases exorcised - the negative components once attributed to this controversial therapy lends considerable credibility to recent scientific research that supports it as being viable, safe and humane. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
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Familial Dysfunction and Adolescent Psychology: The Seemingly "Successful" Family and Issues Leading to Low Self-Esteem, Substance Abuse, and Suicidal Ideation
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This 12 page paper considers the factors that influence self-esteem and individual self-perception in families where parental success translates into expectations about a child's performance. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
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Fear Of Flying
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10 pages in length. Human nature harbors myriad anxieties that make it difficult for some people to make it through the day. While some angst is kept in check by virtue of a relatively low level of anxiety, others are full-blown phobias that serve to paralyze their victims when it comes to confronting that particular fear. One of the most common phobias is fear of flying, which experts contend have a great deal to do with the complete control passengers give up to pilots, weather and mechanical functioning that manifest in such psychological and biological ways as panic attacks, claustrophobia, nausea and embarrassment. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Discussion in Relation to the Criminal Justice System
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This is a 7 page paper discussing fetal alcohol syndrome, its incidence, cost to society and relation in the criminal justice system. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS), Fetal Alcohol Effects (FAE), Alcohol-Related Neurodevelopmental Disorders (ARND), Alcohol-Related Birth Defects (ARBD) and alcohol-exposed Static Encephalopathy (SE) are all terms for the defect which occurs to a child when his or her mother drinks alcohol during pregnancy. It is estimated that 1 in every 10 children born have some form of this disorder which can result in mild learning disabilities to major mental, physical and developmental disorders. Children with an alcohol related disorder may or may not have physical defects and because of this most go undetected at birth. Youths with FAS exhibit impulsive and anti-social behavior, lower IQs, attention deficit, emotional instability, impairment in judgment and little awareness or consequences of their behavior among many other factors; all of which can lead them into criminal behavior. As a result, over 55% of youths and adults with FAS have spent time in a criminal facility; a fact which many critics within the legal system state may go against some of the fundamental principles of the legal system in which people must understand the rules in society and understand that the rules must be obeyed. From another legal aspect, legal critics also argue that pregnant women who drink could be considered as committing child abuse; an argument which has led some states to impose involuntary treatment and confinement of drinking women during the course of a pregnancy in order to protect the unborn child. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Fetishism and Partialism
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A 7 page paper which discusses fetishism and partialism. The paper focuses on leather fetish and foot partialism, discussing and defining the two, and then examining how the two differ in relationship to psychological considerations. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Fight Club/Dissociative Identity Disorder
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A 3 page essay/research paper that analyzes the 1999 film "Fight Club" in terms of what it tells the audience about Dissociative Identity Disorder. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Forensic Mental Science
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An 8 page paper which examines the field of forensic mental science as it relates to, and as it is presented in, the situation involving Ted Kaczynski, the unabomber. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Forensic Psychology
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A 10 page discussion of the history and evolution of forensic psychology. Details the arenas within which this discipline is active, emphasizing its importance in practically every aspect of law enforcement and the judicial process. Maintains that while the field has evolved to incorporate detailed criteria and procedures, there is a high probability of variation as to the opinion and recommendation of any two forensic psychologists. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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Forensic Psychology: Issues of Morality and Justice
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A 5 page overview of the role forensic psychologists play in issues of morality and justice. Notes that in effect forensic psychology is a court of law, a system designed to weigh the mental processes of some against those of the masses. Psychology is really a means of justification, the presentation of evidence or facts which support our views or beliefs. This "evidence" or "fact" varies considerably, however, according to what arena it is presented. A rigid testing and diagnostic regime is therefore critical to justice. The issues of morality and justice are integrally tied to the “court of law” of forensic psychology. It is by gauging one’s morality and concept of justice, in fact, that allows us in many instances to distinguish normal from aberrant. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Forensics
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A 9 page overview of forensics. The author defines forensics and illustrates its history. Examples from criminal investigations are emphasized along with forensic psychology. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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FREUD AND CONTRIBUTION TO SEXUAL PERVERSION
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This 5-page paper reviews Sigmund Freud's thoughts about sexual perversion and whether they are true today. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Freud and Disease
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A 7 page discussion of Sigmund Freud's views on mental illness. Encapsulates his belief that the outward manifestation of all mental illness revolves around our inner savagery or repressed sexuality. Contrasts this belief with the modern belief that mental illness is a biochemical malfunction and addresses the question as to whether disease has a function. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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