Social Oppression and Mental Health Therapy
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This is a 5 page paper discussing social oppression and mental health therapy. Social oppression is prominent within the society of the United States and exists is various forms such as racism, classism, sexism and heterosexism. Social oppression within society has led to the self destructive behaviors of minorities because of overwhelming feelings of isolation, alienation, dual self identity and feeling powerless. Historically, mental health therapies have relied upon the assumptions of individualistic centered treatments which were developed in the 19th century for white middle class clients. Recently, mental health practitioners have been trying to develop guidelines which will help in the treatment of clients from socially oppressive situations. Studies involving populations of African Americans, Asians and women have found that individualistic approaches should be abandoned for treatments which include total assessment of all factors (ecosystems) which influence the lives of the clients and which have led to their oppression. These factors must be assessed and changed to attain a successful treatment. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Social Perspectives on the Etiology of Borderline Personality Disorder
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This 5 page paper provides an overview of two different theoretical perspectives, behavioral and cognitive, and the application for understanding the sometimes evasive etiology of borderline personality disorder. This paper integrates a view of both of these theoretical perspectives and further determines the benefits in terms of the therapeutic process. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Stages Of Childhood: Adolescent Anxiety Leads To Adult Depression Due To Parental Separation and Domestic Violence
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10 pages in length. The myriad stages of a person's life reflect the foundation upon which the individual's entire emotional, spiritual and physical being is comprised; to abandon even the most seemingly insignificant occurrence as inconsequential to the ultimate outcome of someone's life is to ignore the grand and far-reaching subtleties that make up the whole person. Looking at the student's life from two specific stages – adolescence and adulthood – provides a greater understanding of how and why certain events served to mold the way in which she relates today with various components of her life. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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Stress
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This is a 10 page paper discussing stress as a necessary part of life and work which cannot be eliminated but can be managed. Stress is a natural occurrence in everyday life and cannot be eliminated whether or not individuals are male or female, go to work outside of the home, or remain within the home. Stress results from emotion adjustments and can be considered both positive and negative within individuals and affects both the emotional and physical elements within an individual. Not only can stress not be eliminated from people’s lives, but positive stress is needed. Positive stress is considered necessary in people’s lives as it enables them to initiate and complete projects and also look forward to any future changes within their lives. Negative stress, also known as unrelieved stress, can result in emotional or physical illness. Since stress cannot be eliminated from individual’s lives, researchers have developed certain steps, or levels, to help individual’s control the amount of unrelieved stress in their lives and to help them use stress in a positive manner. Mostly, individuals must realize that stressful situations will occur and emotional adjustments will be needed in daily life. Individual’s physical and emotional strength must be increased in order for them to better handle stressful situations and an examination and moderation of which events cause the most stress are recommended. In many work situations which have reported increased levels in overwork and stress, management must examine some the leading causes of stress in the work place such as new management techniques, long hours and bullying which need to be reduced in order to provide health work environments. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Stress Management in Adult Educators
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A 5 page paper which examines various perspectives concerning stress management and job burn-out among adult educators. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Stress Management – Psychological, Physiological and Sociological Issues
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This 8 page report discusses numerous aspects of stress and stress management. Psychological and sociological factors have become the contemporary versions of the saber tooth tiger of prehistoric humans’ stress stimulators. Theories about the causes of stress ranging from the anthropological aspects to the physiological have been propagated for, at least, the past three decades. Such studies have shown that there are physiological, psychological and social components to stress and successful stress management. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Stress: Theory and Treatment
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An 11 page overview of the phenomenal of stress and the factors which cause it. The author emphasizes that stress can result in a number of adverse physiological and psychological problems and that intervention must be case specific. The relative value of pharmacological intervention, meditation, biofeedback, and hypnosis are explored. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Study In Sleep Psychotherapy / Rapid Eye Movement
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This 4 page paper specifically examines Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)-- a process which maintains that someone can remove the pain of traumatic memories from a patient's mind by moving their eyes from side to side. Promising case examples are discussed. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Substance Abuse And Cognitive Behavior Therapy
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A 9 page paper. Cognitive behavior therapy joins two effective approaches, cognitive therapy and behavior therapy, with the objective of changing both the individual's thinking patterns and the habitual behavioral reactions to certain internal and external stimuli. All three of these models have been found to be successful in treating a plethora of conditions. At least one research study concluded that combining cognitive behavior therapy with family based therapy was even more effective in reducing substance abuse among adolescents. But, why is it that the research reports different results when the same approach is used to treat substance abuse? This essay concludes with an answer to this question. Includes half-page abstract. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Substance Abuse And Dual Diagnosis
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A 5 page paper that begins with a brief definition of 'substance abuse' and 'dual diagnosis.' The incidence of dual diagnosis is reported as are the challenges this type of diagnosis presents to the clinician and the patient. The writer reports a study with bipolar disorder using a new type of group intervention that was successful with substance abuse but not with the disorder. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Substance Abuse and Ethnicity:
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This 7 page paper discusses the issue of substance abuse while specifically addressing the issue of ethnicity. This paper highlights how counseling must be concerned with ethnicity in order for it to be effective. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Substance Abuse and Mental Illness: The Impact of Dual Diagnosis from a Public Health Perspective
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This 12 page paper provides an overview of the issue in public health of dual diagnoses. This paper considers the breadth of the issue, that includes treatment issues for people with alcohol/drug dependency and mental health diagnoses. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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Substance Abuse Counseling and Treatments
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This is a 10 page paper discussing substance abuse counseling and treatments for people addicted to drugs and/or alcohol. Substance abuse counseling is an area within the social and therapeutic services discipline which requires counselors to have a high level of education (a B.A. with a Master’s preferred) and previous counseling experience and requires long and stressful counseling sessions, is not high paying and has a high burn out rate. Nevertheless, the necessity for substance abuse counselors in today’s society grows as does the incidence of alcohol and drug abuse especially in the adolescent populations. In addition to educational requirements, counselors must be skilled in many aspects of treatment and therapies including individual, group and family therapies as well as many techniques which include motivational therapy, relapse prevention, the Matrix-Model, supportive-expressive therapy, behavioral therapies and most recently recreational therapeutic programs in addition other external support programs such as the well proven 12-step programs introduced by Alcoholic Anonymous. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
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Substance Abuse in Older Adults
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A 17 page paper examining the problems of alcohol and drug abuse in adults over the age of 60. Though increasing numbers of aging baby boomers may usher in the occurrence of many more cases of abuse of illicit drugs, currently it is prescription drugs and alcohol that cause the greatest number of substance abuse cases among those over the age of 60. Some seniors become drug abusers unwittingly and insidiously, often through misuse of prescription drugs and lack of knowledge of the drugs’ intended actions. Alcohol abuse can occur for the same kinds of reasons, given that its effects are more pronounced in the presence of the effects of age. Seniors likely need to be educated in these factors at the same time that they are being urged to consistently take their blood pressure medication or check their blood sugar. Whatever the reason that seniors cross the line into substance abuse, intervention needs to be thoughtful and sensitive. Includes and abstract and a 1-page outline. Bibliography lists 19 sources.
Filename: KSpsycSubAbElder.rtf

SUCCESSFUL APPROACHES FOR TREATING EATING DISORDERS
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This 20 page paper gives an indepth look at the definition of eating disorder, the medical history of treatment, most successful treatments and future innovative treatments. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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Suicide & Suicidal Tendencies / Aspects Of Personality ?
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In this 15 page research paper, the writer attempts to determine whether suicidal tendencies are "built-in" to certain personalities or if they can be prevented altogether. An examination of literature, statistics, depressive disorders, etc.; is presented and it is ultimately concluded that there is always some treatable, underlying reason for an attempt to take one's own life. Bibliography lists approximately 8 sources.
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Suicide Among Youth and the Elderly
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A 6 page paper establishing epidemiological, behavioral and educational diagnoses for suicide among youth and the elderly. The text of the paper is repeated in three tables, each devoted to a specific type of diagnosis. Bibliography lists 13 sources.
Filename: KSpsycSuicide.rtf