a) How could a psychological disorder (either affective or anxiety or psychotic) be treated biologically? An affective disorder commonly treated biologically is depression. Depression is a disorder characterised by the DSM –IV with 9 symptoms‚ at least 5 of which must be present within a 2-week period. These symptoms include depressed mood‚ insomnia or hypersomnia‚ feelings of worthlessness and recurrent thoughts of death. To treat depression biologically‚ a clinician would prescribe an anti-depressant
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Throughout the years psychological disorders have been characterized in an erroneous way. The constant stereotyping of individuals with mental illnesses as well as the treatment that they receive from others‚ may seem like a reason for people to keep quiet. Due to the fear of being criticized and ostracized drives various individuals with psychological disorders to keep their illness a secret. Individuals constant fear of being treated differently would be great reason to remove the illness from
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Chapter 3 – Jurisdiction State Court: Subject Matter Jurisdiction Personal Jurisdiction: Defendant voluntarily subject themselves by: Forum Selection Clause No challenge of lawsuit OR Defendant is a resident (can be sued at permanent place of residence/business) OR Defendant is served with process while in the state (plaintiff files complaint‚ defendant receives summons = process once received‚ clock starts ticking) OR Defendant did business‚ entered/breached a K or committed a tort in
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Criminal court cases often require critical thinking and analyzing. From anything to petty theft and murder require specific amounts of justice or discipline so to speak. After reading the Case of Mary Burnett and analyzing the testimonies I believe the defendant should be found not guilty on charges of 2nd degree murder. After analyzing this case the hard facts have been derived. The defendant is Mary Burnett who is charged with leaving her child at home unattended while she went to California
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Question: First of all‚ where do you want to see the court take the country? And secondly‚ what’s your view on how the constitution should be interpreted? Do the founders’ words mean what they say or is it a living document to be applied flexibly‚ according to changing circumstances? Who won: Clinton won because she wants to have more of a living document that can change when it needs to be changed. Question:Do you want the court‚ including the justices that you will name‚ to overturn Roe v.
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not based on the victim’s fear of safety from the offender lines (Burgess‚ Regehr‚ & Roberts‚ 2013‚ p. 345). A protection order is routinely handled by law enforcement but prepared through the court system (Weisberg‚ 2015). With the assistance of a lawyer‚ an application must be first placed with the court in order for an individual to attain a protection order
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An issue that is being discussed is whether people should promote animal testing. Certainly‚ animal testing can be successful sometimes in saving lives but I believe that it is more important to think about animals dying than people being saved because usually it is unsuccessful which basically results in animals dying for no good reason. In other words‚ I believe that animal testing should not be allowed because it results in poor test results‚ is cruel and inhumane‚ and may mislead researchers
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five-hundred-mile round-trip from East Texas to visit when they could—Garcia was the only person from Michael’s previous life who had stayed in contact with him. Virtually everyone else believed that he was guilty. Throughout the fall and winter of 1986‚ his case had been splashed across the front pages of
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juvenile court to criminal court‚ I would look at what means would best serve the juvenile. The three most commonly used mechanisms are the juvenile wavier‚ prosecutorial wavier‚ and legislative wavier (Elrod & Ryder‚ 2014). Based upon my research‚ I would favor the judicial wavier. The results of a juvenile being transferred into adult court can have some negative consequences on a juvenile. A juvenile court usually focuses on rehabilitation of the accused juvenile; however‚ the adult court will
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Psychological Disorders Part A. What is schizophrenia‚ people may ask‚ It is a brain disease that is chronic and very severe‚ that “more than two Million Americans” (schizophrenia.com‚ 2004)‚ are having to deal with each day. Understanding the causes and treatments of schizophrenia is the first thing that needs to be done when taking a look at the causes and the treatments of this disorder. The cause of schizophrenia is in a person’s genetics‚ or DNA as the professionals would say
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