Outline and Evaluate Psychological Explanations for one eating disorder The psychodynamic approach suggests unconscious conflicts from childhood may be the reason for an eating disorder. As adolescent girls are most likely to have the disorder‚ it suggests that anorexia might be due to fear of increasing sexual desires and starvation is a way to avoid becoming pregnant because one of the symptoms of anorexia nervosa is the absence of a menstrual cycle. Another psychodynamic explanation suggests anorexia
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baby crying for feeding because they need to be fed‚ no matter how tiring or annoying the caregiver may be. Ego: This is the ‘planning’ part of a personality‚ the part that works out what is needed and how to get it. A child waiting to be given a biscuit rather than just taking one for example‚ has worked out that his needs are going to be met either way but if he waits‚ he will probably get one sooner than if he was just to take one and then be admonished and be made to wait for it. Superego: This
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dialogue on the threshold whose origins are in the Socratic dialogue and the diatribe (a dialogued internal gender)‚ both understood as privileged mechanisms in the construction of the main character of Dostoevski´s novel Uma criatura dócil [The Meek One]. Its aim is to discuss the materiality of the text – mainly the dialogue on the threshold when the main character is in its existential crisis – and the mechanism of the diatribe which provoke the philosophical dialogue experience that the individual
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Outline and evaluate one or more biological explanations of schizophrenia (8 marks AO1/16 marks AO1) Schizophrenia is classified as a mental disorder that shows profound disruption of cognition and emotion which affects a person’s language‚ perception‚ thought and sense of self. The dopamine hypothesis states that schizophrenic’s neurones transmitting dopamine release the neurotransmitter too easily‚ leading to the characteristic symptoms of schizophrenia. This hypothesis
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As China realised the need for modernisation‚ the one child policy was implemented in June 1979 to achieve three main goals: 1. To address the low per capita GNP by increasing the per capita income to $800. 2. To increase or improve the standard of living. 3. To keep China ’s total population size from exceeding 1.2 billion by the year 2000. China recognised the easiest way to achieve these goals was by restricting the population growth. That way‚ there would be a more likely increase in per
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Module One: Introduction to Theory 2. Explain the relationships of the concepts of the client‚ health‚ environment and nursing. Answer: These four major concepts establish a better direction and understanding of nursing profession. The Nursing Metaparadigm embodies the knowledge base‚ theory‚ philosophy‚ research‚ practice‚ and educational experience and literature identified with the profession. These given concepts vary in accordance to the experiences and views of different nursing theorists
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In his essay‚ How One Becomes What One Is Alexander Nehamas tries to make sense of the title of his essay which is also the subtitle of Nietzsche’s Ecce Homo. Nehamas identifies a number of apparent contradictions between Nietzsche’s philosophy and the aphoristic subtitle. His goal in writing his essay is to show the contradictions to be misinformed as well as convey a more precise portrayal of the aphorism in the context of Nietzschean philosophy. Rather than evaluate the contradictions he dispels
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Grief & Loss in Elizabeth Bishop’s "One Art" Many things in life will be lost; however‚ some losses are more significant than others. The way that Elizabeth Bishop chose to interpret the intertwined themes of grief and loss in her poem "One Art" illustrates the build-up of emotion as each successive loss grew in importance. By increasing the significance of each loss‚ Ms. Bishop seems to indicate that one must first become accustomed to accepting life’s little losses before trying to conquer
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Cognitive Theory Paper Cognitive Therapy Ngina Hardy University of North Texas at Dallas COUN 5710- Counseling Theories November 12‚ 2012 Dr. Jennifer Baggerly Cognitive Therapy "The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind." William James (Whitbourne‚ 2011) When we hear the word cognitive‚ several words come to mind such as‚ reasoning
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