University of Cambodia Facebook is the most popular social network site of all time. The popularity of Facebook has increased up to 1 billion users only in 6 years. Nowadays Facebook has become very important part of our life. It is very good for our communication‚ daily entertainment for users and helps us in many ways. Besides that‚ Facebook can affect us in other ways. Facebook is free and it’s one of the best medium for communication. With the help of Facebook we can connect to different people
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Take A Bite On This Attention Getter: February 4‚ 1983 was the day that opened the eyes of America to the view of the damaging effects of eating disorders. This day marks the death of the very famous singer of the time‚ Karen Carpenter. Looking glamorous and confident on the outside‚ most did not know she was suffering from Anorexia Nervosa (B5). Throughout her teenage years‚ she was overweight. In 1967‚ weighing 140 pounds‚ Karen was put on a water diet by her doctor. This brought her down to
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Antisocial personality disorder Brian Sopko University of Phoenix Introduction Antisocial personality disorder is a mental health condition in which a person has a long-term pattern of manipulating‚ exploiting‚ or violating the rights of others. This behavior is often criminal. Habitual rule breaking and chronic disregard for sociolegal restraints are behavioral characteristics attributed to individuals who are labeled antisocial personality. Authors of the DSM-V deemphasized underlying traits and
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eating disorders are most commonly associated with heterosexual‚ young‚ white teenage girls. In reality‚ eating disorders are found in people of every gender‚ race‚ age‚ and sexual orientation. Many people forget that men suffer from eating disorders as well. Of the male population‚ those a part of the LGBT community tend to have more predispositions to developing an eating disorder. Studies have found that gay and bisexual men‚ especially‚ had more behavioral symptoms of eating disorders than heterosexual
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82 Antisocial Personality Disorder J. Reid Meloy‚ Ph.D. A ntisocial personality disorder is the most reliably diagnosed condition among the personality disorders‚ yet treatment efforts are notoriously difficult. Therapeutic hope has not vanished‚ however‚ and one study indicated that almost two-thirds of psychiatrists think that “psychopathic disorder” is sometimes a treatable condition (Tennent et al. 1993). A similar finding was reported nearly 40 years ago (Gray and Hutchison 1964)
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Parramore-Eaker Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: clinical psychology application of treatments and approaches. October‚ 20‚ 2013 Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) has a cognitive-behavioral component that includes a distortion of an individual’s environment. OCD has similar components to many anxiety disorders. Anxiety is a result of a disrupted and dysfunctional thought patterns. Anxiety produces adverse reactions affecting the nervous system and an overload of stimulation. Research suggests a genetic predisposition
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English Draft Dear Readers‚ Facebook now has millions of users and that number is growing daily. It is one of the most popular social networking sites and even though there are some dangers that users are confronted with a large majority of people use Facebook as a way to chat with friends and never encountered any such dangers. I was shocked to read an article by Janet Street-Porter stating that ‘Facebook is a toxic addiction’. A few comments held true yet most were over exaggerated. One
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Heroin Addiction & Methadone Maintenance Deborah Booth Psychology 305 – DO4 Liberty University Heroin Addiction & Methadone Maintenance Diacetylmorphine‚ aka: heroin‚ smack‚ horse‚ black tar‚ china white‚ and H‚ the slang names are as numerous as the places you can score this highly addictive narcotic. Heroin‚ a derivative of morphine‚ via opium‚ which comes from the resin of the Papaver somniferum plant has been in use for nearly 3500 years (Doweiko‚2012‚ p.137). To
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Narcissistic personality disorder From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia This article is about the personality disorder. For more information on clinical research and types of narcissism‚ see Narcissism. Narcissistic personality disorder Classification and external resources Narcissus by Caravaggio. Gazing at his own reflection. ICD-10 F60.8 ICD-9 301.81 MedlinePlus 000934 MeSH D010554 Personality disorders Cluster A (odd) Paranoid Schizoid Schizotypal Cluster B (dramatic) Antisocial Borderline
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Living With Borderline Personality Disorder Madeline Anderson Argosy University ENG101 Composition I All therapists’ approaches to the treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder are different. One form of treatment is DBT or Dialectical Behavior Therapy. DBT was created by Marsha Linehan‚ a psychologist at the University of Washington. It was developed from the structure of CBT‚ or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. CBT is a type of goal-oriented
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