PSY 270 FINAL PROJECT: PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDER ANALYSIS SUBMITTED BY: ERIN R. RANDOLPH OCTOBER 31‚ 2010 COLLEGE AT AXIA/UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX FINAL PROJECT: PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDER ANALYSIS Lorena is a 26-year-old Hispanic female who comes to the mental health clinic complaining of feeling agitated and hopeless. She is also having trouble sleeping and experiences racing thoughts. Lorena acknowledges she has really good days and really bad days. In fact‚ these symptoms are causing problems
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Psychology 210 Introduction to Psychology Version 2 8/06/07 PSY 210 PSY 210 Introduction to Psychology Program Council The Academic Program Councils for each college oversee the design and development of all University of Phoenix curricula. Council members include full-time and practitioner faculty members who have extensive experience in this discipline. Teams of full-time and practitioner faculty content experts are assembled under the direction of these Councils to create specific
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Adolescence: Physical and Cognitive Development Adolescence is considered the developmental state between childhood and adulthood. It generally refers to the period from ages 12 through 18. (Sprinthall & Collins‚ 1987). This period of an individual’s life is often starts with puberty. It can also be characterized and associated with psychological‚ social‚ and biological changes. Psychologists focus on physiological change‚ cognitive development‚ and identity formation when dealing with adolescence
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Running head: ADOLESCENCE 1 Adolescence and Substance Abuse or Addiction Christina Ayres Liberty University Running head: ADOLESCENCE 2 Adolescence and Substance Abuse or Addiction Adolescents‚ or teenagers‚ use drugs (prescription and illegal) and alcohol for many of the same reasons as adults. Most notably‚ the pleasure or euphoric feeling associated with use and as an escape from the stress and pressure of a situation or of life in general. Many students have even started
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Adolescence is a sandwich between childhood and adulthood.It is a stage where children maturity develops.The teenager undergo physical psychological and emotional changes.It is the period of growth teenagers are not understood by their parents.They need support and understanding during this critical period of rapid growth.adolescencents cannot confide in their parents hence they have no choice to turn to their friends. adolescents are mainly secondary schools students hence with these changes
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Nesselroade‚ 1977 ; Neugarten‚ 1977). Most personality inventories have been developed to assess dispositions that endure (traits). However‚ the more researchers endeavor to make measures of personality factorially pure‚ reliable‚ and applicable across adolescence and adulthood‚ the more insensitive their measures are to normative changes that occur with age. Statistical assumptions are better suited to the demonstration of stability than of change (Cronbach & Furby‚ 1970)‚ and problems of design are
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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Background of the Study Here in the Philippines‚ we believe in the saying of our national hero Dr. Jose P. Rizal that “Youth is the hope of our Mother land”. In their hand lies the future generation to follow. But as we see from the situation nowadays‚ what were expecting from the youth is the contrary if the saying. Teenagers are prone to pregnancy. Almost every year there is a rapid increase on the number of pregnant youths. One of the major causes of this problem are
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Late Adulthood and End of Life Paper Tramaine Layne PSY 375 July 23‚ 2012 Moriel McDuffy Late Adulthood and End of Life Paper Berger (2008) state that late adulthood‚ which begins at age 65‚ is the final stage of the life span development process that culminates through the death of an individual. During the course of the twentieth century the notion of late adulthood changed significantly (Kowalski & Westen‚ 2009). The average person’s life expectancy increased probably by 30 years
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following proposals for rooms specific to‚ and focusing on each of the five stages of development (Infant‚ Toddler‚ Early Childhood‚ Middle/Late Childhood‚ and Adolescence). There will be a room geared specifically for the infants‚ a room set up for the toddlers‚ a room for the children in the early childhood stage‚ a middle/late childhood room‚ and a room for the adolescence. Within each of these five rooms will be the tools‚ supervision‚ and support necessary to enhance the physical‚ cognitive
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