INTRODUCTION Counseling means professional guidance of the individual by utilizing psychological methods especially in collecting case history data‚ using various techniques of the personal interview‚ and testing interests and aptitudes. Support process in which a counselor holds face to face talks with another person to help him or her solve a personal problem‚ or help improve that person’s attitude‚ behaviour‚ or character. Counseling Psychology is a field of psychology that focuses on everyday
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PSYCHOLOGICAL THERAPIES FOR DEPRESSION To read up on psychological therapies for depression‚ refer to pages 459–468 of Eysenck’s A2 Level Psychology. Ask yourself How can the behavioural approach be applied to the treatment of depression? How can the cognitive approach be applied to the treatment of depression? Which psychological therapy do you think will be most effective for depression? What you need to know PSYCHODYNAMIC THERAPY BEHAVIOUR THERAPY COGNITIVE AND COGNITIVE-BEHAVIOURAL
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Adjustment Disorder 1 Running head: ANXIETY DISORDER AND ADJUSTMENT DISORDER A Comparison of Anxiety Disorder and Adjustment Disorder Victoria Argueta Walden University Diagnosis and Assessment Dr. Edward Beck
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THE CAUSES OF SLEEP DISORDER Nowadays‚ having sleep disorders has become a norm for many people. As they cope with the fast-paced world‚ they tend to neglect the importance of having the right amount of sleep every day. There are sleep disorders among teenagers that affects between seven to ten percent of teenagers called Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder‚ also known as DNS. Most teenagers outgrow this disorder by the time they reach young adulthood. Less then one percent of adults are believed to have
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Speech on Bipolar Disorder I. Introduction A. Attention Getter: Well I want everyone to think about this; how many people do you know are bipolar? I’m sure the things you’ve heard or seen you think they’re all crazy‚ but believe it or not there are many famous people with bipolar including Abraham Lincoln‚ Marilyn Monroe‚ Drew Carey‚ and many others. Most people who are bipolar don’t realize they are bipolar and go throughout life untreated because mentally they don’t believe they have a problem
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REPORT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT Confidential Material NAME: Sebastian Smith DATE OF BIRTH: 5/8/1985 CHRONOLOGICAL AGE: 16 years 3 months PARENTS: Mary Smith & Sebastian Smith GRADE: completed ninth grade DATES OF ASSESSMENT: 7/17; 7/27/01 DATE OF REPORT: 8/3/01 INDENTIFYING DATA AND REASON FOR REFERRAL: Sebastian is a 16 years 3 months old Caucasian adolescent‚ who was referred for a psychological evaluation to determine his current cognitive and emotional status. Sebastian has a long
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Sleeping problems and disorders When you sleep‚ you pass through five stages of sleep‚ stages 1‚ 2‚ 3‚ 4 and REM sleep. Stage one is the lightest sleep. During this stage you can be awaked easily. Muscle activity slows during this stage. Stage 2 is where the eye movement stops and the brain waves are slower. In stage 3 slow brain waves called delta waves begin to appear‚ with smaller yet faster waves. By stage 4 these waves appear more often‚ and it is quite difficult to wake someone during this
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Bipolar Disorder Heather McLean HCA/240 Maryam Pirnazar 4/14/2013 Introduction Bipolar disorder is a brain disorder it can cause shifts in moods‚ activity level‚ energy‚ and also the ability to due day-to-day tasks. It is also commonly known as manic- depressive illness. This disorder is one of the oldest illnesses that is known. It is one of the first noticed that goes as far back and the second century. The first person that recognized the some of the symptoms
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PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF TRAUMA Introduction A traumatic event is any situation whereby a person is affected psychologically due to the severity of the event. In such cases‚ a person may find it difficult to move on to normal life which they had no problem with before the traumatic event. A recent event that affected hundreds of people in Kenya was the Westgate terror attack. Terror attacks cause people to lose trust in humanity. This attack left many people traumatised Fortunately‚ these consequences
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Motivational Motivational theories essentially state the behavior is based on a factor of motivation for the individual. (Taylor‚ 2006) An example would be the man who steals in order to feed his family. This implies the cognitive and the learning theory. The learning theory may be implied as his father was a strong provider and the thief may want to accomplish in the same manner as his father did. The cognitive theory may be associated depending on how the individual views his world. Certain
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