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Throughout history people have always seemed to follow what notions that were considered cool. Though I doubt that cool was the word used to describe these notions they were still there in some form or another. One of the greatest farces ever committed in the name of these popular perceptions was medicine. At that time,…

Yoshimoto developed as a short term structural treatment that is useful in treating marital and familial conflicts, interpersonal relationship issues, depression and anxiety, self-esteem issues, behavioral disorders, and addictive behaviors (Ramaswami & Sheikh, 1989, p. 106). Nakian translates to mean ‘to look within one’s self. The purpose of Naikan therapy is to increase awareness of…

Play Therapy Play Therapy Play therapy is a good intervention approach for working with young children who lack the verbal abilities to describe their difficulties clearly enough to receive support and assistance from counselors. This strategy seems to work with children experiencing a broad range of difficulties. The play therapist must carefully select toys that…

Depression is defined as a low sad state in which life seems bleak and its changes overwhelming. When people lapse into a state of depression, they experience different symptoms and not all depressed people have the same symptoms. Symptoms of depression fall into the following five categories: emotional, motivational, behavioral, cognitive and physical. Emotional symptoms…

Electromagnetism is considered to be the glue of the universe by the most powerful minds in it. Electromagnetism is so central to our everyday lives that we simply overlook its importance. We would probably know about electromagnetism on an instrument level but we don’t stress its importance biologically. The cells in our bodies are constructed…

Not all stress is bad. Some stress activates areas of our brain that helps us to survive dangerous situations. Some children who live in stressful circumstances can survive and develop into typical adults. Other children live through such extreme stressful circumstances that they never have a chance to recover from the stress. The result of…

A model of stress was measured by Cohen et al (1983).The Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) is developed to measures the degree to which a person experiences his or her life as unexpected, uncontrollable and overloaded (Cohen et al., 1983). To operationalize this model to measure its influence, Cohen et al (1983) created the PPS. Furthermore,…

Just a Mood . . . or Real Depression? How Do You Really Feel? Check off the ones that fit you. Top of Form 1 You feel sad a lot, and it doesn’t go away. You feel guilty; you think that you’re no good; you have no confidence. You lose interest in ordinary pleasures like…

What makes suicide bombers tick? Is it religions upbringing with promises of paradise in reward for acts of martyrdom? Is it the parental support he or she receives for his convictions? Is it society with no means of fighting back against oppression and humiliation? (http://www.israelinsider.com/channels/security/articles/sec0049.htm). In this paper I will discuss the characteristics of a…

Suicide A Self-Destruction Suicide is the act or an instance of intentionally killing oneself. According to Emile Durkheim, suicide is applied to all cases of death resulting directly or indirectly from a positive or negative act of the victim himself, which he knows will produce this result (44). Suicide is a rarely ever a spur…