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Children With Learning Learning Disabilities
1,119 wordsFor centuries, the education of children with learning disabilities has been a problem and a challenge. Many methods of teaching have been proposed, yet every day there are new techniques and strategies on how to achieve the maximum success of these children. The problem of educating a child cannot be solved quickly and easily, rather it requires much careful analysis and research. Workers in this field are developing new theories on a day to day basis. All the methods proposed seem to be the an...
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Range Of Motion Occupational Therapy
1,196 wordsJoe is currently a client receiving treatment at a hand therapy clinic, due to a traumatic injury to his left hand. Carpentry work has been Joe's profession for many years. He suffered a debilitating injury to flexor tendons of the 2 nd and 3 rd metacarpals, fracturing the first metacarpal bone, severing the 4 th finger and all innervation to the fingers. The flexor tendons are repaired, the first metacarpal bone has healed and the open wound in the palm of his hand has finally closed. Joe has s...
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People With Aids Corrective Measures
1,092 words... erection Patrick Haney left behind a legacy of guidelines for empowering people with AIDS. 1. Modify their mindset that they are not a victim, only people with AIDS. A perception of being a victim fosters passivity and a sense of helplessness. 2. Focus more on opportunities for making the most of a bad situation and less on the fatalistic aspects of the disease. 3. Assist them to find people who can provide them with support and they themselves must be caring and supportive. Cognitive Restru...
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Spina Bifida Life Threatening
828 wordsFetal surgery itself is a relatively new procedure with only a few hundred attempts world wide. Because of the risk of inducing preterm labor and delivering so early in the pregnancy, fetal surgery traditionally was reserved for life- threatening circumstances. While spina bifida is not necessarily life- threatening, it is the most common debilitating birth defect, diagnosed in about one of every 1, 000 here in the US. Babies born with spina bifida typically experience one or more lifelong and a...
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
1,433 wordsI know my hands are clean. I know that I have touched nothing dangerous. However, I doubt my perception. Soon, if I do not wash, a mind numbing, searing anxiety will cripple me. A feeling of stickiness will begin to spread from the point of contamination and I will be lost in a place I do not want to go. So I wash until the feeling is gone, until the anxiety subsides. Then I feel defeated. So I do less and less, my world becomes smaller and smaller and lonelier by the day (Healthy Place: OCD Com...
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Physical And Mental Point Of View
1,275 wordster>Sam Vaknin's Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites We are all terminally ill. It is a matter of time before we all die. Aging and death remain almost as mysterious as ever. We feel awed and uncomfortable when we contemplate these twin afflictions. Indeed, the very word denoting illness contains its own best definition: dis-ease. A mental component of lack of well being must exist SUBJECTIVELY. The person must FEEL bad, must experience ...
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Journey Into Night Goneril And Regan
1,557 wordsThroughout history novelists and playwrights have to created dysfunctional families. These families lead tragic lives. Within these families, there are both internal and external battles to be dealt. In William Shakespeare's King Lear and Eugene Oneill's Long Days Journey Into Night, the authors reveal truly dysfunctional families. In these plays both authors portray the problems and between each member of the family and the consequences the problems will have. In King Lear there are two familie...
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Analysis Of Emotional Intelligence By Daniel Goleman
1,301 words... e's own self talk and detoxify it are among the important suggestions offered for marital harmony. In an interesting related concept, it is revealed that when a marriage counselor listens in therapy as a couple talks to and about each other, there are some specific signs that the relationship is more than likely to be headed for a dissolution than reconciliation. Among those are included: harsh criticism of the partner, character assassination, contemptuous statements or behaviors, behaviors...
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York N Y Play An Important Role
1,781 words... like result when the test animals are given drugs which selectively bind to sigma and / or dopamine reuptake sites (Svennson, 1995). Second, 'psychotomimetic effects similar to those induced by PCP can be induced by ketamine, a related arylcyclohexamine derivative' (Sevvenson, 1995). This is a particulary strong point of evidence, especially when coupled with the following point: A dosage of ketamine ten times that of PCP is required in order to induce the same effect (Halberstad, 1995). Thi...
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Erectile Dysfunction Sexual Arousal
1,790 words... the behavioral problems of the patient and only studies emotional conflicts of the patient if necessary. Some of the sources of this sexual disorder are behavioral in origin, that the patients only lack knowledge regarding sex and sex function. Then the treatment will furnish information to the patient by further educating the latter to realize his or her sexual function. If its the other way around, another program of exercise is given to change behavioral response to the patient. A psychos...
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Prefrontal Cortex Sexual Predators
1,920 words... the New Jersey Medical School in Newark, claims that there is a high probability that violent impulses originate in the hypothalamus, amygdala, and periaqueductal gray area (Foreman, 2002). As this occurs, different parts of the hypothalamus are likely to be involved in different types of emotions and/ or violence (premeditated type, cold type, or impulsive actions). In addition, some new studies present more detailed conclusions. Thus, for example, according to Dr. Ronald Schouten, a psychi...
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Goneril And Regan Internal And External
1,911 wordsFamily dynamics and dysfunction considering Antigone, Medea, and King Lear Throughout history novelists and playwrights have to created dysfunctional families. These families lead tragic lives. Within these families, there are both internal and external battles to be dealt. In William Shakespeare's King Lear the author reveals truly dysfunctional families. In King Lear there are two families that display dysfunctions, the Lear family and the Gloucester family. Within the two families, there are ...
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Children And Adolescents Child And Adolescent
1,981 words... recovering the self. Isolation is both a prison and a sanctuary. Adult Children suspended between need and fear, unable to choose between fight or flight, agonize in the middle and resolve the tension by explosive bursts of rebellion, or silently endure in despair. Isolation is our retreat from the paralyzing pain of indecision. This retreat into denial blunts our awareness of the destructive reality of family dysfunction and is the first stage of mourning and grief. It allows us to cope wit...
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Son Biff Strong Morals
1,803 wordsTheses: It should be the ultimate goal of family members to bring out the maximum amount of benefit from any sort of conflict that arises. The conflict should be viewed as a logical step to increase mutual understanding in families. Argument: Conflict in the families should not be viewed only from the negative point of view. Counterargument: Conflict is bad. Resolving Conflicts In Families Families provide people with an atmosphere in which to live, grow, and develop. A family culture is establi...
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Low Self Esteem London New York Wedding
1,010 wordsMuriel's Wedding is a tragic comedy set in the town of Porpoise Spit, Australia. The movie is about Muriel, an ugly-duckling character, and her one motivation in life, to get married. Her motivation arises from the fact that all of her friends from high school, the ones she tries so hard to fit in with, are walking down the aisle. Marriage becomes a symbol of peer, social and self-acceptance. Muriel's Wedding constructs and explores an opposition between the heroines desire for a wedding, but no...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Prenatal Alcohol Exposure
472 wordsFetal Alcohol Syndrome In one week 10, 000 babies are born in Canada. Twenty are born with Fetal Alcohol syndrome (FAS). One hundred with other alcohol related birth defects. FAS is most often described as the leading cause of mental retardation. FAS is not genetic or inherited and is % 100 preventable. Fetal Alcohol syndrome refers to a constellation of physical and mental birth defects that may develop in individuals whose mothers consumed alcohol during pregnancy. It is an organic disease tha...
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Drug Interactions Drug Therapy
1,011 wordsGastroesophageal Reflux Disease Robert Super Longitudinal Care Dr. Slater 3 / 26 / 01 Overview of GERD 10 % of all Americans experience GERD Low mortality rate approximately 1 death per 100, 000 persons Largely effects QOL: more than angina, menopause, untreated HTN, mild CHF GERD is defined as: Clinical or histological disorder resulting from gastric materials refluxing into the esophagus This reflux causes a breakdown of the esophageal mucosa Pathophysiology of GERD Excessive reflux of gastric...
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Sexual Arousal Sexual Dysfunction
523 wordsNew Device To Help Women Achieve OrgasmsArticleNew Device To Help Women Achieve Orgasms Article Review It is common for most couples to experience some degree of sexual dysfunction. The most prevalent type of sexual dysfunction for women is the female sexual arousal disorder. The female sexual arousal disorder occurs when a woman either does not become aroused at all or does not lubricate during any sort of sexual situation. On May 4, 2000, a report was released that the FDA has okayed a device ...
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Son Biff Strong Morals
1,581 wordsFamilies provide people with an atmosphere in which to live, grow, and develop. A family culture is established by the parents and instilled in the children during their upbringing. A healthy family is a family which follows a set of strong morals, stays loyal to one another, cooperates, and works together to avoid conflict. An environment where there is openness amongst family members is ideal because minds that are open are more susceptible to avoiding conflict than minds that are closed. If c...
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Brain Dysfunction Problem Solving
1,247 wordsPOST-ACUTE WITHDRAWAL (P. A. W. ) Post Acute Withdrawal or P. A. W. is a sobriety-based symptom that makes abstinence difficult and often contributes to relapse. The presence of brain dysfunction and change in alcoholics has been documented in 75 - 95 % of recovering alcoholics tested from a neurological standpoint. These symptoms begin to appear in 7 - 14 days after abstinence and can continue for a period of six months (or longer). Recovery and the accompanying changes in family, social and wo...
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