Introduction Younger children need special attention from doctors and nurses, as early development determines future patterns of health. Age 0-5 years is critical because of babies’ susceptibility to many specific childhood diseases that are characteristic of the age periods of their development. In the early years of life, children usually...
The structural model is a method that utilizes psychological means to correct behavior by considering how children interact with adults. Salvador Minuchin developed the structural model and it addresses issues by considering how a family works. A therapist using this model strives to unite the family structure in therapy to...
Introduction Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is an evidence-based and broad psychiatric therapy treatment package that works through a cognitive-behavioral method. The therapy was discovered in the early 1990s by Marsha Linehan, a psychology scholar at the University of Washington. Linehan was conducting research work on different interventions and cures for...
The book They Did You Can… is a great possibility for a novice in sports affairs as well as in life prospects to achieve success faster than it may seem at once. In this respect the subject of The Powerful Three is about to be especially highlighted in the paper....
Brain-based learning is a theory that posits that the brain never stops learning as long as it is functioning normally. The brain is like a parallel processor (Caine & Caine, 1998, p. 1) that processes information that it receives from the five sensory organs and stores that information for future...
Introduction Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky all contributed to the world of child cognitive development. Their theories were used and build on by researchers that came after them to develop new models and theories. Their theories seem to agree that the development of an individual starts from childhood and keep...
Introduction The performance of any business organization is based on the levels of performance, job commitment, and devotion that its employees display. In other words, organizations are communities of people united by joint goals, and the success of an organization is the result of the joint work of its members....
The present description gives a brief summary of the importance of Supportive Psychotherapy in dementia written by Ola Junaid & Soumya Hegde. There has been a growing interest regarding a variety of therapies aimed at alleviating dementia as its management has become a complicated issue. Since there are cost and...
Introduction Discussion The field of psychology was established as a formal branch of knowledge with the works of Wilhelm Wundt, William James, and Herman Ebbinghaus around 1880s (Kowalski, 2004). Psychology did not exist as a separate discipline before this period, but had been regarded as a branch of philosophy. The...
Autism The brain size is increased, particularly in young autistic children. Bailey et al., 1998, reported cortical dysgenesis, increased neuronal density, presence of neurons in the molecular layer, and abnormal laminar patterns. Two-thirds of patients had white matter abnormalities. Minicolumns (radially arranged neurons, comprising the smallest level of functional organization...
The function of the brain is important to execute all physical activities that drive life forward. The key mechanisms underlying the diverse roles of the brain originate from its ability to regenerate and repair neural cells by a process known as neural plasticity. This physical process may be either innate...
Abstract Dream psychology tries to explain the cause and the meaning of dreams. This paper analyzes dreams and tries to establish a link or a connection between the dream and the real life situation as theorized by the dream psychology and other perspectives. Dream has been explained as the work...
Thesis Statement Influences on behavior and psychological disorders are the powers affecting persons and can be discussed as factors that cause these disorders, or the things that trigger these disorders. These could be biological, genetic, environmental, social and psychological factors; they could be a single factor triggering the disorder or...
“A baby goose (a gosling), moments after it breaks through its shell, begins to walk after its mother. From then on, the goose will attach itself to other geese in all its social behaviors. A newborn human baby, just a few hours after birth, sucks on a nonnutritive nipple more...
Introduction The combination of words in the term social psychology refers to the specific place which this discipline occupies in the system of scientific knowledge. Social psychology can be defined as “the scientific study of how individuals think and feel about, interact with, and influence one another, individually and in...
Introduction Ways in which people get to know something and can use their knowledge in their practical activities have always been of interest to scholars. It is one of the greatest mysteries of the world to know how one person can learn a poem by heart and another one is...
“What Goes In Must Come Out: Children’s Violence Media Consumption At Home and Aggressive Behaviors At School” is an age, school grade, and sex survey study of the degree of influence that violence on television and video games have come to affect children of today. Now some people may think...
Introduction Cognitive science has been defined as an interdisciplinary study, whose attempt is to explain the cognitive processes of not only humans, but higher animals as well, in terms of the manipulation of symbols using computational rules (Gardener, 1985). The area of cognitive science draws heavily from such other disciplines...
The brain constitutes the most essential organ of the central nervous system (CNS). It is vital in processing the various functions of sense organs like touch, smell, taste, hearing, and sight. Among these, vision may be considered as the most important function which is controlled by the cerebral cortex of...
Schizophrenia is a chronic condition that affects the brain. The condition manifests through both negative and positive symptoms. Some of the symptoms include disorganized speech, decreased expression of emotions, peculiar behavior, loss of touch with reality, disorganized thinking, and social withdrawal (Psyweb, 2008). The symptoms of schizophrenia fall into three...
Apraxia is a cognitive disorder, which prevents a person from performing a learned movement (West et al., 2008). Apraxia is caused by interference in the planning and execution of a motor activity. There is a dysfunction in the left fronto-parietotemporal hemisphere of the brain, which is located beside the speech...
After careful reading and analysis of relaxation exercises, techniques and recommendations I practiced them strictly following the described patterns. During my practice, I came across some difficulties and contradictions connected with doing these exercises, which should be outlined in this essay. The first recommendation for performing relaxation exercises was ‘breathe...
Introduction Adolescence is a stage that occurs between childhood and adulthood and ranges from 12 to 20 years. In the beginning, the onset of adolescence was characterized by changes in the body where a child changes to adulthood (puberty) (Jane Kroger, 1996). However, puberty has been occurring so early especially...