It is one of the most common neurobehavioral disorders, and a chronic disorder that can impair many aspects of daily life such as home, school, relationships, and everyday activities. ... This could be depression, substance abuse, school failure, and conduct disorder. ... Over the last 25 years much has been learned about this disorder, begining with the work of Satterfield and Dawson on psychological parameters, and up to the current work on brain imaging. ... In most cases they are treating another mental disorder other than AD/HD. ... Others say that medication is potentially harmful, physi...

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Until December 10th, 1977 homosexuality was considered a psychological disorder in the United States. On that day, the American Psychiatric Association dropped homosexuality as a disorder, because it was no longer believed to be connected with psychological problems. A psychological disorder is defined as "a condition in which behavior is judged to be atypical, disturbing, maladaptive, and unjustifiable." ...

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Using drugs and alcohol during pregnancy is both physically and psychologically harmful to an unborn child. ... The psychological disorders associated with prenatal drug and alcohol exposure are likely becoming a serious mental health occurrence. ... An afflicted person's home, school, and work life are likely to suffer from the psychological disorders caused by the use of drugs or alcohol before he or she was even born. The women who choose to use and abuse drugs and/or alcohol throughout their pregnancy may be bringing a socially, physically, and psychologically abnormal generation in...

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Law Enforcement Agencies also recognize times and areas with greater potential for civil disorder and maintain a watchful eye over these danger zones. Areas where crowds gather are prone to civil disorder because they are areas of heavy social or political interactions. ... However, a small community filled with young, rebellious students is very prone to civil disorder. ... Police studies have shown that civil disorder is more common on weekends and after sunset. ... As well as psychological abuse, police will receive a large amount of physical abuse from a mob. ...

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What is the Psychological Impact of Homophobia and Heterosexism? ... Psychotherapy is a type of treatment that uses psychological rather than biological means to treat emotional and behavioral disorders. Also, known as insight therapy because it is the understanding of one's own thoughts, emotions, motives, behaviors and coping mechanism (Boyd, Wood E., and Wood S., 2004) Behavioral therapy is the treatment approach consistent with the learning perspective on psychological disorders. ...

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Emotional Abuse (also known as: Verbal abuse, mental abuse, and psychological maltreatment), includes acts or the failures to act by parents or caretakers that have caused or could cause, serious behavioral, cognitive, emotional or mental disorders. ... Psychological neglect is the lack of any emotional support and love, never attending to the child, spousal abuse, drug and alcohol abuse including allowing the child to participate in drug and alcohol use. ...

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Compulsive gambling is a progressive impulse disorder for the urge to gamble. ... In scientific terms, according to DSM IV written by the American Psychiatric Association, pathological gambling is a diagnosable mental disorder as a "persistent and recurrent maladaptive gambling behavior that disrupts personal, family, and vocational pursuits" (qtd. in Lee 545). ... He is physically and psychologically exhausted feeling helpless. ...

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However, those culturally idealized beliefs do not highlight only the characteristic traits or psychological manners; it also underlines the physical differences and appearance. ... Objectification of women has become very common in our society and is the biggest trigger that produces such sick mentality and negatively influences women's life leaving a huge effect on their health and psychological well-being. ... As Jean Kilbourne, an internationally recognized for her work on the image of women in advertising, clarifies in her "Killing Us Softly 4" filmed speech; advertisement...

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Living up to standards that are far out of reach might be psychologically harmful. ... A genetic imprinting disorder occurs when the mother and father's genes imprint themselves at the same time, causing a developmental disorder (Friend). ...

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Examination of the reasons behind Female Genital Mutilation in the World was reviewed and looked at. A look at a Patriarchy society as the invisible hand behind the practice of female genital mutilation. These practices are carried out by women for the benefit of men. Female Genital Mutilation ...

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Children from single parent families are twice likely to have psychiatric disorders, attempted suicide, and abuse alcohol and use narcotic drugs. ... She or he bears all the burden of parenting which causes the parent to provide less attention to the children which can affect the child psychologically and emotionally. ...

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Prejudice and discrimination toward differences in race, ethnicity, gender, spirituality and disability have had negative psychological consequences, and they continue in primarily covert forms. ... African americans is still exposed to racial disorders in U.S according to their color, language and religion. ... Suburbs, like many communities in the United States, are ripe with psychological issues that seek to prevent those less worthy from joining their group. ...

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There are other physical, existential, social and psychological burdens, such as loss of independence, loss of sense of self and functional capacities that some patients feel jeopardize their dignity[Dea143]. ...

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The basic human rights of the migrants are violated while in detention, causing both physical and psychological damage to the detainee. ... In a psychological response, minors may experience emotional trauma, economic instability, and diminished overall well-being. Such syndromes can lead children into depression; as a result, these children are much more vulnerable to psychological disorders, such as anxiety and attention deficit hyperactivity, or they may suffer educational difficulties in their adulthood (Eschbach 11). ... During that period, many children and other family members experienc...

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They are less complicated organically and psychologically. ... It would also take a long period of time to fully evaluate a human psychologically. ... It has also led to the development and validation of drugs useful in the treatment of diseases of unknown etiology - drugs such as antiinflammatories, pain relievers, and drugs for nonspecific disorders such as heart and renal diseases. ...

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For many years now, pondering minds have questioned the thought of having marijuana, or cannabis sativa, listed as another medicinal drug. Some say that marijuana can not be used as a medicine and that there is no evidence of its medicinal purpose; But on the other hand, there are those who think differently and pose marijuana as a potential use in today's modern world. In any case, marijuana is useful in the medical field and should be legalized for that purpose. Cultivated for at least 5,000 years and serving as one of the oldest crops not grown for food, the marijuana plant began it...

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In many cases, fetuses have profound disorders that will lead to death during pregnancy or shortly after birth. ... Finally, in cases of rape or incest, it is cruel to even consider forcing a woman to carry a child who was created pregnant by a deliberately violent act is psychologically harmful to the victim. ...

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Was the British entrepreneur the most important single reason for the relative decline of the British economy in the late nineteenth century? Despite a continued growth of production and wealth in absolute terms, the economy of "the first industrial nation" began to decelerate after 1870, in comparison with that of her closest competitors. This so called "decline" was caused by a number of factors not merely one as the question suggests, indeed Supple` s foreword (1) asks, "Are we to be concerned with the rate of growth of total income or of manufacturing output? Above all, by what standard...

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The greenhouse effect as stated in the dictionary is the effect produced as greenhouse gases allow incoming solar radiation to pass through the Earth's atmosphere, but prevent most of the outgoing infrared radiation from the surface and lower atmosphere from escaping into outer space. This process occurs naturally and has kept the Earth's temperature about 60 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than it would otherwise be. Current life on Earth could not be sustained without the natural greenhouse effect. Weather stations, balloons, ocean buoys, and satellites tell us the Earth's tempe...

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Working families face many pressures that put an added stress on the individual, the family, and the company for which they work. In organizations and on the home front, the challenge of work/life balance is rising to the top of many employers' and employees' consciousness. In today's fast-paced s...

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Abstract Megan's Law is named after seven-year-old Megan Kanka, a girl who was raped and killed by a known child molester who had moved across the street from the family without their knowledge. Currently all 50 states have either a law enacted or are proposing Megan's Law which requires the registration of all people convicted sexual crimes because sex offenders are more prone to re-offend and it assists in protecting the public. The law requires the registration if convicted of a sex offense or certain types of kidnapping and the various laws that require registration. Megan&#x...

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