The biopsychosocial model that underpins DBT assumes that successive transactions with an invalidating environment result in the emergence of dysfunctional behaviour (Robins & Chapman, 2004). ... Additionally, it has been found that the rigid imposing of clinical treatments on adolescents may prove counterproductive, especially if done against one's will, or if expectations are unclear (Nixon, Aulakh, Townsend and Atherton, 2009). ...

• Word Count: 2050
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Movements towards the end to poverty, helping the environment, and the women's rights all came to be in the sixties. ... Kennedy and Nixon engaged in the televised campaign debates, this election was the first election to be broadcast on radio and television. ... The following day, before the United States could respond to the first note a second note was sent by Khrushchev to try and negotiate terms. ... The pesticide that was causing such an uproar was called DDT which was later banned because it was proved to be very harmful to the environment. ...

• Word Count: 4042
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School

The Making of A New Writer How does a man with yellow tinted aviator glasses, a trademark cigarette holder, and khaki pants become one of the most influential writers of modern day? With arrogance, and 22 loaded guns at all times of course. This writer has been through many different paths in ...

• Word Count: 3077
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

How has the two-party system remained dominant with a social environment so constructed for a multiparty system? ... Ware generally accepts the institutionalist approach to explaining party systems but notes that their have been two major errors made in the approach: an extreme focus on electoral systems and a lack of consideration of the sociological approach. ...

• Word Count: 5164
• Approx Pages: 21
• Has Bibliography

In 1968, when American soldiers came home from the Vietnam War addicted to heroin, President Richard Nixon initiated the War on Drugs. More than a decade later, President Ronald Reagan launches the South Florida Drug Task force, headed by then Vice-President George Bush, in response to the city of M...

• Word Count: 4899
• Approx Pages: 20

In 1968, when American soldiers came home from the Vietnam War addicted to heroin, President Richard Nixon initiated the War on Drugs. More than a decade later, President Ronald Reagan launches the South Florida Drug Task force, headed by then Vice-President George Bush, in response to the city of M...

• Word Count: 4953
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Is any cliché in American public discourse quite as stale as "liberal media bias-? Probably not, unless it's "tax-and-spend liberal."" Is there a literate adult living in this country who hasn't heard or read that dull, deceptive phrase literally hundreds or even thousands of times? Not unless said person resides permanently in a wilderness beyond range of all TV, radio, newspaper delivery, and the U.S. Postal Service. ...

• Word Count: 7521
• Approx Pages: 30
• Grade Level: Undergraduate