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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In both gender roles and eating disorders, the social influence can great. ... The social influence on gender roles does not typically cause enough psychological harm to an individual to warrant any intervention or therapy. ... Eating Disorders The second form of behavior that is influenced by others is eating disorders. There are three types of eating disorders, anorexia, bulimia nervosa and binge eating. ... For many victims of sexual abuse that develop an eating disorder, they come to believe that the eating disorder is a way to survive or cope with the abuse (Farrar, 2014). ...

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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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In the United States citizens have the privilege of equal rights. Every citizen has the freedom to do as they please with their own lives as long as one is not violating the laws that are in place. Some of the rights every citizen has are stated within the constitution and there are also rights exte...

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Kent's attorney said that Kent needed psychological help, which he argued he would be much better off with than prison. ... Judges now need to be aware of such psychiatric disorders; they should not sentence criminals without knowledge of their mental state. ... Additionally, prison has a high possibility of making their mental disorders worse, meaning they will have more of a negative impact on society if they get released. ...

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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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Supporters of open adoption believe that it decreases the amount of stress and psychological disorders that occur from the child not knowing where they came from and if the child were to get sick; diagnosing the illness would be easier with medical records that explain family history. ...

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