Introduction Despite the erroneous origins of the term race and its modern usurpation by advanced studies in biological anthropology, American society at large (and elsewhere) and mental health professionals continue to place great cultural and psychological value on the term. ... Yet today, the fallacious origin of the term race has been forgotten, and now the term holds purportedly scientific sway over all. ... The Interplay Between Ignorance and Evidence Apart from the dubious and dangerous origins of the term race, we also have the problem of misunderstanding concepts which apply themselve...

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I always like to look at the synonyms Word offers for words; for prejudice it offers narrow-mindedness, intolerance, bigotry, and chauvinism (a few have been left out). This is interesting to me because the connotation of the word brings racism immediately to mind. ... Even in modern times this wide spread prejudice can been seen "after September 11th, people of Muslim origin have been harassed, blacklisted, even profiled. ...

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Perhaps "control" is the wrong word to use here. There are some theories on the origin of behavioral problems that teachers can actually make accommodations, adaptations in their classrooms to lessen the negative behaviors. ...

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Someone that can say a sound alone, or in a simple one-syllable word, may have difficulty when that sound is in a longer string of sounds. ... It was concluded in a study done by Whyte, Ellen M. and Mulsant, Benoit H. (2002) that the available evidence supports post-stroke depression as being "multifactorial in origin and consistent with the biopsychosocial model of mental illness- (p. 261). ...

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Topic: Psyche and soma - From harmony to discord. INTRODUCTION Psyche and soma- from harmony to discord "the captivating enigma that asks how subjective mental states are connected to our objective physical biology and the effect of balance or imbalance between them on an individual. There...

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In the same way as physicians existed long before the principles of blood circulation were understood and frequently based their interventions in theories without confirmation, psychologists sometimes convert their intuitions in theories that later give origin to 'schools.' ...

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