Conduct Disorder: The Cognitive/Behavioral Approach of Alan E. Kazdin
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A 10 page discussion of the psychosocial condition labeled 'conduct disorder'. Defines the condition using DSM IV criteria and the work of researcher Alan E. Kazdin. Distinguishes between conduct disorder and commonly confused conditions such as schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, and antisocial personality disorder. Points out both the strengths and weaknesses of Kazdin's work, emphasizing the applicability of Kazdin's suggested interventional method of involving parent and community in the prevention of conduct disorder. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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CONNECTION BETWEEN AVOIDANT ATTACHMENT AND DEPRESSION
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This 5-page paper attempts to prove a hypothesis that avoidant attachment is linked to depression. The paper argues that while insecure attachment in infancy can be linked to depressive behavior later on in life, there are likely other things at play as well that could lead to such behavior. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Counseling Minors And Confidentiality
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A 7 page paper that addresses the issue of confidentiality when licensed professional counselors are counseling minors. There is a dearth of literature that deals with the topic of confidentiality when counseling minors outside of the school setting. Neither the Code of Ethics for the American Psychological Association nor the Code of Ethics for the American Counseling Association address this issue specifically. What little literature that could be found is discussed in this essay. The writer comments on the APA and ACA Code of Ethics. The issue of privilege is discussed. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Counseling Perspectives For Adolescent Homosexuality
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A 5 page paper that deals with the issues facing counseling psychologists who counsel adolescent homosexuals. The paper discusses the issues facing the adolescents and gives the psychologist background research on a few of these issues. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Crime in the Making
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A Critical Essay: 5 pages. This paper gives a broad overview of the book Crime in the Making by Robert Sampson and John Laub. Gives an eye-opening look at what starts children on the path to crime. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Critique of “Anger in Adolescents: Sex, Ethnicity, Age Differences, and Psychometric Properties”
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A 3 page paper reviewing the report of a study seeking to discover how ethnicity, sex and age affect teens’ anger and hostility scales. The authors sought to determine whether the State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory (STAXI) is reliable for younger adolescents as well as older ones in which its reliability has been established. The study included children 11-16 years from black, Hispanic and white populations to find that the instrument does appear to be valid with each. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Critique of “Born Unwanted: Observations from the Prague Study”
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A 5 page paper critiquing a longitudinal study of children born of unwanted pregnancies. David, Dytrych and Matejcek (2003) report on a large and long-term study designed to assess the consequences of being born unwanted, expressed in terms of sound mental health in adulthood. The authors identified 220 children born between 1961 and 1963 in Prague, Czech Republic. All of these study children were born of women who had sought and been denied an abortion at least twice for the pregnancy that produced the study subject. The researchers concluded that unwantedness was a significant risk factor for mental health problems in later life. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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D.H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers
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( 5 pp.) Thesis: Sons and Lovers, is an excellent title for D.H. Lawrence's 1913 story of an unaware mother's emotional enmeshment with her youngest son. This is the story of a family with four children: three sons and one daughter. We see how the family inter-relates to each other, particularly a mother to her sons. We are also shown how interdependency becomes an entangled web between an unaware mother and her youngest son. We will look at those relationships in light of our thesis, how a mother chooses to give more value to her needs than that of her son.
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Danny Zuko From The Movie Grease
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This 9 page paper discusses the main characters in the movie "Grease" in terms of adolescent development. The emphasis is on Danny Zuko. Theories such as Erikson's psychosocial stages, Freud's psychosexual stages and Kohlberg's stages of moral development are used to are used to explain the behaviors of the characters in the film. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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