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Separation Anxiety Disorder in children: diagnostic criteria and treatment approaches

Separation Anxiety Disorder (SAD) manifests itself in children as extreme anxiety based on unrealistic expectations of permanent disconnection when the child is separated from parents or other individuals with whom they are strongly emotionally attached.

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Theoretical frameworks and conceptual underpinnings in social research

The scientific method, though not really codified and rendered explicit until the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, was a feature the investigation of the natural world from the time of the ancient Greeks and Egyptians, and arguably even prior to the scientific advancements of these…

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Group psychotherapy and W.R. Bion's theory of group dynamics

Group psychotherapy also referred to as "group therapy" is when one or more psychotherapists treat a small number of patients together as a group.

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Symbolism and narrative technique in Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte is an exciting story replete with love, passion, marriages, births and funerals. The way in which the story is told, Nelly Dean telling the story to Mr.

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Neuroplasticity and meditation: how Buddhist mental training changes the brain

What is Neuroplasticity? How does Neuroplasticity discover? Scientists normally believed the contrary -- that the linkage among the brain nerve cells was constant and defined in earlier periods of life and usually were not variable with growth in age.

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Marketing video games: social, psychological, ethical, and political considerations

Marketing has changed dramatically during the course of the twentieth century, as mass media grew from an improbable pipe dream to a reality exceeding anyone's wildest imagination.

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Emotional intelligence as a mitigator of workplace stress

Especially in a period where economic uncertainty is so high, unemployment continues to be a major problem, and savings for retirement and "rainy days" have been largely reduced or wipes out for many individuals despite careful planning, psychological stress can be a major part employment and the…

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Play behavior differences between indoor and outdoor settings in early childhood

Different Play Behaviors in Indoor and Outdoor Play Amongst Members of an Early Childhood Educational Group One of the major issues facing modern Western society, especially within the United States but increasingly in Europe and other industrialized nations as well, is a growing prevalence of…

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Sexual assault and victim support in the U.S. military

Any study of rape in U.S. Military should perhaps be put in proper perspective by analyzing the underlying reasons that prompt a soldier to rape.

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Social Cognitive Theory: agency, self-regulation, and educational applications

Social Cognitive Theory revolves around the process of knowledge acquisition or learning directly correlated to the observation of models. The models can be those of an interpersonal imitation or media sources.

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