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How undergraduate education prepared me for counseling

For the past ten years I have worked in a psychiatric division of a local hospital where I have worked with dual diagnosis patients. Every day I find myself using something I learned from my college education when working with these patients.

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Self-confidence development in Adler and Ellis's psychological theories

Self-Confidence Theory is a psychological and sociological approach to understanding how individuals view themselves in terms of others and how feelings of self-confidence are or are not developed. There is no set theory that explains the process and phenomena of individual self-confidence.

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Effectiveness of in-class versus online learning environments

The purposes of the research study completed and reported by Poirier, Christopher, R., & Feldman, Robert S. (2004) centered on the effectiveness of in-class vs.

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Criminal profiling approaches and offender behavioral assessment

Psychopathology is the science or study of mental disorders or pathological deviation from normal or official behavior (Lexico Publishing Group LLC 2006).

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Effects of parental death and divorce on children's emotional development

What are the effects on children losing a parent due to death or divorce?

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Gestalt theory principles and learning applications

There are many theories and principles of learning. All of which are aimed at facilitating a successful learning experience for both the educator and the learner. Among the initiators of the study of learning is now known as Gestalt Principles of Learning.

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Hidden meanings in Sixteen: short stories for young adults

This particular book, Sixteen: Short Stories by Outstanding Writers for Young Adults, by Donald Gallo, is allegedly designed for individuals that are in their middle-teenage years, but yet many of the stories are actually for younger children in some ways.

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Emotional freedom technique's role in clinical self-awareness

Emotional freedom technique is a type of alternative intervention and psychotherapy methods that is geared towards addressing a specific issue and getting an individual to become desensitized to that issue.

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Piaget's cognitive development theory and analytical thinking capacity in college students

It amazes this author that the brain is capable of perception, cognition, emotion, personality, behaviors, etc. all at once. Then our brain uses the information to organize our daily living. It is interesting how it develops as we age and degenerates as we age.

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Robert Hare's Without Conscience: understanding psychopaths in society

In his book Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us, Robert D.

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