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How Beauty Ideals Drive Eating Disorders and Anorexia

Explores how society's beauty standards fuel eating disorders, especially anorexia, examining triggers, denial, recovery, gender dynamics, and psychological theories.

Health

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Research Paper Undergraduate 2,690 words

Gender-Based Wage Discrimination and Feminization of Aging

Explores how gender-based wage discrimination and the feminization of aging affect older women's psychological health, with occupational therapy interventions.

Therapy

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2,880 words

Biopsychosocial development in a blended family with substance abuse

Discuss the interplay of the biological, psychological and social aspects related to human development (e.g. biological and physical growth and maturation; language and cognitive development; mental health conditions and medical conditions; etc.).

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3,454 words

Adversity and hope in Morrison, Angelou, and Walker

Unlike any other marker of civilization literature demonstrates a vision of the social and psychological world in which we live. During the post civil rights era there have been a number of seminal authors who give meaning and message to their times and the times, which came before them.

~18 min read

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2,543 words

Elderly Russians in post-Soviet society: poverty, health, and demographics

In order to understand and relate to an older Russian in the context of providing psychological care, it is first important to understand the context of Russian society.

~13 min read

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2,524 words

Best practices for assessing and treating abused wartime children

Assessing and Treating Children Who Suffered Sexual, Psychological and Mental Abuse during Wartime Besides a nurturing environment provided by their parents, all children also need basic daily living requirements.

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3,017 words

Picasso's symbolic female archetypes and Marie-Thérèse Walter, 1932-1935

The renowned art critic Hebert Read characterizes this period in Picasso's life as a period of intense creativity and psychological change and growth. It is also seen a period of soul-searching and a change in style, which is characterized by portraits and paintings of archetypal female images.

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2,531 words

Bowen family systems therapy and Ramona Mercer's maternal role attainment theory

Brooks/Cole Publishing Company. A core concept of Bowen family systems therapy is that a psychologically healthy member of a family has a reasonable sense of differentiation from other family members.

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2,557 words

Christopher Nolan's Memento as a neo-noir film

Film noir rose to prominence in the late 1940s and was at first described as being "murder with a psychological twist (Spicer 1). Since the 1940s, the film noir genre has undergone a few changes, yet the central concepts of the genre remain the same.

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2,823 words

Masculine gender roles and their incompatibility with modern counseling needs

The past few years have seen significant advances in the field of counseling. Psychologists and psychiatrists have gained a better understanding of the human psyche. Based on their insights, they have been able to identify new problems and propose more effective methods of treatment.

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