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MDMA and ethical concerns in treating resistant post-traumatic stress disorder

The two ongoing U.S. military involvements in Iraq and Afghanistan have dramatically increased the numbers of American servicemen and service women returning from overseas service with traumatic physical and psychological injuries and disabilities that complicate their re-assimilation back into…

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Physical punishment and behavioral outcomes in young children

Children and Physical Punishment: A Good or a Bad Idea? Is spanking a child a good way to enforce discipline and punish childhood misbehaviors? There are many research studies on this subject, and there are many theories and strategies to be taken into consideration.

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Children's psychological and academic responses to parental divorce

Children Respond When Their Parents Divorce? What are the ramifications for children whose parents divorce? It is a fact that about fifty percent of marriages fail -- but what happens to the children from those families? How do they respond in the years that follow the divorce?

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Psychological stress: causes, consequences, and clinical significance

Psychological stress can result from many different sources: it can be caused by work responsibilities, educational obligations, interpersonal relationships, and by virtually any other circumstances where the individual must meet the expectations of others or satisfy specific criteria where the…

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Process theology's response to the problem of evil

Evil is divided into two main categories. First, there are moral evils. Moral evils are "bad deeds committed by agents who are capable of moral decision making" (p.415). Examples of moral evils include, but are not limited to: wars, murder, abuse of power, domestic violence, rape, child abuse.

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Revising the hedonic treadmill theory: modifications and implications for happiness

Deiner, Lucas and Scollon (2006) note that the hedonic treadmill theory states that negative and postiive events in a person's life affects his or her happiness; however, people then revert back to a hedonic neutrality.

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Development and validation of a 10-item extroversion personality scale

Extroversion has been conceptualized as one of the core human characteristics within the constructs of many personality tests, including the popular Myers-Briggs and DISC personality assessments.

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Behavioral interventions and physical activity in childhood obesity reduction

OBESITY RESEARCH in CHILDREN. Overweight and obesity has emerged as a serious health issue in the United States. Currently, the overweight/obesity rate among American adults is nearing the fifty percent mark with childhood overweight/obesity rates at thirty percent.

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Adult mediation and sociodramatic play in early childhood development

According to Vygotsky and his followers, children's social environments must be mediated by adults, so that children develop into fully functional adults. Unlike previous developmental theorists, Vygotsky did not believe that children 'naturally' met developmental milestones without direction.

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Implementing a pay-for-performance system at Utley Food Markets

A pay-for-performance system will have several implications for Utley management. The first is that management will need to define "performance." At present, there are no performance measures for the company. Employees do not know what constitutes good performance and that will have to change.

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