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Psychological trauma in prisons: causes, effects, and inmate reintegration

The effects can be grouped into two main categories. The first category relates to the effects that the inmates experience while they are still in prison. The second categories of effects are the ones that are post-incarceration related.

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Why good psychological reports are integral to treatment

A psychological report gives an overview of the client that can provide a starting-point for the therapist when he or she is beginning the therapeutic process.

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Psychological mechanisms and treatment approaches for survivor's guilt

This paper discusses the various sources and psychological remedies for survivor's guilt, which often manifests alongside (or as a part of, depending on the psychological perspective) major depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.

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Psychological identity and social factors in retirement adjustment

Individuals differ substantially in their psychological response to retirement and their levels of happiness and contentment with their lives after retirement.

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Psychological analysis of Wile E. Coyote's obsessive pursuit behavior

Wile E. Coyote is a male coyote (Desertous-operativus Idioticus or Overconfidentii vulgaris) is a late-middle-age male, born in 1949, who has appeared in a televised Warner Bros. cartoon series since 1966.

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Psychological abuse of children: effects and family dynamics

Child abuse is one of the worst things many of us can imagine. The fact that it is almost always a child's parents who are the perpetrators of abuse makes the situation that much worse (Cook & Cook 2005, pp. 143).

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Psychological effects of parental remarriage on children's well-being

Understandably, the effects of divorce on children have been long studied by psychologists and others concerned with child welfare.

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Psychological and institutional motivations for unethical business practices

The reason for unethical practices on the part of business professionals may initially seem to be obvious: to make more money.

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Psychological and physical anticipation before riding a roller coaster

For me, the experience of riding a roller coaster begins long before the actual ride itself. My adrenalin begins to flow on the walk through the amusement park toward the ride.

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Psychological trauma and rehabilitation in Ishmael Beah's memoir

Beah was only 13-years-old when he began to fight with the Sierra Leone Army, and his memoir shows that war can have a strong psychological effect on the soldiers who fight it.

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