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Female orgasmic dysfunction: definitions, prevalence, and counseling implications

Female orgasmic disorder (FOD) has been a controversial and often confusing issue in the annals of medicine and especially with regard to counseling treatment. Over the years the condition has been associated with a highly medicalized ideology and has also been discounted by some in its entirety.

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Effectiveness of school-based bullying prevention programs

The problem regarding how schools may best make their environments physically and emotionally safe leads to the question: Does a school-based program decrease victimization?

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Acculturation and cultural identity in immigrant communities

Acculturation and cultural identity are both valuable tools in our understanding of cultural differences, and are surrounded by a fair amount of discourse and political controversy.

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Normative social influence and conformity in group settings

According to Changingminds.org (2010), normative social influence often concerns the need to belong to and be accepted by a social group. Indeed, as human beings, this type of belonging is a fundamental need. This tendency is closely connected to an evolutionary drive for survival.

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Domestic violence against women as a legal and social problem

The problem of domestic violence in the United States is both pervasive and historically omnipresent. Though its definition has often been subject to extreme variation -- even with state and federal laws in the U.S.

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Leadership and organizational culture: Schein's dimensions and learning framework

Organizational theory and academic business discourse examine, amongst a host of other key organizational principles, the formal idea that leadership is an essential part of effective management, or, for that matter, an essential part of comprising an effective contribution to any working team.

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Dream interpretation in psychoanalytic theory and practice

The interpretation of the content and may be the purpose f the dreams that an individual experiences is not yet been fully comprehended. There are however several theories that attempt to explain and interpret the role and content of dreams.

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Colonization's impact on Aboriginal health disparities in Australia

Colonization can negatively impact indigenous populations in a plethora of ways. In Australia the results of colonization still linger and have profoundly effected the Aboriginal people of the country as it relates to illness and disease.

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Personality traits and self-directed learning effectiveness in adults

Self-directed learning is one of the latest trends in the field of education and it is increasingly becoming more and more popular due to a wide variety of reasons.

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Assessing mental health illness: professional roles and suicide risk evaluation

The ability for individuals to access mental health services in today's society is more wide ranging than every before. Mental health was once governed by physicians, and now by mental health professionals in a wide range of disciplines.

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