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Diagnostic criteria and treatment approaches for borderline personality disorder

Individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder are afflicted with a continual state of emotional conflict and chaos, often swinging from one extreme of emotion to another.

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Hoarding behavior in elderly and dementia patients

Compulsive hoarding is an interesting and compelling phenomenon in a wide variety of the population.

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Comparing Richard Heuer and Edward de Bono's critical thinking approaches

Heuer/De Bono -- fallacies. Many argue that an individual's ability to "think outside the box," or to use his or her ability to see an issue from an unorthodox perspective can provide great power and insight into that issue that few "typical thinkers" can harness.

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Child temperament: nine behavioral traits and their characteristics

Temperament can be defined as behavioral inclination rather than behavior itself. Temperament, according to the temperament theorists is a natural and steady basis of later development of personality (Cicchetti; Toth, 1995).

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Schizophrenia's etiology, symptoms, and treatment approaches

Perhaps no other human condition has received so much publicity, but remains so misunderstood by the general public as schizophrenia.

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Organizational dysfunction and flawed decision-making in the Challenger disaster

While people remember the Challenger Shuttle Disaster as a tragic loss of life and a case of mechanical failure, such events do not happen in isolation. While O. rings failed, the events that led to their failure were organizational in nature, not mechanical.

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Informed consent requirements in FDA-regulated research studies

In research investigations whenever there is an experimental condition there must always be included a consent form that has either been read by the participant or the participant's legal guardian or verbally presented to the participant and/or guardian and then signed.

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Foucault's analysis of punishment from torture to prison

In Discipline and Punish Michel Foucault considers, describes and criticizes the prison system and its history. He describes in detail the ancient systems of public torture, which developed to become private executions, and the dungeons that became prisons at a later stage.

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Hemingway's iceberg theory in Anderson's "Loneliness"

Iceberg Theory applied: The Pursuit for Enoch Robinson's 'Unconcealed Self' in "Loneliness" by Sherwood Anderson Twentieth century American literature illustrates the emergence of stories and characters that reflect real life -- that is, a respite from romantic or idealistic notions of people's…

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Acculturation and assimilation of Latino students in American schools

The purpose of this work is to explore literature on acculturation and assimilation as it relates to the school system and the successful coping of educational, family and social factors of the Latino Population in the school system.

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