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Interpersonal psychotherapy effectiveness for depression and anxiety disorders

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Chelsea Manning's suicide attempts and military legal accountability

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Cultural literacy and competence in multicultural societies

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The Hawthorne study and Theory X and Theory Y in workplace motivation

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Life sentences as alternatives to capital punishment in America

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Validity and cultural limitations of the Beck Depression Inventory-II

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Visual argument: distinguishing TBI from PTSD in clinical diagnosis

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The biological approach to obesity as a social problem

Obesity is a social problem that has reached “epidemic” proportions (Joe, 2014, p. 1). Although it is a personal and public health issue, being linked to a slew of issues like diabetes and heart disease, obesity is unique in that it is also a social issue.

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Shawn Copeland's theological anthropology of Black female embodiment and freedom

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The Federal Reserve's struggle with persistent low inflation in the US economy

Appelbaum (2017) wrote a couple of different articles outlining the current inflation conditions in the US. The biggest issue that he identifies is that there is a mismatch between inflation and the performance of the rest of the US economy.

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