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Cognitive techniques for attitude change in mental health treatment

Briefly discuss persuasion as an effortless cognitive process. In cognitive psychology, change is the focus of all mental health officials in addressing the various issues that are impacting someone.

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Pathologizing anxiety: when subjective distress indicates mental disorder

Pathologizing Anxiety: When is it Healthy to be Anxious? Psychiatry and psychology have a history of confusing normal behavior that is outside of the average with pathology.

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Religious development theories of Piaget, Erikson, and Bruner

Religious development in children and adults alike have been research areas that have historically been of interest to those involved in the developmental psychology arenas such as theorists of religious development, religious educators, and designers of religious education curricula in various…

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Emotional literacy and the hidden lives of boys in Raising Cain

The Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys by Dan Kindlon, a researcher and psychology professor at Harvard who is also practicing psychotherapist specializing in boys and Michael Thompson, a child psychologist, workshop leader, and staff psychologist of an all-boys school.

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Medical model and learned helplessness in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"

Towards the nineteenth century, focus on the science of psychology has become prevalent with recent developments in the field, such as the introduction of psychoanalytic theory of Sigmund Freud, as well as medical and scientific technologies that probed deeper into the study of human thought and…

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Causal relation comprehension in children with ADHD and cognitive engagement

Difficulties in Comprehending Causal Relations Among Children With ADHD: The Role of Cognitive Engagement" from the Journal of Abnormal Psychology (2004) is a significant report on the condition of ADHD in children.

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Causal comprehension in children with ADHD under cognitive load

Difficulties in Comprehending Causal Relations Among Children With ADHD: The Role of Cognitive Engagement," from the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, published in 2004.

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Determining effective cross-cultural counseling models and practices

The purpose of this research paper is to investigate cross culturing counseling. The field of psychology has increasingly recognized the need for more effective cross-cultural practices.

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Phenomenology and auditory hallucinations in clinical psychological practice

In an issue that aimed to reconsider the contributions that phenomenology offers to the practice of clinical psychology, Davidson outlined the ways in which transcendental psychology reconceptualized both research and clinical practice.

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Informed consent and harm prevention in APA psychological research ethics

Professional Ethics, State Laws, And Board of Psychology Rules Governing Psychological Research ethical code states that psychologists should make reasonable efforts to minimize any discomfort, pain, illness or infection to human subjects where the harm is "foreseeable and unavoidable" (p. 6).

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