Psy 270 Week 3 Magazines Essay

a. The time (in years) it takes a sample of students to graduate college (Mean)

My grandmother suffered with thyroid and use to always ask me if I had thyroids. I remember a time when she told me to get a quarter and some iodine to put on my stomach above my navel. She told me if it changed colors that I had thyroids. Also, because I felt so drained most of the time and would swell in my body often, she had me to consult with my physician about the matter. My grandmother was a very intelligent woman that was very health conscience about herself and her family.

Kimberly, this was a great post! I love that you incorporated some suggestions for parents in your blog. Your post opens the doors for the severity and the lack of insensitivity we have towards Anorexia Nervosa. One thing that you mentioned was that “Out of all the psychiatric illnesses, anorexia nervosa is one of the deadliest”. This is very alarming to know that adolescents are at high risk of death due to this eating disorder. Although, I am not a parent of a teenager, I do have the responsibility to speak up against this deadly disorder. Thank you for reminding us that we are our children’s guardians against Anorexia Nervosa. Amazing post!

Therapy is often used. And oftentimes patients are submitted into a psychiatric ward for people suffering with eating disorders.

Some of the current changes that can be seen in regards to prescription privileges include changes in the ways that physicians and mental health professionals are able to prescribe medications to their patients. According to Brenda Smith of the APA (2012), currently patients receive their medications for psychological conditions by a physician usually without having been evaluated by a mental health practitioner according to the CDC. The trend includes individuals to visit their general health practitioners in order to receive psychotropic medications such as antidepressants and anxiolytics. The problem with individuals receiving these medications from other sources include: deterrence

12. Have you had any other physical symptoms, such as chest pain or stomach problems?

a. Nominal: This is a measurement that has a number assigned to show something or someone else, an example of this would be one’s social security number.

Complete the sentences by circling the correct answers. 1. __________ Mr. Roberts _______________ to Lisbon on Monday? a. Do/fly b. Did/flown c. Did/fly d. Did/flew 2. Ms. Patel _______________ her secretary to the meeting last week.

Mentors should reflect confidence, hope, optimism, and resiliency as well as the ability to promote others and their strengths. This sounds uncannily like the descriptions of an authentic leader that we have been reading about in our literature.

Okay people, try not to laugh too loud, but I thought the bread and wine were called sacraments. Now, I find out that to be politically correct, they are referred to as the elements of the sacrament. As a Baptist, the Lord’s Supper or Communion, which are ordinances, were not commonly referred to as a sacrament which is the religious ceremony.

Fry Brothers heating and Air Conditioning, Inc. employs Larry Clark and George Murnen to make service calls to repair furnaces and air conditioning units in homes. Tom Fry, the owner, would like to know whether there is a difference in the mean number of service calls they make per day. Assume the population standard deviation for Larry Clark is 1.05 calls per day and 1.23 calls per day for George Murnen. A random sample of 40 days last year showed that Larry Clark made an average of

In my research, I explored the world of eating disorders. I wanted to see if there was anything specifically encouraging eating disorders and if there was a way to stop it. Eating disorders affect the community greatly because often times, they go unchecked or unrecognized. As a recovered anorexic, I feel it’s very important to address this issue. It’s a very big problem that is often not addressed at all, or is seen as normal, like counting calories. I hoped to find a way to improve the way that eating disorders are viewed and explain to people about what defines an eating disorder, because many people will never know if it is not explicitly explained to them. My study’s purpose is to bring light into the dark world of eating disorders

The treatment for anorexia has usually been counseling. Sometimes the starvation is so bad that the patients must be hospitalized and fed intravenously or through a nasogastric tube. When they are well enough, counseling is begun. This may be individual or family therapy. The treatment process usually spans several months to several years.

It is difficult to recognize a person who have bigorexia because they look healthy but can have some bad consequences in a social and psychological terms (Leone, Sedory & Gray, 2005), the patient will not accept to go out because thing the clothes going to make them look too thin or too fat and they refused to go to places that they need to be undressed (Mosley, 2009). So, to start the treatment the person need to accept that he or she need help and they will use some medications, for example fluoxetine, and will need therapy because will not work without the help of a psychologist (Leone, Sedory & Gray,

Eating disorders are severe disturbances in eating behaviors, such as eating too little or eating too much. “Anorexia nervosa affects nearly one in 200 Americans in their lives (three-quarters of them female)” (Treating anorexia nervosa). Anorexia, when translated into Greek means “without appetite” which is not true for all suffering from anorexia most people with this disorder have not lost their appetite they simply have to ignore it. People with anorexia have an intense fear of gaining weight and have convinced themselves that they are overweight even if they are the opposite of overweight. Since the way that they view themselves is in a negative light they starve themselves and put their lives at risk. “In the most severe