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What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder? The Post- Traumatic Stress Disorder, also referred as PTSD, is classified as a psychiatric disorder that is caused by experiencing or witnessing life-threatening events (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, 2007). Several examples of life- threatening events include military combat, natural disasters, terrorist incidents, serious accidents or physical or sexual assault in adult or childhood (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, 2007). Individuals that suffer from

During this essay I will be discussing ethics and what ethical issues the therapist faces in relation to initial consultation with the client. What an initial consultation is and why it is so important that one is completed without exception. I will also explore what the process is, what happens at the initial consultation, and how the therapist will gather the required information. I also aim to explore what benefits and contra indications there are for having an initial consultation. According

Thomas Flaherty Take Home Test - AP Psychology Mrs. Warner 1) Drive reduction theory is a theory that states: a physiological need creates a drive, or an aroused tension state, which motivates an organism to satisfy a need. The main goal of this theory is for the organism to retain homeostasis. To sum it up, if an organism has a lack of a need, the brain is going to do what it can do to be able to restore the body to a steady internal state A.K.A homeostasis. For example Joe is starving and

Almost everyone in the world can suffer from the horrible feeling known as depression. Depression causes a deep sadness to a person and can have major effects on a human being’s life. As humans know life is sacred and no one wants to live life in a depressed state. In some cases depression can be repressed and even cured. Certain treatments like therapy and antidepressants are viable solutions for depression. About nine percent of Americans suffer from some form of depression. The different types

A memory has different ways to function that varies from one person to another. The memory itself is defined as the faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information. Trauma is something else that can be attached to a memory and it is defined as a deeply distressing or disturbing experience. Memory plays a tremendous role in our lives as well as in our society. A memory can prevent us from making mistakes as well as it can haunt us to the point of breakdown. Are all memories worth to be

Sigmund Freud, a man of many talents, most people simply know him as the father of psychoanalysis, which happens to be one of his most famous psychological contributions; however, Freud was much more than just the father of psychoanalysis, yet Sigmund Freud was a husband, a psychologist, as well as a medical doctor. He grew up in what many would consider a normal environment, he went to college, where he continuously studied psychology, he also got married. Throughout his years of study, Freud made

Valeria Oceguera Chapter 4 Study questions The three brain areas for consciousness are the cerebral cortex, thalamus and reticular formation. The stages of sleep are onset, stage one, stage two, stage three, stage four and REM. In stage one, the brain wave are the theta waves; in stage two, the brain wave is the theta waves and the sleep spindles; in the third stage the theta and delta waves and in the fourth the delta waves. In onset, the brain wave are the alpha wave and in the REM stage the

As a final point, Montresor's persuasive is another trait that helps him achieve his final goal of murder. I believe he used his persuasive skills to his advantage by talking Fortunato to come see if this so called “Amontillado” is real. A little bit after the beginning of the text Montresor tells Fortunato how the “bought” a cask of Amontillado. “It is lucky we meet. How well you are looking today. I have just bought a cask of what passes for amontillado, but I have my doubts that it i the real

Two Great Philosophers and their Principal Theories Sigmund Schlomo Freud was an Austrian neurologist born on May 06, 1856. Freud is know as the father of psychoanalysis, his theories of the unconscious mind and repression. Freud created the clinical method of psychoanalysis to investigate and treat psychopathology. Freud understood the workings of the human brain. He was intrigued by it, I believe that was one of the reasons he was a neurologist. Freud came from a poor family of eight children

At the start psychology was not a science; it was ‘made up’. In pre-historic age it was believed any behaviour that swayed from ‘the norm’ was due to demonic spirits possessing the brain. Advances in treatments and medicine, allow us to recognise how barbarous this belief was. The progress of these advances was clear by the opening of the first experimental laboratory in 1879 by Wilhelm Wundt. Wundt’s establishment of psychology as an academic discipline exaggerated how obsolete the previous way