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2006 Saw a Resurgence in US Violence Rates
In some parts of the US, violence rates were higher than they have been in decades. Professionals seek the reasons and the cure. Prevention should play a major role in this effort.
article tags: youth violence, gun violence, school violence, prevention, us, violence
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Awareness As A Portal To Flow
Awareness can be seen as a methodology, a plan for personal and professional achievement. It is a way to manage change.
article tags: awareness. learning, flow
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Techniques For Accelerating Personal Growth
Personal growth can be defined as the evolution of awareness, a journey from a narrow, dysfunction perspective to a broader, functional one. It is an expansion of perception.
article tags: education, intelligence, personal growth
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How To Get Answers To Anything
Using a simple five step process, it is possible to get answers to anything.
article tags: subconscious mind
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Applied Mysticism
Your mind can only run over what you know. But all this data is mined from the past, because that is where all known variables exist. What you need is an answer from the future. This answer comes in an unexpected way. It can come as an insight, someone just showing up with the answer, or finding the answer in a book that you happen to pick up.
article tags: david bohm, mysticism
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The Alchemy Of Focus
At any point in time, you can turn your life around by choosing the magic of focus. With focus, you can turn lead into gold.
article tags: focus
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Questions Shape Worlds Out Of Infinite Possibilities
Questions create a processional effect that can change our destiny.
article tags: law of attraction
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How To Overcome Anything With NLP
What is the difference between winners and losers? It might just be the difference in the ability to recover from trauma.
article tags: nlp
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Assessing the Future Risk of Youth Violence
It is essential that youth at risk for future violence receive the appropriate interventions to prevent aggression. Risk assessment tools can aid in this process.
article tags: violence, youth violence, prevention, treatment, risk, assessment, offending, care, savry, pcl-yv
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The Bipolar Disorder
Thirty percent of patients who have bipolar I illness first experience symptoms as teenagers. In the usual course, episodes of illness are followed by periods of wellness (euthymia), at first punctuated by years but later settling into a pattern that is often seasonal.
article tags: disorder, bipolar
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Kinds Of Therapy For Depressed Patients
Behavioral therapy offers a fairly high success rate. It can be conducted on an individual basis or as part of a group therapy strategy. Behavioral therapy focuses primarily on helping depressed patients to develop coping strategies for the problems they encounter and new patterns of behavior...
article tags: depression treatment, depression test, the great depression, depression therapy
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Birth Marks - A Blast From the Past
Birth marks have always been a mystery. Where do they come from and why are they there. There has never been a simple and logical answer until now.
article tags: birth marks, hypnotherapy, counseling, past-life regression, historical regression
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An Introduction To Hypnosis
A basic introduction to hypnosis
article tags: hypnosis. therapeutic uses of hypnosis, self healing, self hypnosis, types of hypnosis
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The Communal Sharing of Enchantment
Mentoring and learning from each other is much more that taking a course or explicitly giving someone advice or help. Almost every moment of every day when we are with people has the potential for becoming a mentoring or a learning situation.
article tags: mentoring, uplifting, informative, reassuring, depressing, depleting, annoying, bothersome, enchantm
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The World's Greatest Lie...
"Everyone believes the world's greatest lie..." says the mysterious old man.
"What is the world's greatest lie?" the little boy asks.
The old man replies, "It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie."
(An excerpt from The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.
article tags: happiness, dreams, destiny, fate, journey, goals, spirit, purpose, wisdom, greatness, success
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What is Personality?
In their opus magnum "Personality Disorders in Modern Life", Theodore Millon and Roger Davis define personality as:
"(A) complex pattern of deeply embedded psychological characteristics that are expressed automatically in almost every area of psychological functioning." (p. 2)
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM)) IV-TR (2000), published by.
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The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) - Pros and Cons
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, fourth edition, text revision [American Psychiatric Association. DSM-IV-TR, Washington, 2000] - or the DSM-IV-TR for short - describes Axis II personality disorders as "deeply ingrained, maladaptive, lifelong behavior patterns". But the classificatory model the DSM has been using since 1952 is harshly criticized as woefully inadequate by many scholars and practitioners.
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The Construct of Normal Personality
Personality disorders are dysfunctions of our whole identity, tears in the fabric of who we are. They are all-pervasive because our personality is ubiquitous and permeates each and every one of our mental cells. I just published the first article in this topic titled "What is Personality?". Read it to understand the subtle differences between "personality", "character", and "temperament".
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Narcissism and Personality Disorders
Are all personality disorders the outcomes of frustrated narcissism?
During our formative years (6 months to 6 years old), we are all "narcissists". Primary Narcissism is a useful and critically important defense mechanism. As the infant separates from his mother and becomes an individual, it is likely to experience great apprehension, fear, and pain.
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Diagnosing Personality Disorders
Personality traits are enduring, usually rigid patterns of behavior, thinking (cognition), and emoting expressed in a variety of circumstances and situations and throughout one's life (typically from early adolescence onward). Some personality traits are harmful to both oneself and to others. These are the dysfunctional traits. Often they cause discomfort and the person bearing these traits is unhappy and self-critical.
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Common Features of Personality Disorders
Psychology is more an art form than a science. There is no "Theory of Everything" from which one can derive all mental health phenomena and make falsifiable predictions. Still, as far as personality disorders are concerned, it is easy to discern common features. Most personality disorders share a set of symptoms (as reported by the patient) and signs (as observed by the mental health practitioner).
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Cluster B Personality Disorders
The DSM-IV-TR (2000) defines a personality disorder as:
"An enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations the individuals culture (and is manifested in two or more of his or her areas of mental life:) cognition, affectivity, interpersonal functioning, or impulse control."
Such a pattern is rigid, long-term (stable), and recurrent.
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Axes of Personality Disorders
Personality disorders are like tips of icebergs. They rest on a foundation of causes and effects, interactions and events, emotions and cognitions, functions and dysfunctions that together form the patient and make him or her what s/he is.
The DSM uses five axes to analyze, classify, and describe these data. The patient (or subject) presents himself to a mental health diagnostician, is evaluated, tests are administered, questionnaires fulfilled, and a diagnosis rendered.
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Is Road Rage A Psychiatric Disorder?
Recent headline: “Road Rage may be due to medical condition called Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED)”
WHAT IS THE SCIENCE BEHIND THIS?
The study, reported in the June (2006) issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry was based on a national face-to-face survey of 9,282 U.S. adults who answered diagnostic questionnaires in 2001-03. It was funded by the National Institute of Mental Health.
article tags: anger, anger management, road rage, aggressive driving
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Life Coach - Do you need one?
Life coaching is one of those things that we hear about on TV and in the press and laugh at, thinking to ourselves how ridiculous people are that need such a thing. If you look into it further, however, you might be surprised at how useful a little life coaching can be.
Put simply, life coaches take techniques from psychology, counselling and mentoring, and combine them to help clients achieve their goals.
article tags: lifecoach, coach, phychology
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