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Showing 1 to 20 of 255 for “"Psychiatry and Psychology"”.
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Kapitalizmo poveikis sveikatai /
… of psychological disorders are explained through psychiatry and psychology. However, social explanations for psychological disorders are also important. This work utilizes Marxist and critical theory authors and their works with the purpose of demonstrating how capitalism can cause psychological …
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Differences Between Male Perpetrators of Child Homicide
The scientific study of child abuse and infanticide is a relatively young practice in the field of medicine, psychiatry and psychology, and although the role of parents in child homicide has been studied, minimal research has focused on the role of the male paramour, or the child's mother's …
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Delay Discounting as a Transdiagnostic Neural Phenotype
… of clinical neuroscience is to explain and predict individual differences in psychiatric symptoms. However, reproducibility remains a central challenge to this work because studies often report conflicting results and growing evidence suggests that most neuroimaging studies do not have …
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Childhood abuse, dissociation, and callous-unemotional traits
… (physical, sexual, psychological, neglect and exposure to family violence), dissociation, and callous-unemotional traits. Past literature has recognized that a significant subset of children are developing with an extensive history of abuse in an environment that is devoid of nurturing …
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A prospective investigation of joy and trait gratitude
… the relationship between trait gratitude and future joy. The purpose was to determine if trait gratitude could predict future joy. Previously, studies have not examined the specific relationship between these two emotions, but there is good reason to believe that joy is a distinct positive …
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The Effects of a Compassion Focused Intervention on a Non-Clinical Student Population
… health concerns including depression, shame, and self-criticism. The present study assessed the effects of a 10-week university Introduction to CFT course that includes a group orientation to CFT including exposure to CFT intervention exercises. It was hypothesized that those receiving the CFT …
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Why Be Mindful?: A Profile Approach to Understanding the Role of Motivation in Emotion Regulation
… processes. Participants completed trait- and state-level self-reports, as well as a computer task of selective attention, at several time points during a stressful encounter. A typological approach to analysis was used, in which individuals were assigned to a Mindful, Avoidant, or Vigilant …
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Young Children’s Perceptions of Morally Relevant Behavior in Adults and Children
… influence children’s consideration of selfish and prosocial behaviors. For example, previous research has demonstrated that children as young as three and four years old are able to incorporate intention into their judgments of these types of behaviors. The current study examines children’s …
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Temperament in Infants at Heightened Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder
… measure of temperament (IBQ-R) at the 6- and 12-month time points for 31 infants at heightened risk for ASD (HR-D = 8) and 15 age-matched LR infants. The Child Behavior Checklist/1½ to 5 was collected at 24 months. Autism diagnostic status was determined at 24 months by trained clinicians. …
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Reducing the Time It Takes to Execute a Legal Hold on Patients Currently on a Voluntary Status and to Transport Them to a Locked Inpatient Psychiatric Facility
… is that the current process takes up to an hour and varies heavily on whether or not the unit charge nurse and the admissions and records agent are properly trained and knowledgeable in their roles for the step up process. There is no current official policy and procedure for a “step up process” …
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DETECTING HOW TOPOLOGICAL, SOCIAL, AND ONTOLOGICAL HIERARCHIES ARE REFLECTED IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR
… range of behaviors. Collectively, sociocultural and other hierarchies in the environment shape these humans to produce behavior that can be highly heterogeneous at the individual level but regular and patterned at the collective level. Thus, detecting how different hierarchies are reflected in …
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A PHENOMENOLOGICAL INQUIRY INTO THE MEANING OF WORK AS EXPERIENCED BY FINANCE FREELANCERS IN ONLINE LABOR MARKETPLACES
… influenced by the relationship between employees and organizations. In recent years, jobs outside the traditional boundaries of firms have grown considerably. Online platforms that connect contractors and clients for “gigs” are part of this trend. This study explored the process by which finance …
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The development and preliminary evaluation of a self-administered screening instrument for first rank symptoms and basic symptoms in psychotic and non psychotic disorders
… of psychopathology is fundamental to clinical psychiatry. Schneider's (1959) First Rank Symptoms (FRS) are an integral part of numerous diagnostic criteria and Huber's Basic Symptoms (BS) are thought to form the basis of the FRS (Huber & Gross, 1989). The aim of the current study was to develop …
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Biology Through the Lens of Trauma: An Empirical Review of Trauma Treatments
… system are explored as they pertain to trauma and its subsequent effects on the brain and body. In addition, American Psychological Association (APA) recommended evidence-based treatments for PTSD are reviewed as well as more recent emerging somatic therapies. There is a critical need for …
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The Phenomenon of Amoralism: An Investigation of the Cognitive and Emotive Roots
… claims of moral reasons to special authority, and systematically acts without regard to the generally accepted moral standards. A psychopath can be seen as a paradigm case of an extreme amoralist, although the less severe cases of selective amoralists are considered. The research into the …
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Detecting Malingered Psychotic Symptoms With the Rorschach Projective Technique
… to avoid prosecution by appearing mentally ill, and the malingering of psychotic symptoms is of special concern in legal proceedings. Much research has been conducted to determine accurate methods to detect malingering. These include clinical interviews, structured personality tests, intelligence …
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The Relationship Between Co-Dependence and Borderline Personality Disorder
… concept developed in isolation from mainstream psychology and psychiatry and remains an unverified diagnostic category. It has been compared with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and this relationship was investigated.</p> <p>Method. Representative samples of the voluminous literature on …
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