Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Eating Disorders Fairburn et al. argue that an extreme need to control eating is a central feature of Anorexia nervosa, and that in Western societies a tendency to judge self worth in terms of shape and weight is superimposed on this need for self control, ...

Half-full or half-empty? Cognition and depression. Introduction The etiology of depression can be illustrated from biological defects or abnormality, personal characteristics, and environmental factors. Over the last three decades cognitive functioning of the depressed patient has ...

Anxiety It is the end of the quarter of your basketball game with 0 seconds left on the clock, your team is down by only one point, and you got fouled. It is up to you to make either the first free throw to tie it, and the second to win. The pressure is on, and a screaming crowd doesn't mak...

What is Depression? Most adults and many children and adolescents have a few bad days here and there, sometimes three or four in a row. When this happens, your mood is bad, you feel like jumping on people for nothing. You sleep, but you do not rest. You eat, but you are not hungry. Your life is on...

Agoraphobia Agoraphobia falls into the general category of anxiety disorders. The anxiety disorders include panic disorder, agoraphobia, generalized anxiety disorder, specific phobia, social phobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, acute stress disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder. The anci...

Psychopathology is a relatively new term broadly covering all disorders of mental status. This assignment endeavors to investigate, compare and discuss the symptomology and treatment of four conditions. These disorders are Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, and Eating Disorders. Anxiety affects thousands ...

One of the most important developments in psychosocial approaches to emotional problems has been the success of cognitive therapy for depression. Evidence for the powerful efficacy of this approach has increased throughout the years, particularly in regard to its long-term outcome. Because it emplo...

When someone says they are depressed they generally refer to a sour mood which may be changed quickly with a call from a friend or a gift or by simply seeing a good movie. But clinical depression is something quite a bit more profound. Similarly, some people may find themselves nervous before a tes...

Depression: The Sadness Disease In our never-ending quest for happiness in our life, is some of the joy taken away? Have our thoughts for what we always want turned astray? Why has the quest for happiness left us more vulnerable and sad? Are we a society of melancholy people that are all lo...

Manic depression is a mental disorder in which a person, at times, suffers from periods of mania, in other words, periods when the person is excited and easily agitated. At other times the person will suffer from periods of extreme depression, hopelessness, fatigue, and suicidal tendencies. When t...

BINGE-EATING THAT PLAGUES ADULTS NOW RECOGNIZED AS A DISORDER Many people binge once in a while, like at the holiday season or even just stress related. But when you do it constantly it gets to be a problem. Specialist Karen Eselson Belding says, "Binge-eating disorder is when an individual re...

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder After experiencing a traumatic event, the mind has been known to horde away the details and memories and then send them back at unexpected times and places, sometimes after years have passed. It does so in a haunting way that makes the recall just as disturbing as the ...

"I need to sleep! I'll just close my eyes and count sheep. Wait...Damn it, it's not working!" Insomnia is defined as, "the perception or complaint of inadequate or poor-quality sleep because of one or more of the following: difficulty falling asleep, waking up frequently during ...

Rape & Rape Trauma Syndrome Dictionaries most commonly define rape as a sexual act committed by force especially on a woman. (The American Heritage College Dictionary. 1997 pg. 740) Until a few years ago it was limited to penial penetration of the vagina. Penal Code 261 defines rape as "a...

Dr. Aaron T. Beck MD, a psychotherapist, is considered one the most influential people in modern cognitive psychology and is known as the "Father of Cognitive Therapy." Cognitive psychology is the study of people's mental processes between a stimulus and a response. Cognitive psycho...

COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY FOR DEPRESSION Introduction Cognitive behavioral therapy helps improve people's moods and behavior by changing their way thinking; also, how they interpret events and talk to themselves. This form of psychotherapy helps guide people into thinking more realistically and ...

COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY FOR DEPRESSION Introduction Cognitive behavioral therapy helps improve people's moods and behavior by changing their way thinking; also, how they interpret events and talk to themselves. This form of psychotherapy helps guide people into thinking more realis...

Have you ever witnessed someone being badly injured or even killed? Have you ever been involved in a fire, flood, or any other natural disaster? The estimated lifetime prevalence of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder among adult Americans is 7.8%, with men calculating at 5% and women at 10.4%, twice...