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  • How Do I Get a Credit Card? Bad Credit? No Credit?

     How do I get a Credit Card?Getting a Credit Card is not as difficult as it seems. If you have recently graduated, or you are still in college, Credit Card companies see you as desirable and a good credit risk.More

  • Early Sexual Abuse: And Related Symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

     Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a psychological syndrome first recognized by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in 1980 (American Psychiatric Association).The literature on traumatic anxiety covers a wide range of varying circumstances and experiences. The effects of these experiences, whether from natural disasters or events of human creation, war, terrorism or single acts of violence against one person are often determined by the individual's capacity to cope with stress.More

  • Incest: the Ultimate Act of Betrayal

     During the past two decades, all forms of child abuse, including sexual abuse and incest, have received wide recognition. As a result, many women who were sexually abused as a child has stepped forward to express their abuse experiences; thereby breaking the "conspiracy of silence." Incest is no longer in the closet, the family secrets, or the horror story that happened to someone else is now aired in the public arena.More

  • Hunter Syndrome: An Orphan Disease

     In the United States, an orphan or rare disease occurs in less than 200,000 individuals. Also, there are some diseases that only affect that many individuals in the entire world. Than there are those diseases that are widespread in certain parts of the world but are rare in others.More

  • Self-Injurious Behavior and Learning Disability

     The professional literature provides abundant evidence that individual with autism exhibits a myriad of uncommon form of social interaction, communication, and behavioral pattern that often present major challenges to their families and professional providers. However, there is a noticeable shortage of quality research targeting self-injurious behavior in respect to people with learning difficulties.One of the reasons that self-harming behavior remains largely an enigma is that when useful studies are done or appropriate theories developed they, too often, remain within a single domain such as mental health; and their broader application is not investigated.More

  • Methadone and Its Unintended Consequences in Society: A Historical Perspective

     It has been more than forty two years since Dr. Marie Nyswander and Vincent P. Dole, a husband and wife team, announced a scientific breakthrough which was considered, at that time, the most advanced step in the American Medical community.More

  • Alcohol Abuse and the Elderly: The Hidden Population

     As a society, we share a complicated history with alcohol. During the later part of the 19th century, politicians, women's groups, and churches banded together to convince lawmakers to outlaw alcohol. In 1919, the U.More

  • Alcohol: America's Drug of Choice

     A recent study showed that millions of Americans are turning to alcohol and drugs to relieve the discomfort of their stress-filled lives. However, like stress itself, these "pain-killers" are far from being considered a new approach. In our society alcohol is the most widely used drug today, but certainly not the only one.More

  • Viktor Frankl: Existentialist and the Father of Logotherapy

     Back Ground and DevelopmentBeing a former student of Freud, Viktor Frankl has a psycholanalyical orientation, however, he was influenced by the writing of existential philosophers like Heidegger, Scheler, and Jaspers. Frankl begin to develop his own existential philosophy and therapeutic technique. To avoid confusion with Bingswanger's existential analysis, Frankl coined the term Logotherapy.More

  • Autism - An Enigmatic Event Revisited: From the Refrigerator Mother to The Parent Trap

     Autism is defined as a neurodevelopmental disorder that reveals itself in a pronounced abnormal social interaction, patterns of interests, patterns of behavior, and communication ability. The specific cause of autism is unknown, some researchers suggest that autism results from genetically-influenced vulnerabilities to environmental triggers. It is estimated that autism occurs in as many as one child in 166 in the United States.More