Is Clozapine an effective treatment for schizophrenia? What is schizophrenia and what are the symptoms – Figure 1 Schizophrenia is a brain disorder which can affect a person’s mental well-being. Suffering from schizophrenia can terrify people and make them withdrawn from family and friends or make them extremely agitated. Some people with the disorder are known to hear voices‚ believe people are trying to harm them or are reading their minds. The exact cause is unknown‚ however many scientists
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significant share of the urban population‚ is in many cases naturallycontaminated with arsenic. It gradually emerged that 70 million people drank water which exceeds the WHO guidelines of 10 microgram of arsenic per liter‚ and 30 million drank water containing more than the Bangladesh National Standard of 50 microgram per liter‚ leading tochronic arsenic poisoning.[10] On the other hand‚ surface water is usually polluted and requires treatment.[11] Taking arsenic contamination into account‚ it was
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conflict? and How can conflicts be resolved?. These questions are the focus of discussion surrounding the Andani’s and the Abudu’s conflict in Ghana. Generally‚ research has proved that social dilemmas can create conflict. Social dilemmas arise as individual pursue self-interest to the detriment of many people. This was illustrated using the prisoner’s dilemma which showed that many people were willing to confess in order to receive immunity compared to not confessing for lighter sentences. Secondly
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Clinical Psychology Gabriela Alvarez Clinical Psychology Clinical psychology is one of the most prominent specialty areas in psychology today. Clinical psychology focuses and strives to understand‚ assess and treat psychological and behavioral problems and disorders (Plante‚ 2010). According to Bedi (2012)‚ “Clinical psychology is a broad approach to human problems . . . with regard to numerous populations.” Furthermore‚ analyzing the methods in which the human psyche interacts with
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Humanistic Psychology Basis Humanistic Psychology is so named due to its core belief in the basic goodness present in and respect for humanity. Its core is founded upon existential psychology‚ or the realization and understanding of one’s existence and social responsibility. The two psychologists‚ Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow initiated the movement with this new perspective on understanding people’s personality and improving their overall life satisfaction. When war broke out in the 1960s‚ the
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INTRODUCTION It may be useful to describe community psychology by distinguishing it from other disciplines with which it is closely allied. Community psychology is like clinical psychology and community mental health in its action orientation. That is‚ community psychology aims to promote human welfare. But community psychology arose largely out of dissatisfaction with the clinician’s tendency to locate mental health problems within the individual. Community psychologists are more likely to see threats
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(pg 605–638) Treatment of Psychological Disorders Modern mental health therapies can be classified into two main categories – favored treatment depends on disorder and therapist’s viewpoint Learning-related disorders (phobias) are usually treated with psychotherapy Biologically influenced disorders (schizophrenia) usually treated with biomedical therapy – prescribed medication/medical procedure that acts directly on the patient’s nervous system Usually patients receive combination of drug and
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Disparate treatment means unequal behavior toward someone because of a protected characteristic‚ and it is protected under Title VII of the U.S. Civil Rights Act. A disparate treatment violation occurs when an individual of a protected group is shown to have been singled out and treated less favorably than others in a similar situation on the basis of a characteristic that is protected under Title VII. For a disparate treatment claim to be upheld in court it must be plausible and shows that the employer
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informed consent represents permission to intervene in a person’s private sphere. 3 Informed consent serves to promote public confidence in the integrity of research‚ critical to processes of research funding and participation‚ and the resultant new treatments and interventions. 5 One aspect of ethical research is to clarify how consent providers conduct the informed consent procedure. 3 Information concerning this process is necessary to determine
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like jeopardising the health of pregnant women‚ compromising the health of the foetus and increasing the likelihood of adverse pregnancy outcomes such as stillbirth‚ spontaneous abortion and low birth weight (NDHS‚ 2013). Intermittent Preventive Treatment of Malaria in Pregnancy (IPTp) is one of the strategies where pregnant women in malaria – endemic countries receive complete doses of Sulfadoxine – Pyrimethamine (SP)‚ whether or not have symptom of malaria. As a protective measure‚ in 2005‚ the
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