Windigo Culture Bound Syndrome (CBS) is defined by the DSM-IV as recurrent‚ locally specific patterns of deviant behavior and troubling experience that may or may not be linked to a particular DSM-IV diagnostic category. Such patterns of behavior are indigenously considered to be an "illness" or at least an affliction‚ and most have names specific to the region or culture in which they originate. Many CBSs are not literally syndromes; they are more like ways of explaining any of a wide array
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information. A click away and I was on my way into Ms. Frizzle of the Magic School Bus’s classroom‚ just waiting to be educated. (Of course‚ there are no Magic School Bus books written about Fragile X‚ my newfound rare genetic disease friend.) Fragile X syndrome affects one in four thousand males‚ and one in every eight thousand females around the globe. Its features include learning disability of varying severity‚ and behavioral problems such as hyperactivity and autistic tendencies. Fragile X’s physical
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1. Explain Walker’s criteria for battered woman syndrome and briefly explain the battering cycle proposed by walker. Walkers come up with the term “battered woman Syndrome” as a way of describing IPV (intimate partner violence) and the consequences that it brings. IPV is a conduct that involves any form of physical‚ psychological and sexual abuse perpetrated by partners in the relationship‚ it can be in the marriage or dating couples. This term involves a details studies that fallows the history
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Problem Behavior Syndrome Sandra Schaumleffel Everest University The life course view is that criminality may be best understood as one of many social problems faced by at-risk youth‚ referred to as problem behavior syndrome (PBS). In this view‚ crime is one among a group of interrelated antisocial behaviors that cluster together and typically involve family dysfunction‚ sexual and physical abuse‚ substance abuse‚ smoking‚ precocious sexuality and early pregnancy‚ educational underachievement
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Rausch presented and it is called chaos syndrome. Rausch explains how we got here in short‚ by weakening entities that historically held politicians accountable and prevented naked self-interest. Rauch suggests an unorthodox treatment for this new normal: the return of the establishment. He argues that our most pressing political problem today is that the country abandoned the establishment‚ not the other way around. Rauch says we can escape chaos syndrome if we strengthen parties. Strengthening
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Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome The purpose of this research critique is to inform the reader of a randomized clinical study regarding the treatment of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS). This writer is interested in the treatment of drug exposed infants and the goals of reducing babies’ hospitalization in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). The study researches the adjunct therapy for treatment of NAS. The study will be broken down into the following units: protection of human participants‚ type
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personality; without individuation‚ we would all be the same—drones‚ rendered unnecessary. As described by Plummer‚ Ophelia Syndrome is the inability to think or act for ourselves. Those suffering from Ophelia Syndrome are incapable of producing original thought or coping with the unknown. They would rather be safely misled than creatively uncertain. Plummer stated that Ophelia Syndrome was most commonly manifested in university students and “middle managers in American corporations” (p. 3). He attributes
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during the Holocaust but so were gypsies‚ slaves‚ the mentally ill‚ and the physically deformed people. (Rossel‚ p. 3) The survivors of the Holocaust suffered from depression‚ anxiety‚ nightmares‚ and guilt. Many people may refer to this as survivor syndrome‚ which means a mental condition that occurs when a person perceives themselves to have done wrong by surviving a traumatic event when others did not.
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Problem Behavior Syndrome (PBS) are a number of antisocial behaviors that cluster together which may include family dysfunction‚ substance abuse‚ smoking‚ educational underachievement‚ suicidal thoughts/attempts‚ unemployment and even crime. (Siegel‚ 2011) There is one person that comes to mind that has a criminal record and also possesses numerous antisocial behaviors listed in the text. That person‚ sadly‚ is my ex boyfriend/ baby’s father‚ Jonathon. He is only 27 years old and already has two
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“Mean World Syndrome” In the film‚ “The Mean World Syndrome”‚ George Gerbner argues that people who watch a large amount of television tended to think of the world as an intimidating and unforgiving place. Gerbner researched the effects of television on society. He focused on the commercial media system that thrived on violence‚ stereotypes‚ and the cultivation of anxiety. The film argues that the more television people watch‚ the more likely they are to be insecure and afraid of others. Is
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