Psychology Essays

Importance of Personal Development in Counsellor Training
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Introduction: This essay intends to provide an understanding of what it means to be a counsellor; basically, the question focuses on the training required and what personal developments they need to be practic...

Evaluation of Finkelhor's Preconditions Model of Child Sexual Offending
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Introduction: Does Finkelhor’s Preconditions Model of child sexual offending offer an adequate explanation for the perpetration of child sexual assault? Critically discuss. Finkelhor (1984) develope...

Origin and Development of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
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Introduction: Describe the origin and development of cognitive behavioural therapy, a CBT model for a specific emotional disorder, and discuss the evidence base for this psychological therapy and model ...

Ethical Issues for Children in Therapy
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Introduction: Informed consent The vignette regarding ten-year-old Jimmy would need informed consent from his parents before speaking with her. Jimmy is a minor, according to the AAMFT Standard I Resp...

Literature Review on Studies of John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
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Introduction: John Bowlby first purposed the term “attachment” and thought its purpose could be evolutionary (Fraley, 2018).Bowlby suggested that infant behavior was dependent on the proximity and responsi...

Evaluation of Intervention Techniques for Anxiety
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Introduction: Barlow defines anxiety as a negative mood state that is lead by physical symptoms such as increased heart rate, tightness of the chest, feeling tense, panic attacks and increased breathing (2002)...

Analysis of OCD Using Relational Frame Theory, Experiential Avoidance and Emotion Regulation
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Introduction: Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is classified as an anxiety disorder by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR) (American Psychiatric Association, 2000). It is c...

Theories and Definitions of Intelligence
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Introduction: The notion of intelligence is complex, with differing definitions it is difficult to simplify and condense its meaning into one neat definition without considering the abundance of theories. Trad...

Comparison of Psychopathy Models
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Introduction: Abstract  Psychopathy is described as a mixture of different personality traits and socially abnormal behaviors.  Personality is a person’s unique way of thinking, feeling, a...

Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory
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Introduction: Psychoanalytic Theory  Freud’s psychoanalytic theory focused on the development and the dynamics of the personality. It challenged notions of human nature and human development by...

Impact of Misophonia on Sufferers
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Introduction: Misophonia and its impact on sufferers   Introduction: Misophonia is a rare disorder  in which the sufferer   becomes highly sensitive to ordinary ...

Understanding of Conservation of Number and Mass in Children
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Introduction: Understanding of Conservation of Number and Mass in Children Abstract  One of the most famous child cognitive development theories was coined by Jean Piaget. One of the Pia...

Evaluation of Psychological Tests
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Introduction: Differences        There are numerous various kinds of psychological tests utilized for various reasons. Psychological tests quite often include an examinat...

Adaptation of Immigrant Adolescents Within the U.S.
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Introduction: Adaptation of Immigrant Adolescents Within the U.S. Abstract  This research proposal is designed to answer various insufficiencies present in our understanding of the psych...

Risk Factors for Depression in the Elderly
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Introduction: Introduction Australian bureau of statistics (2016) data mentions that, 15% of the Australian population comprises of the people who are aged 65 years and above. Enabling these senior ci...

Depictions of Dissociative Identity Disorder: Kevin Wendell Crumb
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Introduction: Definition of Disorder One of the characters of the movie trilogy (Unbreakable, Split, and Glass) has dissociative identity disorder. He looks rather impressive: his personality split in...

Real-World Applications of Psychological Theories
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Introduction:  ‘Psychological theory and research into how people understand themselves and others has important real-world applications. ‘Evaluate this claim, drawing upon examples of research fr...

Comparison of Behavioural and Structural Theories of Adolescent Learning
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Introduction: Compare and contrast two of the main learning theories of adolescent learning (Behavioural, Cognitive, Social, Constructivist and Psychosocial). Discuss the implications of one of your chosen per...

Evaluation of Crisis Theory
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Introduction: Introduction  Crisis theory and intervention have existed since the 1900s, and arguably before then. Since humans could recognize suicidal and behavioral changes in other humans due...

Psychological Contracts in Relationships
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Introduction: The contents of a psychological contract are determined by the individual and the relationship built between them and their employer. New graduates entering the workforce and those in the Millenn...

Differential Human Vulnerability in Real-world Disasters
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Introduction: Using the examples of several varied real-world disasters, critically analyse the concept of differential human vulnerability Globally, the negative influence of natural disasters is ste...

Biological Psychology in Life: Using the Internet
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Introduction: Using the Internet is the largest part of everyone’s daily life. The internet is mainly used to speed up daily tasks (Sharma, 2016). Sharma’s quote simplifies the use of the internet to a gen...

Effects of Eating Disorders
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Introduction: Believed to be affecting over 30 million American citizens and over 70 million people worldwide, eating disorders have claimed the lives of thousands of people each year, destroying families and ...

Comparison of Theories for Violence
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Introduction: Violence is not by any means an easy term to define. There are multiple understandings in which will be explored through the topic of crime and deviant behaviour. Within this issue, it will be fu...

Personal Reflection on Strengths and Weaknesses in Counselling
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Introduction: Part A – Reflection on Viva Performance Strengths Upon reflection of my performance in the viva, I became aware of several strengths and weaknesses that may impact my counsel...