1980s

In 1980, the American Psychiatric Association added PTSD to the third edition of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III) nosologic classification scheme. PTSD diagnosis has filled an important gap in psychiatric theory and practice. The key to understanding PTSD is the concept of trauma. According to the DSM-III PTSD was conceptualized as being a catastrophic stressor outside the range of normal human experiences. While most people exposed to traumatic events do not…

the disease and its ways of transmission were accurate identified, fear and ignorance remained widespread. In the mid- and even later 1980s, “AIDS hysteria” became a familiar term in the media and public life. Before the disease was officially called “AIDS”, in 1982, it went by “gay-related immune deficiency” (GRID). Homosexuality was no socially accepted in the 1980’s, making it harder for homosexuals that were diagnosed to deal with this illness, but easier for society to pinpoint at them,…

Four adult generations currently reside in New Braunfels: the Silent, born between 1928 – 1945, the Baby Boomers (1946 – 1964), Generation X (1965 – 1980), and the Millennials (1980 and the mid – 2000’s). The majority of our business and civic leaders are Baby Boomers and Generation X. However, the time is nearing when the Millennials will be the new generation of leaders and decision makers. Let’s see how the Millennials will connect, get involved, and what impact will they have on our…

Before the 1980s hospitals grew from 178 in 1872 to 4359 in 1909 (Shi & Singh, 2005). One of the significant reasons to the growth of hospitals points to the government and The Hill-Burton Act. This act provided federal grants to states for the construction of new community hospital beds. Because of the severe shortage in hospital beds after World War II, the act was put in place to improve the utilization of beds. Later this act would result in greater consequences due to the downsizing of…

Criminal behavior is around every corner. Even as much as we don’t want to think it is, or just block out the facts, it will always surround us human beings. Quite a numerous amount of crimes go undetected. This interest many, they want to know why the criminal does what they do. What are the factors that led them to their decisions? There are five different types of criminals. The first is an ordinary person that fell into the crime type by an external circumstance. Second is an apparently…

James MacGregor Burns’ Leadership also offers critical insight into the theoretical and empirical underpinnings of moral leadership. According to Burns, “transformational leadership demands commitment, persistence, courage, perhaps selflessness and self-abnegation. Pragmatic, transactional leadership requires a shrewd eye for opportunity, a good hand at bargaining, persuading, reciprocating.” Simply put, transformational leaders seek to mobilize their followers to through act of…

psychologists since the 1990s, which comes from the work of educational psychologists who proposed that motivation should be viewed more in terms of personal thoughts and perceptions rather than some innate quality. The argument from (Maehr & Nicholl,1980) was that success and failure are not concrete events. They are psychological states consequent on perception of reaching…

allow them to express their self-concepts. The lifespan refers to the period of life that occurs from birth to death. Lastly, the life space is the type of role that you take on in your life, for example: teacher, student or parent. According to Super (1980), these can affect your career according to which role a person is currently undertaking. For the purpose of this assignment, I shall discuss the part of his theory that covers the…

University of Oklahoma and was coached by Paul Ziert. That opened the eyes of many and made him a potential Olympic Athlete in the 1980 games in Moscow (“Bart Conner” 477). In his first year of competing at a college level, he lead the Sooners to the Big Eight Championships and the National Collegiate Athletics Association(NCAA). Bart was qualified to participate in the 1980 Olympics but decided it would be best to sit out due to the fact that he tore his right biceps. There were also large bone…

in the middle east threatened America’s supply of oil as economic growth also stagnated. A central part of Regan’s 1980 election bid was to lower marginal taxes across the board and continue the deregulation that had been started in previous administration [9]. The plan drew some critics from politicians at first but the plan saw widespread support from Americans, as he won the 1980 election by a whopping 440 electoral votes. Regan’s economic policies, largely influenced by the works of…