Psychological Types

Bullying is a common experience for many children and adolescents. There are some types of bullying, but one of the most dangerous is verbal bullying. Verbal bullying is a repeated behavior and include actions such as making threats, spreading rumors or attacking someone verbally just to gain the power over other peers. Words alone do have power. While the effects of physical bullying may be more obvious at first, verbal bullying is more insidious and over long periods of time works to destroy…

behavior” (Powell and Smith 2011 p1). There are five different forms of domestic violence including physical, sexual, emotional, economic and psychological. Powell and Smith (2011) explain that while there are five different forms of abuse, the victim is most likely to experience various types of the abuse if they have already experienced one. The first type, physical abuse, is described as biting, slapping, restraining, shoving, hitting, and/or the threat of physical violence. Distinct signs of…

In fact, the participants in the forgiveness group showed minimal to no depression and anxiety while the participants in the alternative group showed signs of moderate depression and anxiety. Women who have been abused may have a hard time getting over the experience because they resent the fact that it happened and they resent the person who abused them but any kind of therapy that supports women’s expression of anger without helping them to find meaning in their suffering and teaching them how…

power differential in unilateral abusive relationships would produce strong attachment in battered women like anyone else exposed to this type of reinforcement schedule (intermittent) under these conditions.” (Dutton pg. 4) This exhibits the psychological effect that accompanies physical abuse. The physical abuse a victim receives in addition to psychological abuse is irregular. In many cases, the perpetrator goes through a ‘Cycle of violence’. Although the abuser demonstrates extreme levels of…

Psychological abuse can take the form of intimidation, verbal assault, threat of abuse, harassment, and intimidation (Dong 1214). In a research, fifty-eight elderly in nursing homes reported the most frequent types of psychological abuse they have been submitted to. The report revealed psychological abuse such as lack of attention, lack of affection, derogatory naming and demeaning commentary, threats…

Adult Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence Intimate partner violence, also known as domestic violence overwhelmingly is perpetrated by men in a relationship with their significant other. This is not to say that women cannot be perpetrators, but more often than not, men are the abusers in majority of the cases investigated. Intimate partner violence does not favor socioeconomic status, race, education or age; it is a prevalent problem across the nation no matter our status in society.…

from the word "ego" which is the Latin term for "I" in English. Many people confuse egoism with egotism, a psychological misjudgment of one's own importance, or of one's own actions. Altruism is the opposite of egoism and is said by egoists to be an illusion. The descriptive variant, also known as "psychological egoism," views egoism as a factual description of human affairs. Psychological egoism describes human nature as being wholly self-centered and self-motivated.…

A soldier who goes into war will never come out being the same man. The psychological stress of war makes every soldier lose their mind, in both clinical and/or abstract terms. The clinical definition of insanity is “a severely disordered state of the mind usually occurring as a specific disorder” (Merriam-Webster). The abstract definition is “to deal with heightened stress in un-methodistic ways”. In The Things They Carried, by writer and Vietnam war veteran, Tim O’Brien, every character deals…

communities, families, and also disrupts the development of the nation. It has long term psychological and physical harm to adults and children, and also affects the economical state of the country. People think that death in war is the worst part of the war, but it isn’t. Death is nothing compared to other consequences war causes. These consequences go all the way from starvation, disabilities, poverty to psychological and social problems. By understanding the conflicts and the consequences…

of phobias in torture maximizes psychological torture by conforming to the individual's fears. At Abu Ghraib, the United States Army took advantage of Muslims’ belief of the impurity of dogs to induce fear among the detainees. Another interrogation method used at Abu Ghraib was the sexual abuse of men. The infamous images taken at the prison illustrates how sexual taboos can be exploited during questioning for increasing “cooperativeness” of the prisoners. Any type of sexual abuse is extremely…