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Client Description The client is a 14 year old female who is half Irish, half Japanese. She is presenting with social anxiety and low self-esteem. The client is currently in 8th grade and is on a cheerleading squad. The clients parents are divorced and she currently lives with her mother. She reports that she has a great relationship with both of her parents and they are both supportive. The client states that she has friends at school, but her and her best friend are no longer speaking. She…

“It's dark out, and you're home alone. The house is quiet other than the sound of the show you're watching on TV. You see it and hear it at the same time: The front door is suddenly thrown against the door frame.’ ‘Your breathing speeds up. Your heart races. Your muscles tighten.”- (Layton) Fear is a chemical reaction that tells our brain and bodies that something is wrong. It is a survival instinct that that keeps us safe and out of danger. But what chemical reactions happen when you are afraid…

conditioning. The cognitive theory is where it focuses on an individual’s thoughts that has established their emotions and behaviors. It’s important to change an individual’s thoughts to change their behavior. According to the theory, irrational responses are the products of subconscious thoughts and erroneous beliefs. Cognitive reframing is used by the psychiatrist to help the client examine their beliefs and develop better ways in assessing a situation. The stop method is used to teach the…

Is it preferable to fix or float interest rates in the current economic environment? This is the question now facing Marcus Garvey, who is planning to buy his first home in October of this year. Making the right judgement on whether to fix or float interest rates on a mortgage, in conjunction with what period of time, could be the difference of thousands paid to the bank in additional interest. In order to assist Marcus in this decision, several variables must be considered. The first and most…

indentifies three channels namely earnings heterogeneity channel, Fisher channel and unhedged interest rate exposures through which the aggregate consumer spending increases. The critical assumption that the author has maintained is MPCs of the winners are greater than the losers for the above chain of events to be valid. In this paper, the author emphasizes on the last of these channels, the unhedged interest rate exposures channels, along with two traditional channels: aggregate income and…

The psychoanalytical lens is a way of understanding the human mind and the characters within a story. Many different theories have contributed to psychology, but “most psychological criticism of the last century lands at the doorstep of Sigmund Freud” (Gillespie 1). Freud was the father of a psychoanalysis, helped explain human behavior, and came up with a way to treat mental illnesses. Freud focused much of his ideas on psychic forces having an influence on human behavior (Gillespie 2). He had…

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or better known as PTSD is an illness affecting many people in the world, but its most common victims are the veterans of war. One in eight veterans return from war afflicted with PTSD and the number continually rises with war time atrocities becoming worse as new terror organizations form. The things our soldiers see greatly traumatize leaving them scarred for life and give them an incomprehensible fear of it, leading to a difficult life in which they can’t live…

Abstract— Harmonics that are created by non-linear devices connected to the power system. Power system harmonics are multiples integer of the fundamental power system frequency and these harmonic frequencies can create distorted voltages and currents. Distortion of voltages and currents can impact on the power system adversely causing power quality problems. Therefore, approximation of harmonics is of high importance for efficiency of the power system network to maintain the quality limits…

The majority of people suffering from anxiety and depression go a considerable amount of their lives undiagnosed. What triggers them to seek treatment is often not that they are having mental health problems, but physical health problems that have been brought on by their disorders. If the illness goes undiagnosed for too long it will generate an assortment of complications that can lead to the sufferer being buried under a myriad of medications. This spiraling effect can make the diagnoses feel…

Whenever one is startled, or caught off-guard, the innate human response is to either flee or fight. Most human brains are wired to run from danger. This runs parallel to when humans are faced with a problem or a difficult situation. Many individuals would rather run away from problems than work at resolving them. The novel “Things That Fly” by Douglas Coupland conveys the themes of Escape as well as The Human Condition in his short story by utilizing the symbols of Superman, the narrator’s…