Alex is a 15-year-old male, recently discharged after a thirty-day stay in an in-patient psychiatric hospital. He was hospitalized because he heard voices telling him “terrible things about himself” and telling him to kill himself. He reported this to the school social worker who notified his parents. He was taken from school to the hospital. […]

Please feel free to discuss any other material that you feel is relevant and interests you.  In addition, respond to, at least, one or two posts from other students. 1.  Piaget’s theory of cognitive development is popular in developmental psychology.  Discuss his theory and apply his concepts to your own lifespan development. 2.  Discuss the […]

Create a small prevention program that  could be implemented at a health fair, at a workplace, or in a school.  The goal of this assignment is to articulate the social, biological, and  psychological consequences of addictive behaviors to an at-risk  population and contextualize issues of addiction in historical and  social frameworks. For this presentation, you […]

1. Using the violation of social norms approach, which of the following persons is engaged in abnormal behavior? A) A Thai woman “runs amok.” B) An Ethiopian says he’s possessed by “Zar.” C) A Vietnamese man believes his penis is retracting into his abdomen. D) All of these options 2. The purpose of the DSM-IV-TR […]

RESPONSE 1 Respond to at least two colleagues by doing all of the following: Offer an analysis of their evaluations and subsequent      recommendation. Note both strengths and areas that could be improved.  Identify areas where your own original recommendations or      evaluation was similar to or different from your colleagues’ original      evaluation and explain why. Colleague […]