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- Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder; (1)
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- College students--Health and hygiene--Iowa--Cedar Falls; Students (1)
- Counseling; (1)
- Crack (Drug)--United States; Cocaine abuse--United States; African American youth--Counseling of--United States; (1)
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- Existential psychotherapy; Caregivers--Psychology; Alzheimer's disease--Patients--Care--Psychological aspects; (1)
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- Oppositional defiant disorder in children; Oppositional defiant disorder in adolescence; (1)
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Examining Counseling Strategies For African American Adolescent Crack Abusers, Paula Reed Dorris
Examining Counseling Strategies For African American Adolescent Crack Abusers, Paula Reed Dorris
Graduate Research Papers
The author of this paper has addressed the significance of the development of treatment strategies to implement with African American adolescent crack addicts. An integral basis for tailoring culturally specific treatment approaches for African American adolescents relates to the unique circumstances, which may promote more extensive crack abuse by this group. Depression was the difficulty which the author chose to focus upon. Several different methods of helping these adolescents are discussed. The intervention strategies which show promise in helping African American adolescent crack addicts include: (a) Interpersonal Therapy; (b) psycho-educational programs; (c) involvement of family members in treatment; (d) use …
Existential Mental Health Implications For Kin-Caregivers Of Alzheimer's Victims, Brock K. Knoll
Existential Mental Health Implications For Kin-Caregivers Of Alzheimer's Victims, Brock K. Knoll
Graduate Research Papers
The purpose of this paper is to briefly outline assessment and progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in afflicted individuals (i.e., care recipients [CRs]) and review relevant research concerning the effects of AD progression on caregivers (CGs) as they care for loved ones. With this background, consideration will be made of how these findings suggest relevant tenets of Existential therapy. The author will also identify implications that could be meaningful to mental health professionals in their efforts to assist CGs as they attempt to cope with the emotional impact this disease has on them during caregiving and after the eventual death …
Understanding And Building Resiliency In Students Living With Parental Alcoholism: Implications And Interventions For The School Counselor, Lori K. Riley
Graduate Research Papers
The purpose of this paper is to examine how the strengths and positive qualities of children of alcoholics can be enhanced by counselors to promote resiliency. The author will identify typical characteristics of children who are raised by alcoholic parents and describe the short-term and long-term effects of this abuse on school-aged children and adolescents. A family systems perspective will be examined, along with a discussion of the risk these youngsters face.
A second purpose of this paper is to focus on the role of the school counselor in working with children who are living in dysfunctional situations due to …
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder : Developments In The Last Decade Concerning Causes And Treatments, Phyllis Damgaard
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder : Developments In The Last Decade Concerning Causes And Treatments, Phyllis Damgaard
Graduate Research Papers
The last ten years have brought major advances in the fields of medicine and technology, advances that have illuminated many of the dark comers of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). This article seeks to pull together those illuminating advances, condensing the voluminous information available into comprehensive, but readable, pages. The causes of the disorder are discussed from both the scientific and psychological/social perspectives. The controversy resulting from medicating so many, so young is an integral part of this country's interest in ADHD, due largely to coverage by the popular media.
Research concerning successful treatment strategies is also discussed. Medication, behavior …
Comparison Of Health Practices Of International Students At The University Of Northern Iowa Before And After Coming To The United States, Joseph Kwesi Ogah
Comparison Of Health Practices Of International Students At The University Of Northern Iowa Before And After Coming To The United States, Joseph Kwesi Ogah
Dissertations and Theses @ UNI
The primary purpose of this study was to compare the health practices of international students at the University of Northern Iowa before and after coming to the United States (US). Also included in the study was a description of differences in the selected health behaviors by gender, age, marital status, residence type, place of origin, and length of stay in the US. A random sample of 81 international students from about 60 different countries (35% male, 65% female) responded to a 50-item health behavior survey in the Fall semester of 1999.
The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) was …
Oppositional Defiant Disorder (Odd) In Children And Adolescents, Maria J. Garlie
Oppositional Defiant Disorder (Odd) In Children And Adolescents, Maria J. Garlie
Graduate Research Papers
This paper is a review of the literature on Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) in children and adolescents. Included in this review is information on the history of changes through which the diagnosis of ODD has gone, a comparison of children with ODD to "normal" children in terms of development, gender differences, co-morbidity, etiology, and treatment interventions.
Relational Counseling, Janice E. Drury
Relational Counseling, Janice E. Drury
Graduate Research Papers
The author of this paper explores the relational approach to counseling and its potential benefit to clients. The relational approach, in comparison to the more traditional approach to counseling, can give the counselor an alternative framework in which to explore and understand human development and apply counseling methods. Relational theory and its application to women is specifically addressed in this paper, as this approach to counseling may better assist women to speak and be heard in a pattern that makes sense to them. The author also identifies the need for research that expands current realms of thinking in mental health …