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Family Nursing Plan of Care: The Orem’s Self-Deficit Nursing Model The Healthy People 2010 objectives mirror the major health concerns in regard to the United States population at the beginning of the 21st century. The idea of the project is …

            Fasting is the voluntarily abstaining from food or drinks. It is done for a variety of reasons. Fasting is usually associated with religious practices. For Muslims, fasting is an integral part of the celebration of Ramadan. For Roman Catholics, …

The article entitled “Disorders from the East Emerge Here” discusses briefly the cause and effect of what psychologists commonly refer to as culture-bound syndromes. A culture bound syndrome is a mental illness that is usually found in patients with ethnicity. …

Cognitive processes are associated with the way human beings reason and behave towards certain issues in life.  They involve the understanding of how people acquire knowledge and use it in their day to day activities.  With the increased advancement in …

I understand that using alcohol beverages is done to accomplish social, religious and economic goals and activities. This idea of fulfilling important aspects in life deserves a thorough review since there are so many reasons why it is harmful to …

There are many different therapy options that are available for practitioners to use.  Some of the therapy options that have recently become more popular and more widely accepted are DBT or dialectical behavioral therapy and hypnosis and relaxation therapy.  These …

Some of the advantages could also include that there is optimal control of the group and that the group is a strong knit group that slowly earns the trust of others in the group over time.  In the beginning it …

DBT can be used in a number of positive ways and through a number of various types of therapy.  One of the ways that DBT therapy can be used is for people who are suffering from an Axis II diagnosis …

DBT has also been used in adolescents who are suicidal.  In these studies it was found that there were a lot of treatments that were not as effective as DBT in reducing the symptoms in adolescents.  Originally DBT was developed …

Therefore it can be concluded that there are many advantages to DBT treatment.  These advantages include long term sustainability after the discontinuation of treatment, better response than other treatments, the ability to work for a variety of ages of patients …