Essays on Kessler

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ABSTRACT Young people in the United States are battling depression in record numbers, reaching an all-time high of 3 million patients in 2015. Researchers are continuing to search for alternative or additional methods than therapy and medications to improve depressive symptoms in teenagers and young adults. Some studies have demonstrated that as possible option in easing depression is physical exercise. In addition to assisting mental health issues, exercise promotes social interaction, physical health, and appearance. However, research has focused primarily on adults and therefore additional studies are needed with focus on the impact of exercise on depression in young ...

Introduction

Genetic counselling is defined as the information, guidance, and support provided by a genetic counsellor or medical geneticist to an individual, a couple, or a family about a genetic condition. The information may help the client (affected individual or family) understand how a gene variant underlies an observed phenotype, disease prognosis, and the probability of transmission to progeny. Apart from information to help the client make informed decisions about lifestyle, treatment, and reproduction, a counsellor provides psychosocial support to minimize the adverse psychological, intrafamilial, and social consequences of genetic testing. Therefore, genetic counselling has an educational as well as ...

Losing someone you care about due to death is heartbreaking. Wolterstorff laments his son Eric. Wolterstorff expression upon receiving the news of the death of his son depicts the love he had for his son. Although he was not there during most of his time, Woterstorff took the initiative to narrate his encounter. It is quiet inspirational as he laments the way he will be missing his son. His faith in God comforts him. Ideally, Wolterstorff wrote the lamentation book to assist others gets inspired facing the same predicament. The book is ideal for those who are grieving Eric ...

The essay provides an overview of the dysfunctional leadership characteristics of one of the successful CEO Steve Jobs. The essay includes the sections, such as dysfunctional leadership to identify dysfunction features of Steve Jobs, role of Steve Jobs as a motivator, and how he affected the organization, society and teams.

Dysfunctional Leadership

The leadership of Steve Jobs (founder and former CEO of Apple) is viewed from different viewpoints. For instance, he was viewed as a dysfunctional leader as part of partly negative charismatic leadership style. The dysfunctional leadership norms include passive-aggressiveness, narcissistic personality, and urge for personal power (Hamric, Hanson, Tracy & ...

Theoretical Essay

In the world of law punishment (alternative name – penalty) is considered as an “infliction of some kind of pain or loss upon a person for misdeed (i.e., the transgression of a law or command).”1 Penalty may take different forms and vary from forced labor, flogging, body mutilation, fines and imprisonment to the capital punishment. The punishment has been very retributive, mostly in the form of revenge, during the pre-modern ages and usually the prosecution was executed by the victims or their families. There was not any proportion between the quantity and quality of wrongdoing and the punishment. The ...

The fact why the book "The end of overeating" by David A. Kessler is considered a bestseller becomes evident from the very first page. The author provides the reader with rather pressing issues, which are perceived very easily. The proposals are not very complicated; hence, the material is presented very succinctly. Kessler presents the up-to-date problems regarding overeating and excess weight in a facile manner. From the very first chapter of his book, he interests the reader to the point that s/he wants to read it all at once. His approach to the problem of overweight can be defined ...

The paper highlights six prominent cases of their time and causes of seizure and warrant of these cases. The facts involved in cases and courts ruling in making decisions are explained in the paper. It focuses on Mapp v. Ohio, Terry v. Ohio, Tennessee v. Garner, Carroll v. U.S., Graham v. Connor, and U.S. v Leon. According to the 4th amendment of the U.S. Constitution, people have the right to feel secure in their homes and without proper court consent police should not be allowed to breach their personal property. Furthermore, a search warrant is to be issued by ...

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The healthcare environment requires that all stakeholders are aware of the need for change, as well as the best process of implementing that change. As such, it is important to note the specific challenges that face those working in healthcare, as they pertain to the organizations themselves. This paper covers the basics of the challenges that face healthcare organizations to highlight some of the specific challenges that are present in this industry. The specific issues of changes in pay for quality and the changing characteristics of clients are used to highlight why change can be challenging in healthcare. It ...

The employment practices in Timothy Reverson’s case can be characterized as; i) Rudimentary- Employees in this company seem disrespectful and don't seem to obey protocol or procedure as Timothy's case showed. This could be as a result of organizational culture and how to organization has been past. ii) Slow in growth- It seems that the company has grown very slowly over the years. Timothy has been a part of the company for 15years and yet only 17employees are members as of now. It shows their employment practices are stagnant; recruitment is slow or there simply isn't room for ...

A THERAPY PROGRAM FOR VICTIMS OF POST ELECTION VIOLENCE IN KENYA

After the controversial elections that took place in Kenya, there were problems that required intervention, from within the country as well as through the international community. Several people lost their homes, causing them to become internally displaced; others lost their businesses, farms and loved ones. People experienced harsh realities brought about by tribal clashes that were spread out over most of the country (Linke, 2013). The violence occurred over a period of nearly three months on counting, during this time people, developed bitterness and hatred and others experience post-traumatic stress among other psychological implications (Perkonigg, Kessler, Storz, & Wittchen, 2000). ...

APPLICATION IN MARKETING - SAMSUNG

Abstract Samsung is listed in the Fortune 500 and is considered one of the most recognized brands on a global level in multiple categories. With Mobile devices leading the product category, Samsung has also been able to develop world class product lines, in Television and Audio and Video, Cameras, Information Technology, Home Appliances and Memory and Storage. Samsung products cater to a wide variety of consumer segment and this makes the company unique in terms of carving in a profitable business niche. Samsung’s aggressive strategy in the emerging market is a key way forward to maximize revenues and ...

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Goals and objectives for the group6 Type of group6 Evaluating success.7 Activities.8 Conclusion10 Introduction Grief is the emotional process an individual goes throughout after the loss of a loved one. Mothers go through an unbearable amount of emotions after losing a child. Considered to be one of the most traumatic experiences an individual can endure, losing a child can have a detrimental impact on a mother. These individuals generally do not consider treatment during the midst of their grief. Most individuals believe their grief is normal under their circumstances. However, the longer the grief lasts the more ...

Carvel Ice Cream, an American multinational entered the premium ice cream segment of the Chinese market in 1992. However, the Chinese Ice cream market was already flooded with stiff competition from foreign and domestic players. The company experienced some issues in attaining the desired market share and revenues and this case analysis focuses on the different aspects of marketing strategy for Carvel Ice Cream in China.

As the growing Chinese market seemed to attract major international companies during the late 20th century, there were some specific factors which attracted the multinational firms towards the country. These factors which created ...

FBI VS Jewish Defense League

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has been in operation as a major criminal investigation bureau in the US. This national crime-fighting agency of security goal is to protect America and the larger international community from criminal dangers that affect the world today (US Department of Justice, 2011). It was started in 1908 when Theodore Roosevelt was the president of the US by Robert Bonaparte (Weiner, 2013). Robert Bonaparte was the then attorney general of the US. It started as a task force of special agents, whose work was to track the major crimes that were happening in various ...

What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?

Quite often, people experience anxiety when faced with a difficult situation, and the anxiety ends once the situation is resolved. Occasional anxiety is a common phenomenon that people face especially before undertaking tasks for which they have little confidence in accomplishing. Besides, whenever confronted with the need to make important decisions, people tend to experience anxiety over the possible consequences of such decisions. In general, anxiety occurs when one is facing a difficult situation, has to make a difficult decision, or is about to carry out a task that one has no confidence in accomplishing successfully. In all these ...

Attention deficient hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common neuropsychiatric disorders of childhood and adolescent. Often this condition persists into adulthood for many people. Current studies claim at up to 4.4 percent of the population has ADHD (Kessler et al. 716). Often, patients with ADHD have an increased chance of being diagnosed with other psychological disorders, such as mood, anxiety, substance use disorders, or intermittent explosive disorder (Kessler et al. 716). The exact pathogenesis of ADHD is still unknown. However, through imaging, scientists believe that there is a dysfunction of the right frontocortical and parietal areas in ...

Introduction

Steganography has been used for almost 2500 years that comes in innumerable forms like in personal, intellectual, diplomatic and military usages. Steganography is defined as the concealing or hiding of message by the use of an object that enables the hidden message to be unapparent to the observers (Weiss, n.d). The first man known to use steganography was Johannes Trithemius and his first writings were known to be published in Latin; the published steganography was made of three parts wherein the first two was made as basis for the first published books about cryptology. The books were instructional manuals ...

Personal Protection Officers Duties and Responsibilities

Responsibilities of Personal Protection Officers Personal protection officer is a specialized type of a security guard, who specializes in protecting publicly, politically and financially important people from all types of physical dangers, such as assault, assassination, kidnapping, theft, harassment or loss of confidential information. The practice demonstrates that the service of professional security guards is in some form present in all countries. In the United States of America, these functions are exercised by the United States Secret Service. The agents of this service are vested with responsibility to protect the President of the United States, Vice President, Speaker of ...

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is recognized as a common neurodevelopmental disorder among children; in the United States, the prevalence is thought to be between 5 percent and 11 percent of children ages 4 through 17 in 2011 or approximately 6.4 million children (American Psychiatric Association, Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder ; CDC.gov, Attention-Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder). Kessler places the adults with ADHD at 1 percent to 6 percent of the population (Kessler 717). A meta-analysis of 32 published research articles concluded that when children met the full diagnostic criteria for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, 15 percent continued to show symptoms at ...