Essays on Psychol

Serenity Daniels is a 28-year-old single woman with a long history of sexual and emotional abuse since her childhood. She has inflicted deliberate self-harm (DSH) on her body on numerous occasions. During these DSH episodes, Serenity usually cuts her wrists and uses alcohol as a way of numbing the pain. Besides, Serenity has problems with her self-image as she sees herself as “fat and ugly” and unloved. She also has frequent arguments with her co-workers and managers. As such, she does not hold job positions for long. This instability in moods, functioning, and self-image coupled with unstable relationships and ...

Senior seminar of Psychology

Fairleigh Dickinson University The main point of this paper is to discuss how Cognitive behavioral therapy can be an effective treatment for Posttraumatic stress Disorder. In today’s world we are able to see how this topic is can be relevant to our lives. Not everybody has the misfortunate of having to go through such a tough disorder. But we never know if there will be a time where it might just hit us or significant others. Therefore having knowledge of this disorder is very important especially for those people that are frequently going through tough times in their ...

Lachman, M. E. (2004). Development in midlife. Annu. Rev. Psychol., 55, 305-331. In this article, based on the analysis of contemporary foreign and domestic philosophical, sociological and psychological literature have been considered theoretical interpretation and empirically recorded phenomenology "midlife crisis / mid-life." Author used the method of biographical interviews and have shown the common strategy for coping with the crisis, the dependence of its manifestations on the type of self-identity and gender of the respondent. The author rightly suggested that the crisis could be caused by the coincidence in time of several adverse events related to deviant factors: divorce, ...