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- 2411: Stress
- ... more disadvantages than advantages. - Stress is bad for your health! A lot of people react to stress with aggressiveness, competitiveness, and self-imposed pressure to get things done. This behaviour has been linked to increased rates of heart attack, high blood pressure and other diseases. Stress can also affect the immune system, causing the body to be less resistant to a wide range of other health problems. - Most people can't ...
- 2412: An Attempt At Understanding Dreams
- ... so it sends an electrical pulse to the muscles. He does not believe that if the dreamer actually hits the ground he will die. The part of Dr. Hassan's interview that was of great interest for me was when he started explaining to me about being aware that you are dreaming, especially that this is something that happens to me personally. This phenomenon is known as lucid dreaming. Lucid dreamers ...
- 2413: Erikson's Psychosocial Theory of Development: Young Adults
- ... to their choice of careers. (Turner & Helms, 1987.). Career development fuses with many other facts of adult life. Erikson believes the gender of a person affects the eventual career that the young adult, the abilities, interest and personality will also play a role in the choice of career. The consequences of career choice are often voluntarily but can be forced upon for any number of reasons, e.g. parental advice. (Gething ...
- 2414: Alcohol Consumption by Adolescents
- ... awareness events and classroom lectures and distribute information about alcohol use. Although such education programs raise students' awareness of issues surrounding alcohol use, these programs appear to have minimal effect on drinking and on the rates of alcohol problems. According to Donna E. Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services at The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, it seems that binge drinkers appear to engage in more unplanned sexual ...
- 2415: Psychology
- ... are concerned with how experience modifies thought and behavior. Initially devoted to the investigation of principles of learning among all species, the field now includes specific types of learning for different species. Other areas of interest in the field include maladaptive learning, such as learned helplessness, and learning in traditional settings such as in the classroom and on the job. Cognitive psychology applies to the study of thinking, concept formation, and ...
- 2416: The Nursing Home: A Nice Place for the Elderly
- ... chance to do just that. Security is a primary focus in most nursing homes. Curfews exist to insure the safety and protection of the residents. Also, busses take the senior citizens to places of common interest, such as the grocery store and local shopping malls. This alleviates the everyday stress of driving for those residents who are losing some of their basic faculties, and creates a safer driving environment for everyone ...
- 2417: Teens and Smoking
- Teens and Smoking Abstract Cigarette smoking is of interest to the National Institute on Drug Abuse both because of the public health problems associated with this form of substance abuse and because this behavior represents a prototypic dependence process. In the past few years ...
- 2418: Coping With Stress In An Organization
- ... programs sound like they cost a lot they actually save companies money in the long run. This is because of several factors some of which are less hospital stays, less health insurance claims, reduced accidents rates, and increased employee satisfaction. All of these lead to a more productive individual and better work force. One other aspect of reducing stress deals with specific behavioral techniques for mental relaxation. These are brought out ...
- 2419: Stress
- ... poor work performance and end up costing an organizations several thousands of dollars. The organization loses on salary because they are not receiving satisfactory production and if the employee becomes ill, health and workers compensation rates can soar (Carpi, 1996). The organization must decide whether or no to implement a stress management program, since there are several external stressors that can overtake an individual. Internal stressors, within organizations include technology and ...
- 2420: Skin Cancer
- ... stages, and with proper treatment, it is highly curable. The 5-year relative survival rate for patients with malignant melanoma is 87%. For localized malignant melanoma, the 5-year relative survival rate is 94%; and rates for regional and distant disease are 60% and 16%, respectively. About 82% of melanomas are diagnosed at a local stage" (8., p 2). When the statistics show that over one million new cases of skin ...
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