Category: Essay
Impact of Parental Hostility on the Family
The study was called “Parental Hostility: Impact on the Family”. Alan, Javad Kashani, and John Reid conducted this study. This study is the first effort to systematically examine the effects that parental hostility has on a child and the family. The experimenters anticipated that parental hostility would be connected with extended levels of child psychopathology. […]
The Development of Psychology as a Science
It is my view that science has provided an opportunity to discover and delve into the nature of humanity and the daily interactions that occur every day among people. The development of psychology as a science had been pivotal in allowing modern society to know about the trends in attitude and behavior among humans. More […]
The History of Forensic Psychology
Forensic Psychology is the application of the science and profession of psychology to questions and issues relating to law and the legal system. The word “forensic” comes from the Latin word “forensis,” meaning “of the forum,” where the law courts of ancient Rome were held. Today forensic refers to the application of scientific principles and […]
Biological and Ecological Classes of Culture
Psychology is a science with abounding applications. It pertains to nearly all aspects of human life and behavior. It reveals mysteries about people, and culture as well. Psychology plays a large role in the field of Anthropology, a field devoted to piecing together the puzzle of cultures around the world. The area of psychology […]
Physiological Aspects of Substance Abuse
West (1997) stated that clinicians, researchers, policymakers and others who work in the area of addiction, with addicts or who have to deal with the consequences of addiction, cannot easily ignore the strong ethical dimension to the problem. Ethics is concerned with determining the nature of normative theories and applying these sets of principles to […]
The U.S. Reformation on Medicare Programs
The cuts to the Medicare system have decimated the healthcare industry, a sad fact hidden from the average American citizen. In an ill thought out plan, the United States Congress cut 23 billion dollars a year out of the Medicare system over the next five years. Around the country, hospital patients, nursing home residents and […]
Fairly Critiquing an Investigator’s Research Endeavor
Fairly critiquing an investigator’s research endeavor is a task that must be taken seriously. Although it is quite easy to have an opinion of another’s research it is something quite different to be able to evaluate the research activity in terms of topic specificity and soundness, intent or purpose, data analysis, and informational importance. When […]
The Benefits of Nurse Residency Programs
There is an ongoing shortage in the field of nursing. Board of Labor projected a 22% increase in the need for nurses from the period of 1998 to 2008. Despite this trend, the number of students enrolling in nursing school continues to decline. (Lindsey and Kleiner, 2005) Unless this changes, the shortage of nurses will […]
The Clinical Decision-making and Nursing Process
Define clinical decision-making and briefly describe the nursing process. Internal and external variables such as the nurse’s personal experience, knowledge, creative thinking ability, education, self-concept, as meshed with the nurses’ working environment, and situational stressors all can work to enhance or inhibit effective clinical decision making for a nurse. (O’Reilly, 1993) Clinical decision-making is defined […]
The Scale of Gender Discrimination Around The World
Women around the world receive 1/10TH of the total world income produced and possess less than 1% of the total world property, while they embody ½ of the population of the world and work approximately 65% of all laboring hours. Approximately 77% of unmarried, separated or widowed women in America bear children that grow up […]
