Disorders Book Reviews Samples For Students

Executive Summary

“Be Different: My Adventures with Asperger's and My Advice for Fellow Aspergians, Misfits, Families, and Teachers”, is written by John Elder Robison. This is a bestselling memoir of the author, who was born with Asperger, when there was no mechanism to diagnose this condition. By that time he got to know about this condition, he had developed some unique strategies to deal with this condition. He identified his strengths and turned them into opportunities for himself. This book is unique in a way because it has been developed with a positive thought. It does not consider this syndrome as a burden, but recognizes ...

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Short Answer Questions (2 points each )
- List 6 common myths about male sexuality as highlighted in your text.
Men have a fertility cycle, erecticle dysfunction only occurs in older men, this penis is a muscle the average western penis is larger, sexual peak is at age 18, certain foods may increase the libido
2. Describe the difference between a sexual problem and a sexual disorder as identified in the text.
A sexual problem is a problem that occurs during sex. A sexual disorder involves acts or behaviors that can be described as deviant.
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Human beings undergo several developmental stages for a complete lifespan. People develop from the time of conception until they finally die. As children grow, they are faced with health challenges in their lives. These health challenges can contain if parents take up their responsibility as parents. Some of the challenges can be contained before they pose danger to the child. Obesity for example is a disorder that faces many children worldwide. It is a condition whereby the victim has overweight and accumulates more fats in the body. This condition affects about a quarter of American population. The most common eating disorders that cause ...

What are we made of? This is a question that plagued humanity for centuries. However, with the discovery of cells, we are now better able to understand the human body and human life as a whole. With this paper I endeavor to explore what makes a normal cell and how abnormal cells affect health. By looking at “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”, one can gain a better understand the enormous importance of cell research.
“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” is a historically based book that explores concepts of cellular growth, immortality, and the quest for better treatments and cures for cell ...

Summaries of Articles

Tutorial Two
Introduction
One of the landmarks of the 20th century was the unprecedented growth in the field of Psychology. However, some pertinent issues (which remain unresolved) threaten the credibility of this noble profession. For example, there is little data to support the classification of “mental illnesses” and use of drugs to treat nonmedical conditions.

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Psychology and the Status Quo by Isaac Prilleltensky
Prilleltensky (1989) argues that the rise of Psychology has been immune to skeptical ideology. In some way, Psychologists learn not deviate from contemporary ideology. As a result, no questions have been raised about some ...

Introduction

Rape is an act of violence against the will of the victim. It is defined as “forcing the victim to submit to genital, anal and/or oral sexual acts (SECASA, 2012).” The attacker uses physical force, intimidation and threats to control the situation. The victim fears for her life and obeys the commands of the attacker, as her survival depends on the submission and compliance to the demands of the offender. Rape is an arbitrary event in the lifestyle of the victim. It’s unpredictable, sudden, and unexpected (SECASA, 2012). It is a tragic experience that comes with a devastating burden of ...

In Chapter 2, Evaluation of Job Demands, the author discusses the various forces and factors that go into determining just how physically demanding a job can be. This is done in order to evaluate the proper ergonomic precautions that must be made in a given job environment. The author defines the long-term effects of physical demands on a worker as work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WRMSDs), and how jobs are analyzed in order to prevent them as effectively as possible. When performing job analysis, data (both quantitative and qualitative) is gathered about the job itself, then processed through a number of decision rules that lead ...

The chapter on Criminal Psychopathy makes fascinating reading. It is informative about the disorder and covers many interesting topics associated with it. Perhaps the most interesting aspect is that, in many cases, psychopaths can appear to be friendly, kind and charming people, even if they have committed serious crimes.
This chapter explores criminal psychopathy and how people with the disorder diff from other offenders, including those with other mental health disorders. In particular, it stresses how a criminal psychopath is different from others, both emotionally, cognitively and behaviourally. The definition of a psychopath is provided, along with a case study of a ...

The chapter tries to explain the challenges faced by juvenile offenders and the difficulties involved in trying to address the issue. The main focus of the chapter is to show that juvenile offences are attributable to mental ill health. As such offenders should not be committed to juvenile systems rather proper ways to address the mental disorders should be explored.
The chapter is also alert on the tribulations associated in the ascertaining of the mental disorder and the subsequent challenge due to the lack of conclusive evidence on what really ails juvenile offenders. Conversely, there is no single ...

Book review: Asperger syndrome and adolescence

Bolick in her book, Asperger syndrome and adolescence, discusses the various challenges that the teenagers especially students experience during adolescence. Her main focus is on to the teenagers who suffer from Asperger syndrome and as well as sustain through the changes of puberty in the institutional environment. In most teenagers, Aspies begin to take more control of their personality traits in the period of adolescence (Bolick, 2004). The teenagers affected by this syndrome will desire social interactions and yet feel secluded than ever. This is for the main reason that the teenagers experience mood swings caused by the quick, ...

The Psychiatric Tales consists of ten sections, a conclusion and an introduction, which begins with Cunningham’s account of the things that inspired his decisions to write the book. In the first instance, he wasn’t sure if to use a graphic format, but after encounter with Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, which is a lauded comic strip about her Iranian childhood, he eventually decided on choosing drawings, which he was sure could creatively enhance the book.
The ten subsequent sections after the introduction are organized around specific disorders, symptoms, or societal viewpoints. In the beginning two sections, Dementia and Cut, which ...

The Outsiders is a two weeks narration of a 14-year-old boy’s life. The novel narrates the story of a boy named Ponyboy Curtis, and his struggle to differentiate between good and bad within a society that he believes views him as an outsider. Ponyboy has two brothers named Darrel, aged 20, and Sodapop, aged 16. The three are recently orphaned, having lost their parents their parents having met their demise in an automobile accident. The two minors, Sodapop and Ponyboy, are allowed to live under Darrel’s care, on condition that they maintain good behavior. The boys are ...

- Welfare recipients and culture of poverty
- In the chapters 2 and 7 of the book Flat Broke with Children, Sharon Hays tells us the story of U.S welfare from the inside of the welfare office, and also from the inside of mothers involved in welfare. She aptly describes the challenges that recipients of welfare face in the management of their families, work. Moreover, she tells the regulations and rules that pertain to welfare reform. Her research is hands on because it involves one on one interaction with the welfare recipients. The hands-on approach she takes makes ...

“The Depression Cure: The 6-Step Program to Beat Depression without Drugs” by Ilardi (2009) is a self-help book for people who suffer from depression that helps them make lifestyle changes associated with improvements in depression scores. The book is divided into three sections, which include understanding depression, therapeutic lifestyle change, and making the change. In understanding depression, the author begins with describing a case study of a patient he had personally treated for depression. Of course, it is noted that names throughout the books were changed to protect the patient-therapist privacy while allowing the author to build trust and expertise by writing ...

Faith Mcnulty was the author of the book, The Burning Bed. The Burning bed was a non-fiction book that tackled family problems and at some point, the possible consequences of an unresolved husband and wife conflicts. This book later on was adapted to a film. The film won several awards and nominations because of the boldness of the story which revolves around the story of Francine, a battered wife.

The Burning Bed is a non-fiction book which represented the life of Francine Hughes. She was basically subjected to a great deal of violence from her husband. It was a book that staged how human rights ...

Clarissa's relationship with Sally Seton is one of the most interesting and controversial aspects of the novel, as it depicts a latent homosexual desire for Sally on the part of Clarissa. Clarissa and Sally had kissed at Bourton 34 years previous to that, and still remembers that as the happiest she has ever been - it was the "most exquisite moment of her whole life...Sally stopped; picked a flower, kissed her on the lips. The whole world might have turned upside down! The other's disappeared; there she was alone with Sally" (Wolff, 1925).

Clarissa's love for Sally ...

Abstract

The writing goes on to discuss about the book Mindful Eating: A Guide to Rediscovering a Healthy and Joyful Relationship with Food that has been written by Jan Chozen Bays. After providing a brief abstract of the content of the book, the paper explores the specific elements of the book by Bays. The authenticity of the data provided in the book is critically analyzed in the course of the writing. Moreover, the usefulness of the book in context of the clients is also discussed in detail in the course of the paper. The writing explicates how the book can be beneficial ...

Analysis of the Book "The Medicalization of Society" By Peter Conrad

The Main Author's Arguments
Peter Conrad, the author of the book "The Medicalization of Society," conducts a study of the most common problems of the modern society, which essence and nature have changed and obtained a medical character over the past 10-20 years. In other words, the author examines the social problems that have become the diagnoses at the beginning of the 21st century, though they were not related to medicine even a decade ago. At the very beginning of the book, Conrad emphasizes the investigated phenomenon, claiming that his analysis is connected only with the social connotations of ...

The book’s title gives a summary of the concepts explored in the book. Pollan creatively writes about nutrition to make the society acknowledge the need of assuming a habit of healthy living. In natural foods, the author means unprocessed food unlike the commonly consumed by the current generation that are highly processed. The author refers to modern day food as food- like substances. People eat these substances because they are edible and food-like (Pollan, 51). Pollan presents the modern day worry of food nutrition, regarding it as the American Paradox. He observes that the more people worry themselves about nutrition ...

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“The Panic Virus: The True Story Behind the Vaccine-Autism Controversy” is a book that developed a reasoned argument about the vaccines versus autism debate. The writer of the book, Seth Mnookin, is aware that the vaccine has been an explosive issue not only in the United States but also across different cultures in the world. Mnookin provides an insight on the effects of biotechnology and how parents, scientists, sociologists, and politicians, among others have perceives it. In other words, the author injects a dose of reality to into the commonly known myth about the link between vaccination and autism (Taylor et al. ...

The minds of assassins generally teem with oddities. For example, Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of President William McKinley, was so devoted to his anarchist principles that he refused to talk to anyone whom he perceived to be an authority figure in the aftermath of the assassination. This included his court-appointed attorneys and the judge at his trial, which led to his attorneys attempting to secure a finding of insanity but ended up exasperating the jury, which only required an hour of deliberations to find him guilty of first-degree murder and sentence him to the electric chair. When he finally said ...

Daniel A. Hughes, a leading figure in Attachment Therapy, is a clinical psychologist who specializes in attachment, child neglect, abuse and foster care. He assists therapists, family service programs, parents and social managers who need help treating attachment disorder in children (Hughes, 2000), work for which he has become globally acclaimed.
“Building the Bonds of Attachment: Awakening Love in Deeply Troubled Children” (2006) is a detailed account of the meaning behind being a child damaged by systematic abuse and trauma. The book uses the story format to translate the affective charge of various principled techniques of caring for and healing a child in ...

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Sexual dependence, which is additionally called sexual reliance, hyper-sexuality, nymphomania (females), impulsive sexual conduct and sexual compulsivity, alludes to the wonder in which individuals can't deal with their sexual conduct. The unique is fixated on sexual considerations - contemplations that meddle with their capability to work legitimately, have connections, and go about their everyday exercises. Numerous scientists say that a sexual habit is a manifestation of obsessive enthusiastic conduct. An individual with sexual enslavement fixated on sex or has a strangely powerful sex drive. Their lives are overwhelmed with sex and the possibility of sex; to such an extent that different exercises ...

This book is the work of Frankl after he was thrown into the Nazi concentration and extermination camp. He survived by a miracle. The book does not outline on how Frankl suffered in the camp but rather accounts on the source of his strength to survive. He says that a man who has a reason to live can go through any pain. He tries to describe the prisoners who committed suicide and says that they totally lost hope in life thus; they saw no need to stay alive. Lack of food or medicine was not a major cause of death than lack of ...

Reflexology is an alternative healing method that people around the world use believing that with the application of pressure on specific points of the body will produces healing effects on certain organs. This form of therapy involves massaging the feet to restore the body's natural balance using thumb and hand techniques. Most of the time, focus of the massage is on the feet only although some reflexologists also apply gentle pressure on the ears and hands. It should never replace actual medication, treatment, or diagnosis of diseases and illnesses, but rather a complementary treatment method that can help relieve patients ...