Essays on Dialectical

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 ...

Social science researchers define variations within a culture based on universal traits. Cultural variations are divided into three broad categories. These are; behaviors, values and cognition. Behaviors are the outward observable artifacts of culture (Wunderle, 2006). Such artifacts include language and religion. The culture of any given group of people is greatly influenced by the language spoken by this group of people. People's perspective of the world is dependent on the content and structure of the language they speak. Personally, I perceive the world from a technological perspective based on the high use of technological words in the English ...

Usefulness of Mindfulness Based Strategies/Therapies in Counseling

Introduction Tackling all the pros and cons among other issues that affect the human state of mind is not an easy task to accomplish. The strategic tactics like mindfulness-based approaches examined by such researchers as Chiesa and Malionopwski are the common counseling styles applied in treating psychiatric, physical and mental issues (Chiesa and Malionopwski 404). At times life exhibits issues to all people where they face, health complications, family issues, relationship and career issues. In this regard, these problems must be addressed to motivate the establishment of a strategy to tackle them. As these researchers postulate, sharing these personal ...

Literature Review

ABSTRACT Communication privacy management model compacts with the degree of exposure of people's personal information and their confidentiality during communications. It concentrates on people relationship management which separates the public information from confidential information about themselves. Communication Privacy Management is a practical model that suggests an appreciation of the way people reach judgments and how often to disclose and when to mask confidential data. The argument assumes that privacy together with the disclosure are entangled in a dialectical pull, and therefore, decisions individuals make are on the complementary level of every individual. Through the use of a metaphorical margin, ...

Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder is still a fascinating topic in the field of psychology with constant research being done on treatment and possible cures. Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder is noted for intrusive thoughts and repetitive behaviors that cause significant functional impairment and distress (Thiel, Hertenstein, Nissen, Herbst, Külz & Voderholzer, 2013). There have been countless studies on the treatment outcomes as well as the symptoms of this disorder. This literature serves to provide a synthesis of research on treatment methods as well as understand the classification of personality disorder. The selected literature are all scholarly and rely on current ...

Introduction

When Karl Marx wrote his seminal work, das capital, he never thought that his work would be as influential as events in the 20th century testifies. Karl Marx is thought to be one of the most influential economists of all time (Barnett 46). His ideas were first put in practice by Lenin in Russia. Marx had predicted the revolution of the proletariat to depose the owners of capital in the industrial societies. But this revolution happened in one of the most backward societies in Europe at the time. Together with Leon Trotsky, Lenin established communism in Russia. Lenin came ...