Pregnancy has been seen to be the cause of death for many young women aged 15-19 years old around the world (WHO, 2008). 15 million adolescent girls give birth each year; this is roughly 11% of all births worldwide. Furthermore, the UK has the highest teenage pregnancy rate in Europe (WHO, 2007). Although the Office […]
Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Framework: A Critical Lens on Development in Children with Complex Needs In this assignment I am going to critically discuss on Bronfenbrenner’s(1979) ecological model of human development. I will examine the background to the model and will examine each system within it, discussing its’ relevance relating to children living with disabilities. Disabilities will be in […]
Alaina Davis While some people may disagree that violent media contributes to violent children, the fact remains that violence is now part of our everyday world. Many tragedies, from the Gulf War to the loss of the World Trade Center Towers were televised nightly or even 24 hours a day on some news channels. I […]
In this study, the effect of extraversion on an individual’s perceived stress and health was investigated. Participants consist of 274 undergraduates. They were asked to fill a 60-item NEO Five Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI) test and a questionnaire on their perceived stress and health levels. A hypothesis was formed after a review of existing literature on […]
One of the pioneer works in exploring medical decision making by Lusted and colleagues suggested that clinical reasoning was based on logic, probability, and value theory [1]. In their work Ledley and Lusted outlined a physician explanation of medical diagnosis process as follows: First, obtain the case facts from the patient’s history, physical examination, and […]
Child Obesity Is A Modern Global Epidemic Psychology Child obesity is the new world epidemic. Many of the determinants of the obesogenic environment wheedle children to obesity and parental misperception is a potential contributing factor (Doolen, Alpert & MIller, 2008). Overweight and obesity impacting toddler and pre-school age children are important public health issues and its prevention and […]
A phobia is a persistent, abnormal and often irrational fear of particular activity, thing, situation or even person. Phobias are not uncommon in children and can be managed. However, critical attention has to be paid to a child so as to determine the cause of the phobia and to assist in the selection of the […]
Eyewitness identifications during identification procedures such as show ups, live line ups and photo line ups are reliable to an extent in the forensic discipline, but are mostly fallible when assisting police with their enquiries regarding suspects and offenders, due to the fact that the reliability is dependent on a variety of factors relating to […]
Empirical research interested in memory recall has suggested a number of stimuli could influence memory recall. Amongst a multitude of stimuli that is claimed to effect memory is motivation. Motivational stimuli’s such as financial gains, recognition, appraisal and many other forms of rewards are employed in various occupations (Tiglao-Torres, A. (1990). These can be looked […]
INTRODUCTION The Psychodynamic theory is a modern version of the psychoanalytic theory, developed by Freud in the early 1900’s, and adapted by the psychoanalytic theorists that followed him. Just like Freud’s Theories this approach believes that our behaviour is shaped to a large extent by our unconscious mind, by the interaction of three mental processes; […]