According to the developmental psychologist, Diana Baumrind, there are three different parenting styles: the authoritarian, the laissez-faire, and the authoritative parenting style. Her parenting styles were based on two aspects of parenting that are found to be extremely important. The first was "Parental responsiveness", which refers to the...
Early writings reveal that many cultures, such as the Chinese, Greeks, Egyptians, and Hebrews believed that abnormal behavior was caused by a demon or a god, possessing one´s soul. When the behavior was appearing to have a religious significance, then people were showing respect towards that individual. On the other hand, when a person was acting...
Bipolar disorders are characterized by a serious of attacks of elation and depression, with periods of relative normality in between. There are two types of bipolar disorders, type I and type II that differ slightly in their symptomatology and commonality. Bipolar I disorder is characterized by full-blown manic and major depressive episodes and it...
Comorbidity is the ´´co-occurrence of two or more mental health problems´´ that due to alterations in ´´psychiatric nomenclature´´, it has ´´emerged as a major clinical, public health and research issue over the past few decades´´. According to Angold and colleagues, there are two types of comorbidity: homotypic and heterotypic comorbidity. The...
There is a psychological disorder bound to the Malaysian culture, which is called Latah. Malaysian Latah is rarely rare in other parts of the world and occurs primarily in those of Malay descent, especially in women over 40 years old. The word Latah has its origins in Malay, and derives from the words of ticklish, nervous, creeping, and love...
According to DSM-IV-TR, PTSD surfaces after a traumatic event that may have caused death or has threatened physically the person or people involved. The event is being re-experienced over and over again, either as a flashback or a dream, which causes difficulties concentrating or difficulties falling or staying asleep.
As each science pursues each study from a certain point of view, it quickly became clear that in order to understand man and his environment as part of interacting systems, it had to study this interaction from multiple perspectives, holistically. Examining holistically an illness, such as depression, provides us the right tools to unravel all the...
Language has the power to form and shape the way we think and that is the reason why when we hear words like madness, what immediately comes to mind is a chaotic and ´´severe unwieldiness´´ of mind that produces bizarre and ´´out of the ordinary´´ behavior. The same applies for the world misery that can be defined as a state...
Many behaviors that we adopt along the way have negative effects on our bodies and as a result on our lives. For example, bad eating habits, consumption of diet sodas, lack of exercise/sedentary lifestyle, and last but not least sleep deprivation.
Music has the power to transform someone´s life. Across culture and through history, we find evidence that indicate the need of human beings to express themselves through music. It has been proven scientifically that the musical instinct has its own basis in biology.