Mental Health Counseling
The choice of the course is supported by the experience of living with a girl with anorexia nervosa in the same neighborhood. She experienced problems with a healthy diet and did not believe anyone that she was not overweight. Once I realized the girl had a mental illness, I wanted…
Psychoanalytic-Social Personality Perspective
The study of personality prospective has not become less important throughout hundreds of years because it can be used to better understand who people really are. As a result, it is one of the major topics of interest within psychology. Nowadays, there exist many personality theories, and most of them…
Psychological Needs
The question of motivation is one of the most important in psychology. Abraham Maslow believed that people are motivated to search for personal goals; it makes their lives meaningful and significant. Indeed, motivational processes are at the core of humanistic theories of personality. Maslow described the man as a “wishing…
Phobia as a Common Type of Mental Disorder
Numerous studies have been conducted on various mental changes caused by a phobia. Ranta, La Greca, Garcia-Lopez, and Marttunen (2015) suggest that a phobia presupposes the strong fear of something that, in reality, poses no actual danger. According to their study, a phobia may be connected with various objects or…
Adolescent Suicide Prevention
Suicide is an enormous public concern, as it reflexes the health condition of the community as a whole. Unfortunately, adolescent suicide is quite a common problem. According to the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (2015), “Suicide is the third leading cause of death among persons aged 10-14, the…