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    An investigation reports that on short term basis, the victims feel sad, afraid, anxious, and lonely. However, a Finnish study published in the September issue of Archives of General Psychiatry (http://www.thedoctorwillseeyounow.com/content/behavior/art2733.html) investigated 5038 children born in the year 1981, aged 8-24 years and used parents, teachers and child questionnaires to determine who were frequently bullies, victims or both. They evaluated the children’s mental health at the children’s

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    LITERATURE REVIEW Resilience has a persuasive history in psychiatry. It began with the development studies focused on children that performed well despite the adverse family circumstances (Werner & Smith, 1992).Subsequently plethora of literature was generated in the health domain, focusing on the effects of resilience for muddling through the harrowing situations. It was professor Fred Luthans who introduced the concept of individual resilience in the domain of positive psychology via the core

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    professional disciplines and they work together to inform others and ensure that the professionals are all well informed. The council is multi-disciplinary team that exists to further the interdisciplinary field of both child and adolescent psychology and psychiatry. The article focuses on how over-responsivity affects toddlers with autism in their daily lives and how it contributes to the life styles of the parents or caregivers. People who suffer from this illness often have a hard time adjusting to normalcy

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    Forensic psychiatry is an extended part of psychiatry that handles with the treatment of mentally disordered prisoners, hospitals, and the community. A forensic psychiatrist is a medical doctor trained in law and mental health. The psychiatrist evaluates the facts and the mental state and addresses the information found on the defendant to the lawyer at that moment. The medical doctors specialize in psychiatry and sub specialize in forensic psychiatry. This whole entire process takes around 13 years

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    EBSCOHost / Frontiers in Psychiatry Online social networking sites and mental health research. Authors: Toseeb, Umar Inkster, Becky Toseeb, U., & Inkster, B. (2015). Online social networking sites and mental health research. Frontiers In Psychiatry, 61-4. doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2015.00036 Nowadays, Social Media plays a majority role in our daily life’s, seriously we can’t live without it. Before the digital age, socializing and networking weren’t as popular, but now Social Networking Sites and Digital

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    American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is an association dedicated to protecting the health of children everywhere. They have taken on the role to advertise the affect of media violence. The advertisement presented states, “TV made me do it” suggesting that the media influenced this child to act out violently. When first glancing at the image, a person’s eye may be attracted to the red lettering that is bolded in the middle of the advertisement. The advertisement uses a headline to describe

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    anything Scientology has become more extreme in their view on medicine of the mind. Celebrities such as Tom Cruise (Scientology’s biggest star) have recently spoken out about psychology and psychiatry saying, “I’ve never agreed with psychiatry, ever,” evidencing the religion’s view on psychology and psychiatry has not changed (qtd. in Wright 363). The more extreme practices of convincing its members that the cure to physical ailments is Scientology has changed; since the religion no longer claims

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    constructions of self and nosologies have not made leeway into biomedical psychiatry in India. This is seen in comparison to Japan, where psychiatry has not only been considered in its own cultural context but there has also been an effort to comprehend it in indigenous diagnostic terms to a certain extent. One of the major reasons for this perfunctory dependency on western ideas of mental health and notions in Indian biomedical psychiatry has been attributed to “ [...] a post-colonial paralysis of the

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    On Psychiatry: Is it Effective? It is common to not completely understand the difference between psychiatry and psychology. To clear up the confusion, psychology is the study of the functions of the human brain, while psychiatry is the study and diagnosis of mental disorders. Mental disorders are “a clinically significant behavioral or psychological syndrome or pattern that occurs in an individual and that is associated with present distress or disability or with a significantly increased risk of

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    is leading a normal life. This is only one story out of millions which have been taking place for ages in my society. This was also a turning point in my professional life which made my mind to take up psychiatry as my field of specialization. I want to change the way people think about psychiatry in developing countries, like Pakistan. All my life, I have loved to explore how people feel. The interplay of body and mind has always fantasized me. I am, by nature, a great listener, an important

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