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History of Integrated Treatment for Dual Diagnosis
Dual diagnosis is a syndrome wherein somebody has a severe mental illness in addition to a substance abuse problem. Discover how a clinician and treatment team are needed to treat dual diagnosis with information from a licensed mental health counselor in this free video on psychology.
Types of Dual Diagnosis
Types of dual diagnosis include chemical dependency and eating disorders. Learn how dual diagnosis disorders are often only treated for one-half of the illness with information from a licensed mental health counselor in this free video on psychology.
What is the fundamental attribution error?
The fundamental attribution error theory states that we tend to explain our behavior by assigning attributes to the cause of the behavior. Find out how the fundamental attribution error underestimates the role of outside influences with information from a licensed mental health counselor in this free video on psychology.
What is light therapy?
In the early 1980’s, scientists researching depression noted a consistent pattern of symptoms becoming more severe in many patients during the long winter months, particularly in the northern hemisphere. Significantly these symptoms eased or disappeared completely as the longer summer days returned. In 1982 The National Institute of Health (NIH) identified winter depression and coined [...]
Autism
Autism is a disorder of neural development characterized by impaired social interaction and communication, and by restricted and repetitive behavior. These signs all begin before a child is three years old. Autism affects information processing in the brain by altering how nerve cells and their synapses connect and organize; how this occurs is not well [...]
Ole Ivar Lovaas
Perhaps most well known, Ole Ivar Lovaas, was a psychology professor at the University of California at Los Angeles. Dr. Lovaas began working with older children with autism in the same decade that Skinner wrote his now famous, Science and Human Behavior text in 1953. Lovaas began to apply the experimental behaviour analysis developed by [...]
On Memory and Reminiscence – Aristotle
1) We have, in the next place, to treat of Memory and Remembering, considering its nature, its cause, and the part of the soul to which this experience, as well as that of Recollecting, belongs. For the persons who possess a retentive memory are not identical with those who excel in power of recollection; indeed, [...]
Norman Triplett
Norman Triplett (1861-1931) was a psychologist at Indiana University. In 1898, he wrote what is now recognized as the first published study in the field of social psychology (Strube, 2005). His experiment was on the social facilitation effect. Triplett noticed that cyclists tend to have faster times when riding in the presence of other cyclists [...]
Kurt Lewin
Kurt Zadek Lewin (September 9, 1890 – February 12, 1947), a German-American psychologist, is one of the modern pioneers of social, organizational, and applied psychology. Lewin is often recognized as the “founder of social psychology” and was one of the first researchers to study group dynamics and organizational development. Biography In 1890, he was born [...]
Social psychology
Social psychology is the scientific study of how people’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. By this definition, scientific refers to the empirical method of investigation. The terms thoughts, feelings, and behaviors include all of the psychological variables that are measurable in a human being. The [...]