From tear gassing, to the utmost physical abuse, juveniles were tortured and it led to the children wanting to commit suicide in these harsh conditions. Such brutality was a shocking insight to me. I was in disbelief that in our own country this kind of treatment once went on and nothing was done about it for quite some time. Without such investigations that have taken place by Kenneth Wooden, one can only wonder about if such treatment would still go on and if it is even possible that it happens today. With fear being invested into the minds of juveniles, it can be very easy to control them and have underground extreme policies going on regarding abuse.
Compare and Contrast TWO models of sexual assault and their respective utility for (i) the treatment and management of sex offenders and (ii) assisting the police in criminal investigations. When anyone wants to investigate criminal sexuality from different perspectives such as legal, academic, or simply curiosity-motivated, the multiplicity and variety of the internal part of phenomenon becomes quite clear. Few dimensions of the behaviour inlying the sexual crimes have to be considered to perceive the disequilibrium and complexity of sexual assault (Hazelwood, 2000). Despite the fact that advances were made in recent decades to help understand, detect, and treat sexual offenders, sexual assault still remains a serious topic that still persists in society (Langton & Marshall, 2001). Also, the studies developing models of offences and offenders grouping depending on individual cases have grown over the past couple of years (Trojan & Salfati, 2008).
For instance, electroshock therapy raised many questions such as, is this a safe form of treatment. It may sound scary but electroshock therapy is safe and is still used to treat patients today. After many years of research, author Ken Kessey wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, a book that would help end the abusive treatments that happened throughout mental hospitals (ProQuest Staff) Along with the abusive treatment, many people suffering from severe mental disorders are not able to be admitted to mental institutions causing hospitals to be at maximum capacity; up to 108,000 emergency rooms are full. And of the hundreds of thousands of adults with severe mental disorders, only about forty percent received treatment (Szabo). Another treatment for mentally ill people is prescription drugs.
These sensations and pain are real to the patient even though the location of the reported pain is not due to the brain still receiving nerve impulses from the nerves that originally carried messages from the missing part. Historically, treatment options have been met with limited success. However, current research offers hope for patients suffering from phantom limb pain. The implication of this research has the potential to dramatically change how nurses care for patients suffering from this form of neuropathic pain This phenomenon was named by renowned American neurologist Silas Weir Mitchell in 1872 who noticed, while caring for Civil War amputees in Pennsylvania, that “thousands of spirit limbs were haunting as many good soldiers, every now and then tormenting them” (Krulwich & Abumrad, 2009, p. 298). Since then, the construct of phantom limb pain has challenged the assumptions regarding the relationship between body and mind because the pain reported by the amputees was thought to be imagined or hallucinatory.
Sigmund Freud also went on to support the use of hypnosis leading us to Milton Erickson. Born in 1932 Erickson, an American psychiatrist was noted for his approach to the unconscious mind as creative and solution generating. This is but a brief account, merely touching on what we know about the history of hypnosis. Yet despite this knowledge, when asked in our class what people’s preconceptions of hypnotherapy were, many answers related to cults, witch craft, black magic etc. People today are still sceptical and untrusting when it comes to hypnotherapy, but why?
It is important to inform our nation of this new disease because there is still no cure, and GWS can be our next conflict relating to AIDS and Cancer. This research is dedicated to people who are uneducated about Gulf War Syndrome. After reading many articles about Gulf War Syndrome there is still no definite definition. Many scientists have different definitions of the syndrome. For example, Gunjan Sinja states that scientist Garth Nicolson, chairman of tumor biology at the University of Texas M.D.
Another point made by these authors is that the use of torture has an interrogation technique might not be an “effective means of gathering reliable information (pg. 317).” This is because under intense torture and pain, research as shown that people tend to give whatever information is expected of them be it true or false to “make the torture stop”(pg. 317). Not only is torture not an effective means of extracting information it is also “one of the most extreme forms of human violence” (pg. 319) and has a long term physical and psychological effects on its victim.
It is this nature that is often the root cause of reckless activity as there is no way for the psychopath to infer the ramifications of his actions prior to commitment to the action. The development of modern neuroimaging techniques have enabled investigation of this hypothesis. Yang and colleagues studied the volume of prefrontal gray and white matter in psychopaths, using structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in 16 unsuccessful psychopaths, 13 successful psychopaths and 23 control subjects (Yang et al., 2005). “Successful” and “unsuccessful” psychopaths were defined as psychopathic individuals that had evaded conviction for their crimes and those that had been convicted, respectively. All were assessed for psychopathic tendencies by use of the PCL-R.
The Effectiveness and Ethicality of Conversion-Reparative Therapy: Abstract Conversion-Reparative Therapy is a topic that has caused much controversy over the last fifty years. More so after the American Psychological Association’s decision to remove homosexuality as a mental illness from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). There does, however, still exist many professionals and organizations that continue to practice these forms of therapy. In this paper I examine the reports of several different organizations and show data that culminates in supporting the view that CRT is for the most part minimally effective and may socio-psychological harm more often than it does help a person transition from homosexual to functioning heterosexual lifestyles. Introduction Conversion-Reparative Therapy, hereafter referred to as CRT, is a widely debated topic in both psychological and religious literature.
For example, one myth that has been accepted throughout the years is “It’s only child abuse if it’s violent.” (Segal, Smith, Saisan) People perceive abuse as only a problem of physicality; however, abuse comes in many different forms. The other forms of abuse are neglect, sexual, and emotional. All these can be just as damaging as physical abuse. Also, many people have talked about and say that, “Child abuse doesn’t happen in “good” families.” (Segal, Smith, Saisan) abuse can happen in any situation at any time. Child abuse crosses a wide line or racial, economic, and cultural situations.