Besides clinical scales, MMPI-2 also includes several validity or control scales. These were designed to assess test taking attitudes and...

Imagine, how long it takes you to get to know a person! In many situations psychologists don't have that kind of time. Research on...

There are some psychologically based approaches that are more action oriented, directed towards changing specific types of maladaptive...

Drug therapy has been notably effective with 4 types of disorder, those in which schizophrenia, mania, depression & anxiety play...

Marital difficulties contribute not only to personal unhappiness & family instability, but also to a wide range of mental health &...

Clinicians recognize the importance of relational assessment, the evaluation of key relationships. Clinicians try to develop ways of...

It's a mater of curiosity that why family therapy is needed? What should family members of a psychiatric patients do? What kind of role...

Any psychological test should have certain psychometric properties & meet generally accepted standards of what a satisfactory assessment...

There are 3 kinds of anxiety. Reality, moral & neurotic anxiety. When EGO, the executive of our personality, can't control anxiety by...

Freud's theories of personality may seem complicated because they incorporate many interlocking factors, but 2 basic assumptions underlie...

The cognitive perspective seeks to understand how dysfunctional & irrotational thought patterns create emotional problems. The pic...

How many of you heard this, " Think positive, you'll do positive & get positive result."? Believe almost everyone. But, have you ever...

Patients with anxiety disorder often have features of other disorder, specially the disturbances of mood found in depression. For...

Generalized anxiety disorder might be best describe as consultant of prolonged, bagus, unexplained but intense fear that do not seem to...

There are few more types of tests that may indicate vulnerability to schizophrenia. It's a measure of eye tracking. Eye tracking is a...

Parental, genetic, biochemical & cognitive deficits observed early in life might be predictive of future difficulties. When these occur,...

Family studies are important to scale the amount biological vulnerability in schizophrenia. It's a process to identify hereditary...

There are strong arguments for the assumption that biochemical factors play a role in schizophrenia. Recent development of scanning...

The neurodevelopmental model of schizophrenia suggests that the brains of individual who develops schizophrenia may either experience...

Once, there was a finding in research in 1997 by Verdoux et al., that, infants born from January to March in urban but not in rural area...