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Court OK's "Equal Opportunity" Sexual Harassment
The Supreme Court let stand a decision ruling that it is only the "discrimination," not the "sexual" that is prohibited by law. <img src="http://www.suite101.com/files/topics/5536/files/FLAG1.jpg" align="left">
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Illegal Workplace Harassment: It's Not Just Sexual!
Although harassment of a sexual nature is the most common form of illegal workplace harassment, harassment by supervisors, coworkers, and non-employees also occurs as a result of an individual's age, color, citizenship, disability, military status, national origin, race, or religion. This article explores all forms of workplace harassment.
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Internet Harassment Is Legal?
After Megan Meier committed suicide because of an incident on MySpace, Dardenne Prairie, MO is proposing an ordinance for child endangerment and Internet harassment.
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Sexual Harassment in College Coed Dorms
Although coed dorms can be fun, they also can be hotbeds of sexual harassment. Here's how to identify this type of abuse in your dorm, and how to make it stop.
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Bullying and Teens
Bullying is a hot button issue in our culture. Find out what kids need to know, and how you can support them in dealing with this difficult issue.
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Cyberbullying Ends in Tragedy
A 2006 tragedy in a small Missouri town, brings world-wide attention to the problem of cyberbullying. Numerous studies show electronic bullying is growing rapidly.
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Lawsuits and Your Job
In our litigation-happy society, citizens are quick to turn a cry of "foul!" into a demand for financial restitution. But when does justice turn into whining?
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Suing Your Boss or Workplace
Sue your employer, but make sure they (and you) deserve it, first.
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Better To Be Safe, Than Sorry
Discusses the importance of parents and teachers encouraging child safety on the Internet. Points to guidelines and useful Web sites that promote child/teen safety.
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Stalked, part three
I'm not leaving you hanging! Here is a LONG article, but I wanted to get it all in so that you could read the entire story. Good luck to all!
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Bullying: The School
Actions or the lack of them speak loudly to students. Students quickly figure out what Teacher #1 will tolerate and what Teacher #2 will not.
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Bullying: What Is It?
Bullying takes many forms. It can be physical, emotional, or sexual. It can happen at school or over the internet. What is it technically?
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Bullying: The Home
Parents can help their children with a bullying situation. Here are some tips.
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CyberBullying Can Kill
Cyberbullying is not a minor silly teenage problem. Some kids become so upset from the bullying that they kill themselves over it.
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Dating Your Professor
Dating your college professor or teaching assistant is probably a bad idea. Here are some things to think about before making the moves on the teacher.
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Feed Homeless, Face Arrest
There are some crazy laws that make it illegal to feed homeless people in public places. Food not bombs have been continuing to face arrest by feeding hungry people.
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Girls Bullying Girls
This article examines the methods girls use to harass other girls, the reasons why peer harassment occurs, and the effects of bullying on girls' self-esteem.
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Obsessive Personality of a Stalker
A recent study compared coeds' assessment of personality traits of those they perceived as stalkers and of partners of a 'normal' relationship.
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Strategies to Prevent Bullying
Help kids learn how to empower themselves to prevent and cope with bullying behavior.
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Alphabetical Index
Personality Disorders Topic alphabetical index to the articles and blogs - click on the links!
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Avoidant Personality
People suffering from the Avoidant Personality Disorder feel inadequate, unworthy, inferior, and lacking in self-confidence.
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Axes of Disorders
The DSM uses five axes to analyze, classify, and describe these data. The patient (or subject) presents himself to a mental health diagnostician, is evaluated, tests are
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Borderline Personality
The main dynamic in the Borderline Personality Disorder is abandonment anxiety.
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Brain and Personality
The brain-injured may acquire traits and behaviors typical of certain personality disorders.
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Cluster B Disorders
Cluster B (the Dramatic, Emotional, or Erratic Cluster) is comprised of the Antisocial, Borderline, Histrionic, and Narcissistic Personality Disorders.
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Codependence
There is great confusion regarding the terms co-dependent, counter-dependent, and dependent.
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Common PD Features
Most personality disorders share a set of symptoms (as reported by the patient) and signs (as observed by the mental health practitioner).
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Compulsive Personality
Obsessive-Compulsives are constantly drawing up and dreaming up lists, rules, orders, rituals, and organizational schemes.
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Conduct Disorder
Many underage muggers, extortionists, purse-snatchers, rapists, robbers, shoplifters, burglars, arsonists, vandals, and animal torturers have Conduct Disorder.
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Dependent Personality
Dependents never disagree with meaningful others or criticizes them. They are afraid to lose their support and emotional nurturance.
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Depressive Personality
The Depressive has pervasive and continuous depressive cognitions (thoughts) and behaviors.
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Eclectic Psychotherapy
Mental health practitioners freely borrow tools and techniques from a myriad therapeutic systems.
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Followed by Love
Body language speaks volumes, particularly to unwanted attention. All teens should know how to repel unwanted advances, long before they become physical.
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Hateful Patient
Therapists, psychologists, social workers, and psychiatrists report negative feelings towards patients with personality disorders.
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Histrionic PD
Most patients with the Histrionic Personality Disorder are women. This immediately raises the question: Is this a real mental health disorder or a culture-bound syndrome
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Masochistic Personality
The masochist has been taught from an early age to hate herself and consider herself unworthy of love and worthless as a person.
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Narcissism Therapy
The narcissist sends a message to his psychotherapist: there is nothing you can teach me, I am as intelligent as you are.
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Narcissist vs. Psychopath
We all heard the terms "psychopath" or "sociopath". It is hard to distinguish narcissists from psychopaths.
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Negativistic Personality
Some people are perennial pessimists and have "negative energy" and negativistic attitudes.
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NOS Personality
The NOS diagnosis is a laundry list of all personality-related dysfunctions, signs, symptoms, and complaints that do not fit a specific personality disorder.
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Npd - Prevalence, Comorbidity
According to the DSM IV-TR, Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) is diagnosed in between 2% and 16% of the population in clinical settings (between 0.5-1% of the gener
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NPD Clinical Features
Perhaps the most immediately evident trait of patients with Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) is their vulnerability to criticism and disagreement.
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Npd Diagnostic Criteria
The Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) is not a new psychological construct. In previous centuries it was called "egotism" or "megalomania". It is an extreme form of
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Oppositional Disorder
Let us hope that the "scholars" of the DSM V Committee have the good sense to remove this blatant tool of social control from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual.
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Paranoid Personality
The paranoid's world is hostile, arbitrary, malicious, and unpredictable.
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Personality Psychotherapy
Most therapists now adhere to three modern methods: Brief Therapies, the Common Factors approach, and Eclectic techniques.
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Sadistic Personality
The Sadistic Personality disorder is characterized by a pattern of gratuitous cruelty, aggression, and demeaning behaviors.
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Schizoid Personality
Schizoids enjoy nothing and seemingly never experience pleasure.
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Schizotypal Personality
Do you believe in UFOs and alien abductions? You may be suffering from the Schizotypal Personality Disorder.
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