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...

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...

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

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

Hallucinations delusions & disorganized speech or behavior are usually called the positive symptoms of schizophrenia. Negative symptoms...

What is the optimal treatment program for schizophrenia? While there is not yet a definitive answer to this question, it seems clear that...

As per DSM-IV-TR (Axis II), the idea of personality disorders as independent conditions that might or might not be related to more...

Health of mind and body are intensely related to each other. When someone gets mentally weak, it's assured that there will be some bodily...

According to DSM-IV-TR, Dissociative Disorder has 4 classifications. Dissociative Amnesia is one of them. Dissociation often involves...

Adjustment disorder is considered to be more straightforward than dissociative disorders because of the case if identifying triggers &...

Stress plays a role in most of the conditions that make up abnormal psychology. Acute stress disorders that require clinical intervention...

Stress is something which we don't welcome heartily. But, in life, situations appear in such manner that we get compelled to confront...

The most critical balance to maintain for family members of a schizophrenic patient is emotion. Like other coping skills, patient's...

People with schizotypal personality disorder are characterized by oddities of thinking, perceiving, communicating & behaving. These...