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Adam Cash
Adam Cash is a clinical psychologist who has practiced in a variety of settings including forensic institutions and outpatient clinics. He has taught Psychology at both the community college and university levels. He is currently in private practice specializing in psychological assessment, child psychology, and neurodevelopmental disorders.
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Article / Updated 10-10-2023
Stress is a constant in everyone’s life. Nobody is immune from stress-inducing events and situations. Here are few tips for dealing with stress in your life:
Accept responsibility: Take charge of your own part in things instead of focusing on the activities or involvement of others.
Analyze the situation logically: Try looking at a situation less emotionally and more logically.
Article / Updated 07-10-2023
Psychological tests are part of the entire psychological assessment process. Assessment is a set of scientific procedures used to measure and evaluate an individual’s behavior and mental processes. Psychologist Anne Anastasi (1908–2001), a past president of the American Psychological Association, defines a psychological test as an objective, standardized sample of behavior or mental processes.
Article / Updated 07-10-2023
Any number of different disciplines are involved in mental illness treatment and working with people with mental disorders. Psychological testing, however, is considered the sole domain of psychologists.Although some professionals, including school counselors and learning disability specialists, conduct psychological testing, their testing is limited in scope and to a specific problem.
Article / Updated 12-28-2021
"Everybody is unique!" is the mantra of the modern era. Many people pride themselves on being different and one of a kind — particularly in Western popular culture and media — and anybody spending any time studying and working with people will tell you there is a great deal of truth to this.Three of the most prominent, salient, and obvious variations among people are differences in culture, gender, and sexuality/sexual orientation.
Article / Updated 09-02-2021
Psychology recognizes the power of love, and how good it feels to be loved and to love someone else. There's even a psychological analysis of it. Elaine Hatfield and Richard Rapson, psychologists at the University of Hawaii, identify two specific types of love:
Passionate love: Intense love with a sexual or romantic quality.
Cheat Sheet / Updated 06-28-2021
The main question that fuels psychology is “Why do people do what they do?” Psychology basically aims to uncover what people do along with why and how they do it. Studying everyday behavior and mental processes is the focus of psychology much of the time. But sometimes the stresses of life can seem overwhelming, and in those cases people need help right away.
Article / Updated 06-28-2021
All behavior is learned, whether it’s healthy or abnormal. Behavior therapy is based on one of three learning theories:
Ivan Pavlov’s classical conditioning
B. F. Skinner’s operant conditioning
Albert Bandura’s social learning theory
Here’s how these theories understand learning:
In the classical-conditioning sense, learning refers to associations formed between events or actions.
Article / Updated 06-28-2021
Psychologist Sigmund Freud proposed several important defense mechanisms. Keep in mind however that defense mechanisms are not used consciously. A person does not decide to engage in one; rather these happen on an unconscious level:
Repression: Keeping a thought, feeling, or memory of an experience out of consciousness.
Article / Updated 06-25-2021
Psychologist Sigmund Freud’s model of sexual development proposes a series of stages in which people grow and mature. The pleasure sought by your inborn instincts is focused on sexual desire and gratification, through proper stimulation of each erogenous zone. If properly stimulated, you progress to the top of Freud’s psychosexual peak: sexual and psychological maturity.
Article / Updated 06-25-2021
Personal identity consists of the things that make you stand out in a crowd — for example, your megawatt smile or sparkling wit. According to David Buss, a psychologist at the University of Texas at Austin, the personal identity is comprised of a public self and a private self, each with its own components.Three important aspects make up the public self:
Appearance: Being aware of your appearance is very much a part of your identity.