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All Family Resources: Advocating for Your Child
Often times being an advocate for you child can involve anticipating problems and having a professional diagnose these potential issues. This article lists symptoms that could be indicators of a child's emotional problems.
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University of Iowa Health Care: Anorexia Nervosa
This resource provides information describing diagnosing anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa as well as the treatment for both eating disorders.
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Apa: Psychopharmacology and Substance Abuse
This website provides information about the American Psychological Association and its Division of Psychopharmacology and Substance Abuse. Mentions research opportunities, funding, experimental and clinical psychopharmacology.
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Mind: Understanding the Psychological Effects of Street Drugs
Information about the dangerous psychological effects of drugs and alcohol.
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Suicide Awareness Voices of Education: Be That Friend
This site focuses on two often connected topics: depression and suicide. The message here is that depression need not lead to suicide. It offers information on symptoms, misconceptions, and other topics.
The National Alliance on Mental Illness
Nami: Eating Disorders
An excellent site giving facts about eating disorders, which includes answers to commonly asked questions such as signs, causes, and treatment. A great starting point for the educator wanting to learn more about eating disorders.
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Khan Academy: Risk Factors for Drug Use and Drug Abuse
A description of the factors (biological risks, psychological risks, socio-cultural risks, and environmental risks) that relate to each other in complicated ways that can lead to drug abuse or drug addiction.
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Khan Academy: Tolerance and Withdrawal
An illustrated explanation of the neurons in the brain and the effects of tolerance and withdrawal.
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Khan Academy: Reward Pathway in the Brain
An physiologically and chemically illustrated presentation of pleasurable stimuli and the reward pathways followed in the brain. Also explained are studies of addiction that seem to take over a rational mind.
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Khan Academy: Substance Use Disorders
An overview of substance induced disorders are examined.
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Khan Academy: Drug Dependence and Homeostasis
An explanation of homeostasis and related to drug dependence and drug overdose.
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Khan Academy: Routes of Drug Entry
The routes of drug entry are explored including oral, inhalation, injection, transdermal, and intramuscular.
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Khan Academy: Drug Use Prevention: School Programming and Protective Factors?
Drug abuse prevention by way of the government and the ineffectiveness of programs aimed at stopping drug use in schools such as D.A.R.E. and Just Say No. Discussed are factors in families, schools, and communities that lead to stopping...
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Khan Academy: How Does Substance Use Develop Into Substance Abuse?
A discussion of how substance use develops into substance abuse as illustrated by the Gateway model and the Continuum model.
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Khan Academy: Treatments and Triggers for Drug Dependence
As a psychological disease, drug addiction is a medical problem with psychological and physiological components. Pharmacological treatments and therapy such as AAA are examined.
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Khan Academy: Why Do Some People but Not Others Develop Substance Use Problems?
Using the models, Common Sense Theory and Swiss Cheese Model, an explanation of why some people with risk factors, but not others develop a substance abuse problem.
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Khan Academy: The Development of Substance Use Why People Use Legal and Illegal Substances?
Discussed are the four reasons why people start using substances and the psychological models of why people continue to take legal and illegal substances.
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Web Md: Anorexia Nervosa
An overview of anorexia, including causes and risk factors, symptoms, stages of the disease, treatments, and more.
The National Alliance on Mental Illness
Nami: Dissociative Disorders
The various types of dissociative disorders are defined and possible treatment for the disorders is also provided.