Parenting Styles
According to the developmental psychologist, Diana Baumrind, there are three different parenting styles: the authoritarian, the laissez-faire, and the authoritative parenting style. Her parenting styles were based on two aspects of parenting that are found to be extremely important. The first was "Parental responsiveness", which refers to the degree the parent responds to the child's needs. The second was "Parental demandingness" which is the extent to which the parent expec
Culture-Bound Psychological Disorders and Treatment
There is a psychological disorder bound to the Malaysian culture, which is called Latah. Malaysian Latah is rarely rare in other parts of the world and occurs primarily in those of Malay descent, especially in women over 40 years old. The word Latah has its origins in Malay, and derives from the words of ticklish, nervous, creeping, and love madness. In mild cases, women typically exhibit involuntary utterances of incomprehensible, meaningless, or obscene words and/or gesturi
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
According to DSM-IV-TR, PTSD surfaces after a traumatic event that may have caused death or has threatened physically the person or people involved. The event is being re-experienced over and over again, either as a flashback or a dream, which causes difficulties concentrating or difficulties falling or staying asleep. Through the lenses of cognitive model, PTSD surfaces and is sustained due to the individual´s cognitive processes and autobiographical memories that views the
