Now in its fourth edition, Media Effects again features essays from some of the finest scholars in the field and serves as a comprehensive reference volume for scholars, teachers, and students. This edition contains both new and updated content that reflects our media-saturated environments, including chapters on social media, video games, mobile communication, and virtual technologies. In reco…
Westernization: The Role of Mass Media on Body Image and Eating Disorders
The effectiveness of video feedback in socially anxious individuals including the improvement of distorted self-perceptions has been reported. However, socially anxious individuals might overestimate their appearance on video as more negative or less positive. Such misjudgments might be caused by excessively high negative interpretations and lack of positive interpretations in patients with soc…
The Value of Coached Behaviour Modification in the Effective Management of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Comparatively few of the vast number of suggested decision-analytical methods have been widely spread in actual practice. The majority of those methods call for exact and accurate numbers as input, which could be one of several reasons for this lack of actual use; people frequently seem to be unfamiliar with, or reluctant to express those, in a sense, “true” values required. Many alternativ…
Using the Dynamics of a Person-Context System to Describe Children’s Understanding of Air Pressure
Use of the Trial-Based Thought Record to Change Negative Core Beliefs
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is the most common neurodevelopmental disorder of childhood characterized by the three core symptoms of hyperactivity, impulsiveness, and sustained inattention. While the etiology of ADHD remains unknown, several studies suggest ADHD pathophysiology to involve frontal network abnormality and dysregulation of catecholaminergic and dopaminergic func…
Trends in the Prescribing and Adverse Drug Reactions Patterns of Psychostimulants Among Danish Children and Adolescents
Treatments for Eating Disorders: The Patients' Views