Query: existential crisis

title: The role of parent adolescent conflict and social support in predicting student's existential crisis
abstract: Existential crisis and parent adolescent conflict are two concepts which are entangled because they are associated with each other, in this regard social support can play a significant role in improving the crisis.  The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of parent adolescent conflict and social support in predicting existential crisis in students.  The method of this study is categorized as a descriptive correlational. The study population include all 12th grade students in Sanandaj that 175 of them were selected by randomized cluster sampling. Questionnaires of Parent Adolescent Conflict of Strauss (1990) Family Social Support of Pss_ Fr (1983) and Existential Crisis of Ahmadi and Dastgheib (1994) were used to collect data. Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis by SPSS 22 software.  The results revealed a significant positive relationship between parent adolescent conflict and existential crisis (p<0.01) There was also a negative and significant relationship between social support and the existential crisis (P<0.01) The results of regression analysis also show that 23% of the variance of students' existential crisis is significantly explained by the variables of parent adolescent conflict and social support.  To conclude, it can be said that family conflicts as well as the way of supporting others can predict the existential crisis of students.

title: The existential crisis of bipolar II disorder
abstract: The issue of categorical vs. dimensional classification of bipolar disorder continues to generate controversy as it has for generations. Despite the evidence that no psychiatric disorder has discrete boundaries separating pathological and nonpathological states, and within a disorder, no clear differences separate subtypes which would suggest a more dimensional approach there are valid reasons to continue with our current categorical system, which distinguishes bipolar I from bipolar II disorder. Complicating the issue, a number of interested constituencies, including patients and their families, clinicians, scientists/researchers, and governmental agencies and insurance companies have different interests and needs in this controversy. This paper reviews both the advantages and disadvantages of continuing the bipolar I/bipolar II split vs. redefining bipolar disorder as one unified diagnosis. Even with one unified diagnosis, other aspects of psychopathology can be used to further describe and classify the disorder. These include both predominant polarity and categorizing symptoms by ACE activity, cognition and energy. As a field, we must decide whether changing our current classification before we have a defining biology and genetic profile of bipolar disorder is worth the disruption in our current diagnostic system.

title: Maintenance of Certification and the Platinum Rule: An Existential Crisis.

title: Australia's Existential Crisis
abstract: Australia's situation in the global crisis is framed in the genesis of a colonial occupier state and imposed sovereignty over an entire continent. Political life is dominated by the primacy of nationalism and capitalism in the imperatives of economic growth and national security. Australia's role in the global crisis is embedded in the geopolitics of the post Cold War world order's new imperialism. The outcome is a major shift toward a more repressive and authoritarian state and the politics of post democracy. The politics of economic growth depends largely on substantial population growth and cycles of capital expansion, generating unmitigated harm to humans and the environment. The geopolitics of nationalism to promote cohesion and legitimacy for the state further undermines democracy.

title: An existential crisis

title: Italy's existential crisis
abstract: The demographic news from Italy remains bad. It has in fact got worse; so bad that the President, Sergio Mattarella, has recently described it as a "problem that concerns the existence of our country"

title: The WTO's Existential Crisis: How to Salvage Its Ability to Settle Trade Disputes
abstract: US refusal to allow the appointment of new judges (or members) to the World Trade Organization's Appellate Body a key component of its renowned dispute settlement system has pushed the organization into an existential crisis. The Appellate Body no longer has the requisite number of members to hear new cases on appeal. The terms of two of the three remaining members have expired, leaving the WTO without an appeal function. US officials charge that certain Appellate Body decisions on WTO dispute panel rulings have expanded WTO obligations and constrained WTO rights what trade lawyers call "judicial overreach" and so they have blocked the appointment of new Appellate Body members until other WTO countries address US complaints. Schott and Jung analyze the WTO cases brought against the United States and find that the problem of judicial overreach seems to surface primarily in a subset of US losses in antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) cases that target specific methods of calculating dumping margins. They warn that disabling the whole appellate system is a disproportionate response to the specific problem. It will weaken enforcement of WTO obligations and undermine prospects for negotiations to update the WTO rulebook, thus corroding the rules based trading system, one that has been modeled on US law and practice. A better approach would be to exempt AD/CVD cases from appellate review (while still subjecting them to dispute panel rulings) This targeted change in the WTO Appellate Body process, coupled with procedural reforms already advanced in proposals that have been widely supported by WTO members, could mitigate US concerns and allow the Appellate Body to be repopulated.

title: Using Matching "Smarts" and Interest to Successfully Address Depression Caused by Existential Crisis
abstract: This chapter outlines the background, nature, and explanations of existential crises. An unresolved existential crisis commonly causes depression. Crises occur in periods throughout the life cycle. They usually involve careers, relationships, or identity. The resolution often requires a development of a new stage of intellectual functioning, through which people can reflect on their interests and stage. The Existential Crisis Assessment measures severity of an existential crisis. A factor analysis showed the most important items in a person's existential crisis. My life, life in the universe, and relationships were the most important factors determining the severity of a person's existential crisis. The first solution is to match a person to a career. Another solution is to match one person to another. Three scales are used to match people to careers and partners: (1) decision making measures how well a person addresses tasks of increasing difficulty; (2) perspective taking predicts how well a person understands behavior of self and others; (3) core complexity interest scale identifies the reinforcement value of engaging. A further solution is that of cognitive behavioral therapy that can be used to both treat depression and offer training on social perspective taking, a key ingredient to resolving one's crisis.

title: Diagnosis of 'possible' mitochondrial disease: an existential crisis
abstract: Primary genetic mitochondrial diseases are often difficult to diagnose, and the term 'possible' mitochondrial disease is used frequently by clinicians when such a diagnosis is suspected. There are now many known phenocopies of mitochondrial disease. Advances in genomic testing have shown that some patients with a clinical phenotype and biochemical abnormalities suggesting mitochondrial disease may have other genetic disorders. In instances when a genetic diagnosis cannot be confirmed, a diagnosis of 'possible' mitochondrial disease may result in harm to patients and their families, creating anxiety, delaying appropriate diagnosis and leading to inappropriate management or care. A categorisation of 'diagnosis uncertain' together with a specific description of the metabolic or genetic abnormalities identified, is preferred when a mitochondrial disease cannot be genetically confirmed.

title: Autism's existential crisis: a reflection on Livingston et al. (2018)
abstract: Livingston and colleagues present an empirical investigation of the compensatory framework describing the autism clinical phenotype as the sum of intrinsic neurocognitive deficits and compensatory mechanisms. This commentary highlights several methodologic features of the study that are pertinent to interpretation and reflects on the reduction of social behavior to cognitive processes. Taken together, the notion of compensation calls into question the validity and utility of the current behavioral diagnosis of autism.