Identifying Mental Illness
Challenges of Identifying Mental Illness
Trevor Endre
Dr. Jack Colyar
Argosy University
November 2, 2016
It is very difficult for one to simply diagnose someone of a mental illness, today I am going to cover some of the ways that the professionals use to diagnose a patient with an illness. I will also be covering the reason it is so difficult to determine normal behavior and abnormal behavior. According to the American Psychological Association, “Diagnosing mental illness isn't like diagnosing other chronic diseases” (Kirsten Weir). Unlike other chronic illnesses for example heart disease, mental illness cannot be found through blood tests. Classifying mental illness is a much more subjective endeavor. New tools in genetics and
Trevor Endre
Dr. Jack Colyar
Argosy University
November 2, 2016
It is very difficult for one to simply diagnose someone of a mental illness, today I am going to cover some of the ways that the professionals use to diagnose a patient with an illness. I will also be covering the reason it is so difficult to determine normal behavior and abnormal behavior. According to the American Psychological Association, “Diagnosing mental illness isn't like diagnosing other chronic diseases” (Kirsten Weir). Unlike other chronic illnesses for example heart disease, mental illness cannot be found through blood tests. Classifying mental illness is a much more subjective endeavor. New tools in genetics and