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    Biological Approach Bipolar Disorder “The biological approach looks for its roots of mental disorders in the brain’s circuitry.” (Kowalski‚ R.‚ & Westen‚ D.) When using the biological approach the mental health professional is looking for problem with how a person brain is functioning. It is their belief that it is more of a medical cause for a person’s problems. The brain is studied to see if it is functioning proper and if it is not what the possible causes may be. It is known that different

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    Biological Theories and Criminal Behavior Biological theories address deviant behavior as a relationship between biological factors‚ and social norms in respect to crime. The theories address behavior of an individual based upon his or her biological impact. Schmalleger‚ (2008) points out a connection to social environments and the impact upon human behavior. The connection has validity because of human thoughts and activities are constantly flowing through the brain providing an impact relating

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    doesn’t thank him anymore and just walks inside his office. Peter noticed this and decided to just stay on his area. Therefore‚ his behavior on opening the boss’s door is extinguished. Variable Ratio Allan is in a shipment company where they are looking for customers that need their service. He needs to make calls to other companies to look for customers. His behavior is to make calls and his consequence is finding a customer. The ratio is the numbers of calls that he will make and the variable is

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    1. Biological psychologists are gaining a better understanding of our experiences of sights and sounds‚ meanings and memories‚ pain and passion. Franz Gall invented phrenology‚ a popular theory that claimed that bumps on the skull reveal our mental abilities and our character traits. Although wrong‚ this information revealed that various brain regions have specific functions. 2. A neuron consists of a cell body and branching fibers:The dendrite fibers receive information from sensory

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    during the winter. During this time Jack began to developed schizophrenia among many other personality and mood disorders and attempts to murder his own family. After reviewing this film it became apparent that there was a mixture of accuracy and exaggeration of the development of schizophrenia. Jack had this disorder‚ but also had symptoms of other personality and mood disorders. For the sake of Hollywood the film did take schizophrenia to entirely new levels. Some of this hype was generated around

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    was diagnosed as undifferentiated schizophrenia and now his current diagnosis was undifferentiated schizophrenia. Undifferentiated schizophrenia is amental disorder  which is part of the family of disorders broadly known as“schizophrenia.” There are a number of subcategories of schizophrenia including paranoid schizophrenia‚ catatonic schizophrenia‚ disorganized schizophrenia‚ residual schizophrenia‚ and schizoaffective disorder ; undifferentiated schizophrenia is oftendefined as a form in which

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    classify types of schizophrenia. According to the DSM-III there were five different types (disorganized‚ catatonic‚ paranoid‚ residual‚ and undifferentiated) however‚ the first three were originally proposed by Kraepelin. Currently today‚ these classifications are still being used in the DSM-V‚ however predicting the outcomes of the disorder are not reliably alone in the diagnostic process. This resulted in the use of other systems to assist in classifying the types of disorders‚ which are based on

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    Introduction Schizophrenia is a serious brain disorder. It is a disease that makes it difficult for a person to tell the difference between real and unreal experience‚ to think logically‚ to have normal emotional responses to others‚ and to behave normally in social situations. Approximately 1% of the population develops schizophrenia during their lifetime‚ and more than 2 million Americans suffer from the illness in a given year. Although schizophrenia affects men and women with equal frequency

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    Anxiety Disorders Anxiety disorders are common place these days‚ with as many as 17% of people will/have suffer/ed some form of anxiety in their lives (Somers‚ Goldner‚ Waraich‚ & Hsu‚ 2006)‚ from being concerned about most anything‚ to full blown attacks with physical symptoms. Anxiety disorders seem to be a result of a combination of biological‚ psychological and other individual factors (CAMH‚ 2014). If one feels nervous or fearful about a situation‚ this is normal‚ but if the feelings are

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    Outline and evaluate the biological therapies for phobic disorders (8+16) One biological therapy for phobic disorders is chemotherapy. Drug therapies include Anti-Anxiety drugs‚ Beta blockers and Antidepressants. They aim to alter abnormal behaviour by intervening directly in bodily processes (helps with the symptoms).Those that experience psychological problems or show disturbed behaviour patterns go to their family doctors. The first line of treatment is medical. Drug therapies are most common

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