10 Most Diagnosed Mental Disorders By Meredith Bower If you had to guess‚ what illness would you say is more prevalent in developed countries -- cancer or maybe heart disease? Nope. Believe it or not‚ it’s mental illness. Like cancer and heart disease‚ mental illness is a medical condition‚ and those who have mental disorders struggle to cope with everyday life because of their altered moods‚ thinking or behavior. Fortunately‚ treatment for mental illness or mental disorders can lead to recovery;
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hPsychological Disorders and Approaches to Treatment APSS 111 Teaching Team What is Abnormal Behavior? • Some leading definitions about what is considered abnormal: • Deviance »Deviate from normative behaviors in our society / culture • Maladaptive Behavior »Impair the person’s normal functioning • Personal Distress • A continuum perspective to understanding abnormality Classification of Psychological Disorders • Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders – 4th Ed. (Text Revision) (DSM IV‐TR)
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Depression is invading people’s lives all over the world. Just until recent years‚ the diagnosis of depression did not exist‚ and treatment was not possible because depression was not considered an illness‚ simply something demonic. Researchers have paved a hefty path towards the discovery of depression‚ its symptoms‚ and possible treatments; following the first sighting of depression with Job and Saul in the First Testament. The understanding of this illness is still incomplete and will continue
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Atypical Child and Adolescent Development Fall 2011 - Study Guide for Midterm Chapters 6‚ 7‚ 8‚ 9 Chapter 6 - Conduct Disorder – Be familiar with the following concepts and disorders: • Differentiate conduct disorder from oppositional defiant disorder in terms of age‚ symptoms‚ severity of symptoms‚ age of onset‚ and prognosis.- conduct disorder (childhood) will display one symptom before the age of 10‚ symptoms- repetitive‚ persistent pattern of severe aggressive and antisocial acts: inflicting
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do with them and that there moods just change in a second‚ kind of helpless. Alaska is most likely bipolar as her moods change faster than anything and she has extreme mood swings and constantly changes how she feels about herself and others. This kind of behaviour from her reminds me of how a lot of teenagers in society today suffer from mental illnesses like depression or bipolar disease. Bipolar disorder is a serious brain illness where people go through weird and unexpected mood changes. Sometimes
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developed it prior to age 25‚ and one third developed it after age 35 (Abrams‚ Rojas‚ & Arciniegas‚ 2008). The broad range of age of onset can be attributed to this condition being similar to both schizophrenia‚ which has a younger age of onset‚ and bipolar disorder‚ which has a later age of onset. According to Abrams‚ Rojas‚ and Arciniegas‚ about two thirds of persons with this disorder are female (2008). So this disorder occurs more in
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Concept Map Care Plan E.T/49yr. old female‚ white Date of Admission: 08/01/11/Date of Care: 08/05/11 Attempted Suicide/Bipolar Disorder Depression/Alcoholism/Herniated Disc Nrsg Dx #1 (Psycho social) Supporting Data: (Include subjective‚ objective‚ lab‚ diagnostic‚ pharmacologic and other data which supports your use of this diagnosis.) Long Term Goal: Short-term goals: Nursing Interventions: Evaluation:
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The Caine Mutiny While watching this film‚ there are many things in Captain Queeg’s behavior that stick out as abnormal or even strange. After a period of time‚ even the Captain’s crew begins to suspect that he may be struggling with a mental problem. They use a mental disorder book to try and figure out on their own what problem he might have. The crew comes to the decision that Queeg has Paranoid Personality Disorder. The DSM IV criteria for this diagnosis to adhere to four of the seven symptoms
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Roberts Course: CMSW 1313 Date: 11/24/10 Master Treatment Plan Person’s Name: Edward Kojak Date of first visit: 10/15/10 I. Identified Problems: Primary Problem: Bipolar II disorder Secondary Problem: Poly-substance in remission Tertiary Problem: unemployed II. Historical Data: Primary Problem: Bipolar II disorder Symptoms and/or history: : Client stated he began SDTP in 2004 and spent 9 wks on an inpatient psychiatric unit while incarcerated following an episode in which
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PSY 1012 Final Exam Review Chapter 8: Cognition‚ Language‚ and Creativity 1. Identify common barriers to problem solving. P. 276 2. Define inductive and deductive thought. P.277 Chapter 9: Intelligence 1. Who developed the first intelligence test and for what purpose? P. 290 2. Review the distribution of adult IQ scores in Table 9.3 P. 295 3. Briefly describe different types of intellectual disability (retardation). P. 298 4. Identify the causes of intellectual disability. P.
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