The information gathered from the case study best illustrates the symptoms related to obsessive compulsive disorder. According to the DSM-5‚ a person with this disorder is characterized by two important terms‚ including obsessions and compulsions. Scott has an obsession‚ that being an idea or thought that continually preoccupies or intrudes his mind‚ which in this case is his obsession over the contamination of germs. He also has a compulsion‚ that being an irresistible impulse to perform an act
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Oppositional Defiant Disorder: Case Study and Research Samantha L. Carlo Suffolk County Community College PSY 213‚ Exceptional Child Oppositional Defiant Disorder: Case Study and Research Abel Keller is an English-speaking and physically healthy four-year-old boy. He lives with his mother and eighteen-year-old sister‚ and attends preschool during the week. Abel’s mother works seven days a week and he is supervised on the weekends by a nanny. His current nanny began working for the family
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Posttraumatic stress disorder or more commonly known as PTSD is one of the most common mental health disorders. It mostly affects victims of sexual assault‚ war veterans or soldiers‚ people who sustained a serious injury or the threat of death in which they experienced intense fear‚ horror or powerlessness (American Psychiatric Association‚ 2013). In saying this‚ not everyone who has experienced a traumatic event develop PTSD. In New Zealand‚ there are 35.9% of people with severe PTSD‚ 36.9% of
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Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) on numerous occasions has been utilized as a fortification for criminal defenses. These defensive pleas range from self-defense‚ weakened capacity‚ sentencing extenuation‚ insentience‚ and insanity or irrationality (Berger‚ McNiel‚ & Binder‚ 2012). In the process of inspecting relative case laws that include scenarios where the ailment is issued as a criminal defense‚ and the varied treatment in the judicial system. It appears that the judicial system hasn’t always
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Borderline Personality Disorder Mental Health Treatment Although psychiatric hospitalization may often be used to address the suicidal and other safety crises of individuals with BPD‚ it is unclear how beneficial that intervention is. In contrast‚ partial hospitalization has shown some promise as an intervention for individuals with BPD who are not in imminent danger of mortally harming themselves or others. Partial hospitalization involves the sufferer receiving intensive mental health treatment
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very irrational impulsive‚ and have abandonment issues. Amy felt abandoned when her husband grew distant from her. Amy felt empty and rationalized that her husband needed to pay for his wrong doings. Amy went to extreme measures to stage a murder case in order to get revenge on her cheating husband and she did not care who got hurt during the process. Amy harmed herself with objects to make her husband seem abusive. Amy violated herself with objects to stage rapes. She also murdered her friend with
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Scarlett O’Hara: Histrionic Personality Disorder Taylor D. Witte Flagler College Abstract This paper will discuss this process of diagnosing the character of Scarlett O’Hara from the novel Gone with The Wind with Histrionic Personality Disorder. Because of her symptoms‚ shown in the novel and the movie of the same title‚ O’Hara’s diagnosis might have more than one disorder. The possible causes and a treatment plan will also be examined in this paper. Introduction
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Rule Out Antisocial Personality- Marshall has a history of impulsivity‚ reckless disregard for himself and others and excessive irritability and aggression. 8) Etiology of Presenting Problems: Family history of mental illness is unknown‚ however Marshall claims that his mother
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Antisocial Personality Disorder Dr. Gregory House was born on the 11th of June 1958 from a relationship between Blythe house‚ his mother‚ and an unknown male. His mother was a house wife married to a marine pilot‚ John House‚ who was not present when House was conceived being on overseas active duty. His mother also had an affair with another man‚ Thomas Bell‚ who House mistook for his father because of the physical characteristics that they shared. House’s father was
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Running Head: ADHD Case Study: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder University Of Phoenix Major Symptoms Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has 3 types of symptoms: problems with attention‚ hyperactive behavior‚ and excessive impulsivity (Kohn). ADHD is heritable (Kohn). The child is better able to cope with rapidly changing stimuli‚ but will have more difficulty focusing on things that are less interesting (Kohn). The brain is less able to focus on uninteresting
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