Checking oneself into a psychiatric care facility at a hospital is just another thing to do on a Saturday‚ right?:) Craig is a teenage boy dealing with depression. On an particularly down night‚ Craig checks finds himself checked into the psychiatric care unit at Argenon Hospital. He is admitted to the adult quarters because of lack of room elsewhere. He makes friends and rediscovers his love for drawing maps. He faces reliefs and difficulties while trying to find himself. Craig feels times of weightlessness
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Communication Disorders Thought‚ Language‚ I. Clinical Assessment‚ Definition of Terms‚ and Evaluation of Their Reliability Nancy C. Andreasen‚ MD psychiatry has considered thought disorder to be pathognomonic symptom of schizophrenia. Evaluation of the \s=b\ Bleulerian a Bleulerian perspective has been severely handicapped by the lack of any standard and widely agreed-on definition of thought disorder. Consequently‚ the conceptualization of thought disorder has tended to
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and Paranoid Personality Disorder Bipolar disorder is a condition that causes a person to go back and forth in a positive or negative mood and depression. This kind of mood swing can occur very quickly‚ like an “on” and “off” switch. Although there is no knowledge on the direct cause of bipolar disorder‚ it is quite evident that it is passed on through genetics. Bipolar disorder usually begins somewhere between the ages of 15-25 and can affect both men and women. Bipolar Disorder can be categorized
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Case Study: Martin and Sue Fredman‚ Monson‚ and Adair (2011) conducted a case study of a 27-year-old Iraq War veteran‚ suffering from PTSD and relationship dissatisfaction‚ named Martin. Martin suffered from PTSD symptoms and became estranged with his wife‚ Sue. The purpose of this case study was to use cognitive behavioral conjoint therapy (CBCT) to decrease Martins symptoms of PTSD and increase Martin and Sue’s marital relationship satisfaction (Fredman‚ Monson‚ & Adair‚ 2011). PTSD has been
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The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory‚ second edition (MMPI - 2) is one of the few personality tests administered used across the US. This assessment was originally designed in 1939‚ but was not published until 1942 by the University of Minnesota Hospitals (Butcher‚ 1996). The main purpose of the assessment was to aide in the acknowledgment of behavioral social problems among psychiatric patients. In other words‚ the initial authors of the test used the results to compile diagnoses specifically
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Intellectual disability are exhibited‚ and demonstrate common symptoms exhibited by these neurodevelopmental disorders. Alex Observing our 1st study case‚ Alex exhibits ADHD symptoms. Attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder also called ADHD is classified as a hyperactive disorder which interferes with task oriented behavior (Butcher‚ Hooley‚ & Mineka‚ 2014). Alex shows a persistent
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There are many mental disorders that we as humans see in others and there are some that you cannot see with the naked eye. You would just notice them by behavioral actions. These disorders have been studied for years; some are new and some have been around for a very long time. Nearly half of Americans do have a risk of some sort of mental disorder in their lifetime. We all have at least met someone or know of someone that has had some sort of psychiatric condition. It is serious and it is very
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Problems with articulation – making sounds and phonological processes – sound patterns – Bowen’s website (Bowen‚ 2012; Dodd‚ 2014). Articulation impairment involves the oral movement that result in speech sound production (Dodd‚ 2014). -------------------------------------------------- Social motivation …. Autism – neurological disability – impairment in social interaction‚ communication‚ emotional behaviour and motor skill fumctioning (American Psychiatric Association‚ 2007; Bass‚ Duchowny & Llabre
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DSM-5 Criteria According to the DSM-5‚ there must be persistent deficits in social communication and interactions that affect multiple instances to satisfy Criteria A (Nolen-Hoeksema‚ 2017). Deficits in social-emotions include inability to hold a normal conversation‚ to initiative as well as a response to social interactions‚ and expressing shared interests (Nolen-Hoeksema‚ 2017). Deficits in verbal and nonverbal communicative behaviors consist “abnormalities in eye contact and body language”‚ lack
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Attention deficit hyperactive disorder‚ commonly referred to as ADHD‚ has affected many adults that have been diagnosed with this mental health disorder. In fact‚ there are numerous of adults that struggle in their every day-to-day lives due to not being properly diagnosed or are just not fully aware of the possibility it could be ADHD. An example would be myself‚ I was not aware that I had some form of ADHD. I always just assumed of it to be just me always wanting to constantly be moving or productive
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