Narcissistic Personality Disorder Treatment By Psych Central Staff Table of Contents * Medical Treatment * Hospitalization * Psychosocial Treatment * Basic Principles * Individual Psychotherapy * Group Therapy Medical Treatment Hospitalization The hospitalization of patients with severe Narcissistic Personality occurs frequently. For some‚ such as those who are quite impulsive or self-destructive‚ or who have poor reality-testing‚ this is the result of Axis
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Examine biomedical‚ individual and group approaches to treatment. Biomedical: 1. Phobias: As a treatment for phobias rarely used on its own – Benzodiazepines (Valium‚ Sobril‚ Xanax‚ Xanor‚ Mogadon‚ Rohypnol) enhance the effectiveness of GABA. When a single dose is compared to a single psychotherapy session for dental anxiety‚ the dose was worse. 2. Depression: Serotonin hypothesis: inadequate amount between synaptic gap for effective transmission to occur. Drugs aim to increase
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Megan Woolverton Lyon Hough BMS 307 9 September 2017 Case Diagnosis Neck pain can have multiple causes. One potential cause of this female’s neck pain with a headache could be a suboccipital headache (Hauser). A suboccipital headache is tenderness in the four occipital muscles: rectus capitis posterior major‚ rectus capitis posterior minor‚ obliquus capitis inferior‚ and obliquus capitis superior. The main diagnostic test for neck pain is an X-ray. By getting an X-ray‚ the physician will have an
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University of Phoenix Field Experience III BSHS 491 Comprehensive Treatment Plan LaTosha Clark August 16‚ 2012 Instructor: Carla Franco Allison has been in foster care for most of her life. Allison ran away from home because of verbal and physical abuse when she was ten years old from her adopted family and now Allison is 20 years and homeless and needing somewhere to stay and fortunately she was approved to live at Penny Lane in the transitional housing program. Her strengths are by
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My mental diagnosis of Matthew Poe is Schizophrenia. The main symptoms of Schizophrenia are delusions and hallucinations. More specifically‚ I believe the patient has Paranoid Schizophrenia‚ which main indication is a person feeling extremely suspicious. The patient shows extreme signs of paranoia and hallucinations. These hallucinations consist of hearing the heartbeat of the old man that the patient murdered. The sound of this heartbeat in his ears is causing the patient extreme paranoia‚ and the
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Sara’s Treatment Plan With Sara’s diagnosis of Down Syndrome‚ she is already displaying some motor and other developmental delays. Her mother has also stressed her desire for Sara to be developmentally on track. Assessments to be considered include: the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development (Bayley-III)‚ the Hawaii Early Learning Profile (HELP)‚ the Peabody Developmental Motor Scale (PDMS-2)‚ and the Infant/Toddler Sensory Profile. The PDMS-2 would identify motor delays and help with treatment
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Chiropractic Treatment Tables‚ For A Thorough Examination And Efficient Spinal Treatment Chiropractic is a type of medical help given to patients suffering from spinal problems. It involves in the diagnosis and treatment of musculoskeletal system. The main technique used in such treatment involves detection and suggestion of exercises that are devised for spine and other muscles. Chiropractic treatment tables are widely used for such treatments for the comfort of the patient and the practitioner
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‘Discuss issues surrounding the classification and diagnosis of schizophrenia’ (24 marks) An issue is that they are two manuals which are used to diagnose schizophrenia the DSM-IV manual and the ICD manual. Cooper et al found that people are twice as more likely to be diagnosed with schizophrenia in New York then in the UK this means the diagnostic manual for schizophrenia is unreliable. This is an issue because it can lead to misdiagnosis and people will be schizophrenic in a country and then
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In the treatment of schizophrenia‚ the medical model is the most commonly used paradigm of treatment (Beresford‚ 2005). On one hand‚ the medical model has helped to reduce the blame and stigma towards families of individuals with schizophrenia – the belief that they caused the illness. On the other hand‚ families still do feel disregarded or dismissed as irrelevant by mental health professionals (Johnson‚ 2000). McLean (1990) criticises the medical model for ignoring the individuals or family’s experience
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The article “Explaining Salem: Calvinist Psychology and the Diagnosis of Possession” talks about the difference between being bewitched with witch craft and being possessed by the Devil‚ himself‚ or some kind of demonic possession. While cases of people being bewitched or possessed was increasing in Salem Village‚ Massachusetts Colony‚ the courts had to determine the difference between the two to make the right decision. There are four available explanations for psychological symptoms. They fall
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