ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY CASE STUDY 3 MAJOR DEPRESSION 1. Major depressive disorder (MDD) has been linked to many causes‚ including biologic and genetic‚ cognitive‚ behavioral‚ and social and interpersonal factors. Which factors do you believe are the most important to the development of MDD? In addition to their roles as causal factors‚ having MDD can lead to substantial changes in these same domains. How does having MDD affect a person’s thoughts‚ behaviors‚ and social interactions? What effects
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Dealing with gender identity disorder also known as trans-sexualism can be a hard process for many people to go through if they are dealing with this situation. Most people can find themselves afraid of what others may think of them‚ or how people will react to the disorder. When people find themselves having gender identity disorder they may deny it themselves because of society and family values. They do not intent for this is be a part of their life but it starts to change their entire aspect
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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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multiple disorders‚ including bipolar disorder. People with bipolar disorder tend to become irritable. “An episode can include disturbance of mood accompanied by other ongoing symptoms and causing significant stress‚ disability‚ or both” (Bruce). “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change” (Shelley‚ 187). This quote is saying that the monster doesn’t like change‚ because with him being bipolar change can cause his mood to drastically change. He has bipolar disorder because
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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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Bipolar Disorders & Depression Bipolar disorder and depression are very similar illnesses with one major difference: people with bipolar disorder switch between episodes of depression and mania (Hedy Marks‚ The Difference Between Bipolar Disorder and Depression‚ p. 1). Some people who are diagnosed with depression may actually have bipolar disorder because people with bipolar disorder often only seek treatment during a depressive episode. These disorders are similar in several ways; therefore
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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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Integrative Management of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is known as one of the most common neurobiological disorder in children‚ adolescents and adults. Currently‚ this disorder is treated with stimulant medications that cause significant negative side effects with no real cure for the disorder. Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) treatments for children diagnosed with ADHD are on the rise due to the negative feedback received
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