Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is diagnosed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual as 299.00 (American Psychiatric Association‚ 2013). Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder has various criteria. Criteria A discusses the deficits in social communication and social interaction in the person’s life. Examples of lack of communication are abnormal social approach‚ back and forth speech‚ poor eye contact. Abnormal social interaction can be difficulty sharing imaginary play and difficulty developing
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& Assessment Axis 1: Clinical Syndrome: Dissociative Identity Disorder Sherry has recently been given the diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder or formally known as multiple personality disorder. She has had multiple hospitalizations over the last several years‚ and has been given multiple different diagnoses ranging from schizophrenia (disorganized type)‚ bipolar disorder‚ major depression‚ and borderline personality disorder. She has been placed on several different types of medications
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Separation anxiety disorder is a condition that may be caused by several factors ranging from genetics‚ stress‚ parent-child relations‚ Behavioral inhibition and parents own insecurity. In Amanda’s case‚ there were many warning signs that was gathered during the therapy session for what might have been the causes of Amanda’s SAD. According to the textbook‚ children whose parents suffers from SAD‚ might be at high risk of inheriting this condition because it tends to run within the family. Stress
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Cardiovascular Disorders Case Study 11 Scenario: The time is 1900 hours. You are working in a small‚ rural hospital. It has been snowing heavily all day‚ and the medical helicopters at the large regional medical center‚ 4 hours away by car (in good weather)‚ have been grounded by the weather until morning. The roads are barely passable. WR.‚ a 48 year old construction worker with a 36 pack year smoking history‚ is admitted to your floor with a diagnosis of rule out myocardial infarction (R/O
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AUTISM Diagnostic criteria for the PDD’s RE: the DSM-IV criteria: Be familiar with behaviors you might observe: Be able to provide specific examples Childhood Autism: There are qualitative impairments in social interaction and communication. 1. Impaired use of eye to eye gaze‚ facial expressions‚ inability to point out objects of interest and failure to develop peer relationships 2. Inability to sustain a conversation with others 3. Repetitive motor mannerisms and delays in imaginative
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A nine-year-old boy is brought into a clinic suspected of having a hypo- gonadism disorder. The physician ordered a test of the boys free testosterone after having considered this was the best option compared to testing the total testosterone. The test results came back at 25.0pg/ml reference range 0.1-3.2pg/ml flagged as high for the boy. Several months later a repeated test showed 28.0pg/ml reference range of 50-210pg/ml adult reference range flagged as high. Our paper will go into detail of how
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Select a mental illness of your choice and discuss your response to the following questions: The mental illness I chose is Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) also known as Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD). Two or more personalities/ identities non-simultaneously. With DID individuals may not remember events under the character they are operating from at the time of the incident while under the control of the other identity. Characteristics of DID or MPD includes altering ego’s which are usually
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lectured the class about cognitive-communication disorders. She presented several video clips that demonstrated her techniques when working with patients facing a cognitive-communication disorder‚ in a clinical setting. The goals for each therapy session included restoring the patient’s function and compensating for their deficits‚ so they can eventually process and communicate normally. Ms. Moss began the class by stating a cognitive-communicate disorder results from problems with any feature of communication
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personality disorder is a disorder that sounds like many people could have. However just like other disorders there are some requirement that each person must meet in order to diagnose them with this disorder. Social workers should be able to differentiate this disorder from other disorder by ensuring that the client meets all of the criteria for this disorder as well as ensuring that they are familiar with the DSM. Some symptoms for this disorder that are different from other disorder is that the
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In order to develop an effective approach to treating PAS‚ Gardner states that a professional needs to examine the severity of the PAS in the child. Gardner suggest that the disorder has there subtypes—mild‚ moderate‚ and severe. In cases of mild PAS‚ where the child visits the alienated parent voluntarily‚ Gardner states court orders are not necessary and “recommend[s] that the alienating parent still retain primary custodial status because that parent has usually been the primary caretaker throughout
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