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    1. What is mental illness? Mental Illness is conditions that affect your overall behavior‚thinking and mood. 2. What are some of the common treatments used today for mental illness? Common treatments are medicine‚ therapy‚ and a support group. 3. In your own words‚ write a brief description for each of the following conditions (use the back of the page if necessary): a. Anxiety Disorders- This condition is when the person would worry more than the average person. b

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    Schizophrenia is a severe disorder that affects the brain which leads to the person affected by this illness to interpret reality abnormally by affecting how that person feels‚ behaves‚ and thinks. While schizophrenia is not very common as other mental disorders there are reportedly more than 200‚000 cases per year in the united states alone and the symptoms can be extremely disabling. Risk Factors With the help of science and our advanced technology‚ scientists have known that schizophrenia sometimes

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    Depression is a common mental disorder that causes people to experience depressed mood‚ loss of interest or pleasure‚ feelings of guilt or low self-worth‚ disturbed sleep or appetite‚ low energy‚ and poor concentration. Depression is different from feeling down or sad. Unhappiness is something which everyone feels at one time or another‚ usually due to a particular cause. A person suffering from depression will experience intense emotions of anxiety‚ hopelessness‚ negativity and helplessness‚ and

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    and mentally. The client stated he carries a diagnosis of Manic Depression. In addition‚ he believes that the he was diagnosed with other mental health disorders but does not remember specifics related to the diagnoses. He consumes the prescribed psychotropic medications Hydroxyzine 50mg and Quetiapine 150mg. The client carries diagnosis of Cannabis Use Disorder: Severe- F14.20

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    potential of crucially important mental faculties and mental processes of a child. On the other hand‚ as mentioned earlier‚ emotional abuse refers to a repeated action that negatively affects a child’s development‚ emotions‚ and how a child sees oneself. Given those contexts‚ the difference is that in emotional abuse‚ the feelings and emotional well-being of the child is taken into account‚ while in psychological abuse‚ the mental health is focused. To clarify‚ these two ideas overlap with each

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    According to the list of psychiatric disorders provided in the DSM-IV-TR PowerPoint material‚ a Mood Disorder is diagnosed on:  A.Axis II  B.Axis VI  C.Axis IV  D.Axis I Answer Key: D Question 5 of 18 2.0 Points The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders‚ or DSM-IV-TR is authored by:  A.American Psychological Association  B.American Philosophial Association  C.National Alliance for Mental Illness  D.American Psychiatric

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    Mental Disorder in E. A. Poe’s Prose In my essay‚ I will discuss mental disorder as a significant theme in the prose of Edgar Allan Poe. For these purposes‚ I have chosen three of his short stories: “The Fall of the House of Usher” (published in 1839)‚ “The Black Cat” and “The Tell-Tale Heart” (both published in 1843) with the chief focus on the first one. I have chosen them for they all handle the theme in question‚ yet each one of them in a different manner. The main body of the essay

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    influences] that affect crime [particularly violent crime]is mental disorder. Several studies have been carried out that investigate this link‚ which have uncovered much important information. These studies [as with most studies] however‚ are not without bias. Things such as definition of mental disorder or abnormality are often questionable‚ as are sample distributions. There are also individual factors‚ such as type of mental disorder and previous criminal records of subjects‚ which can influence

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    that disciplinary action will be taken for plagiarism. | Relationship between crime and mental disorder Mental disorders have been related to crime and are being depicted over the media as dangerous and unpredictable (Tartakovsky‚ 2012). Pullman (2010) did an analysis of 211 females and 212 males that were in medical care and also had criminal charges. The study aimed to find the relationship between mental health and the transition from adolescent to adulthood (16 – 25 yrs) which is the most common

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    Given the amount of different mental disorders‚ the search to understand what causes them all seems vast. This essay will aim to present the assumptions that different models make about the origins and treatment of psychological disorders. Although there are a number of paradigms in the area of abnormal psychology‚ the biological‚ psychodynamic‚ behavioural and cognitive are the four major models which place distinct interpretations. Each of the different approaches is considered to the degree that

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