An eating disorder is an illness that causes serious disturbances to your everyday diet‚ such as eating extremely small amounts of food or severely overeating. People with eating disorder may have started out just eating small or large amounts of food‚ but at some point‚ the urge to eat lessened or gained and spiraled out of control. Severe distress or concern about body weight or shape may also signal an eating disorder. ("Eating Disorders." NIMH RSS. Web. 5 Oct. 2015.) Eating disorders include extreme
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(TLC)‚ 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
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DISODERS: INTRODUCTION: A learning disorder can defined as a difficulty in an area of cognitive functioning. Learning disabilities are neurological differences in processing information that severely limit a person ’s ability to learn in a specific skill area. Learning disorders/disabilities are the result of actual differences in the way the brain processes‚ understands‚ and uses information. The term "learning disabilities" is used to describe a group of disorders characterized by inadequate development
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Psychological Disorder Paper Marvin Arnold University of Phoenix PSY/450 Shally Vaid February 28‚ 2011 Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that is caused by a traumatic event. PTSD can be developed when an individual experience‚ or observe an event that caused intense fear‚ helplessness and horror (Mayo Clinic‚ n.d.). Post-traumatic stress disorder has identifiable symptoms‚ specific therapeutic interventions‚ and affects all segments of the population. PTSD is
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maintain relationships‚ and take adequate care of their personal needs. It is believed that schizophrenia is the result of a disruption in basic brain functioning‚ which in effect leads to loss of touch with reality. is a psychotic disorder‚ or a group of disorders‚ marked by severely impaired thinking‚ emotions and behaviors. Schizophrenia patients typically experience enhanced perceptions of sounds‚ colors and other features of their normal environment. Patients suffering with this disease experience
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Bipolar Disorder English Comp Akron Institute Christie Stark April 17‚ 2011 Since we could remember many of us have gone through many changes in our lives‚ some good and some bad. All of us can say during our lives that we have periodically had some sort of mood swing. Whether it was from a recent death in the family or an event in our lives‚ but to be able to link it to a disease we should know about the disease. Bipolar Disorders what is it? How is it diagnosed? Can it be treated? These
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language disorders resulting from brain damage‚ typically in the left hemisphere which controls language. The disorders consists of varying levels of impairment in reading comprehension‚ written expression‚ spoken language comprehension‚ and spoken language expression (Aphasia: Overview‚ 2015). An individual with aphasia may also have co-occurring cognitive deficits such as auditory and visual agnosia‚ visual field deficits‚ or even memory and executive functioning deficits. Aphasia disorders can be
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Psychological Disorder Paper XXXXX XXXX Psychology 450- Diversity and Cultural Factors in Psychology Prof. X Psychological Disorder Paper Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is defined as an anxiety disorder that most people acquire as a result of seeing or enduring dangerous events (National Institute of Mental Health‚ 2013). Danger comes in many forms and in most cases‚ danger that cannot be detected such as an earthquake‚ a robbery or an accident. We are all equipped with the ability
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"About 44 million people 18 and over suffer from a mental disorder " (Barbara L. Kass-Bartelmes‚ 2004). Mental illness and disorders affects many people in the world. One of the most challenging and can be difficult is to properly treat and diagnose an individual who is suffering from a mental disorder or abnormal behavior. Abnormal behavior can occur or be defined as abnormal due to many different characteristics. These characteristics can be identified as abnormal due to what is consider as
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Childhood Trauma and Dissociative Identity Disorder Dissociative identity disorder (DID)‚ previously known as multiple personality disorder‚ is a severe form of dissociation; a mental process that produces a lack of connection in a person’s thoughts‚ memories‚ feelings‚ actions‚ or sense of identity. DID is believed to be the effect of severe trauma suffered during childhood. It’s believed that experiencing extreme‚ repetitive physical‚ sexual‚ or emotional abuse causes the disassociation‚ and
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