Theories of personality Tuesday‚ April 08‚ 2014 905 AM Personality Individual differences in how one thinks‚ behaves and feels Every adult personality is a combination of temperaments‚ personal history of family‚ culture‚ and the time during which they grew up. Hippocrates believed the personality dealt with the four physical humors of the body blood‚ black bile‚ yellow bile‚ and phlegm. Character Value judgments of a persons moral and ethical behavior Personality in the context of how healthy
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a particular diagnostic category‚ such as schizophrenia. The two systems currently used to classify psychological abnormality are the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). For a classification system to be meaningful and useful‚ it needs to be valid and reliable. Reliability refers to the consistency of a measuring instrument‚ such as a questionnaire or scale to assess‚ for example‚ the severity of their schizophrenic
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The Road Within is a comedy and drama written by Gren Wells. It follows three characters with different mental disorders and their journey to the beach. One of the characters is a guy named Vincent‚ who has Tourette. His mother recently passed away and he was forced to be with his father‚ Robert‚ and step mother. They send him to an experimental treatment center in Nebraska. There he is paired with Alex‚ who suffers from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Alex does not take it well‚ and tries to sabotage
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Matthew Wolfe Marywood University Mark A. Shaffer‚ MSW‚ LCSW Social Work Perspectives on Psychopathology June 29‚ 2013 Post-traumatic stress disorder: the social worker perspective Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric disorder that occurs following a traumatic event and is characterized by re-experiencing the event‚ avoidance of key details and features of the event as well as a state of hyper-vigilance and arousal
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discussing how to come to terms with having an intersex child. I also really enjoyed how the clinical graduate students and the counseling graduate students helped explain why disorders such as gender dysphoria and gender identity even existed within the DSM. All in all‚ I felt like the whole class really came together and had a great conversation
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Client is showing symptoms of suffering from a severe eating disorder which is categorized under the DSM-V as “Binge Eating” 307.51 (F50.8). Under the specific guidelines of the DSM-V‚ “Binge Eating” is defined as eating much more rapidly than normal‚ eating large amounts of food when not feeling psychically hungry‚ eating until feeling uncomfortably full‚ eating alone due to embarrassment of how much one is eating‚ feeling disgusted with oneself‚ depressed and guilty after overeating. Also‚ one
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Psychiatric Association‚ 2013). Both feelings of fear and anxiety are normal‚ however excessive anxiety‚ persistent feelings of anxiety and irrational cues that cause anxiety can be signs of an anxiety disorder. Currently‚ the DSM-V lists nine different subcategories under anxiety. The DSM-V was released in 2013 and provides explanations to differentiate between disorder types and provides recommendations on how to diagnose and treat disorders‚
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of depression: A study of psychiatric disorders in women. London: Tavistock Publications. Kraepelin‚ E Engel‚ G. L. (1977). The need for a new medical model: A challenge for biomedicine. Science‚ 196‚ 129–136. Krimsky 2006) Financial Ties between DSM-IV Panel Members and the Pharmaceutical Industry Mitchell‚ Vaze and Rao (2009) Clinical diagnosis of depression in primary care: a meta-analysis‚ The Lancet August 2009; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19640579 Accessed 12th June 2010 D Winnicott
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criteria for various disorders in DSM –IV. Brown found that reliability in inter-rater agreement was excellent for specific phobia‚ social phobia and panic disorder wit agoraphobia. Reliability could have been higher for the various phobias than for other mental disorders because all phobias are associated with clear behavioural symptoms (avoidance of feared stimulus) which makes them easy to diagnose. This suggests that diagnosis of phobic disorders according to the DSM is reliable however largely because
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