Child and Youth Mental Health Issues – Major Assignment Part A Elaina Pham Sheridan College Hayley MacPhail July 5th‚ 2013 Introduction This case study is on Susanna Kayson in the Girl‚ Interrupted movie. She is a young‚ 18 year old girl that has just graduated from high school. She is confused about her life and the direction it is going and this frustrates‚ as well as depresses her. Her family and peers around her have high expectations of her which she feels she cannot and does not
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ORGANIZER: IB Psychology – ABNORMAL (Day 2 – Option) Learning Outcomes General framework (applicable to all topics in this option): MAIN INFO: Theories/Topics/People/Studies/Methodology/Notes Text (pgs) |To what extent do biological‚ cognitive | |136-137 | |and sociocultural factors influence |*Behavioral measures (like intelligence and short-term memory)
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Sexual and Gender Identity‚ Personality‚ and Eating Disorders Case Analysis Introduction Abnormal disorders diagnosed in the DSM-IV-TR‚ a multi-axial diagnostic tool‚ used by clinicians‚ psychologists‚ psychiatrists‚ and medical professionals for the classification of mental disorders (Hansell & Damour‚ 2008). Axis I and Axis II of the DSM-IV-TR covers classifications of mental disorders that include unwelcome types of distress and impairment‚ that constitutes mental
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Observations clinicians systematically observe their clients behavior. Naturalistic observation clinicians observe their clients in their everyday client. Analog observation clinicians observe their clients in an artificial setting‚ such as a clinical office or laboratory. Self – monitoring clients are instructed to observe themselves. 2. Summarize the axis approach of the DSM series and describe the general features of DSM-IV-TR. The DSM-IV-TR‚ lists approximately 400 disorders. It requires clinicians
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22 Michael Levin 1 Introduction This essay defends the view that homosexuality is abnormal and hence undesirable - not because it is immoral or sinful‚ or because it weakens society or hampers evolutionary development‚ but for a purely mechanical reason. It is a misuse of bodily parts. Clear empirical sense attaches to the idea of the use of such bodily parts as genitals‚ the idea that they are for something‚ and consequently to the idea of their misuse. I argue on grounds involving natural selection
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Relationship between Mental Illness and Violence and Criminal Behavior Your Name Pikes Peak Community College The Relationship between Mental Illness and Violence and Criminal Behavior The relationship between mental illness and violence is something of a fascination. The fascination grows even stronger when an individual committing violent behavior also has a diagnosis of Schizophrenia. If the violent behavior is criminal—well‚ the public will happily lap up stories of individuals
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Arria Abnormal Psychology In watching the film “Dying to be thin” my understanding of anorexia was changed in a couple of ways. One way was that to be a dancer you are expected to be 15% below average body weight. This shocks me because the diagnostic criteria for being anorexic is being 15% below average body weight. Another aspect of anorexia that I did not know about is that the onset generally happens around the time of puberty. Treating eating disorders with a group of people with different
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The word abnormal refers to actions and behaviours that are seen to be different from majority. There have been many different explanations and views of abnormality suggested for 1000’s of years. One view is that of the Greek and Roman’s. Hippocrates taught that illness had natural causes. He perceived abnormal behaviour as a disease derived from internal physical problems. He believed it was an imbalance in the four humors that flowed through the body that caused abnormal behaviours. The four humors
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Evaluate Psychological models for abnormal behaviour (psychoanalytic‚ learning & cognitive) which in your view is the most convincing? There are three main models of abnormal behaviour which include the cognitive model‚ the learning model and the psychoanalytic model. Each model is a general structure made up of guidelines and individual ideas of abnormal behaviour which are all supported by research and studies. However‚ it is argued about within psychology about which model is the most convincing
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you wake up‚ and instead of feeling like your normal self‚ you feel sick. You’re coughing‚ sneezing‚ you have a fever‚ your body aches and you just want to stay in bed and sleep. Those are signs that something is wrong with your health. You feel abnormal. Your collections of warning signs are called symptoms. When taken to a doctor‚ he/she takes your symptoms and can then tell you what underlying condition‚ or syndrome you have. This feeling of abnormality happens also in mental illness. Mental
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