make it difficult to diagnose it in adolescents because the symptoms are often similar to other disorders such as conduct disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. 1. CLASSIFICATION OF PERSONALITY DISORDERS ACCORDING TO THE DSM-IV: The DSM-IV-TR classifies a personality disorder as a lasting pattern of inner experience and behaviour that deviates markedly from expectations of an individuals cultural‚ that is pervasive and inflexible and has an onset from early childhood or adolescence
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Scent of a Woman Lt. Colonel Frank Slade is a depressed man. In the movie‚ Sent of a Woman‚ Al Pacino plays Slade’s character who is blind and has Major Depressive Disorder (DSM IV-TR 296.2x). Besides meeting the challenge of acting blind when you are not‚ he also met the challenge of making his character meet the criteria for a Major Depressive Episode. In the movie a college student‚ Charlie Simms (Chris O’Donell)‚ is hired to aide the blind veteran Slade‚ for the duration of a holiday weekend
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-reliability is the ability of a measuring device to produce the same result each time. • -validity is when a measurement actually measures what it is supposed to measure. 5 Axes of DSM-IV-TR o Axis I: the clinical syndromes or conditions o Axis II: personality disorders and MR o Axis III: general medical conditions o Axis IV: psychosocial and environmental problems o Axis V: Global assessment of functioning Acute: disorder lasting less than 6 months and chronic refers to a long-standing disorder
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Critically appraise and discuss the issue of what is “normal” and “abnormal” sexual behaviour. What is normal sexual behaviour? it depends more to the point‚ when is sexual behaviour that is somewhat different from the norm‚ morally abnormal or a disorder. Current views of unusual unless the behaviour is associated with a substantial impairment in functioning‚ law‚ with a non consenting partner or an individual unable to consent due to age‚ disability or culture (Kennair et.al. 2009; Vaknin
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1 Discipleship Counseling Douglas Berry Liberty University Introduction to Christian Counseling CCOU201 Professor Kendra Penn Date July 27‚ 2012 DISCIPLESHIP COUNSELING Abstract We live in a hedonistic society. Pleasure
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References: Association‚ A. P.‚ & Diagnostic And Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders‚ Dsm-Iv-Tr. (Fourth edition ed.‚ Vol. Text revision). Washington‚ DC: American Psychiatric Pub Inc.‚ 2000. Comer‚ C. J. Abnormal psychology. (7 ed.). New York‚ NY: Worth Publishers‚ 2011. Feist‚ J.‚ & Feist‚ G. J. Theories of personality. (7 ed.). New York
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that primarily affect learning‚ memory‚ perception‚ and problem solving‚ and include amnesia‚ dementia‚ and delirium. While anxiety disorders‚ mood disorders‚ and psychotic disorders can also have an effect on cognitive and memory functions‚ the DSM-IV-TR does not consider these cognitive disorders‚ because loss of cognitive function is not the primary (causal) symptom. Causes vary between the different types of disorders but most include damage to the memory portions of the brain. Treatments depend
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but once you take sleeping pills‚ you can sleep. Your insomnia could incorrectly be attributed to your lack of sleeping pills DSM-IV-TR - Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: classification system describing diagnostic criteria‚ symptoms‚ ways to distinguish one disorder from another; helps clinicians communicate and target treatment 7 things DSM-IV-TR give: - - Most common symptoms - Typical age of onset - Predisposing factors - Course of disorder - Prevalence of disorders
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Diagnosing Bipolar Disorder in Adolescents Before the 1990s‚ it was believed that children under the age of eighteen would have been rarely diagnoses with bipolar disorder. This all changed in the mid-1990s when there were 800‚000 children labeled with bipolar disease and an astonishing number were under the age of five (Carmichael‚ 2008). The
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negative symptoms which in fact reflect a loss or reduction in normal functions e.g. alogia (the loss of fluent speech) avolition (the loss of motivation) and accecore flattening (a reduction in the range of emotional intensity). According to the DSM-IV-TR there are 5 distinct points which must be met for diagnosis to be made. Firstly‚ the patient must have been experiencing at least 2 symptoms for 1 month (N.B. if delusions bizarre one is enough)‚ occupational/social dysfunction ‚ continuous disturbance
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