Substance Use Disorders Definition and Criteria The DSM 5 defines substance use disorders as a “cluster of cognitive‚ behavioral‚ and physiological symptoms indicating that the individual continues using the substance despite significant substance-related problems” (American Psychiatric Association‚ 2013‚ p. 483). Within the broad category of substance use disorders are listed disorders for each of the following substances: alcohol‚ cannabis‚ inhalants‚ sedatives‚ hypnotics‚ anxiolytics‚ tobacco
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Brain‚ the Body and the Mind Analyzing Psychological Disorders Presented to: Instructor University of Phoenix Thank you for considering me for the psychologist position with your organization. I enjoyed meeting with you today. I understand as a psychologist‚ I am expected to recognize all disorders in order to assist people that are suffering. The first part of my paper will discuss schizophrenia disorders. I will briefly explain what areas of the brain are affected
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Borderline Personality Disorder and Substance Use Disorders Psychology of Addictions Alyx Brake Introduction Do you know anyone with drug and/or alcohol abuse disorder? Anyone with borderline personality disorder? Have you ever known anyone with both borderline personality disorder and drug and/or alcohol abuse disorder? When a person has a personality disorder they are more likely to become someone with a substance and/ or alcohol abuse disorder. A co-occurring disorder is a condition when
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LIFE EVENTS AND PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS * RITA CHATTERJEE‚ M.A.‚ M. Phil (Medical and Social Psychology Trainee); MANU ARORA‚ M.D.‚ D.P.M.‚ Senior Resident; Central Institute of Psychiatry‚ Ranchi‚ India. * drmanu2004@rediffmail.com * Citation: Chatterjee‚ R. & Arora‚ M. (2005) Life events and psychiatric disorders. Mental Health Reviews‚ Accessed from <http://www.psyplexus.com/mhr/.html> on CONCEPTS AND DEFINITIONS Life Events Researchers have long been interested in understanding
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Anorexia and bulimia are both a deadly disorder. In our young world full of social looks and what to look like. Even how to act‚ and what kind of personality you have. All of this can contribute to anorexia and bulimia. Teens are pushed to anorexia or bulimia or even both because they want to look the same as someone. Eventually this disorder they adopted can kill them. These disabilities have almost the same mental and physical symptoms‚ but they do differ in some ways. Anorexia symptoms make a
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into reality refreshed and ready to take on the world again. People with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) involuntarily and chronically escape their reality in a variety of damaging ways including suppressing memories and assuming alternate identities or personalities. So while the idea in the statement above may
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Mental Health : Nature or Nurture Mental health is by nature and not by nurture. The mental health of a person is linked to his gene and hereditary. A person with no mental illness ancestry does not easily encounter depression or other illness in adverse situations. On the other hand‚ a person having a parent with mental illness has a considerable chance of getting mentally ill. A person having a mutated gene in his DNA can get mental health problems easier than normal people. Nurturing adds to
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Borderline personality disorder is a mental disorder characterized by the unstable mood‚ relationships and behavior. People that have a borderline personality disorder share the same characteristic of splitting. The definition of splitting sees other people as entirety‚ good or entirely bad. The symptoms of borderline personality disorder are in the instability in self-image. The Dialectical Behavior therapy is most helpful for people that have borderline personality disorder because of the technique
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do monstrosities such as depriving others of their lives? Society considers this behavior abnormal. They assume this type of conduct is caused by mental disorders‚ or mental illness. Sue‚ Sue‚ Sue‚ and Sue (2014) wrote in their book that professionals are shifting
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Mental health within childhood is a long standing problem within society. One in ten children suffer with mental health issues (Mentalhealth.org.uk‚ 2015)‚ by adopting different perspectives‚ models and explanations for childhood mental health‚ an evaluation can be made on the best course of prevention. The different views we adopt however have an effect on the way we think about the issue‚ such as the way we assess and identify it‚ how we treat it and most importantly how we try to prevent it (Kearney
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