Signs‚ symptoms and contributing factors Depression is a serious mental disorder that could lead to death by suicide if not taken seriously and treated. Depression in adolescents (age group of 12-17) can affect school and work performance‚ peer and family relationships‚ and even exacerbate other health issues like asthma. According to childStats.gov statistics‚ in 2011 about 8% of the population age 12-17 had a major depressive episode. According to the medical Merriam-Webster online dictionary
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already told them. 1. What is the most likely diagnosis? - A probable diagnosis could be dementia base on patient’s history such as forgetfulness‚ personality changes‚ and memory loss. 2. How would you define this condition? - Dementia is a loss of brain function that occurs with certain brain diseases or injury. It affects memory‚ personality changes‚ and impaired judgment. 3. (a) How is a definitive diagnosis made? Medical history: an interview or questionnaire
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Starting change implementation with shared diagnosis is one of the methods to identify problems within the organization. Shared diagnosis has a wide-ranging collection of both employees and supervisors opinions and all organizational members can be involved. There are many advantages to start a change implementation with shared diagnosis. As all organizational members can be involved in this project‚ problems can be identified from different levels of work. Top managers could not spend much time
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Depression. One in six adults in the UK between the ages of 18 and 65 has symptoms of mental illness‚ the most common being depression. Depression is a common mental disorder that causes people to experience depressed mood‚ loss of interest or pleasure‚ feeling of guilt or low self-worth individuals may also experience no appetite‚ low energy and loss of concentration. Depression is different from a individual feeling down or sad. A individual who is experiencing depression will experience extreme
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Medicare Severity-Diagnosis Groups Diagnosis related groups (DRGs) have been around since the early 1980s‚ evolving over the years as a patient classification system. However‚ since October 1st‚ 2007‚ Medicare relies on the Medicare Severity-Diagnosis Group (MS-DRG) system to facilitate payments of services rendered for Medicare inpatients. The Beginning of MS-DRGs In the late 1960s‚ Yale University’s School of Management worked with Public Health to begin design and development of the DRG system
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Causes of the Depression My three major points are The Dust Bowl‚ World War 1‚ and the Stock Market Crash. These three major points put millions of people in a sad place‚ A place nobody wanted to be at. Everyone wanted to believe it was a dream. Doing their best to raise their children. Caused a whole lot of damage to the crops‚ getting around to places‚ and especially losing loved ones. This was all happing in Kansas‚ Oklahoma‚ Texas‚ and New Mexico; from Nevada and Arkansas. For eight years
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BIOMES LAB BIOL 120 `` A biome is a major complex of similar communities. It is the largest ecological unit we recognize. Different books vary in the number of biomes they list. Temperature and precipitation are the two key factors that determine the different type biomes. Some books consider marine ecosystems and freshwater systems as biomes. Others break out wetlands as a biome. We will look at 10 terrestrial biomes: 1. Tundra (Arctic and alpine) 2. Boreal forest or taiga
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NIMH (2009) also list gender as another major risk factor for mood disorders‚ particularly depressive disorders. With women having nearly twice as much risk of developing major depression as men. It is believed that hormones involved in pregnancy and miscarriage and hormone changes during the menstrual cycle‚ postpartum period‚ pre-menopause and menopause may attribute this in women. According to NIMH (2009) about 9.5 percent of American adults‚ or about 18.8 million people‚ have a mood disorder
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Diagnosis is the procedure of determining whether the particular problems afflicting an individual meet all the criteria for a psychological disorder‚ as set by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) (American Psychiatric Association‚ 2000). In contrast‚ ‘formulation’ is a process that draws up on psychological theory in order to create a working hypothesis or ‘best guess’ about the reasons and nature of the difficulties of the client‚ in the light of their relationships
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according to “the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism’s National Longitudinal Alcohol Epidemiology Survey concluded that dependence and mental illness go hand in hand” (NIH‚ pg. 1). Dual Diagnosis A person who is being “treated in a psychiatric hospital may be given a dual diagnosis” (Stevens & Smith‚ pg. 158). This
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