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    A Critical Evaluation of Three Different Methods for Treating Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder University of Southern Queensland Introduction Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is marked by repeated obsessions: continual thoughts or ideas‚ and compulsions: stereotyped acts performed in response to an obsession (Burton‚ Westen & Kowalski‚ 2012). Patients with OCD can be any age and there have been reports of patients suffering from the condition for over forty years. (Burton

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    Chapter 13 Treatment of Psychological Disorders Quiz 1) People in collectivist cultures are likely to view a mental disorder as a symptom of something wrong in: a. the unconscious mind b. a person’s behavior‚ rather than the mind c. a person’s relationship with family or community d. a person’s character e. a person’s attitude 2) What kind of therapist is most likely to analyze a client’s dreams? a. Behaviorist b. Cognitive c. Humanistic d. Psychoanalytic e. Biomedical 3) Which

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    Anxiety Disorders Anitra Boyle There are many different types of anxiety disorders which can vary from obsessive compulsive disorder‚ Post traumatic-stress disorder and the many different types of phobias. Even though there are many different types of anxiety disorders they all are mostly built off the same emotion of anxiety or excessive nervousness. Although we all may feel nervous when put into an uncomfortable position and get nervous or anxious‚ those with the disorder go through a completely

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    points for use with each section 1. Clinical characteristics- this part only requires you to know symptoms(so no evaluation) You need to know: Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterised by a split between thinking and emotion. How long symptoms need to last for someone to be diagnosed(the DSM and ICD have different times) How many positive and negative symptoms someone needs to be diagnosed and a few examples of each Two sub-types of Schizophrenia and 3-4 symptoms of each subtype. Exam questions:

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    Given the amount of different mental disorders‚ the search to understand what causes them all seems vast. This essay will aim to present the assumptions that different models make about the origins and treatment of psychological disorders. Although there are a number of paradigms in the area of abnormal psychology‚ the biological‚ psychodynamic‚ behavioural and cognitive are the four major models which place distinct interpretations. Each of the different approaches is considered to the degree that it

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    Done By: Tan Shu Yi Clarissa S4 Amber Bio Essay: Treatments of neurological disorders (Huntington’s Chorea) In the world we live in‚ we are vulnerable to any number of neurological disorders. One such disease is Huntington’s Chorea. Progressive and degenerative‚ Huntington’s causes the one’s nerve cells in the brain to waste away. This causes personality changes such as depression and anger‚ decrease of cognitive abilities such as learning new information‚ involuntary facial movements and

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    Psychotherapeutic Treatments of Major Depressive Disorder Seham Saba National University Author Note This paper is being submitted to Eugene Furnace‚ MS in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Clinical Assessment II‚ PSY623B‚ on May 2nd‚ 2013. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Seham Saba‚ College of Letters and Sciences‚ National University San Bernardino Campus‚ 804 East Brier Drive‚ San Bernardino‚ CA 92408. E-mail: sehamsaba@hotmail.com Abstract This paper reviews

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    1. Introduction Although phobic disorder is certainly common‚ it has been more difficult to establish the extent to which it should be considered a "serious" mental disorder from a public health perspective. Recent studies in understanding the behavioral‚ molecular‚ and anatomical bases of fear extinction in animals and humans are leading to new knowledge about the nature of fear and new treatments for anxiety disorders that affect millions of Americans (news release from SFN). In those people

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    What Is Bipolar Disorder? I.Writebol COMM/156 5/25/2012 M.Clark “What a creature of strange moods [Winston Churchill] is - always at the top of the wheel of confidence or at the bottom of an intense depression‚” once said William Maxwell "Max" Aitken. Bipolar disorder is a chemical imbalance in the brain that has yet to be unraveled; it causes many mood swings that can happen at a moment’s notice without a word. With many mental illnesses in order to diagnose them it takes time

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    Running head: THE TREATMENT OF AUTISM AS AN INFORMATION PROCESSING DISORDER The Treatment of Autism as an Information Processing Disorder Mark Collins University of the Rockies Dr. Robert Wolf August 1‚ 2010 Abstract This paper examines some of the research and theories related to the neurological‚ sensorimotor‚ and memory functions in individuals with autism and autism spectrum disorders. It examines data associated with dysfunction within four neural mechanisms in the brain of those

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