Running head: PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS PRESENTATION Psychological Disorders Presentation Debra Baker University of Phoenix Introduction to Behavioral Science BEH/225 Katherine Malish June 23‚ 2010 Psychological Disorders Presentation For many millennia psychological disorders‚ also called mental disorders have been misunderstood. Used to‚ people suffering from such disorders were thought to be demonically possessed or they were accused of being a witch. Many of these unfortunate
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Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: Cultural Bias and Seeking Treatment Nicole Doyle Walden University Capstone Project Introduction Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a widely studied anxiety disorder that has more recently been found to have better recovery with a strong support system (Gabert-Quillen‚ et al.‚ (2012). The American Psychological Association (APA‚ 2012) defines this as an anxiety disorder that occurs after experiencing a traumatic event. There are studies that focus on
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Autism Spectrum Disorders All around the world‚ there are many children and adults that suffer from an autism spectrum disorder. Unluckily‚ autism is a disorder that is not easily identifiable‚ especially in children. However‚ families that are fortunate enough to identify this disorder in children at most have no idea of how to cope with the disability or how to even handle the child. For that reason‚ it is essential to clarify the misapprehensions most people make and alert them on and how to handle
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Introduction to Psychology SCHIZOPHRENIA April 30th‚ 2011 Abstract Schizophrenia is a complex mental disorder that has many long term symptoms‚ caused by both genetic and environmental factors and their interactions. Research on pathogenesis has traditionally focused on neurotransmitter systems in the brain‚ particularly those involving dopamine. Schizophrenia has been considered a separate disease for over a century‚ but in the absence of clear biological
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Defiant Disorder is a diagnosis‚ usually in children and adolescents‚ and more often found in males rather than females. The common symptoms of ODD are delinquent behavior‚ aggression‚ short temper‚ disobedience‚ and problems with authority figures. Children and adolescents diagnosed with ODD will often show signs by purposefully irritating and arguing those around them in order to get a reaction from them‚ deliberately ignoring and disobeying rules‚ and blaming others for what they do. This paper
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Behavioural Therapy effective in the treatment Eating Disorder? Introduction Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is the recommended choice of treatment for people suffering eating disorders (NICE 2004). However‚ there is growing and mountain concerns that there is lack of clinical trail to prove the efficacy of CBT in treating eating disorders. Therefore‚ what this review aims to achieve is to examine and explore what studies and literature has been made available in this field and to systematically analyse
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Neurodevelopmental and Neurocognitive Disorders Until the twentieth century‚ little account was taken of the special characteristics of psychopathology in children; maladaptive patterns considered relatively specific to childhood‚ such as autism‚ received virtually no attention at all (Butcher & Hooley‚ 2014). Today there is more attention paid to children with maladaptive behaviors and scientific research has been done that demands more attention is paid to specific children’s behaviors‚ not the
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un-flexed them‚ allowing them to fall back down to his sides and he mumbled to himself “still not big enough Mark”. This‚ of course‚ is a ludicrous statement. How could a man with such large‚ muscular arms think that they were “not big enough”? The fact is Mark suffers from a mental disorder called Muscle dysmorphia‚ popularly coined “Bigorexia”‚ which is a “form of body dysmorphic disorder in which individuals develop a pathological preoccupation with their muscularity” (Olivardia‚ Pope & Hudson
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the result of a disruption in basic brain functioning‚ which in effect leads to loss of touch with reality. is a psychotic disorder‚ or a group of disorders‚ marked by severely impaired thinking‚ emotions and behaviors. Schizophrenia patients typically experience enhanced perceptions of sounds‚ colors and other features of their normal environment. Patients suffering with this disease experience a variety of different psychotic symptoms‚ which include‚ hallucinations‚ delusions‚ disorganized speech
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to genetic disorders. Some genes are dominant and some are recessive. Dominant genes are more influential than recessive ones and can be observed in the characteristics of a person. Recessive genes can be passed from parent to child undetected making those with the recessive genes carriers. Nature can also be considered how a person’s moral values are developed through genetics. Nurture comes from a variety of environmental influences and factors from the womb to the outside world. This includes how
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