themes that arise. First‚ I would like to highlight the most severe of said maladaptive behavior and attempt to diagnose Mr. Ripley using the most current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders‚ Fifth Edition (DSM-5) DIAGNOSIS: To start with I would like to address the obvious Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD) that is listed as one of ten disorders in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association‚ Fourth Edition‚ Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR)
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conflicted emotional moment? 32. Would you rather follow your heart or your head? 33. What is your opinion about same gender relationships? 34. Do you think the past matters in a relationship? 35. How would you react if I told I have had a relationship with a partner of the same gender? 36. Do you believe in any god or gods? Why? 37. Do you have any political opinions? 38. Do you have any hobbies? 39. Have you ever experimented with drugs? 40. What do you think is the key to good parenting
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Risk assessment relates to rights and responsibilities in the following ways: Legal requirement: It is legally requred by law that the person is charge acknowledges the various risk possibly associated with the individual in a care and that the risk are assessed and precautions are taken. Prevention from danger and harm: Risk are carried out to assess the various risks associated with the mobility‚ personal hygiene‚ behavior‚ exits and personal habits of the individual. 7.3 Explain how risktaking relates
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of external stimuli” (p. 430). What is Dual Diagnosis: Substance Abuse and Mental Illness The National Alliance on Mental Illness http://www.nami.or/content/contentgroups/ retrieved 7 June 2013‚ suggests that individuals that can struggle with both‚ serious mental illness and substance abuse‚ face problems of enormous proportions because substance abuse tends to complicate nearly all aspects of care for the individual with mental illness. Diagnosis becomes difficult as it takes time to unravel
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The diagnosis method for ADHD is a subjectively answered scoring system where doctors present symptoms of inattention and hyperactivity to their patients. If the patients believe that they exhibit a sufficient amount of symptoms in daily life‚ an ADHD diagnosis takes place. As a result of the subjectivity of the testing‚ there are misdiagnoses‚ incorrect treatments given‚ and a glaring lack of education about medications used to alleviate the symptoms of this disorder. While doctors argue that
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consequences. Incapable of having meaningful relationships‚ they view others as fodder for manipulation and exploitation. An interesting fact about Jesse Pomeroy is the fact that he committed these atrocities at the age of 14. This can go to show how environmental factors can also play a part in triggering sociopathic behavior. Jesse was beaten savagely by his drunkard of a father‚ Charles Pomeroy. He would strip his children naked before a beating‚ in the process helping Jesse forge a link between
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Getting the Diagnosis Wrong Liat Hill Adelphi University Danielle Ofri‚ M.D.‚ explains how differential and extensive diagnosis are and how easy it is to misdiagnose a patient. As she examines her patient with abdominal pain and prioritizes her diagnosis while trying to make sure she keeps in mind the serious conditions she can’t afford to miss. Danielle explains that diagnostic accuracy is very difficult to precisely achieve. It is estimated that doctors get
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How do you perceive people with mental illnesses? Did you know that in a 1996 survey‚ 12.1 percent of Americans identified people with mental illnesses as “violent‚ dangerous‚ frightening.” John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men illustrates the real-life issue of people with mental illnesses and disabilities and how people around the world fear these people and won’t offer them available treatments‚ because of those acts they aren’t treated equally or with respect. Due to a survey that was taken
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When someone hurts your feelings‚ what do you do? Do you let that steal the joy God has given you? Or do you allow your imagination and your feelings run wild? The Gospel of Luke tells us what we should do when people hurt us: “But I tell you who hear me: Love your enemies‚ do good to those who hate you‚ bless those who curse you‚ pray for those who mistreat you.”1 Does God know what he is saying? Is he actually telling us to love the people who hate us and pray from them? God is asking us to pray
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How does movie Gattaca relate to biology? The movie Gattaca directed by Andrew Niccol is about “a genetically inferior man assumes the identity of a superior one in order to pursue his lifelong dream of space travel”. During the process (to become as same as Jerome Morrow‚ the superior)‚ Vincent goes through lots of different operations‚ including physical and genetic operations. As we watched it and saw the operations and the doctors in the beginning of the movie‚ we connected happenings to the
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