with classification and diagnosis In order to diagnose the symptoms of mental health disorders ‚ practitioners use classification systems like the DSM which classifies the symptoms of schizophrenia. The DSM has been criticised for issues including cultural problems and the overlap of disorders such as schizophrenia with depression. The DSM is used to diagnose patients with a disorder and indicates what treatment they will require. Other problems involved with the classification includes inter-rater
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The Biological Importance of Lipids Lipids are organic compounds found in all types of plant and animal cells. They always contain carbon‚ hydrogen and oxygen‚ however the relative amount of oxygen is less than the amount of carbohydrates in lipids. Lipids are polymers and the long chains of repeating units are joined together in a condensation reaction where water is also produced. The most common types of lipids are triglycerides‚ phospholipids and waxes. Triglycerides are formed by three fatty
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Outline and evaluate psychological explanations for schizophrenia (24) One psychological explanation of SZ was put forward by Bateson et al (1956) who looked at childhood as a base for developing SZ‚ for example the interactions children have with their mothers. His explanation‚ the Double Bind theory‚ states that schizophrenia can occur due to conflicting messages given from parents to their children‚ for example when a parent expresses care but does so in a critical way. This means that the child
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BIOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS Heredity Heredity refers to the process of transmitting genetic characteristics from parents to offspring. Physical traits and even physical defects are known to be hereditary. Also‚ some mental traits and mental defects are known to be hereditary. (http://www.slideshare.net/GenPsyche/biological-bases) Nature and Nurture Both nature and nurture affects all aspects of human behaviour. “Nature refers to all the evolutionary factors that have shaped the genetics that we have
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Educational- when we look at the educational levels of people and the actions that they take we see that those with low educational levels may produce actions that others with higher educational levels may not make. If we are looking at a person’s level of education concerning religious views‚ such as Christianity‚ we would see that the person without the knowledge of what sins are that person may unknowingly commit a sin (McCall‚ 2011). We could also look at a person’s education in criminal or civil
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The Biological Importance of Water! The ultimate importance of water is none other than the fact that life cannot exist without it. Water being the major component of our body cells‚ typically making 70-95% of it‚ constructs the body mass with approximately 80% being water. Humans are not the only ones who contain the valued material but other creatures like the jellyfish hold 96% of water as their body mass. The structure of the water molecules enables it to have extreme properties that are
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Biological Predispositions at Strife Genetic engineering‚ or genetic modification‚ is the direct manipulation of human and animal genome using biotechnology in hopes of procreating its masses. What happens: DNA or RNA is prepared and inserted into a host of the organism or a cell that is hybridized into the host. By manipulating its genome‚ scientists (who are so obsessed with “playing god”) are able to produce more desirable or efficient traits in humans and animals. The organism that is newly
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The Biological Approach to Unipolar Depression. Katie Evans Abnormal behaviour was once thought to be caused by supernatural possession; this demonological model of abnormality was especially popular in the Middle Ages. It was not until the 18th century that psychologists began to argue that this behaviour should be treated as an illness and medical techniques could be used to treat it; and so emerged the medical model of abnormality. (Gross & McIlveen‚ 1996)1 The medical model of abnormal psychology
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When people all around the world‚ conversely protest‚ should it be mandatory for adoptive parents to allow biological parent access to their biological children it simulates other people around the world to fight for what they believe in and vice versa.Throughout previous history in the United States‚ adoption has gone on since the 1920’s. When an adopted child is placed in another family the birth parents must give up their parental rights in order to move on with an official adoption. Some rights
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Outline and evaluate one or more biological explanations of schizophrenia. In your evaluation you should refer to research evidence. 24 marks According to the genetic hypothesis‚ the more closely related the family member to the schizophrenic the greater their chance of developing the disorder. Evidence from twin‚ family and adoption studies has tended to indicate schizophrenia to have a genetic component although a major problem is separating out environmental influences. Recently gene mapping
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