Childhood Disorders Autism and Children Abnormal Psychology Professor Bruce Cameron July 22‚ 2007 Abstract: Autism is a brain development disorder that is found in children usually before the age of three. Autism affects children and their “social interactions‚ impaired communication‚ and restricted and repetitive behavior.” (www.wikipedia.org) The number of children that have been diagnosed with autism is dramatically increasing. Boys are four times more likely than girls to be
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compulsive hoarding seems to be a severe mental health disorder‚ it is currently not categorized as a psychiatric disorder and not listed in the DSM-IV. In the DSM-IV however‚ one of the 8 criteria for Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder is ‘the inability to discard worn-out or worthless objects even when they have no sentimental value’. There is currently a proposed revision for Hoarding in the DSM-V‚ with a push to include it as its own disorder; this includes an argument of whether or not it
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Axia College Material Appendix D Psychological and Psychophysiological Stress Disorders Respond to the following: 1. Stress can be the root cause of psychological disorders. Name four symptoms shared by acute and posttraumatic stress disorders. • Re-experiencing traumatic events; recurring nightmares‚ dreams‚ or memories connected to a traumatic event. • Avoidance towards activities that bring memories of the traumatic event. • Lack of responsiveness
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Munchausen Disorder Munchausen Disorder is a psychological disorder in which someone with a deep need for attention pretends to be very sick or injured on purpose. People that suffer from this syndrome go to extremes to push for operations‚ make up their symptoms‚ and some may attempt to rig laboratory tests results to win sympathy and concern. Munchausen is known as a factitious disorder which defines that the symptoms are either made up or self-inflicted. This disorder is odd yet hard to treat
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Hoarding Disorder Kandy Lind Independence Community College How Learning about Hoarding Helps The most current issue that is going on for me is hoarding. In the small town I live in that’s what people intend to do. In my own words and research I will explain why here everyone chooses to do it. Throughout the rest of my paper you will see that the information collected by psychologists and researchers to see how hoarders came to be and how they should get treated. Symptoms and behavior In this
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DYSTHYMIC DISORDER & BRIEF THERAPY DEPRESSION  Mild‚ chronic depression has probably existed as long as the human condition‚ although it has been referred to by various different names. The DSM-III replaced the term "neurotic depression" with dysthymic disorder--which literally means ill-humored’-and it was added to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders‚ 1980  Dysthymic disorder‚ also called dysthymia‚ is a type of depression involving long-term chronic symptoms
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P1- Explain the nature of TWO named physiological disorders. In this assignment I will be looking at the nature of two named physiological disorders. I will explain its sign and symptoms and access possible difficulties involved in the diagnosis of the disorders from their signs and symptoms. The two physiological disorders are coronary heart disease and breast cancer. Coronary heart disease: Coronary heart disease is the build-up of plaque such as cholesterol and other fatty substances within
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The top three criteria for determining psychological disorders are deviance‚ maladaptive behavior‚ and personal distress. How one defines normal depends on the society one lives in. Although every Culture has ideals of what they consider normal behavior‚ these ideals vary from one Culture to another . When someone deviates from their respective cultures ideal of normal ‚ They may be labeled mentally ill. The book gives the example of transvestic fetishism‚ where A man
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sleeping disorders would disagree with this quote since the "no rest" is even worse. Simply‚ your body never manages to give one hundred percent in any activity. But what are sleep disorders? They are a huge group of conditions that affect the normal development of the sleep cycle. Some disorders are very serious and can interfere with physical‚ psychological‚ and mental functioning. In this paper‚ I will try to explain the causes of and solutions to the existence of sleep disorders. My point
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The aim of the writing was that ‘verifying most clearly and certainly the necessity of what the Tokugawa feudal system collapsed’ from a point of view‚ for instance‚ history of thought‚ thus followed the crushed process of such legitimate worldview in the feudal Japan as Confucian‚ especially neo-Confucian in the country‚ then‚ explaining ‘a pattern of modernization in Japanese thought widely and in Japanese society narrowly’. Moreover‚ this work has three parts that appeared each independently
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