ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY: MOOD DISORDERS A mood disorder is the term given for a group of diagnoses in the DSM IV TR classification system where a disturbance in the person ’s emotional mood is hypothesised to be the main underlying feature. The classification is known as mood (affective) disorders in ICD 10. English psychiatrist Henry Maudsley proposed an overarching category of affective disorder. The term was then replaced by mood disorder‚ as the latter term refers to the underlying or longitudinal
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Compare and contrast different approaches in psychology‚ in their effectiveness in explaining human behaviour. Many psychological approaches try to explain human behaviour and as to whether behaviour is innate‚ nature‚ or it’s learnt through experiences from our environment‚ nurture. The behaviourist approach is a theory that all behaviours are learnt and that individuals are born with a tabula rasa‚ a blank slate. They claim that individual’s behaviour is determined by the environment in which
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Schizophrenia Understanding the Psychological Disorder Mariah J. Ordaz Coastal Bend College Schizophrenia: Understanding the Psychological Disorder Schizophrenia‚ it’s a term many people associate with crazy‚ psychotic‚ and bizarre behaviors. This disorder has many signs and symptoms and the cause has yet to be discovered. Various studies have been conducted‚ but one singular cause of the disorder has not been discovered. Understanding this serious and baffling psychological disorder is an important and
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motherhood to a psychological disorder Truc Huynh Houston Community College Summer 2010 Abstract: Credit to the story about family issues and Adele’s motherhood which goes over the unconscious psychological disorder in the movie “Anywhere but here” (1999)‚ the paper is the first overview discussing the personality disorder- definition‚ diagnosis criteria‚ cause‚ classification and treatment. A closer sight is exhibited in details on three specific categorizes of personality disorder‚ which are the
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Psychotherapy Matrix Directions: Review Module 36 of Psychology and Your Life. Select three approaches to summarize. Include examples of the types of psychological disorders appropriate for each therapy. |{Psychodynamic Approaches To Therapy} |{Behavioral Approaches To Therapy } |{Cognitive Approaches to Therapy} | |Summary of |Shortest approach‚ lasts about 20 sessions and no longer |Aversive conditioning is therapy
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An estimated 5 million Americans suffer from eating disorders and most are teenage girls and young women. Among the three types of eating disorders‚ anorexia nervosa is the most common type. It is a disorder in which the person has a distorted body image and an intense fear of being fat. Binging‚ or eating large quantities of food in a short period of time‚ and then purging‚ or vomiting to empty the stomach of food‚ are all actions commonly found in anorexics. An anorexic is extremely afraid
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papers are required by all students in this course. Each paper should be 8–10 double-spaced pages in length‚ although you should consider this as a general guideline (longer papers will not be penalized‚ and a shorter paper‚ if very well done‚ could be an "A" quality paper). Each paper is a research paper‚ meaning that quality of research does impact the grade of the paper. You should plan ahead in developing a strategy for securing resources for each paper. Internet sources‚ while not forbidden‚ are
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Psychological Disorders: Eating Disorders Eating disorders have drastically been on the climb in the recent years. It has become increasing popular to be extremely thin and focus on the superficial aspects of the body. Currently 8 million people are living with some kind of eating disorder. There are three different types of eating disorders that include anorexia nervosa‚ bulimia nervosa‚ and binge eating. These are all psychological disorders that can be very detrimental if not treated and improved
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Australian Institute of Professional Counsellors (2007)‚ "Behavioral therapy had its beginnings in the early 1900’s and became established as a psychological approach in the 1950s and 1960s." Many others had their hands in contributing to the development of the theory for behavioral therapy‚ and the approaches that are wildly used to aid the population at large. For example Ivan Pavlov (1849 – 1936) his hand in what is now behavioral therapy was accidental‚ but none the less a contribution through pair
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Outline two different psychological approaches to identity. What are the strengths and weaknesses of each? The process of attaching meaning to the concept of identity is arguably a subjective one. Is an individual ’s identity a self-perception‚ or should identity be considered more in terms of a summary view of how others perceive a individual? If an individual identifies themselves as holding certain characteristic traits‚ yet others do not associate those traits with that individual‚ then what
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