Analyzing Psychological Disorders Research Paper
Analyzing Psychological Disorders
Heather Michaud
Psychology: The Brain, The Body, and The Mind: All Together Now
2/21/2010
Kim Piowarsy
Disorders: Part A A good psychologist should have the understanding of how the body and mind work together. What makes a person who they are and how they operate. Psychologists are the ones that help others to understand what disorders are and how to handle them in difficult situations. In this essay it will be discussed what the understanding is of the causes and treatments of schizophrenia. This essay will also touch on anxiety and insomnia from a biopsychologist’s point of view as well as the relation to the nature versus nurture issue.
Schizophrenia
To be able to tell the areas of …show more content…
Some of those causal factors are genetics, which are caused by the interactions of several genes, prenatal development which can be linked to low birth weight, low oxygen levels and slow fetal growth, and early environment which could be linked too viral infections, polio, measles, varicella, rubella, and herpes simplex. These have been associated with an increase of higher risk in later developing schizophrenia. Drugs also have a part in increasing the risk of schizophrenia. It is said that PCP and LSD can mimic the symptoms of schizophrenia and cannabis also known as marijuana can increase the risks of developing the disorder (Wikimedia, …show more content…
The first one that will be talked about is stuporous catatonic schizophrenia. This is a type of schizophrenia where the patient or client will go for long periods of immobility and have a waxy flexibility. This means that if one were to lift the clients arm and drop it there would be no action, it would simply just fall to the side. Another symptom of schizophrenia is echolalia which is when the speech pattern is characterized by repeating what has been heard. Some people also have bizarre delusions which give the client thoughts of being controlled, persecutions and delusions of grandeur. Inappropriate effect is something else that one would find common in a person with schizophrenia. This is the failure to react to situations with an appropriate level of emotion whether it is positive or negative (Pinel,
Heather Michaud
Psychology: The Brain, The Body, and The Mind: All Together Now
2/21/2010
Kim Piowarsy
Disorders: Part A A good psychologist should have the understanding of how the body and mind work together. What makes a person who they are and how they operate. Psychologists are the ones that help others to understand what disorders are and how to handle them in difficult situations. In this essay it will be discussed what the understanding is of the causes and treatments of schizophrenia. This essay will also touch on anxiety and insomnia from a biopsychologist’s point of view as well as the relation to the nature versus nurture issue.
Schizophrenia
To be able to tell the areas of …show more content…
Some of those causal factors are genetics, which are caused by the interactions of several genes, prenatal development which can be linked to low birth weight, low oxygen levels and slow fetal growth, and early environment which could be linked too viral infections, polio, measles, varicella, rubella, and herpes simplex. These have been associated with an increase of higher risk in later developing schizophrenia. Drugs also have a part in increasing the risk of schizophrenia. It is said that PCP and LSD can mimic the symptoms of schizophrenia and cannabis also known as marijuana can increase the risks of developing the disorder (Wikimedia, …show more content…
The first one that will be talked about is stuporous catatonic schizophrenia. This is a type of schizophrenia where the patient or client will go for long periods of immobility and have a waxy flexibility. This means that if one were to lift the clients arm and drop it there would be no action, it would simply just fall to the side. Another symptom of schizophrenia is echolalia which is when the speech pattern is characterized by repeating what has been heard. Some people also have bizarre delusions which give the client thoughts of being controlled, persecutions and delusions of grandeur. Inappropriate effect is something else that one would find common in a person with schizophrenia. This is the failure to react to situations with an appropriate level of emotion whether it is positive or negative (Pinel,