Case Study: Depression Answer Sheet Ellen: Depression and Suicidality Student Name: Diagnosing Ellen 1a. Refer to the DSM-IV checklist and list all symptoms that Ellen has that match the criteria for major depressive episode. Which of Ellen’s symptoms meet any of the criteria? (Be sure to match specific symptoms with specific criteria.) Ellen is not comfortable and feels out of place and therefore is not interested in social activities‚ she feels guilty about not having a very loving relationship
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Beck Depression Inventory Analysis Miguel Carrasco‚ Holly England‚ Sunny Ledding‚ Robert Pope‚ Melanie Simpson Psy/475 February 16‚ 2011 Heather Suggs Beck Depression Inventory Analysis Each year about 15 million adult Americans suffer from clinical depression. That is 8% of the American population age 18 and over (Depression Treatment‚ Signs‚ Medication‚ Causes‚ Test at Clinical Depression Center‚ 2010). Often people are depressed but unaware of the numerous treatments available
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The DSM-5 reveals that the overlapping symptoms between ADHD and depression include both distractibility and low frustration tolerance. Many individuals report impaired ability to think‚ concentrate or make even minor decisions. They may appear easily distracted or complain of memory difficulties which cause individuls
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Depression Diagnosis and classification of depression Depression is classified under the DSM as a mood disorder. Most depressed individuals will suffer from only one type of depression (unipolar)‚ whereas others may experience states of mania that alternate with depression (bipolar). Comer (2001) claimed depression is ‘a low‚ sad state marked by significant levels of sadness‚ lack of energy‚ low self-worth‚ guilt or related symptoms’. Diagnosis requires the presence of 5 of the following
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Depression can be caused by many different triggers including loss or death‚ which is identified in “Catcher in the Rye‚” a novel written by J.D Salinger. The protagonist; Holden Caulfield becomes seriously depressed to the point where he cannot deal with people and every day life around him. The author describes Holden as a person that does not care about where he goes with his life‚ but the one thing that gets in his way is depression‚ which causes him to be stressed and have a lot of issues. Plot/conflict
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father involvement in early life has significant effects on subsequent child development. These studies include infants’ exposure to paternal depression and its repercussions on the child’s development.[55] Research on postpartum depression have mostly focused on mothers‚ but studies have shown that fathers also pose a risk of experiencing postpartum depression‚ though a lower prevalence than in mothers.[55] Compared to mothers‚ fathers face lower levels of anxiety towards fatherhood and typically
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The impact of institutionalisation and stigma on depression sufferers Overview of population group The leading cause for disability globally‚ depression is a condition wherein emotional numbness and /or extreme sadness is experienced for prolonged periods‚ possibly without cause (beyondblue‚ n.d.; mind your head‚ n.d.). Affecting one in seven Australians in their lifetime‚ and approximately one million Australian adults in any one year‚ depression has the third highest burden of all diseases both
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Causes of The Great Depression By anon HIS 112-003 Imagine witnessing the faces of pitiful starving young children‚ frantic men and women lining up in front of closed banks that held their life savings‚ and/or the homeless living in cardboard shantytowns. Unfortunately‚ these were just a fraction of some of the horrific sights of everyday life during the Great Depression. For most people‚ it was a very harsh time that was filled with despair‚ starvation‚ suicide‚ and suffering.1 A
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least heard of the Great Depression that hit America by storm in the early twentieth century. Even though people are taught about the Great Depression‚ I personally think that a lot of people do not understand the severity that it caused and the livelihoods that it forever changed. The Great Depression‚ which lasted over a period of ten years‚ resulted in a lot of heartache for many nations worldwide (Fraser‚ 2010). As for the United States‚ the worst of the Great Depression harbored between 1929 through
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The Great Depression in the United States brought an end to a long era of economic expansion and social progress which had been in full bloom since the 1890s (Mitchell 1947). There had been monetary recessions in 1907‚ 1913 and 1921‚ but these reversals were never severe enough or long enough to shake the deeply rooted confidence in the American economic system or to generate any widespread national discontent. Many history books tell of the depression of the ’30s; they often begin with the stock
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