Dahmer’s Personality Disorder Alvanti Smith PSY303: Abnormal Psychology Instructor: Katherine Malish March 2‚ 2012 A look into Jeffrey Dahmer’s Personality Disorder This paper will outline Jeffery Dahmer demonstrated behaviors conducive to a personality disorder. It will give a full description of his behavior and personality. His disorder will be analyzed with clinical features using DSM IV classifications. It will also give an analysis of his behavior and disorders using a theoretical
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your whole life avoiding certain situations or people and have suffered immensely due to your problems. Ego is perhaps one of the worst enemies of the person. George suffers daily and he has tried for years to drink his mental health problems away but rather than extinguish his mental health issues‚ he has created a dependence to alcohol. Now it is to the point that he is unable to function in day to day life and is now unable to do anything with his wife. Although his wife appears to be the lead in
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child is capable of providing enough information to make a diagnostic. Also seeing that the child behaves in various ways in different places wouldn’t be ideal because she may act in a way to fool you. I think in order to get an accurate read the child should be put through various tests. Besides having Ciara draw a couple pictures‚ I would like to conduct a Rorschach test with her. For axis 1 Ciara shows mood disorders‚ Personality disorders for axis 2. Medical information will be needed to answer
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received on a daily basis. The manual does not have all the answers‚ but it is the first step to helping your patient. According to Dr. Marszalek the DSM-IV-TR provides common language to clinicians in the field. (Laureate Education‚ 2007). The 5 axis diagnosis was very descriptive and easy to follow. This approach is used because there are usually other factors that affect a person mental health. It is broken down by clinical syndromes‚ developmental and personality disorders‚ physical conditions‚ severity
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Pyschiatric Nursing Case History with Diagnosis‚ HPI‚ ad Diagnostics 1. Identifying Statement 59 year old‚ married white female who was brought to the Emergency Department by the police by herself because of public intoxication with suicidal ideations. Chief complaint was “I was depressed and wanted to kill myself”. 2.Admitting diagnosis (DSM IV-TR classification): Axis I : Bipolar Disorder Axis II : None noted Axis III : Kidney disease‚ Liver cirrhosis Axis
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Middle East Technical University Department of Psychology Clinical Psychology M.S. Program 2012-2013 Fall Semester How to Write the First Clinical Interview Report Communicating Your Findings to Others Somewhere‚ sometime‚ as a mental health clinician we might conceivably do an evaluation and provide a complete course of treatment‚ or in our case‚ a complete document of first clinical interview of a patient. Regardless of where you work or who your patient may be‚ you will have
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follows the case study and give a multiaxial diagnosis. Give a brief explanation for your decision on the different axes in 1-3 sentences in the respective boxes. You must provide information for each of the five axes. The diagnostic codes should be included with the diagnostic labels for Axis I and Axis II. Charlene (a pseudonym) is an African American female from an impoverished native family in New Orleans. At the age of 20‚ she was first admitted to the inpatient internal medicine unit of
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Child and Youth Mental Health Issues – Major Assignment Part A Elaina Pham Sheridan College Hayley MacPhail July 5th‚ 2013 Introduction This case study is on Susanna Kayson in the Girl‚ Interrupted movie. She is a young‚ 18 year old girl that has just graduated from high school. She is confused about her life and the direction it is going and this frustrates‚ as well as depresses her. Her family and peers around her have high expectations of her which she feels she cannot and does not
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Valerie Lopez Axia of University of Phoenix DSM-IV Evaluation Case 1 – Schizoid Personality Disorder The first case study was matched with Schizoid personality disorder; the symptoms matched Josephine’s inability to be social and her emotional coldness. Genetic and environmental factors are common causes in Schizoid personality disorder as well as chromosomal and nervous system disorder. Some treatments that are available are psychotherapy‚ cognitive behavior therapy which focuses on
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Multicultural Counseling After reading the many articles on the notion of diagnosis and counseling with multicultural/ethnic patients‚ it has come to my attention that this focus is solely based on stereotypical attitudes. Sure‚ it can be said that it is important for a therapist to have a background of the patient’s heritage and culture‚ but doesn’t this necessarily mean that the outlook of the therapist will be put in a box by doing so? I think multicultural competency is a ridiculous way to
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