Ngoc (Lily) Le Abnormal Psychology Case Study #3 – Mood Disorders 29 May 2014 1. The different mood disorders that we explored together as a class are as following: depressive disorders and bipolar disorders. (I didn’t factor suicide into this.) Going into further detail‚ depressive disorders are the clarified grouping of individuals who have been identified to have unipolar depression. Having unipolar depression is when that same individual is in a mental state of depression without having shown
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PSYA4 : Schizophrenia :Outline and Evaluation points for use with each section 1. Clinical characteristics- this part only requires you to know symptoms(so no evaluation) You need to know: Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterised by a split between thinking and emotion. How long symptoms need to last for someone to be diagnosed(the DSM and ICD have different times) How many positive and negative symptoms someone needs to be diagnosed and a few examples of each Two sub-types of Schizophrenia
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Reactive Attachment Disorder April Powell-Dodge Keystone College PSYC 314-01: Psychopathology Rick Shillabeer‚ Psy.D. To help us to identify what reactive attachment disorder is we will first need to define what attachment is. For the purpose of this paper‚ attachment will be defined as the reciprocal relationship between a child and caregiver (Robertson‚ 2000). The development of this relationship is dependent on the caregiver’s response to the child’s needs (Robertson‚ 2000). In order
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DISODERS: INTRODUCTION: A learning disorder can defined as a difficulty in an area of cognitive functioning. Learning disabilities are neurological differences in processing information that severely limit a person ’s ability to learn in a specific skill area. Learning disorders/disabilities are the result of actual differences in the way the brain processes‚ understands‚ and uses information. The term "learning disabilities" is used to describe a group of disorders characterized by inadequate development
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psychological disorders (1.1) identify and evaluate key research in the study of these psychological disorders (2.1) Atypical Disorders - Psychological Disorders Within this essay i will be looking into four different types of psychological disorders and i will be looking into the credible research around each‚ exploring the different views that esteemed psychologists have expressed towards phobic disorder within anxiety disorders‚ mood disorders and obssessive compulsive disorders; aswell as fringing
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There are many different types of mental disorders that affect different people in many aspects of life. In fact‚ an estimated 26.2 percent of Americans 18 and older suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year (Kim Foundation‚ 2006). Therefore‚ it is safe to say that many people are impacted by a disorder. A mental disorder can be minor‚ such as ADHD‚ or can be as major as Alzimers‚ or in some cases‚ death. You can be born with a mental disorder‚ such as an abnormality in the brail‚ or
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1. Introduction to Anxiety Disorders Anxiety is a common and essential process of daily life. It is highly important‚ evolutionary speaking‚ as people typically experience anxiety when faced with environmental threats such as encountering a lion (not so common a concern in modern society for most people)‚ scarcity of food or other resources‚ or acceptance among one’s peers and society at large. This anxiety orients the individual toward anticipating dangers‚ motivates the person to act in order
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Defining Emotional and Behavioral Disorders In order to move forward clinically or in research to address the problem of emotional and behavior disorders one must first have a solid definitive grasp on the nature of the problem and what it ultimately is‚ definitionally. Unfortunately‚ there’s no universally accepted definition for emotional and behavioral disorders. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) defines the disorder as followers: “a condition exhibiting one or more of
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Introduction Bipolar disorder is a disorder associated with episodes of mood swings going from depressive lows to manic highs. There is a controversy with bipolar disorder in youth causing difficulty in diagnosing. However‚ bipolar disorder is considered to be a repetitive familial disorder that occurs in 1-3% of youth‚ but mainly in adolescents prevalence “ The prevalence of the Bp spectrum disorders in youth is on average 1.8% and for Bp-1 1.2% with rates of BP-1 being consistent amoung most
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Anorexia nervosa (AN): an eating disorder characterized by an in ability to maintain normal weight‚ an intense fear of gaining weight‚ and distorted body perception. Clinicians diagnose an individual with anorexia nervosa when he or she shows three basic types of symptoms: severely restricted eating‚ which leads the person to have an abnormally low body weight‚ intense and unrealistic fear of getting fat or gaining weight‚ and disturbed self-perception of body shape or weight. In other words people
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