DSM-IV Evaluation Case Study 1: Schizoid Personality Disorder “People with schizoid personality disorder persistently avoid and are removed from social relationships and demonstrate little in the way of emotion (APA‚ 2000)” (Comer‚ p. 398‚ 2005). Psychodynamic theorists believe schizoid personality disorder is caused by something that happened through a person’s childhood. They have been unaccepted by their parents or even abused as a young child‚ which causes a person to avoid all relationships
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PS1124-09 Introduction of Psychology Kaplan University April 26‚ 2014 Schizophrenia The term "schizophrenia means "split mind‚" it does not refer to the splitting of the personality into several functioning personality subtypes as in dissociative identity disorder. Rather‚ the term was intended to convey a splitting of the normally integrate cognitive/behavioral/emotional functioning of the brain. For example‚ a person may suddenly become emotionally agitated even though
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This case study pertains to a female named Andrea Simpson of undisclosed age and undisclosed race who appears to be suffering with a binge eating disorder. What is known about Andrea is that she is a divorced woman past her mid-20’s who has since childhood struggled on and off with habits of excessive eating that have directly affected her weight. During a ten-month period‚ for example‚ Andrea gained 90 pounds; this happened about two years before coming for therapy this time around. Over the years
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Psychological Disorders Part A. What is schizophrenia‚ people may ask‚ It is a brain disease that is chronic and very severe‚ that “more than two Million Americans” (schizophrenia.com‚ 2004)‚ are having to deal with each day. Understanding the causes and treatments of schizophrenia is the first thing that needs to be done when taking a look at the causes and the treatments of this disorder. The cause of schizophrenia is in a person’s genetics‚ or DNA as the professionals would say
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Paranoid Schizophrenia: A Clinical Case Study Milcah Prasad University of Maryland‚ Baltimore Introduction Schizophrenia is a complex mental illness that is characterized by having psychotic symptoms such as delusions‚ hallucinations‚ disconnect with reality‚ and illogical thinking patterns for at least one month and having a major impact in the lives of the individuals‚ their family and friends (American Psychiatric Association‚ 2000). According to the statistics‚ “1 in 100 people develop
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roots skhizein "to split" and phren‚ phren- ("mind")‚ schizophrenia doesn’t mean the "split personality"‚ or even "multiple character disorder" (that is recognized these days because dissociative identification disorder)-a condition that it is usually confused in public places perception. Instead‚ the word indicates the "splitting associated with psychological functions"‚ due to the symptomatic presentation from the
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mental disorder is a pattern of psychological or behavioral symptoms that can and usually do impact various areas of the life and/or create distress of a person that experiences symptoms. Schizophrenia‚ Depression‚ Mania‚ Anxiety disorder‚ and Tourette syndrome are all types of these disorders. Schizophrenia‚ a psychotic disorder characterized by loss of contact with the environment‚ by noticeable deterioration in the level of functioning in everyday life‚ and by disintegration of personality
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affects their language order or not; how bad it influence their language order. Second reason is that this study‚ in my expectation‚ can help laymen to identify the sign of schizophrenia. By analyzing their words order we‚ as a linguistics people‚ can help laymen to identify whether their friends or family are the victim of schizophrenia or not. The third reason why I choose their study is that I want to know how they comprehend the meaning and put the ideas on the sentences that they are produced when
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1. What is the title of your chosen reading? Who is the author? The selected reading is entitled “A Framework for Psychopathology Based on Life History Theory: A Landmark Formulation” and is written by Dr. Riadh Abed. 2. Give a short description of the background of the reading and its author. In this article Dr. Abed‚ a consultant psychiatrist‚ provides proposals on how life history theory (LHT) can be applied “to the classification of psychopathology and mental disorder” (Abed‚ 2014‚ p. 301)
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Reformatory Paranoia 5. Erotic Paranoia 6. Litigious Paranoia 7. Hypochondrical Paranoia II. Prognosis and Symptoms A. Prognosis B. Symptoms C. Traits III. Schizophrenia and Other Disturbances Similar to Paranoia A. Schizophrenia or Split Mind 1. Simple Schizophrenia 2. Hebephrenic 3. Catatonic Schizophrenia 4. Paranoid Schizophrenia B. Other Disturbances Similar to Paranoia 1. Anxiety Disorders 2. Conversation Reaction or Hysteria 3. Dissociative Reaction 4. Phobic Disorder or Phobia
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