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Adolescent Depression And Cognitive Behavior Therapy

29 percent of the entire group of patients at the beginning of the study (Weeks, 2004; NIMH, 2005). This rate was reduced in all f...

Park's "The Siege: The First Eight Years Of An Autistic Child"

they could understand. Even so, Park believed this was the best option for Elly if she was going to assimilate into any semblance...

Mood Disorder: Case Study

Being a temporary mood lifter, marijuana actually creates even more of a problem for someone experiencing the throes of major depr...

ADHD and ADD Diagnosis and Overdiagnosis

In thirty pages attention hyperactivity deficit disorder and attention deficit disorder are examined in terms of diagnosis or as t...

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

educators would wonder why so many children have this disorder. It would also seem that some would wonder if many of the individua...

Child and Adolescent OCD

In eighteen pages Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is examined in an overview of the diagnosis as described in DSM IV with a literatu...

Impact of Domestic Abuse on Children's Mental Health

delving into the familial structure. Inasmuch as social behavior is fundamentally based upon the "origins in the family" (Appel, ...

Case Studies: Mental Illness and Treatments

are dysfunctional if their recall leads to distressing and/or dysfunctional responses (Paunovic, 2010). There are two major comp...

Medications and Bipolar Disorder

sleep problems, fatigue, and problems concentrating, among others (Ketter and Wang, 2010). Diagnosing bipolar disorder accuratel...

Ideas for Disabilities

This essay discusses a book's ideas and tips for individuals who have certain disabilities, such as language disorders, intellectu...

Psychiatric Technician Must Know These Terms

This essay identifies many of the disorders and conditions a psychiatric technician need to understand. Each disorder or condition...

Pediatric Bipolar

Bipolar Disorder dramatically changes a person's life and quality of life. It affects every part of the patient's life. There is v...

Six Annotated Bibliographies: Eating Disorders and the Media

bibliographies; students will need to format items they use according to the style of their paper. First Bibliography: URL: http...

Causes of Eating Disorders

anorexia nervosa are 12 times more likely than others with no family history of that disorder to develop it themselves. They are f...

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

even perhaps a friend or coworker, may not be able to detect and have no idea someone has this disorder. Others who suffer may be ...

Eating Disorders

many ways and through controlling their bodies, even to death, they have some control over their own destiny. People who have eati...

Multiple Personality Disorder

hypnotizable and extremely suggestible" (Kantrowitz 66). This particular doctor also believes that Sybils personalities were actua...

Summaries of DSM IV Disorders

Communication Disorder, Not Specified. Pervasive Developmental Disorders: Autism-lists of symptoms are presented in 3 separate ca...

MAOA and Conduct Disorder

the correlation between incidences of maltreatment and increased risk for antisocial behavior (Sluzki, 2007). The Caspi, et al, s...

ADHD Diagnosis And Assessment

in grades Kindergarten through 8 (Erford and Hase, 2006). It has 24 items that are rated on a scale of 1 to 5, almost never to alm...

Classification of Personality Disorders

may overlap. The groupings would be as follows: Isolated Group: Antisocial personality disorder, schizoid personality disorder, s...

Borderline Personality Disorder

require a combination of therapeutic approaches that may include behavior modification plans, psychoanalysis and even the use of p...

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Used in the Treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

a result, more diagnoses have been made (Grinage, 2003). It is now something that is also associated with trauma stemming from chi...

Girl, Interrupted And Borderline Personality

the DSM IV-TR (Therapydoc, 2007). The next one is due sometimes in 2012 (Therapydoc, 2007). It will no doubt change etiologies, di...

Bipolar Disorder II And Substance Abuse

that may trigger a Bipolar incident, many of these also trigger using substances. Oliver (2007) identified twelve different "Trigg...

Substance Abuse And Dual Diagnosis

with mental illnesses may reach out to drugs or alcohol to ease the pain they are feeling. It becomes very difficult to separate t...

Psychiatric/Mental Health Web Site Analysis

many other disorders. Given the prevalence of both ADD/ADHD and Depression, this user linked to each of these disorders. The ADD/A...

Genetic Disorder - Breast Cancer

Hecht, 2008). Breast cancer in both men and women is a genetic disorder but it is not necessarily hereditary (U.S. National Librar...

Bipolar Disorder

there is very little information about predisposes people to these episodes (Swann, 2006). Therefore, for the most part, nursing a...

Bipolar Effect on Learning

& Adolescent Bipolar Foundation, 2007). The advanced imaging technologies have allowed scientists to scan the brains of bipolar p...