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Three Categories in DSM-IV

(Rowney, Hermida and Malone, 2009). Comorbidity is common with both generalized anxiety disorder and panic attacks with overlappin...

Multi-Axial Categorization of Psychological Disorders

beliefs. Evans (2006, 37) notes, however, that "The factors that serve to perpetuate an eating disorder may have little to do wit...

Analyzing John Nash's Mental Illness in A Beautiful Mind Film by Director Ron Howard

original consensus among mental health professionals the schizophrenia developed during late teens or early adulthood. However, a...

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 5

This is the manual mental health care professionals use for diagnostic and informational purposes. The manual lists mental health ...

Addressing Cocaine Addiction

This research paper focuses on a client scenario, in which the client has a cocaine addition. The topics covered include assessmen...

Case Scenario on Alcohol Dependence, an Analysis

affect a clients mental health ("Psychiatric," 2011). Axis 1 refers to clinical syndromes ("Psychiatric," 2011). As indicated abov...

Alzheimer's Diagnosis

other personal habits suggests that Mr. P. is losing motor function and the case study also indicates his memory losses, which hav...

Factitious Disorder

a 35 year-old divorced woman, shows a pattern of extensive hospitalizations (20 within the last 5 years) and a long list of maladi...

Somatoform Disorders and DSM-V

one-third of patients with major depression experience remission using the first medication prescribed. This leads the doctor will...

DSM-IV and Sexual Dysfunction

a considerable body of empirical evidence that calls these DSM-IV factors into question. The female sexual response is complicated...

BPD Difficlut to Diagnose

a relatively new mental illness category. Gunderson (2001) explained that borderline personality disorder "is layered between neur...

DSM-IV and Categories of Disorders

alcoholic may have full knowledge that the substance is disrupting his or her life in some dramatic way (such as the loss of a job...

DSM IV Disorders and the PDSQ

ideation is measured on the basis of six specific components found on the Depression scale. Each disorder is matched with respect...

Case Studies in the Analysis and Diagnosis of Mental Disorders With the Help of Rebecca Shannonhouse's 'Out of Her Mind,' Margery Kempe, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Margery acknowledged she was haunted by images of the Devil in her mind, and that whenever she became ill or anxious, as she was f...

Psychotherapy Case Study

others. Intake summary : Linda comes across as flirtatious and provocative in her dress, as her knee-high stockings showed thro...

DSM IV Diagnostic Criteria and Treatment of PTSD

after the exposure to the initiating traumatic event (Stein, 2002). If PTSD-like symptoms become evidence and are intense prior to...

Xanax: An Argument for Inclusion in the DSM

drug-related visits to the emergency rooms across the nation in 2005: "31% involved illicit drugs...

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...

Knowledge Deficit: Three Perspectives On Racial, Gender And Ethnic Exclusion

lengths to keep out those they deem undesirable to intermingle with their respective cultures. Patriotic discourses emphasize the...

Research Design To Test The Hypothesis That There Is An Inverse Relationship Between Memory Recovery Of Child Sexual Abuse And The Development Of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

by using standard PTSD models there is a limiting of the understanding of the conditions that are suffered and that there is the ...

Case Scenario/Alcohol Abuse

"chronic, heavy drinking" (Enoch and Goldman, 2002, p. 192). According to government standards, a woman is at-risk for heavy drink...

Literature Review on Borderline Personality Disorder

order to make a diagnosis of BPD, the client should demonstrate behavior that indicates five or more of these characteristics (Pal...

Overview of Conversion Disorder

to: "weakness, paralysis, sensory disturbances, pseudoseizures, and involuntary movements such as tremors. Symptoms more often af...

Anxiety, DMS-IV and Personality Researech Issues

connection between BDD and anorexia nervosa (Matsunaga, et al, 1999). Panic Attacks, Dissociative Disorder and Acute Stress Dis...

Faulty Goods and Unfair Contract Exclusions Cases of English Contract Law

section 2 (2) states that this cannot be excluded apart form where it is reasonable to do so. Section 2 (23) also states that were...

'Mr. F.' Case Study and Theory

make items such as guns work properly, items that are obviously representative of Mr. Fs own genitalia. In another instance Mr. F...

Unfair Exclusion in the Process of Adoption

adoption system. A case study may help to demonstrate why a parent should be allowed to adopt again, even if she had endured a pot...

DSM

also tells the user that when these symptoms occur together, or to the degree specified, the condition is usually called X (Riesen...

Adolescent Girls and Depression

to one survey conducted in both 1999 and 2001, 28 percent of American high school students report that they felt hopeless or sad a...

DSM IV Criteria for Schizophrenia

descriptions for various mental and psychological disorders and breaks them down into diagnostic classes. Utilizing the DSM IV al...