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manual, Bipolar I is a clinical course characterized by one of more manic or mixed episodes (APA, 1994). Generally, individuals wi...
make some conclusions. The DSM-IV diagnostic lists several observable traits usually pertaining to those experiencing a manic epi...
grandmother were institutionalized when they died and her mother spent most of the rest of her life in a mental institution (Towso...
to: "weakness, paralysis, sensory disturbances, pseudoseizures, and involuntary movements such as tremors. Symptoms more often af...
connection between BDD and anorexia nervosa (Matsunaga, et al, 1999). Panic Attacks, Dissociative Disorder and Acute Stress Dis...
to one survey conducted in both 1999 and 2001, 28 percent of American high school students report that they felt hopeless or sad a...
after the exposure to the initiating traumatic event (Stein, 2002). If PTSD-like symptoms become evidence and are intense prior to...
consumption is risky as well (Kuhn, Swartzwelder & Wilson, 2003). Food does absorb some of the alcohol. Also, in addition to alcoh...
ideation is measured on the basis of six specific components found on the Depression scale. Each disorder is matched with respect...
manual used by psychiatrists, psychologists, and many others who work in the mental health field. This manual is referred to simpl...
(Rowney, Hermida and Malone, 2009). Comorbidity is common with both generalized anxiety disorder and panic attacks with overlappin...
beliefs. Evans (2006, 37) notes, however, that "The factors that serve to perpetuate an eating disorder may have little to do wit...
original consensus among mental health professionals the schizophrenia developed during late teens or early adulthood. However, a...
a 35 year-old divorced woman, shows a pattern of extensive hospitalizations (20 within the last 5 years) and a long list of maladi...
a considerable body of empirical evidence that calls these DSM-IV factors into question. The female sexual response is complicated...
(Smith, 2006). They need to realize they will become tired and frustrated. What family and friends can do to help the patient is...
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...
patients experiencing either symptoms or full episodes of depression much more frequently than those of mania or hypomania" (Micha...
affected by it. Young people are particularly susceptible to the effects of alcohol as their brains are still developing. Adolesc...
of angina, but no indication of muscle damage or clotting (as would be the case in coronary thrombosis). It should also be...
"total years of life lost to disability (YLD), with depression accounting for 8% of the total YLD" (Mathers, et al., 2001; p. 1076...
means that AIDS quite often affects families?not just the person infected, but those who will provide the support system that the...
have different physiological responses to alcohol (Blume, 1990). Some important issues for women are that alcohol dependency can ...
This 3 page paper covers the early diagnosis of 16 month old infants with autism spectrum disorder. This paper covers the diagnosi...
This essay discusses several issue regarding psychology. It begins with a report that the new DSM does not use a multiaxial system...
families, something unheard of in the past. Also, the dual career couple is the primary family working pattern today (Elloy & Flyn...
own feelings, behaviors and thoughts. The phenomenological method of gaining awareness is about "perceiving, feeling and acting" (...
the face of her addiction (Simon, 1994). No matter what he does its wrong "because of Alices defensiveness, which perceives concer...
is marketed under the name of Betadine. For many years, either or both of these solutions have been used as a topical preparation...
their responsibilities. For example, the marriage between alcohol consumption and college life have long been accepted as the nor...