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Definition and Diagnosis of WS Genetic Disorder

difficulty grasping mathematical concepts (Fidler, Hodapp and Dyken, 2002). While not every child with WS fits this profile, a lar...

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...

Paranoia and Schizophrenia

p. 5). Nevertheless, the fact that a diagnostic criteria is listed in the book, detailed and complex, tends to encourage the perce...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Autism Spectrum Disorder in Infants

This 3 page paper covers the early diagnosis of 16 month old infants with autism spectrum disorder. This paper covers the diagnosi...

Troubled Teens: SUDs and DBDs in Adolescent Populations

226) and occurs in as much as 26 percent of the adolescent population, and include alcohol, tobacco and illegal substance use. Su...

DSM-IV-TR Axis I and II Disorders

when one considers the premise that depression has been associated with reproductive factors, including a womans menstrual cycle ...

Model for Crisis Intervention

This paper begins by offering a diagnosis for an individual who suffered a trauma. The diagnosis is post-traumatic stress disorder...

Adolescent Behavior and Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

in the life of dealing with an adolescent who has ADHD, and for the adolescent to be able to deal with the disorder. Volumes of r...

MAOA and Conduct Disorder

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

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...

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...

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...

The Conditions of Attention Deficit Disorder

In seven pages this paper discusses the disorder in terms of definition, symptoms, prevalence, diagnostics, treatment, and the pos...

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 5

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

Description of Dissociative Identity Disorder

In twenty five pages multiple personality disorder or disassociative identity disorder is described in terms of DSM IV classificat...

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...

Biographical Sketch of Bipolar Disorder

(APA, 2003) and "These rates are consistent across diverse cultures and ethnic groups" (APA, 2003). The rate for bipolar II is abo...

Implications of New Dual Diagnosis Terminology

there are others as well (Glossary of Terms, 2004). For example, MICAA is an acronym for Mentally Ill, Chemical Abusers a...

Alan Cavaiola and Neil Lavender's 'Toxic Coworkers: How to Deal with Dysfunctional People on the Job'

make a primarily positive impact or a primarily negative impact in the workplace. Workplace productivity is affected by a...

MEDICAL INSURANCE TERMINOLOGY

provider (non-institutional) to bill Medicare carriers. The CMS-1500 is also sometimes used to bill certain Medicaid state agencie...

Closer Look at Bulimia

In seven pages the most common of eating disorders is examined in terms of definition, who it affects and how along with physiolog...

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and Genetic Engineering

In eight pages this paper discusses Brave New World in terms of how Aldous Huxley addressed issues of genetic engineering....

Implantation and Genetics

a whole host of other problems, they are also equipped with the option to choose genetic composition such as gender. "We currentl...

PTSD And False Memories - Alternative Treatment For Trauma

than verbal descriptions (Frey, n.d.). 3. Avoidant symptoms: The patient attempts to reduce the possibility of exposure to anythin...

Journal Article Review on Thought and Mood Disordersles

In ten pages this paper considers 6 articles on thought and mood disorders including phobias, major depression disorder, generaliz...

Diagnostic Approaches to Mental Illness

clinicians rely on the DSM to diagnose their patients. It is credible insofar as it is published by the American Psychiatric Assoc...