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Narcissistic Disorders, Theories, and Interventions

In thirty pages the disorder known as narcissism is analyzed in terms of the various psychological theories associated with it and...

Anxiety Disorders and OCD

In ten pages anxiety disorders are examined in a consideration of their relationship to Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Eleven sou...

Overview of Gender Identity Disorder

In five pages the various theories involving gender identity disorder are analyzed and include patterns, occurrence, development, ...

Bipolar Disorder

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

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

Description of Dissociative Identity Disorder

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

Alan E. Kazdin's Cognitive and Behavioral Approach to Conduct Disorder

In ten pages DSM IV criteria is employed to define conduct disorder in a paper that distinguishes it from antisocial and border pe...

Overview of Sleep Disorders

most likely the cause of this inability to fall asleep (2000). One thing is that changes in sleeping can affect ones ability to sl...

2 Articles on Multiple Personality Disorder Reviewed

In five pages this paper considers 2 articles in a contrast and comparison of dissociative identity disorder and multiple personal...

Bipolar Disorder Diagnosis and Treatment

manual, Bipolar I is a clinical course characterized by one of more manic or mixed episodes (APA, 1994). Generally, individuals wi...

Carl Jung's Archetypes and Eating Disorders

archetypes can only become conscious secondarily (1981). The archetype is merely an example of a perfect form or prototype (Lohff,...

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...

Disasters and Their Psychological Impact

a main area of study being the normative reaction to non normative events. The impact of stress created by disasters is argued to ...

Overview of Oppositional Defiant Disorder

a purposeful and intentional desire to bother and irritate others (What is Oppositional Defiant Disorder? 2004). Interestingly, ...

Anxiety Disorders

the many different ways in which the disorder can manifest. For instance, it is possible for the disorder to manifest bodily, such...

Psychological Disorders: Categorization and Classification

is used to categorize symptoms and disorders to aid in a standardized diagnosis between professionals. This has led to an industry...

The Challenge of Categorizing Psychological Disorders

with "conscious awareness or memory", a state in which one can often carry on an active life about which one remembers nothing at ...

Disorder and the Chain of Being in Shakespeare's "Macbeth"

and "too full of... kindness" (I.ii.77, I.v.18). Once Macbeth steps outside the bonds of the social order by killing Duncan, howev...

Classification of Personality Disorders

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

Psychological Diagnosis Case

he is ready to really do something about his illnesses. Identifying Client Information: Name: Eric Beck; Age: 32 Race: Caucasia...

Seasonal Affective Disorder and Somatoform

written about this because it is having a devastating effect on girls and women who try to fit the image. It is societys pressure ...

Schizophrenia, Bipolar, Major Depressive Disorder

The title identifies the three disorders that are discussed in this paper. This report presents journal entries from a nurse psych...

Stop Smoking in Psychiatric Ward

Numerous articles conclude that people who have mental health disorders are more likely to smoke than people who do not have such ...

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...

Children, Adolescents and OCD

This research paper investigates the subject of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in children and adolescents and includes the e...

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder DSM-IV and DSM-5

There are many differences between the two latest versions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The diffe...

Mental Health Changes on TV

For decades, the media has portrayed people with mental illnesses or disorder in such a way that others did not want to be around ...

Overview of Concurrent Mental Disorders

This paper defines and discusses concurrent mental disorders. The writer indicates what this classification of mental disorders r...