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Overview of the Anorexia Eating Disorder

body and thought patterns, and can be triggered by a variety of events (Lucas 5). For example, the stress of starting a new job o...

Oppositing to Medicating Children with ADD or ADHD

with ADHD/ADD has only a very limited effectiveness, and the side effects and risks associated with it are simply too great. The ...

Overview of Necrotizing Enterocolitis Gastrointestinal Disorder

In six pages NEC is defined with statistical data, surgical alternatives, and management of this medical condition also provided. ...

Description of Dissociative Identity Disorder

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

Overview of 3 Major Eating Disorders

of level of severity that is definably correlated to perceptions of the long-term physical impacts. Starvation and self-imposed d...

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...

Overview of Disassociative Identity Disorder

In eleven pages behavioral and cognitive perspectives are employed in an examination of disassociative identity disorder. Ten sou...

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...

An Overview of Anxiety Disorder

unbalancing illnesses they truly are. With an astounding fifteen million Americans suffering from clinical anxiety disorder -- a ...

Overview of Skin Disorders

and keratin fragments to adhere to the sebum and block the follicle opening. Bacteria trapped with free fatty acids within the fo...

Overview of Behavioral Disorders

Additionally, both disorders can be hereditary, but environment can also play a factor. Both disorders are affective disorders of ...

Overview of Conversion Disorder

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

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 ...

OCD

In seven pages this paper presents a pathological overview of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in a consideration of its signs, vario...

Overview of OCD

plans in place which have proven themselves useful for normalizing the behavior and thought patterns of OCD individuals. These tr...

Mood Disorders and the MMPI Diagnostic Tool The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and the Diagnosis of Mood Disorders

allow a therapist to more fully understand their mental capacities and state. Testing is important as well in analyzing an indivi...

Prevention of Health Care Access: Stigmas

This 10 page paper gives an overview of health care access problems. This paper includes mental illness, substance abuse disorders...

Genetic Disorder Marfan Syndrome

abnormally" (The National Marfan Foundation, 2005). Physicians who followed also noted similar problems in other patients which al...

Overview of Sleep Apnea

symptoms (Zepf, 2003). The "gold standard" for diagnosing sleep apnea is to use polysomnography in a sleep laboratory (Zepf, 2003)...

Etiology of School Age Children's Seizure Disorder

developing epilepsy; the changes increases to three percent at seventy-five years of age. The typical nature of epilepsy is to st...

Intelligence and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

at any other time of his life. He always wanted to do well, but always seemed unable to perform to standard: My earliest recogni...

Overview, Effects of ADHD

This research paper presents an overview of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder that describes its effects, symptoms and reco...

Models of Counseling and Female Orgasmic Disorder

the process of building a developmentally based clinical intervention" (Geidner, 2009, pp. 370-371). Sexual history interview que...

Overview of Dyslexia

the last 30 years (Singleton, 2000). Essentially, making positive diagnosis of dyslexia involves establishing that: 1. The childs ...

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...

Learned Mothering: Raising a Child with ADHD

ADHD as they can impact social worker response and even the response of educators. Methodology The subjects of this study were...

Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy

cause of a childs disease or malady or because they use the accusation of MSBP as a ploy to avoid malpractice suits (Johns, 2007)....

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

of the condition. In the film, he was so obsessed with germs, he brought plasticware to a diner everyday instead of using ordinary...

Developmental Disorders, Psychosis, and Schizophrenia

are considered "axis 2" disorders by the DSM IV-TR, suggesting their involvement in serving as a foundation for higher-level axis ...