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Overview and Treatment of Pain Disorders

can take. It is generally considered to be a very slow and progressive form of arthritis and more often associated with people who...

Genetic Disorder Marfan Syndrome

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

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...

OCD General Overview

In six pages obsessive compulsive disorder is examined in an overview that includes causes, incidences, and treatment options. Ni...

Overview of Sleep Apnea

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

Assessment, Program Development and Program Evaluation for Students with Special Needs

(ODD). Conduct Disorder (CD) The behavior of children with conduct disorder typically violates the rights of others and it can b...

Separation Anxiety and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD): The Case of "Jordan"

for OCD based on Jordans mothers report that his grandmother likely had the disorder. From the viewpoint of behavioral psycholog...

The Pathophysiology of ADHD

Rubia, Smith, Brammer, Toone, and Taylor (2005) report on the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to demonstrate t...

Special Education and ADHD

programming has become a scapegoat for traditional educators. Perhaps one of the most notable problems related to the onset of ...

Overview of Conversion Disorder

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

The Use of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in the Treatment of Panic Attacks

completely harmless. In many ways a panic attack is reminiscent of the fight-or-flight response which arises in frightening situat...

Bipolar Disorder from Ethical, Legal, and Cultural Perspectives

have a variety of manifestations and patients are typically classified as either Bipolar I, Bipolar II, or Unipolar based on the s...

Adult Abuse Survivors and Theory

However, the role of temperament and personality is a critical component of crisis intervention, inasmuch as that singular individ...

Stem Cells and Their Potential

("paralysis," 1996). As far as Takayasus arteritis is concerned, it is a disorder marked by progressive closure of multiple arter...

Pervasive Developmental Disorder and a Group Centered Perspective

to understanding this disorder. Further, it is also beneficial to consider the views of theorists like Erik Erikson, who recogniz...

Overview of Paranoid Personality Disorder

and psychosocial development as they can be applied to understanding this disorder. Further, it is also beneficial to consider th...

Conduct Disorder

of garnering information. In other words, incoming information is modified and transformed in the mind into certain data structur...

ADHD and the Role of the Psychiatric Nurse

motor vehicle crashes, substance abuse, and illegal behavior" (Visser, Lesesne and Perou, 2007, S99). Symptoms include irritabili...

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: The Cosmetic Surgery Addiction

physician Enrique Morselli back in 1891 as dysmorphophobia, BDD has been defined as "the fear of having a deformity" (Hunt, Thienh...

Child Language Disorders

produced or vowels, dipthongs, and consonants (Toppelberg, Munir, and Nieto-Castanon, 2006). One of the primary culprits ...

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 ...

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...

Borderline Personality Disorder, An Overview

Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) defines borderline personality disorder (BPD) by listing nine diagnostic criteria, which...

OCD

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

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...

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...

Overview of OCD

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

Manic Depressive

The title manic depressive was changed about three decades ago but it is still referred to by this label. Today, it is called bipo...

General Overview of Attention Deficit Disorders

example, an individual with ADHD may not necessarily suffer from hyperactivity and thus they are generally deemed to have simply A...

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. ...