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the DSM IV-TR (Therapydoc, 2007). The next one is due sometimes in 2012 (Therapydoc, 2007). It will no doubt change etiologies, di...
drug-related visits to the emergency rooms across the nation in 2005: "31% involved illicit drugs...
The intent of anesthesia, of course, is to pharmaceutically suppress the perception and thus the memory of the procedure. There h...
"chronic, heavy drinking" (Enoch and Goldman, 2002, p. 192). According to government standards, a woman is at-risk for heavy drink...
an overwhelming majority of teachers are White. Census projections suggest that by 2010, 95 percent of public school "teachers wil...
others. Intake summary : Linda comes across as flirtatious and provocative in her dress, as her knee-high stockings showed thro...
after the exposure to the initiating traumatic event (Stein, 2002). If PTSD-like symptoms become evidence and are intense prior to...
Margery acknowledged she was haunted by images of the Devil in her mind, and that whenever she became ill or anxious, as she was f...
ideation is measured on the basis of six specific components found on the Depression scale. Each disorder is matched with respect...
weeks in duration and exhibit at least five of the following symptoms: * You are depressed, sad, blue, tearful (Holisticonline.com...
there are so many health problems associated with it, smoking in public, or smoking at all, is a bad habit. Although its difficult...
p. 5). Nevertheless, the fact that a diagnostic criteria is listed in the book, detailed and complex, tends to encourage the perce...
stress agent equally intensifies until the point is reached where ones mental status is just as tumultuous as ones living/working ...
"told lies that were so abnormal and out of proportion that they deserved a special category" (Dike, 2008, p. 67). It was also Del...
a 35 year-old divorced woman, shows a pattern of extensive hospitalizations (20 within the last 5 years) and a long list of maladi...
manual used by psychiatrists, psychologists, and many others who work in the mental health field. This manual is referred to simpl...
clinicians rely on the DSM to diagnose their patients. It is credible insofar as it is published by the American Psychiatric Assoc...
diagnosis. There is insufficient data to asses this criteria. The third criteria is identity disturbance, such as unstabl...
(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...
Pollution threatens the worlds environment on all fronts. It arises, of course, from the lifestyle choices that we make...
a relatively new mental illness category. Gunderson (2001) explained that borderline personality disorder "is layered between neur...
as many as was reported in 1980, reflects a disturbing trend toward uncontrolled acts of domestic violence (Leigh et al, 1995). E...
also tells the user that when these symptoms occur together, or to the degree specified, the condition is usually called X (Riesen...
to one survey conducted in both 1999 and 2001, 28 percent of American high school students report that they felt hopeless or sad a...
eliminating the inspection step of the manufacturing process. TQM was born of an effort to increase quality while simultaneously ...
grandmother were institutionalized when they died and her mother spent most of the rest of her life in a mental institution (Towso...
make some conclusions. The DSM-IV diagnostic lists several observable traits usually pertaining to those experiencing a manic epi...
In five pages the DSM IV Axis classification of agoraphobia is presented and compared with the film Copycat and the characterizati...