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Comprehensive Discussion of Autism

is demonstrating symptoms (Pasco, 2010). Autism interferes with the normal development of the childs brain, particularly in the ar...

DSM-IV-TR Changes For Clinical Depression

guide, basically simply changing errors that had been found in the text (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Org...

Depression - General Overview

weeks in duration and exhibit at least five of the following symptoms: * You are depressed, sad, blue, tearful (Holisticonline.com...

Case Scenario/Alcohol Abuse

"chronic, heavy drinking" (Enoch and Goldman, 2002, p. 192). According to government standards, a woman is at-risk for heavy drink...

Case Studies in the Analysis and Diagnosis of Mental Disorders With the Help of Rebecca Shannonhouse's 'Out of Her Mind,' Margery Kempe, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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...

Psychotherapy Case Study

others. Intake summary : Linda comes across as flirtatious and provocative in her dress, as her knee-high stockings showed thro...

DSM IV Diagnostic Criteria and Treatment of PTSD

after the exposure to the initiating traumatic event (Stein, 2002). If PTSD-like symptoms become evidence and are intense prior to...

Assessment of Domestic Abuse

as many as was reported in 1980, reflects a disturbing trend toward uncontrolled acts of domestic violence (Leigh et al, 1995). E...

Adolescent Girls and Depression

to one survey conducted in both 1999 and 2001, 28 percent of American high school students report that they felt hopeless or sad a...

Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy and Marilyn Monroe

grandmother were institutionalized when they died and her mother spent most of the rest of her life in a mental institution (Towso...

DSM IV Criteria for Schizophrenia

descriptions for various mental and psychological disorders and breaks them down into diagnostic classes. Utilizing the DSM IV al...

Diagnosing and Treating Pathological Gambling

In five pages this paper discusses pathological gambling in terms of the DSM IV diagnostic criteria and then considers various mod...

Examination of Autism

In five pages autism is examined in a general overview that includes condition description, diagnosis according to criteria establ...

An Oveview of Agoraphobia

In five pages the DSM IV Axis classification of agoraphobia is presented and compared with the film Copycat and the characterizati...

Tourette's Syndrome Treatments Literature Review

physiological effects of a substance (e.g., stimulants) or a general medical condition (e.g., Huntingtons disease or postviral enc...

Anxiety Disorders and Analytic Treatment

In a paper consisting of seven pages the analytic treatment for anxiety orders as classified by DSM IV are discussed in order to d...

Attention Deficit Disorder and Parental Inteview

This is a research paper of seven pages that includes commentary, an interview with a parent, and an observation of a child suffer...

All About Insomnia

In seven pages insomnia is examined in an overview that includes DSM IV assessments, symptoms, methods of prevention, and evaluate...

Psychological Classification of Silence of the Lambs' Hannibal Lecter

some degree of forbidden impulses and thoughts. Most, however, do not act upon these thoughts and impulses. Hannibal Lechter dev...

Depression and Anxiety

In a paper consisting of five pages the concepts of depression and anxiety are defined in accordance with the APA's DSM IV manuel,...

Overview of Narcissistic Personality Disorder

In fourteen pages this overview of narcissism includes the DSM IV definition and various theories and treatment approaches. Fifte...

DSM IV, Bulimia, and Anorexia

is necessary to examine how it can be diagnosed and what treatments are available. One of the latest tools in the health professio...

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...

DSM-IV and Sexual Dysfunction

a considerable body of empirical evidence that calls these DSM-IV factors into question. The female sexual response is complicated...

Analyzing John Nash's Mental Illness in A Beautiful Mind Film by Director Ron Howard

original consensus among mental health professionals the schizophrenia developed during late teens or early adulthood. However, a...

Case Scenario on Alcohol Dependence, an Analysis

affect a clients mental health ("Psychiatric," 2011). Axis 1 refers to clinical syndromes ("Psychiatric," 2011). As indicated abov...

Alzheimer's Diagnosis

other personal habits suggests that Mr. P. is losing motor function and the case study also indicates his memory losses, which hav...

Diagnostic Process for DSM IV TR

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at the process of diagnosing psychological disorders. The five axis diagnosis process i...

Case Study of Diagnoses by DSM IV TR and Patient Assessment

time, after which he began drinking again. After this, the patient demonstrated a desire to poison himself, and this resulted in ...

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 5

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