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LD, ADD, and ADHD Diagnostic Issues and Assessments

In four pages these disorder types are presented in an informational overview and then their diagnostic issues are assessed with c...

Etiology and Treatment of Panic Disorder

In seven pages this research paper considers panic disorder in an overview of causes, symptoms and how it can be treated. Seven s...

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...

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...

Child Language Disorders

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

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...

Panic Disorder Sufferers and Cognitive Behavior Disorder Effectiveness Experimental Research Design

the issue is included, as well as a suggested (and very basic) framework for the specialized investigation the student addressing ...

Special Education and ADHD

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

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...

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...

Conduct Disorder

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

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, Effects of ADHD

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

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 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...

OCD

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

The Pathophysiology of ADHD

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

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...

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)....

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...

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...

Genetic Disorder Marfan Syndrome

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

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...

Forensic Psychiatric Nursing

endeavor. Nursing in any context requires a detailed knowledge of individual patients. Specifically, a forensic nurse will have a...

Why Britney Spears May be Mentally Ill

episodes. While one might say that she is behaving in typical rock star fashion, the truth is that there is a great deal of dark b...