Essays 511 - 540
mental illness. One area of practice where this factor in Christian psychiatric practice may prove effective is in regards to the...
in a single multidimensional self" (Stephens, 2005). Key indicators include: * The presence of two or more distinct identities, ...
parents provide the kind of nurturing and care the baby needs, the five senses are positively stimulated" (Smith, no date). Pare...
of the condition. In the film, he was so obsessed with germs, he brought plasticware to a diner everyday instead of using ordinary...
and school- or community-level factors associated with receiving a diagnosis of ADHD" According to recent...
with sudden flashbacks intruding on thoughts (Fagan and Freme, 2004). Other symptoms include: an exaggerated startle reflex, sleep...
Neurosis," 2007). Many are familiar with anxiety as it is common in society in addition to depression. OCD is obsessive compulsive...
such that their motives are interpreted as malevolent, beginning in early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts" (DSM-IV,...
the "Yu Family," with parents Harold and Grace. Eddie is their oldest child. Eddie is such a "good" baby, demanding little attenti...
Hurricane Katrina is one of the most recent examples of an event that resulted in PTSD among some victims. Szegedy-Maszak (2005) ...
has a direct correlation with unattached disorders, with institutionalized children reflected as being particularly compromised in...
environment which fed the development of the disease, relapse is not uncommon ("Schizophrenia," 2006). Complete recovery is a poss...
for their future relationships and interactions (Pendry, 1998; Practice Notes, 1997). There are three conditions for attachment de...
2004). Bulimia is different from anorexia because "the person with bulimia doesnt avoid eating. Instead, he or she eats a large a...
variety of immunologic features that are similar to autoimmune hypotheroidism, such as "high serum concentrations of antibodies ag...
illness. Post traumatic stress syndrome can result from diversity of causes including the horrors of war, sexual abuse, or even s...
on too long, she says things that do not need to be said, like the comment about not wanting to overwhelm him and they will go thr...
OCD. However, the authors do note that a previous study did indicate beneficial results, thus indicating there may be possibilitie...
symptoms (Zepf, 2003). The "gold standard" for diagnosing sleep apnea is to use polysomnography in a sleep laboratory (Zepf, 2003)...
put into place active behavioral modification plans, and require the use of pharmacological support. Understanding treatment opti...
was missing during the formative years, this search most often leads to a superficial fix time and time again due to the individua...
and emotionally unbalancing illnesses they truly are to the adolescent population. Studies have pinpointed six cognitive elements...
that ultimately triggers the beginning signs of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in children who have suffered a bout of strep ...
the last 30 years (Singleton, 2000). Essentially, making positive diagnosis of dyslexia involves establishing that: 1. The childs ...
strikes first in the medial temporal lobe, memory recall, confusion and forgetfulness are typically the first identifiable symptom...
they are tired, or not getting enough sleep, they can quickly understand how a large number of people in the nation could make a b...
One set of arguments, those that argue that unusual eating behaviors such as anorexia and bulimia are not in actuality eating diso...
disorder, or a family history of anxiety and neuroticism" (Grinage, 2003). The body responds in measurable ways to various stress...
inherent weakness of being 18 years old. Therefore, much of its information is out-of-date. Jensen, et al (1998) conducted a stu...
bulimia it is helpful to first examine the so-called facts. According to these "facts" eating disorders affect females more frequ...