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Provisions in Education for Adolescents with ADHD, Asperger's, and Autistic Spectrum Disorders

1998). This is enshrined in both political rhetoric and policies and papers such as the policy documents Excellence in Schools and...

Girl, Interrupted And Borderline Personality

the DSM IV-TR (Therapydoc, 2007). The next one is due sometimes in 2012 (Therapydoc, 2007). It will no doubt change etiologies, di...

Extension and Addendum

rank of 45, which is below average. The full scale of 100 is the exact mean average for this assessment. All scores have a 95 perc...

Asperger Programs, A Letter to the Editor

This essay presents an argument that there should be specific programs in the public school system that are designed to meet the n...

Classroom Mainstreaming of a Child with Asperger's Syndrome

disorder. Some believe that it is a high functioning form of autism where others see it as a nonverbal learning disability (Kirby,...

Mother's Perspective/Asperger Syndrome

years before Jimmys parents even had a definitive diagnosis of AS. Once Fling and her husband had a diagnosis, they found that exp...

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...

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 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...

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...

Psychotherapy Case Study

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

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...

DSM IV Criteria for Schizophrenia

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...