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connection between BDD and anorexia nervosa (Matsunaga, et al, 1999). Panic Attacks, Dissociative Disorder and Acute Stress Dis...
to one survey conducted in both 1999 and 2001, 28 percent of American high school students report that they felt hopeless or sad a...
also tells the user that when these symptoms occur together, or to the degree specified, the condition is usually called X (Riesen...
physiological effects of a substance (e.g., stimulants) or a general medical condition (e.g., Huntingtons disease or postviral enc...
grandmother were institutionalized when they died and her mother spent most of the rest of her life in a mental institution (Towso...
manual, Bipolar I is a clinical course characterized by one of more manic or mixed episodes (APA, 1994). Generally, individuals wi...
make some conclusions. The DSM-IV diagnostic lists several observable traits usually pertaining to those experiencing a manic epi...
In ten pages this paper examines the DSM classification system in a discussion of the deletion of homosexuality by the board of di...
In eighteen pages Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is examined in an overview of the diagnosis as described in DSM IV with a literatu...
descriptions for various mental and psychological disorders and breaks them down into diagnostic classes. Utilizing the DSM IV al...
as many as was reported in 1980, reflects a disturbing trend toward uncontrolled acts of domestic violence (Leigh et al, 1995). E...
"chronic, heavy drinking" (Enoch and Goldman, 2002, p. 192). According to government standards, a woman is at-risk for heavy drink...
to: "weakness, paralysis, sensory disturbances, pseudoseizures, and involuntary movements such as tremors. Symptoms more often af...
ideation is measured on the basis of six specific components found on the Depression scale. Each disorder is matched with respect...
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...
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...
a relatively new mental illness category. Gunderson (2001) explained that borderline personality disorder "is layered between neur...
weeks in duration and exhibit at least five of the following symptoms: * You are depressed, sad, blue, tearful (Holisticonline.com...
the DSM IV-TR (Therapydoc, 2007). The next one is due sometimes in 2012 (Therapydoc, 2007). It will no doubt change etiologies, di...
by using standard PTSD models there is a limiting of the understanding of the conditions that are suffered and that there is the ...
p. 5). Nevertheless, the fact that a diagnostic criteria is listed in the book, detailed and complex, tends to encourage the perce...
This essay discusses several issue regarding psychology. It begins with a report that the new DSM does not use a multiaxial system...
This is the manual mental health care professionals use for diagnostic and informational purposes. The manual lists mental health ...
This research paper focuses on a client scenario, in which the client has a cocaine addition. The topics covered include assessmen...
alcoholic may have full knowledge that the substance is disrupting his or her life in some dramatic way (such as the loss of a job...
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...