...Diagnosis and Treatment University of Phoenix Heather Pitts BEH225 Insomnia Insomnia is a classified as a disorder but not as a disease. Although most people suffer at one point in their life with insomnia, not all cases get discovered and treated. Insomnia is a sleeping disorder that people fight with on daily basses. A person tends to deal with not being able to sleep, feel tired and drained, restless, and in some people, have mood swings because of being tired from not sleeping. People dealing with insomnia often have a hard time initiating sleep or maintaining sleep. Insomnia does not have a specific age group that is targeted but in some areas, most targeted with insomnia are those in unhealthy environments. Eating habits, social environments, work spaces, and family atmosphere all can play in developing insomnia. Causes of Insomnia As mentioned earlier, insomnia comes mostly from other problems affecting the person. Stress however is one of the most common issues. People who often worry with problems such as work, school, family, and financials often have the problem with restlessness. By being stressed over a certain issue keeps the brain active with needless thoughts and not allowing the brain to come to rest. The issue next to stress would be medications. Often people take medications that are to help with one problem but end up affecting a person’s sleeping habits. If a person goes in reporting problems with pain, a doctor may prescribe a medication...
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...The topic that I choose is about the relationship between Parkinson’s disease and insomnia. I found a journal article that shown an experiment about finding the correlation between the topics. The reason why I choose this article is because my grandfather has a Parkinson’s disease and since this is a genetic disease, I know I must be aware for the future. With another variable like insomnia makes the experiment kind of interesting for me. From personal observation, as people grow older, they tend to sleep and wake early. That’s why my curiosity about whether people with Parkinson will always have insomnia leads me to choose this journal article. 2. The type of experimental design that the researchers use is an empirical study and a quantitative study. In this case, the researchers use the empirical study to observe the results and interpret the conclusion using four tables from the questionnaires. The task that participants were asked to...
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...Analyzing Psychological Disorders William Cagle March 29, 2012 Hello. I am so humble to make it this far in the interview process. Per your request, you have asked me to analyze the psychiatric disease schizophrenia. You have also asked me to interpret two case studies of my choice and give my perspective on them. I am very happy to do this for you, especially since biopsychology is my passion. I will start with analyzing the psychiatric disease schizophrenia first. Schizophrenia was a term coined by psychologist in the early 20th century. It means “splitting the psychic functions”. Another common term for schizophrenia is split personality disorder. (Dryden-Edwards, 20011). When you think of schizophrenia, words like madness and crazy come to mind. It is a disease that is made up of many complex and diverse symptoms, which often overlap with other psychiatric disorders (Pinel, 2009). Schizophrenia affects about 1% of the population. It generally starts between late adolescence and early adulthood. Men are statistically affected with schizophrenia 1 ½ times more than women. There are five types of schizophrenia: paranoid schizophrenia, disorganized schizophrenia, catatonic schizophrenia, undifferentiated schizophrenia, and residual schizophrenia. The symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia deal with delusions or auditory hallucinations. For example, the patient might feel as if they have bugs crawling on them when they do not. Disorganized...
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...Behavioral Psychiatric Assessments I would like for you to consider the behavioral health issues you have dealt with in your clinical settings up until now, and submit to the objectives assignment link 2 objectives you have set for yourself to improve your interaction with patients with behavioral health problems. And, how you plan to meet them. The behavioral health issues I dealt with this semester include: anxiety, depression, dementia, smoking cessation, and insomnia. The goal during the interaction with patients with psychiatric issues was focused on improving my communication skills when taking history and performing physical assessments. Of particular note were the differences in approach between a behavioral health patient and the non- behavioral health patient. I noticed that for a successful interaction to occur, one has to be knowledgeable and skillful in how they approach patients with depression and dementia. Dealing with the psychiatric patient and those with alcohol and drug abuse issues calls for special skills in order to effectively assess and treat the presenting conditions appropriately. This is an area that I have a goal of improving on by increasing the time spent in clinical settings that have more interactions and treatment modalities aimed at the behavioral health patient. The vastness and diversity of the behavioral health field has resulted in more awareness and a focus aimed at increasing my knowledge base on treatments and management of psychiatric...
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...state of physical, mental, and social well-being. Psychology is the way you deal with life, or situations that you come across. If you have a positive attitude and a positive state of mind you may be healthier and feel better. Your state of mind can affect your health greatly. If you are always in a bad mood you can cause your body to be unhealthy because of stress and just a bad attitude in general. Stress can cause a lot of health problems such as obesity, migraines, cardiovascular problems, stroke, and depression. Some people that get stressed can choose unhealthy ways of dealing with it such as smoking or eating fatty or unhealthy foods. Smoking can cause cancer, heart disease, and stroke. It can also lead to respiratory disorder that cannot be reversed. Eating fatty foods and unhealthy foods can lead to obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and cardiovascular disease. Good ways of dealing with stress are walking, working out, yoga, reading, getting a massage, and talking or writing about it. Doing all of this can reduce your stress along with your blood pressure. They can also put you into a better state of mental, physical and social state. Stress is a common issue in the workplace. In the workplace a person runs in the large workloads and not enough time. Feeling overwhelmed with the workload that you have can cause you to be stressed out and feeling cranky and crabby. This affects other co-workers. The bad attitude can spread until everyone is stressed and...
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...Sleep Deprivation, Disorders, and Drugs Anita Rouse PSY/240 02/13/2011 Kelli McLaughlin Lack of sleep is something we all have to deal with here and there, some more than others. There are even other individuals who have to live with sleeping disorders. Sleep deprivation, and sleeping disorders negatively affects those who are experiencing these issues. Luckily, scientists have come up with many different medications to help individuals sleep better. In this paper I will be discussing a time when I was sleep deprived and how it compared to the effects of sleep deprivation which were discussed in the text. I will also be discussing the effects of long-term reduced sleep and some common sleeping disorders and some of the drug remedies which can be used. About a month ago I experienced a hard time sleeping at night and it lasted a week. I would try and force myself to go to bed at my usual time, which is at 10:00 pm, but I would just lay there wide awake. When my alarm went off I felt like I had just fallen asleep. My usual sleeping routine works perfectly for me, I usually go to sleep around 10:00 pm and wake up at 6:30 am, which gives me eight and a half hours of sleep. When I was sleep deprived I am not sure how many hours I was sleeping, but I do know that I often saw 2:00 am, which means I was getting at the most four and a half hours of sleep each night. What was horrible about this week, was even though my oldest son goes to school, I had a toddler to worry...
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...Analyzing Psychological Disorders University of Phoenix June 2, 2011 Analyzing Psychological Disorders For the last duration of my interview process I will analyze the psychiatric disorder of schizophrenia. I will discuss the various parts of the brain that this disorder affects as well as the causes and symptoms of schizophrenia. I will then analyze two different case studies the first one being anorexia and the second being insomnia. Within my analysis of the two case studies I will examine the problem as a biopsychologist and relate it the nature-nurture issue. I will conclude the interview with possible helpful drug interventions or solutions as well as the side effects that they may cause. PART A “The term schizophrenia means the splitting of psychic function and is most commonly associated with the concept of madness” (Pinel, 2007). Schizophrenia affects three different parts of the brain the forebrain, hindbrain, and the limbic system. “As a whole the forebrain serves to control cognition (the process of thinking, knowing, learning, and judging), sensory and motor function, temperature regulation, reproduction, hunger, sleep cycle and emotional expression” (Walding, 2011). Damage or abnormalities in the forebrain causes delusions within people who suffer from schizophrenia. The temporal lobe also located in the forebrain assists in visual and auditory functions. In schizophrenics this may cause hallucinations through both hearing and visual perceptions. The hindbrain...
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...Schizophrenia is a disorder that causes a person to lose contact with reality. The person with the disorder displays signs of detachment from reality, hallucination, paranoia, and delusions. One of the more common ways to tell if a person has schizophrenia is if they have totally ruined any social relationship and hear voices that no one else can hear. A lot of schizophrenics believe the voices are government people talking to them or they are being talked to by aliens and that aliens are everywhere. Schizophrenia is typically inherited through your genes. One of your parents or grandparents most likely had the disorder and passed it on to you. The disorder is usually triggered by some sort of stress and symptoms start to show. In the beginning you may see little signs like trouble sleeping or concentrating. You might see your irritable or have tense feelings. As life goes on you might develop problems thinking or with emotions and behaviors. These might include Isolation, Hallucinations as discussed before. Lack of emotion and problems paying attention are classic symptoms as well. Bizarre behaviors, delusions as mentioned previously and thoughts that don’t really associate with one another brought together in very loose association all can be seen in schizophrenic symptoms. Of course symptoms depend on the type of schizophrenia present. For instance Disorganized schizophrenia symptoms may have showing little emotion, childlike behavior, and problems thinking and explaining...
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...the connection between two or more people, “In this interaction the hypnotist attempts to influence the subject's perceptions, feelings, thinking and behaviours by asking them to concentrate on ideas and images that may evoke the intended effects.”(Heap et al.(2001, p.3) Hypnosis has been a topic of great controversy in psychology and some even doubt its effectiveness. Being hypnotized occurs when a pattern a person’s subconscious is attained by simply getting them to focus on an object, regulate their thoughts and sometimes their breathing. The specific type of hypnosis that I will be covering is hypnosis that leads the patient to recall events that have taken place in past years. Hypnotist use memory recall hypnosis when the patient is dealing with issues from their past that they fail to remember consciously. Memory recall hypnotism has also been used in court cases helping witnesses or victims recall events related to the crime. One would conclude that such phenomenon would be considered as accurate if its trusted in serious court cases, but according to The International Library of Psychology: Hypnosis, it is considered inaccurate. Michael Heap and Irving Kirsch describe the accuracy of hypnosis for memory recall as a recollection of true memories and planted memories by the hypnotist stating “When hypnosis is used for recall of meaningful past events there is often new information reported. This may include accurate information as well as confabulations and pseudomemories...
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...Clinical Diagnosis of Jack in Fight Club In the film Fight Club, Jack, the narrator, is introduced as a troubled individual who is suffering from insomnia, while seeming commonly bored with his white-collar job. This serious disorder causes him severe sleeplessness, and he describes it as never really being awake, while never really being asleep. He also explains that nothing feels real when you have insomnia. His diagnosis of the disorder is made clear in the film, but the doctor he sees will not give him a prescription. He instead turns to support groups in order to see “what pain really is.” After going to these support groups, Jack is finally able to sleep, after relieving his emotions by crying to the other members. Jack’s second diagnosis would be Dissociative Identity Disorder, which is also known as having multiple personalities. Possible symptoms of this disorder include exhibiting two or more distinct and altering personalities, which Jack does. The attitudes and beliefs of the two personalities of the individual are not similar to each other; they could even be opposites, and they have their own voices and mannerisms. Typically, the host personality denies the awareness of another, which can have its own unmemorable authority and control over the individual’s behaviors. Other symptoms include the loss of time, depersonalization, sudden anger, anxiety attacks, mood swings, depression, hallucinations, phobias, traumatic flashbacks, suicidal tendencies, sleep disorders...
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...Analyzing Psychological Disorder By Steven Smith Psy/240 First I would like to thank you for this opportunity that you are giving me. A part of this opportunity that you have given me contains two parts, A and B. In part A, I will analyze schizophrenia a psychiatric disease that is well known. I will take you on the journey of how schizophrenia affects the brain, neural basis, causes, symptoms, and drug therapies of this psychiatric disease. In part B we will continue our journey through a bio-psychologist’s perspective on the following two case studies; the first one will be about a teenager named Beth who has severe eating disorder name anorexia. The second will be about a single mother named Mary, who has a sleep disorder known as Insomnia. In both cases I will determine the relationship with nature-nurture issue, drug interventions or solutions, and the positive and negative aspects of the solutions or drug interventions. Part A: Schizophrenia: Causes, Symptoms and Treatments The psychiatric disease schizophrenia as describe by John P.J. Pinel in the seventh edition of Biopsychology, is the “splitting of psychic functions”. There is not a specific race or cultural group that will end up with schizophrenia. Experts have not pin pointed what cause schizophrenia, but they believe it is a combination of factor from genetics to environmental. Schizophrenia will...
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...Essay on “A Good Night’s Sleep” You know the feeling. You went to bed three hours ago, and yet you have not fallen asleep. Panic is starting to take control of your mind and the darkness seems like a never-ending struggle. It feels as if you are being choked. It all starts out as tiny, red dots. In the beginning they are nothing but dots. When you notice how harmless they are, they start forming patterns. Suddenly they are everywhere. Among all the red dots monsters start appearing. Your biggest fear is approaching you and there is nothing you can do to stop the horror. A skinny arm of an abandoned child reaches out to touch you and in that very moment – you awake. You are all sweaty and frightened. You know, you have not been sleeping nor been awake. You have been drifting off to sleep and started hallucinating. Just as George Lockhart from the story you have just read. “A Good Night’s Sleep” is a Scottish short story written by Brian McCabe and published in 1993. The story takes place in a tenement building in Edinburgh. The place of action is on the third floor where George Lockhart, the main character, lives. I think the social environment is middleclass. The people living in the building are at all ages and appearances. The story being told from an apartment creates a sense of claustrophobia, which does not get any less when you are told about the noises from the street. The short story is being told from a third person omniscient narrative. It seems as a very reliable...
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...of most common medical conditions for the elderly. It also examines the increase in the suicidal tendencies of the depressed, taking into account the wrong assumption that aging necessitates depression and the difficulty of health care providers in recognizing depression. It examines how symptoms may take months to worsen and show up and how aging individuals should be treated similarly to younger patients when seen by the doctor. It is up to family and health care providers to be vigilant and notice changes, and with care, individuals can be helped. Some of these symptoms include depressed mood, loss of interest in work and activities, psychic anxiety, somatic symptoms, general (decreased energy), somatic anxiety, guilt, middle insomnia, late insomnia, and suicidal ideation. Literature into the issue of depression and the suicide rate where elderly people are concerned is important for several reasons. Consider these facts: The highest rate of suicide in the United States is among the elderly population. Moreover, suicide rates steadily increase as age advances in individuals of all races and both genders. Those that are 65 years and older successfully complete suicide fifty percent more often than the national average. Every 90 minutes a senior citizen in the United States commits suicide. Population experts estimate that by 2030, the elderly population will be about 20% of the population-about 75 million people (Heisel, 2004). Clearly, the problem of suicide among the elderly...
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...Organizational Issues and Trends Team D members work for organizations in a variety of industries. Sophee works at Doyon Government Group in Accounts Payable, Nadine works at Outback Steakhouse as a Bartender and Kristal works at her home as a full time mother. We will Compare and contrast the perception of organizational power and politics among our organizations. Work stressors will be addressed as well as a list of strategies for managing stress within an organization. Lastly, we will evaluate the business and ethical considerations of operating organizations on a global scale. We define stress as a state of tension experienced by individuals facing extraordinary demands, constraints, or opportunities (). We encounter stress in our everyday life. While some stress is a normal part of life, extreme stress can interfere with productivity and reduce physical and emotional health in a person. “Layoffs” and “Budget cuts”, have become dreaded words in organizations and people fear the uncertainty of job security. Because of these worries employees will push themselves to the extreme to avoid losing their jobs. Some organizations know that their employees will do whatever it takes to keep their jobs and use that to their advantage. Common causes of work place stress * Fear of layoffs * Staff cut backs * Increased demand of overtime * rising expectations but with no increase in pay * unreasonable demands...
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...variable schedules, repeated deadlines, dormitory living, new social opportunity and academic obligations (Anbar and Slothower , 2006) . All of these caused students voluntary to alter their sleeping habits in which they tends to reduce their sleeping time from as recommended sleeping time 8 hours to in between 3 hours to 6 hours of sleeping time per day. This can lead to sleep disorder in which nowadays, insomnia and sleepiness are the most common complaints in general population (Watson, Goldberg, Arguelles, and Buchwald, 2006). Notably that, sleep quality refers to a composite of sleep quantity, length of time to fall asleep, number of awakenings at night, length of time to fall back asleep after awakening, feeling of fatigue or restfulness upon awakening in the morning and general satisfaction with sleep. According to Doghramji (2006), insomnia can be defined as complaint of disturbed sleep, manifested as difficulties in sleep initiation or sleep maintenance, and also refers as early awakenings. According to Kamel and Gammack (2006), there are several causes of insomnia which are including primary specific sleep disorders, physical illness, behavioral, environmental and medication. The examples for sleep disorder are Circadian Rhythm Disorders, Sleep Apnea, Narcolepsy, Periodic Limb Movement Disorder (PLMS), Sleepwalking, Nightmares, factor contributing to poor sleep quality and impacts of daily functioning. Constructs to be measured In this study, we tend to measure nine...
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