critique, and capture implications of the articles. The first article is Assessing Personality in the DSM-5: The Utility of Bipolar Constructs. The second is Predicting the Behavior of Offenders with Personality Disorder: Issues for Investigative Psychology. The last article is Interactions between Bipolar Disorder and Antisocial Personality Disorder in Trait Impulsivity and Severity of Illness. All articles have something to do with personality disorders. The article Assessing Personality in the
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Mental illness as a disease only came about towards the end of the 18th century and the term psychiatry was coined. (Potgieter, D. et al 1970). Psychology was first established as a formal academic discipline in South Africa (SA) during the 1920’s. (Burke, A. 2014) The concept of mental illness in SA raises many broad questions and debate. Mental health and illness has always been the poor cousin in the domain of medicine and particularly in SA. Although extensive research has been done, funding
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Psychological Disorder Analysis Psychological Disorder Analysis Bipolar Disorder Bipolar disorder is a disorder of the brain that affects one to two percent of people in our country. In many situations, the man or woman suffers silently with this mental illness, never knowing there is a reason for his or her feelings, that an explanation exists for the emotions and behaviors felt. Many years are stolen from these people because treatment was unknown or unavailable to
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Examination of Clinical Psychology Robin Slagel PSY/480 May 18, 2015 Janice Williams Examination of Clinical Psychology Within the many diverse disciplines and sub-disciplines of psychology it may be that within clinical psychology the whole of the search for the study of why human beings think and behave as they do from time immemorial can be seen. For all of the early searches and understandings regarding science, philosophy, and medicine have been intertwined with what is currently understood
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Clinical Assessment Taylor LeMaster PSY 290 July 5, 2015 Chris Shreve Clinical Assessment Clara is a four year old who is adopted and has had behavioral problems recently. The problems include throwing tantrums, changed sleeping and eating patterns, and no longer wanting to go to preschool. As she walked into the office, she kept her gaze down and didn’t smile. During the interview with the family, I would find it useful to find out more information about Clara that might explain why her
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Axia College Course Syllabus PSY/201 Foundations of Psychology Course Start Date: 2/21/11 Course End Date: 4/24/11 Please print a copy of this syllabus for handy reference. Whenever there is a question about what assignments are due, please remember this syllabus is considered the ruling document. Copyright Copyright © 2010, 2009 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. University of Phoenix® is a registered trademark of Apollo Group, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. Microsoft®
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PSYCHOANALYTIC PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT Fetina Pennington PSY/250 December 19, 2012 Dr. Kathlyn J. Kirkwood PSYCHOANALYTIC PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT The Psychoanalytic Theories of Freud, Jung, and Adler contributed so much to psychology as we know it today. As developers of the theory of personality involving the id, ego, and superego, which led to the therapy method known as psychoanalysis, Freud, Jung and Adler shared many ideas and fought over many concepts in developing each of their versions
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Schizophrenia is defined as a psychotic disorder which influences the way people behave, think and act. An individual experiencing this disorder possesses feelings and thoughts that do not work together ordinarily. It is “an abnormal disintegration of mental functions” (Gleitman, Gross & Reisberg, 2011). One important point in the development and success of the treatment of schizophrenia is discovering the sole cause of the disorder. The diathesis-stress model of schizophrenia aims to solve this
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Reading about anxiety in chapter four was interesting to me. Anxiety is the central nervous system’s physiological and emotional response to a vague sense of threat or danger (fundamentals of abnormal psychology seventh edition; Ronald J Comer). I never knew that anxiety was a disorder, and that anxiety disorder was considered a mental disorder. Not only is anxiety disorder a mental disorder, but it is the Most common mental disorder in the United states. I also learned that more African Americans
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What is the point in studying psychology? Psychology is so important in many aspects because it’s the basis of how you understand people’s behavior and the human mind. The reason for studying psychology is different for every person. Personally at the beginning it was just because I have to take this course for my major. I soon came to learn this class is going to help me in a lot more ways than one. I started becoming more excited about it because it will help me with my future goal of becoming
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