PSY 6669 ESSAY I ACTIVITY: 1. List the various substances mentioned in the DSM section on Substance-Related Disorders and explain co-occurring psychological and medical disorders in relationship to at least one substance-related disorder. (A.6;K.3) • Alcohol • Caffeine • Cannabis • Hallucinogen • Inhalant • Opioid • Sedative • Hypnotic or Anxiolytic • Stimulant • Tobacco If an individual uses opioids their routine urine toxicology test results are often positive for the drug. The results
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Asperger's syndrome is a disorder that was brought under the category of autism spectrum disorder. People affected with this syndrome have intellectual level above average but they have difficulties with social interactions, they find it hard to understand social signal and to communicate with others. This disorder is diagnosed normally in the age of 5 to 9 years but this disorder is also diagnosed in adulthood. Asperger’s Syndrome affects 0.003 to 4.28 in every 1000 people. Males are four times
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...................................................................... 3 Gender Stereotypes................................................................................................................................4 Intermittent Explosive Disorder.............................................................................................................. 5 Driving Pathology...................................................................................................................
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Schizophrenia is a serious brain disorder. It is a disease that makes it extremely difficult for a person to tell the difference between real and unreal experiences, to think logically, to have normal emotional responses to others, and to behave normally in social situations. People with schizophrenia may also have difficulty in talking, remembering and behaving appropriately. Schizophrenia is one of the most common mental illnesses. Schizophrenia is a neurological disorder that affects the cognitive
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relates to a large amount of people would be having a social phobia. Very few people are comfortable walking into a room where they know no one and start talking to total strangers. Or getting up in front of a stage and teaching or preforming in some way. The reactions are normally the same for everyone, you start to get a dry mouth your palms get sweaty your mind forgets everything you just practiced. These would be mild reactions to a social phobia some people start to get hives or even pass out
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harmful to children. Television takes the time away that is needed for children to develop language and social skills. A child's language and social skills are developed by interacting with people, talking, and listening. Language and social skills cannot be developed or improved by listening to a television. Children who watch too much television are also at risk for developing anti-social behaviors; these behaviors include: stealing, bullying, and fighting. “The fifteen per cent of five-year-olds
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Psychologists are trained to understand the issues this diagnosis presents as a disorder. It is listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, third edition. It is a stand-alone disorder as well as a symptom of other disorders such as psychopathy and antisocial, narcissistic, and histrionic personality disorders, but people who are pathological liars may not possess characteristics of the other disorders. It has been shown through lie detector tests that pseudologia fantastica
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Major Psychological Disorders Outline * Anxiety Disorders: The occurrence of anxiety without an obvious external cause, affecting daily functioning. * Phobic Disorder: an intense, irrational fear of a specific object or situation. (See figure 1 pg. 400) 1. Claustrophobia: 2. Acrophobia: 3. Xenophobia: 4. Social phobia: * Panic Disorder: Anxiety disorder that takes the form of panic attacks lasting from a few seconds to as long as several hours. Although the physical symptoms
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Stereotypic movement disorder is classified as making repetitive motions without purpose. Some of the symptoms of this disorder can include, self-biting, waving, head banging, hand shaking, hitting self, nail biting and rocking back and forth. This usually begins in childhood with rocking, nail biting, and head banging, which interferes with a child to successfully able to interact normally in social functions. These behaviors can be a result of Tourette’s or other tic disorders, autism, OCD or Chorea
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Schizophrenia Schizophrenia is a severe and chronic brain disorder in which a person interprets actual reality abnormally. It is a mental disorder that makes it difficult to think clearly, have normal responses to emotions, act normal in a social setting, and tell the difference between their own interpretation of reality and actual reality. There are several types of Schizophrenia: paranoid, undifferentiated, disorganized, residual, and catatonic schizophrenia. The assumption is that schizophrenia
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