Running Head: HISTRIONIC PERSONALITY DISORDER Histrionic Personality Disorder Abstract This paper describes the characteristics, causes, diagnosis, and treatment of an individual with Histrionic Personality Disorder (HPD). These individuals display a pervasive pattern of excessive emotionality and attention-seeking behavior. The exact cause of this disorder is not known, but it has been linked to learned and inherited
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Running Head: HISTRIONIC PERSONALITY DISORDER What is HPD? Histrionic Personality Disorder Brookline College Histrionic personality disorder (HPD) is defined by the American Psychiatric Association as a personality disorder characterized by a pattern of excessive emotionality and attention-seeking, including an excessive need for approval and inappropriately seductive behavior, usually beginning in early adulthood. People with this disorder are usually able to function at a high level and
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Question 1a WRITE NOTES ON Eating disorder Introduction Eating disorders (EDs) are psychiatric disorders with diagnostic criteria based on psychologic, behavior, and physiologic characteristics. Eating disorders is a broad name for a number of problems faced by human beings with food in our society. While majority slip into overeating or comfort eating at some point, for some the problem goes to life-threatening extremes. For instance a common type of eating disorder is the anorexia nervosa and bulimia;
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In our everyday lives, we, as a species, are deceitful. There are many reasons why we lie, whether it is to protect ourselves, protect someone we love, to escape an uncomfortable experience, for the thrill of it, or due to a disorder. In every aspect of our lives, and from every angle, deceptive stimuli bombards our nervous system and keeps our brains constantly at work to weed out the information that is correct from the information that is false. Advertisements, our parents, our children, friends
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The DSM-IV is an important tool for clinicians. It provides a standard for diagnoses to be standardized across psychology; however, the DSM-IV is not as precise for diagnosing personality disorders as some psychologists would like. Give an example of each of the following problems identified in your readings and explain how these problems could negatively affect a diagnosis. 1. Some criteria used for reaching a diagnosis cannot be observed directly. Subjective patient analysis has to take
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the DSM-IV is not as precise for diagnosing personality disorders as some psychologists would like. Give an example of each of the following problems identified in your readings and explain how these problems could negatively affect a diagnosis. 1. Some criteria used for reaching a diagnosis cannot be observed directly. This statement is true; some measures used to reach a diagnosis cannot be witnessed completely. Personality disorders can be hard to diagnosis with no knowledge of
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Histrionic Personality Disorder This paper describes the characteristics, causes, diagnosis, and treatment of an individual with Histrionic Personality Disorder (HPD). These individuals display a pervasive pattern of excessive emotionality and attention-seeking behavior. The exact cause of this disorder is not known, but it has been linked to learned and inherited behavior. Diagnosing HPD can be difficult because it is similar to other personality disorders. Part of the focus of treatment
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Self- Mutilation There are a number of different ways to define what self-mutilation entails. It is one of the most commonly used phrases, but researchers and mental health professionals have not been able to agree on one specific definition to explain self-inflicted injury. Hence, self-harm, self-injury and self-mutilation are the common phrases used to refer to this type of behavior ( Zila & Kiselica, 2001). Many people tend to associate self mutilation with suicide, when in fact they are very
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Imagine yourself dead. Swallow fifty aspirin, and then once you realize it was a mistake, take a walk. A five-block, dizzy, blurry walk to the grocery store, where surely someone will save you. Susanna Kaysen was teetering on the edge of life and death but worse, she was standing directly on the blurred line between sanity and insanity. In her memoir, Girl, Interrupted she shares her psychiatric hospital experiences that followed her attempted suicide. Girl, Interrupted was published in 1993, over
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My topic of choice for this assessment is Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). I chose four online sources to help me to research it, being Sane Australia (informational site), Psych Central (informational site), YouTube (social platform) and Facebook (social platform). Sane Australia (SA) was a basic but factual site (SA, n.d). It has one page specifically related to BDP, which is clearly laid out with a concise (but very informative) overview of BDP. This assisted me in reading, understanding
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