Psychotherapy is a treatment between a trained professional and a person or group.Psychotherapy aims to increase the individual's sense of his/her own well-being. Psychotherapists employ a range of techniques based on experiential relationship building, dialogue, communication and behavior change that are designed to improve the mental health of a client or patient, or to improve group relationships (such as in a family). Psychotherapy may also be performed by practitioners with different qualifications
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disorders • Somatoform disorders (Conversion Disorder, Hypochondriasis, etc.) • Factitious disorders • Dissociative disorders (Dissociative Identity Disorder, etc.) • Sexual and gender identity disorders • Eating disorders (Anorexia, Bulimia, etc.) • Sleep disorders (Insomnia, Sleep Terrors, etc.) • Impulse-control disorders (Intermittent Explosive Disorder, Kleptomania, etc.) • Adjustment disorders Axis II: Personality Disorders and Mental Retardation Appendix 4.5 Page 2
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a problem. The web if full of “Self Help” websites which lots of teens refer to. Sometimes when a teenager is more informed about the problem they have encountered they can find it easier to talk to their parents about it. For example anorexia or bulimia. The internet has excellent resources for doing your homework. When I do my homework I normally use Wikipedia or I type the topic in Google, which 9 times out of 10 produces a useful website for me to use. They are a lot easier and quicker to use
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Antidepressants: I) Tricyclic Antidepressents:TCA: Drugs: - 3ry amines; old generation more selective to 5HT reuptake inhibition are: imipramine, trimipramine, clomipramine, amitriptyline, and doxepin( potent H1 blocking agent). - 2ry amines; new generation more selective to NE reuptake inhibition are: nortriptyline, protriptyline, maprotiline, desipramine, and amoxapine(can block DA receptor causing Park-like effect). MOA: they block NE and 5HT reuptake, thus increase their levels. Plus they
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with individuals and the human behavior. Eating Disorder In Eating disorders the biological emphasis on the hereditary factors, hormonal, neurotransmitter abnormalities, and the structure of the brains irregularities. Individuals with anorexia and bulimia have shown signs of low serotonin levels with brain abnormalities In the Psychodynamic the complex is powered by Bruch’s assessment and interpretation with the individual’s comatose feelings. Other psychodynamic theorists believe some individuals
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researched enough to show the link between poor body image and the media’s portrayal of women and could this research allow for successful interventions to be evaluated and implemented. Could and intervention lead to fewer cases of anorexia and bulimia and could this lead to increased self-esteem and a more positive body image amongst women? The question many people want to know is if this is the case, where did these stereotypes come from exactly? Is it from the movie, television industry, fashion
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ANOREXIA SSE project Salma Al Bloushi What Is Anorexia? Anorexia is an eating disorder characterized by extreme weight loss and lack of eating. Anorexics may also exercise obsessively. People with anorexia may also have bulimia, a disorder in which they make themselves vomit after eating in order to avoid gaining weight. Anorexia affects many more women than men. It is a very serious condition and can result in death if it is not treated properly. A person who suffers from Anorexia
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against objects, taking a drug overdose, or swallowing or putting other things inside themselves. It may also take less obvious forms, including unnecessary risks, staying in an abusive relationship, developing an eating problem (such as anorexia or bulimia), being addicted to alcohol or drugs, or someone simply not looking after their own emotional and physical needs. Why do some people self harm? Self harming, for some people, can be a coping mechanism to deal with their inner feelings and emotions
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Eating Disorders, Media Related? Fashion and media portrayals the ideal body image, an ultra thin model presented as the norm for beauty in advertisements. Many researchers hypothesized that the media may play a central role in creating and intensifying the phenomenon of body dissatisfaction, loss of self esteem and consequently, may be partly responsible for the increase in the prevalence of behavioral eating disorders. For the past years, researches have been conducted on the relationship between
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"The perfect body." What defines the perfect body? Through the mass media's consecutive collaborations with the fashion industry, they've undoubtedly justified that answer for you by instituting a society, which possesses the discouragement of one's self-confidence and reciprocated it into unrealistic standards. The media's concept of the ideal women's body isn't immovable. Over centuries women internationally have worshiped a variety of body types determined by societies morals of beauty. Each
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