Phoenix Analyzing Psychological Disorders Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that makes it hard to tell the difference between what is real and what is not real. Schizophrenia makes it hard to think clearly, and have normal emotional responses. Act normally in social situations is also affected by this disorder. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, approximately 1 percent of the U.S. population is diagnosed with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia has no exact known cause but is categorized
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a Counselor since 2009. I. What populations of clients do you specialize in working within the mental health area? I specialize in working with individuals that have been diagnosis with varies types of mental disorders such as: paranoid schizophrenia, depression, and bipolar disorder. Some of my clients are functioning on higher levels, and do not need as much supervision as those who are operating on lower functioning levels. II. What does a typical day of work look like for you?
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disease or disability that they did not know the gravity of what they were doing, or whether it was right or wrong at the time of the offence. Mental illness covers a broad spectrum of mental problems ranging from severe mental disorders such as schizophrenia or retardation to milder forms such as anxiety and depression. Generally people who are mentally ill are aware of their illness, whereas insane persons are not aware that their actions and behaviors are abnormal, or something is wrong with their
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To evaluate the difference in the level of discrimination towards people who have received psychiatric treatment; before and after watching an intervention video. Research Report Name Institutional Affiliations Abstract Background: Existing literature provides that intervention methods play a significant role in reducing the level of discrimination against people who have been treated for mental conditions. The study hypothesized that the level of discrimination would diminish after administration
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Hello, below is my work for Annotated Bibliography assignment of this week’s task. I hope you guys can help me improve my writing skill by your comments and suggestion. Thank you so much for all of your opinions. Summary Rachel, E. (2014, November). Helping College Kids With Depression. Retrieved from http://www.childmind.org/en/posts/articles/2013-11-11-helping-college-kids-depression. In Helping college kids with depression, Rachel gave a general view about one of many crucial issues
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front of the class Disability: disability is a physical or mental condition that limits a person movements, senses, or activities. Tourette syndrome: is a neurological disorder characterized by involuntary tics and often the compulsive utterance of obscenities. The definitions above will help you understand the topic of my essay, which is about people with disabilities. In our language arts class we saw a movie about a person that have Tourette syndrome and he converts in a teacher and he reach
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State-Trait Depression Inventory (STDI) was used to measure depression (Spielberger, 2003). A 20-item questionnaire was administered that corresponds to the depression subscale of State-Trait Personality Inventory (STPI). It employed a four-point Likert scale with 1 meaning “almost always” and 4 meaning “almost never”. The Cronbach’s alpha coefficient for the scale in the present study is 0.93. A subscale of Ryff’s Scale of Psychological Well-Being entitled Positive Relations with Others was employed
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Depression is very serious. It is the main cause for suicide. People are killing themselves by the thousands, because of this dangerous disease. In this article, we will see how depression is increasing alarmingly worldwide. According to figures released by the World Health Organization (WHO) for 2010: Globally, more than 350 million people of all ages suffer from depression, or about 5% of the world population. Even worse, Depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide, and is a major
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This case study takes a look at a kid named Jim, who developed a long-term mental disorder called Schizophrenia. Although the precise cause of schizophrenia is not known, certain factors seem to increase the risk of developing the disorder. In Jim’s case, there are many factors that put him at risk for developing schizophrenia. Of the few, the most important factors are the old age of his father, the history of mental disorder in his mother, the mental stress Jim experienced as a result of his father’s
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Mental illnesses in children are so complex that psychiatrist cannot always detect them. It becomes harder and harder for doctors to diagnose mental illnesses in children due to the fact that an adolescent’s brain is not done developing until they are around the age of twenty five. That is why some diseases like Bipolar Disorder are not diagnosed until the age of twenty one. This is an important factor because over three percent of American Children are diagnosed with bipolar disorder every year
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