Unlike Cluster A and Cluster B, Cluster C is a group of personality disorders that exhibit mainly anxious and fearful symptoms. Due to these symptoms, there are three sub-types of disorders in Cluster C described as avoidant personality disorder, dependent personality disorder and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder. As each disorder is different, a person struggling with an avoidant personality disorder avoid a wide range of social situations, feelings of inadequacy and hypersensitivity to
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Anxiety Disorders Anxiety disorders are a group of relatively common psychological problems, which used to be known collectively as neuroses. The main psychological feature of anxiety disorders is the unhappiness, the tension, and the excessive anxiety believed by their sufferers. Except for their symptomatic behavior individuals with anxiety disorders usually respond appropriately to their surroundings, both cognitively, and emotionally. They are aware that something is wrong, but they are generally
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abnormal mental process and behaviors. Mental disorders have the potential to be very serious and debilitating. Four examples of mental disorders include ADD and ADHD, Schizophrenia, OCD, and Bipolar disorder. It is important to recognize common symptoms, prevalence, contributing factors, and possible treatments for these disorders. ADD is attention deficit disorder, which is described as the inability to concentrate. ADHD is attention deficit hyperactive disorder, characterized by behaviors that are excessive
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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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RUNNING HEAD: Week 5 Assignment Week 5 Assignment Walden University For this week's assignment, we were instructed to select a character from a movie, TV show, literature or a play that would qualify for a personality disorder diagnosis. For this assignment, I have chosen Dr. Gregory House from the TV series “ House”. In this particular show, Dr. House provides diagnostic medical treatments for patients. He takes pride in making the appropriate diagnosis and treatments to the point that
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Definition: Hoarding is described the difficulty parting with possessions because of a need to save them. A person with hoarding disorder experiences stress at the thought of getting rid of the items (Frost, 2017).This stress is prevented by keeping items of value in their home. Hoarding creates cramped homes that are filled to capacity, with only narrow pathways winding through stacks of clutter (Frost, 2017). They are sometimes stereotyped as “pack rats” or “chronic savers”. It is important to
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are controlled by this unwanted yet unavoidable urge to compete an objective. Unfortunately for them and many others like them, their objective is unreachable, leaving them utterly unfulfilled. Obsession has been defined by dictionary as “a compulsive preoccupation with fixed idea or unwanted feeling or emotion, often with symptoms of anxiety.” It can often lead to an addictive habit that becomes hard to resist or a habit where a person becomes dependent upon someone or something. For example
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Obsessive compulsive behavior Nomophobia can be described traditionally as an anxiety or discomfort that manifests itself in a human being due to unavailability of a cellular phone, personal computer and in most recent times literally any virtual communication device including tablets. This is typically a social phobia that is brought about by the prevalent use of emerging technologies that cause changes in a person’s normal habits and behaviors (King, Valenca, & Nardi, 2012). Obsessive
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Josie Ferrell Psychology 100 4-20-2015 Case Study Client Two A. I am going to diagnose Sandra with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. I came up with this diagnosis because this disorder is caused constant unwanted thoughts that affect one’s life by creating compulsions through their life. The unwanted thought in Sandra’s life is safety of her child, Melissa, from choking. The thought of having Melissa safe from items that will make her choke has caused serious compulsion of vacuuming her apartment
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The Interplay of Risk and Resilience Factors in Childhood Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Introduction The emotional disorders are termed the ‘internalising disorders’ and comprise depression and the anxiety disorders. Although the emotional disorders of childhood are discussed as separate entities, in reality it is not that easy to separate them because there is a lot of common ground. The reason they are seen as separate entities is due to the clinical approach of DSM IV. Often, in any
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