Case Study Paper Developmental Learning Disorders PSY/410 Case Study Paper There once was a little girl who dreamed of becoming a mom. She wanted, it more than anything in the world, and she knew that one day her dream would come true. This young girl would sit for hours on end thinking of names to call her future baby. So eventually this little girl grew up to become a woman. She eventually met and married her true love, but she was having difficulties becoming pregnant. The more
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Classifying Abnormality Paper Alycia Moss PSY/410 September 7, 2011 Laurie Rhia Classifying Abnormality Paper Many efforts have been made to try to classify abnormal behavior, by utilizing some type of diagnostic categorizing system. These efforts have progressed from methods that vaguely lists disorders, to more thorough, modern methods, like DSM- IV- TR, this method lists numerous amounts of different mental disorders. Psychopathology is the study of mental illness
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Historical Perspectives of Abnormal Psychology PSY/410 What is Abnormal Psychology? Abnormal psychology is a branch of psychology also referred to as psychopathology and abnormal behavior. Abnormal psychology covers a broad range of disorders such as depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder to sexual deviation. Counselors and clinical as well as psychotherapists work directly with developing a cure (Cherry, 2012). There are many ways to define abnormality: statistical infrequency, violation
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Anxiety, Somatoform, and Dissociative Disorders AJ Curless August 6, 2013 PSY/410 Lara Ashbaugh The particular interest in this paper includes anxiety disorders, somatoform disorders, and dissociative disorders. According to, Hansell and Damour (2008) the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed., text rev.; DSM-IV-TR; American Psychiatric Association, 2000), includes diagnostic and classifications in identifying and diagnosing mental disorders. The
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Anxiety, Mood/Affective, Somatoform PSY/410 June 17, 2012 Eric Niler Anxiety, Mood/Affective, Somatoform “We’ll begin with a description of the DSM-IV-TR anxiety disorders and then turn our attention to the core concepts of the advantages and limitations of the DSM-IV-TR anxiety disorder diagnoses and the issues of cultural and historical relativism in classifying anxiety disorders” Hansell J. & Damour L. (2008). The interest of the paper will be to look at the areas of anxiety, mood/affective
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PSY/410 - ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY Historical Perspectives of Abnormal Psychology Week 1: Individual Assignment Instructor: Melda Jones May 2011 The earliest account and confirmation of mental illness were the spiritual approach, which originated from the belief that the supernatural or spirits and gods of an unknown realm has an effect on what happens within their earthly domain. This generated a very distinctive way of explaining mental disorders that
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PSY 410 Defining Abnormalities Gender and sexual preferences/practices Gender and gender roles have different influences. Prenanatal exposure to androgen or the media both show influences (Kenyon, 2006). To be in consideration of normal a boy child should play with a truck and a girl a doll. Many children like to experiment, such as a little boy who wants to try on his “mommy’s” shoes. The able normal behavior occurs if the little boy prefers mommy’s clothing over that of his specific gender
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Schizophrenia and Childhood Disorders PSY/410 September 1, 2012 Schizophrenia and Childhood Disorders Schizophrenia can affect anyone at any age, but most cases develop between adolescence and age 30. Children can be affected by schizophrenia, but this is uncommon (NAMI, 1998). For many people schizophrenia is often confused with multiple personality disorder. The following paper will discuss the many components of schizophrenia that make it unique as well as the aspects of lifespan development
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Mr. Client - Substance Abuse Scott Edward Psy 410 Jamie Frank May 21, 2012 Mr. Client Substance Abuse Mr. Client is a widowed, 64 year old white male who in his later years has become ill with a variety of illnesses. He lived alone in a house he is buying in Southern California until the illnesses became too much for him to deal with by himself and so his only daughter moved back home to help take care of him. He has worked for more than 50 years and has not had to depend on others
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Historical Perspectives of Abnormal Psychology Marisol Malagon PSY/410 October 10, 2011 Maria I. Neely Historical Perspectives of Abnormal Psychology In this paper I will examine the origin of abnormal psychology, include the challenges, which define, and classify normal, and abnormal behavior. I will provide an overview of how abnormal psychology has evolved into a scientific discipline, and analyze the psychosocial, biological, medical, and socio-cultural theoretical models related
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