Organic Mental Disorders as Hypothetical Pathogenetic Processes
... section in DSM-III-R (5) will not remain in DSM-IV. The first main point of Spitzer et al (4) is that “organic” suggests a dichotomy between mental disorders which have a biological substrate in the brain and those which have not, a dichotomy which is not in accord with the generally accepted hypoth ...
... section in DSM-III-R (5) will not remain in DSM-IV. The first main point of Spitzer et al (4) is that “organic” suggests a dichotomy between mental disorders which have a biological substrate in the brain and those which have not, a dichotomy which is not in accord with the generally accepted hypoth ...
Attention-Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder
... others excessively, intrude on others, grab objects from others, touch things they are not supposed to touch, and clown around. Impulsivity may lead to accidents (e.g., knocking over objects, banging into people, grabbing a hot pan) and to engagement in potentially dangerous activities without consi ...
... others excessively, intrude on others, grab objects from others, touch things they are not supposed to touch, and clown around. Impulsivity may lead to accidents (e.g., knocking over objects, banging into people, grabbing a hot pan) and to engagement in potentially dangerous activities without consi ...
sample - Casa Fluminense
... rid him of his overwhelming preoccupation with germs. People with narcissistic personality disorder rarely seek treatment, because they’re often oblivious to their behavior. It’s their spouses and children who end up on the couch. Frank Lloyd Wright’s narcissism was legendary, and it blemished relat ...
... rid him of his overwhelming preoccupation with germs. People with narcissistic personality disorder rarely seek treatment, because they’re often oblivious to their behavior. It’s their spouses and children who end up on the couch. Frank Lloyd Wright’s narcissism was legendary, and it blemished relat ...
the use of hypnosis in children with dissociative disorders
... of abuse were more hypnotizable than control subjects. Lynn and Rhue 23 found that students with a history of abuse were not more hypnotizable than nonabused students but were better fantasizers. Frischolz et al ll have replicated and extended previous findings that adult patients with dissociative ...
... of abuse were more hypnotizable than control subjects. Lynn and Rhue 23 found that students with a history of abuse were not more hypnotizable than nonabused students but were better fantasizers. Frischolz et al ll have replicated and extended previous findings that adult patients with dissociative ...
Anxiety Disorders 2010
... stimulus, or is inappropriate or excessive when compared to the existing external stimulus. It is an expected, normal and transient response to stress; may be a necessary cue for adaptation and coping (future event) Different from Fear: sense of dread/foreboding that occurs in response to extern ...
... stimulus, or is inappropriate or excessive when compared to the existing external stimulus. It is an expected, normal and transient response to stress; may be a necessary cue for adaptation and coping (future event) Different from Fear: sense of dread/foreboding that occurs in response to extern ...
When Munchausen Becomes Malingering: Factitious Disorders That
... process, but the plaintiff vehemently denied any manipulation of the wound and changed physicians. Eventiially. this pattern was replicated with five other physicians and the plaintiff underwent multiple surgical debridements of his arm wound, which had not healed over a four-year period. Over the c ...
... process, but the plaintiff vehemently denied any manipulation of the wound and changed physicians. Eventiially. this pattern was replicated with five other physicians and the plaintiff underwent multiple surgical debridements of his arm wound, which had not healed over a four-year period. Over the c ...
The nature of personality disorder
... then there is no particular reason to suppose that it cannot become dysfunctional. The difficulty is with the conceptualisation of that dysfunction. If ‘personality’ is conceived as a limited number of traits in each individual, which are largely geneti cally driven, then a limited number of catego ...
... then there is no particular reason to suppose that it cannot become dysfunctional. The difficulty is with the conceptualisation of that dysfunction. If ‘personality’ is conceived as a limited number of traits in each individual, which are largely geneti cally driven, then a limited number of catego ...
Anxiety Disorders
... • recognize their own fears as unreasonable • show low self-esteem • underestimate their own abilities • ruminate about how they could have acted differently in a social event. Copyright © The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Permission required for reproduction or display. ...
... • recognize their own fears as unreasonable • show low self-esteem • underestimate their own abilities • ruminate about how they could have acted differently in a social event. Copyright © The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Permission required for reproduction or display. ...
Abnormal Psychology and Life: An Overview
... protective factors for various mental disorders. Such factors include biological (e.g., genetic, neurochemical, brain changes), personality, psychological (e.g., cognitive, learning, trauma), interpersonal, family, cultural, personality, evolutionary, and other domains. We emphasize a diathesis-str ...
... protective factors for various mental disorders. Such factors include biological (e.g., genetic, neurochemical, brain changes), personality, psychological (e.g., cognitive, learning, trauma), interpersonal, family, cultural, personality, evolutionary, and other domains. We emphasize a diathesis-str ...
- European Society for Trauma and Dissociation
... PTSD definitions typically define a response to a single event or stressor. In the case of abuse leading to complex trauma, the stressor is prolonged, and is usually deliberately perpetrated by the people the child is most dependent on. It is often carried out in secret and sometimes accompanies em ...
... PTSD definitions typically define a response to a single event or stressor. In the case of abuse leading to complex trauma, the stressor is prolonged, and is usually deliberately perpetrated by the people the child is most dependent on. It is often carried out in secret and sometimes accompanies em ...
Chapter 12: Psychological Disorders
... • Personality Disintegration: Uncoordinated thoughts, actions, and emotions ...
... • Personality Disintegration: Uncoordinated thoughts, actions, and emotions ...
Word Version - Job Accommodation Network
... An employee with antisocial personality disorder works as a construction worker. One day while at work, the employee tells a coworker he does not like him and that the coworker should watch his back. The coworker reports this to the supervisor who then addresses the employee about the comment. The s ...
... An employee with antisocial personality disorder works as a construction worker. One day while at work, the employee tells a coworker he does not like him and that the coworker should watch his back. The coworker reports this to the supervisor who then addresses the employee about the comment. The s ...
Psychological Disorders
... Charting the Boundaries Between Normal and Abnormal Behavior Where, then, might we draw the line between normal and abnormal behavior? Psychologists typically identify abnormal behavior based on a combination of the following criteria (Nevid, Rathus, & Greene, 2006): 1. Unusualness. Behavior that is ...
... Charting the Boundaries Between Normal and Abnormal Behavior Where, then, might we draw the line between normal and abnormal behavior? Psychologists typically identify abnormal behavior based on a combination of the following criteria (Nevid, Rathus, & Greene, 2006): 1. Unusualness. Behavior that is ...
Signs and Symptoms of Mental Illness
... light of maintaining continuity with previous editions for this reason the DSM-5 is not using Roman numeral V but rather 5 since later editions or revision would be DSM-5.1, DSM-5.2 etc. There are no preset limitations on the number of changes that may occur over time with the new DSM-5 The DSM-5 wi ...
... light of maintaining continuity with previous editions for this reason the DSM-5 is not using Roman numeral V but rather 5 since later editions or revision would be DSM-5.1, DSM-5.2 etc. There are no preset limitations on the number of changes that may occur over time with the new DSM-5 The DSM-5 wi ...
Document
... In the absence of concurrent diagnoses, once the rewards have been attained, the feigned symptoms disappear ...
... In the absence of concurrent diagnoses, once the rewards have been attained, the feigned symptoms disappear ...
Ch. 3
... Intense fear of crowds and public places or other situations that require separation from source of security, such as the home Psychology: An Introduction Charles A. Morris & Albert A. Maisto © 2005 Prentice Hall ...
... Intense fear of crowds and public places or other situations that require separation from source of security, such as the home Psychology: An Introduction Charles A. Morris & Albert A. Maisto © 2005 Prentice Hall ...
1 - U-System
... wife divorced him and he declared personal bankruptcy. After this, he moved to a new apartment. On his first day in the apartment he was robbed at knife point in the elevator. Which of the events experienced by this man is most likely to result in PTSD? a. Divorce b. Bankruptcy c. Serious illness d. ...
... wife divorced him and he declared personal bankruptcy. After this, he moved to a new apartment. On his first day in the apartment he was robbed at knife point in the elevator. Which of the events experienced by this man is most likely to result in PTSD? a. Divorce b. Bankruptcy c. Serious illness d. ...
Maternal Ratings on Activity Level/Extraversion Factor
... The goal of emphasizing a lifespan approach and greater recognition of the fact that many disorders can and do manifest across the lifespan has merit. While true that boundaries drawn between disorders of childhood and other age groups are arbitrary, and potentially hamper tests of continuity of ...
... The goal of emphasizing a lifespan approach and greater recognition of the fact that many disorders can and do manifest across the lifespan has merit. While true that boundaries drawn between disorders of childhood and other age groups are arbitrary, and potentially hamper tests of continuity of ...
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... Body dysmorphic disorder may lead to avoidant behaviours, culminating in extreme social isolation. In some cases, multiple surgery and attempts at body modification (including self-mutilation) are employed, although these generally fail to improve the person’s view of their ‘defect’. Depression is v ...
... Body dysmorphic disorder may lead to avoidant behaviours, culminating in extreme social isolation. In some cases, multiple surgery and attempts at body modification (including self-mutilation) are employed, although these generally fail to improve the person’s view of their ‘defect’. Depression is v ...
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... • Prosecution played audiotapes of phone calls he made to his family and friends since imprisonment in 1997 ...
... • Prosecution played audiotapes of phone calls he made to his family and friends since imprisonment in 1997 ...
sOMATAFORM DISORDER PP
... • Inability to recall personal information often occurring after traumatic event • Types of amnesia – Generalized: inability to recall entire lifetime – Localized: inability to remember all events in certain periods – Selective: some but not all events recalled Copyright © 2009 by Saunders, an impri ...
... • Inability to recall personal information often occurring after traumatic event • Types of amnesia – Generalized: inability to recall entire lifetime – Localized: inability to remember all events in certain periods – Selective: some but not all events recalled Copyright © 2009 by Saunders, an impri ...
Anxiety Disorders by Dr Sarma
... The behaviors or mental acts are aimed at preventing or reducing distress or preventing some dreaded event But, these behaviors or mental acts are not connected in a realistic way with what they are designed to neutralize or prevent and are clearly excessive. ...
... The behaviors or mental acts are aimed at preventing or reducing distress or preventing some dreaded event But, these behaviors or mental acts are not connected in a realistic way with what they are designed to neutralize or prevent and are clearly excessive. ...
The Natural History of Conduct Disorder Symptoms in Female Inmates
... threshold number of criteria required for a diagnosis. Diagnostic reliability was computed via the intraclass correlation coefficient, which corrects for chance agreement between raters and is therefore a more stringent statistic than percentage of agreement. With strict diagnostic criteria (e.g., p ...
... threshold number of criteria required for a diagnosis. Diagnostic reliability was computed via the intraclass correlation coefficient, which corrects for chance agreement between raters and is therefore a more stringent statistic than percentage of agreement. With strict diagnostic criteria (e.g., p ...
Culture-Specific Diagnoses and Their Relationship to Mood Disorders
... where they are explained according to local understandings of illness. The notion of a syndrome being bound by culture is more problematic. The attribution of ‘‘boundedness’’ emerged early in the history of the term in studies that focused on a particular cultural group in a particular community and ...
... where they are explained according to local understandings of illness. The notion of a syndrome being bound by culture is more problematic. The attribution of ‘‘boundedness’’ emerged early in the history of the term in studies that focused on a particular cultural group in a particular community and ...