Essays Tagged: "diagnostic and statistical manual"
POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER
tims of sexual assault.Posttraumatic Stress Disorder is classified as an anxiety disorder under the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Disorders (DSM-III). The diagnoses for Posttraumatic Stress Dis ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
tims of sexual assault.Posttraumatic Stress Disorder is classified as an anxiety disorder under the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Disorders (DSM-III). The diagnoses for Posttraumatic Stress Dis ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders
ADHD.
ed will continue to have some difficulties with ADHD during their adulthood.(NIMH) According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders there are three different types of ADHD; ADHD ... d in road rash.People who are consistently inattentive may have predominantly inattentive ADHD. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental disorders states characteristics of this group of predom ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Examples of Diagnostic Criterion for Unipolar Depression, as defined in The DSM-IV , in William Styron's Darkness Visible: a Memoir of Madness
often subjectively describe the disorder as a feeling of drowning or suffocation.B. Application of Diagnostic (DSM-IV) CriteriaThe Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-IV (DSM-IV) li ... sane" (pg. 26), and, "The disorder gradually took full possession of my system" (pg. 47).The second diagnostic criterion listed in the DSM-IV is markedly diminished interest or pleasure in all, or alm ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Depression, Stress & Suicide
Mothers with Borderline Personality Disorder & the Effects they have on their Children
ple. It was not until 1980 that the American Psychiatric Association formally recognized BPD in its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, also referred to as the DSM (Mason, p.19). Many psychiatrists mis ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders
Domestic Violence
eatments are outlined below.I. The Classical Theory of Battered Women's Syndrome and its OriginsThe Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV), known in the mental health field as ... the American Psychiatric Association added the post traumatic stress disorder classification to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders III, a manual used by mental health profession ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education
Asperger's Syndrome
accurately described children with this syndrome in the 1940's and was officially recognized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders for the first time in the fourth edition publi ... ren with AS generally have milder problems through their lifespan compared to those with Autism.The diagnostic criteria for Asperger syndrome have a wide range of characteristics. The impairment of so ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders
Personality Types and Negotiations Techniques
My Personality Types and Negotiations TechniquesThe DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) defines personality as:Enduring patterns of p ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Misdiagnosed children with ADHD.
HD? The official definition of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) as it appears in the Diagnostic and Statistical manual of the American Psychiatric Association is: ADHD is a disorder tha ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
bsessions are recurrent, persistent ideas or thoughts that involuntarily enter one=s consciousness (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders [DSM-III], 1980). As an attempt to ignore or s ... n be related to OCD if extreme (Storch, 2005), this psychological disorder is rare according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (1980). In addition, again according to the DS ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders
Eating Disorders
a and Binge eating disorder. These eating disorders are all identified and classified by DSM- IV or Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition. It is important to mention that ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Abnormal psych
"The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders", better know as the DSM series, categorizes m ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Narcissistic Personality Disorder (Communications class research paper) A very understudied topic that was difficult to obtain information about.
o an obscured personality disorder. Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) is best defined via the Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) (1995) as one possess ... If and when NPD is included into transcripts, we need to fathom the claim as it is declared in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (1995),A pervasive pattern of grandiosity.. ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies
Autism
ir "social interaction, language as used in social communication, or symbolic or imaginative play" (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders).[4]Autism, and the other four pervasive devel ... henomenon include better diagnosis, wider public awareness of the condition, regional variations in diagnostic criteria, or simply an increase in the occurrence of ASD (autism spectrum disorders). The ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health
Antisocial Personality Disorder and Understanding Criminal Behavior
s having a disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others (American Psychiatric Association: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 1994). This definition as well as the statist ... ention of crime and the treatment of individuals.ReferencesAmerican Psychiatric Association (1987). Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of MentalDisorders 3rd revised ed. Washington: APA.American Psychi ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders
I Can't Stop Fucking Copulating
nty years now. However, the DSM IIIr does not have a listing for Sexual Addiction (DSM IIIr "“ Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders III revised edition) Sexual Addition is probab ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Autism: an observation of an autistic child and the creation of learning environment.
erger's syndrome is unlikely to manifest itself until the child is much older.Section 299.80 of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) defines Asperger's Syndrome as the di ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Anxiety Disorder and the Brain
al anxiety, panic and depression are often used as synonyms or in combination with one another. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder, Fourth Edition (DMS-IV), outlines seven catego ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Health & Fitness
Eating Disorders
Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa. These eating disorders are all identified and classified by DSM- IV or Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition. It is important to mention that ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Fetishism- A Paraphilia
on of paraphilias. A paraphilia is the modern day psychiatric term for perversion. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, paraphilias refer to intense repetitive sexua ... Fetishism". Encyclopedia of Psychoanalysis. Ludwig Eidelberg, MD 1968, The Free Press, New York.5) "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition". 1994. American Psychiatric Association. Washington DC
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality