Essays Tagged: "mental disorders"
Anxiety and depression in african-americans
ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION IN AFRO-AMERICANSA major cause of mental health disorders such as depression and anxiety in individuals is stress. Defined stress is a ... es in North America suggest that the black and Latino communities have a higher risk for developing mental disorders than does the non-black make up of the United States. Hence this paper will attempt ... s such as money, racism and increased exposure to violence, blacks have a greater chance to develop mental disorders such as depression and anxiety.Some definitions: Stress, Depression & AnxietySt ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism
Schitzophrenia
Mental DisordersThe term mental disorder means psycological and behavioral syndromes that deviate si ... and behavioral syndromes that deviate signicantly from those typical of human beings enjoying good mental health. All that mumbo jumbo means that a person with a mental disorder was a few cards short ... eople. This is because they do not want to turn out the way these people are. A common example of a mental disorder is down syndrome. There was a television program in the early 90's that featured a b ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health
ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
rder, or ADHD. Once called hyperkinesis or minimal brain dysfunction, ADHD is oneof the most common mental disorders among children. It affects 3 to 5 percent of allchildren, and it is likely to occur ... are compared to a setof criteria and characteristics of ADHD. The Diagnostic Statistical Manual of MentalDisorders (DSM) presents this set of criteria. According to the DSM, there are threepatterns o ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health
Schizophrenia research paper
SchizophreniaDuring the 1950s, mentally disordered people who were harmful to society andthemselves could be treated with medicatio ... c planning has been made to reducecosts. "The political decision made to deinstitutionalize chronic mental patients startedwith the appearance of phenothiazine medications. Dramatically reducing the i ... fluenced by psychosis, these medications were of great significance to manyindividuals with serious mental disorders. At both the state and federal levels,legislators looked at the high cost of long-t ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders
Schizophrenia
During the 1950s, mentally disordered people who were harmful to society andthemselves could be treated with medicatio ... c planning has been made to reducecosts. "The political decision made to deinstitutionalize chronic mental patients startedwith the appearance of phenothiazine medications. Dramatically reducing the i ... fluenced by psychosis, these medications were of great significance to manyindividuals with serious mental disorders. At both the state and federal levels,legislators looked at the high cost of long-t ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health
Abnormal Psychology - Mental Disorders
Andrew Walters2/26/97Psychology IIAbnormal Psychology-Mental DisordersSchizophreniahttp://www.mentalhealth.com/book/p40-sc02.html#Head_1Schizophrenia is a ... pingocd.htmlhttp://www.psyc.memphis.edu/students/abramowitz/ocd.htmhttp://www.social.com/health/cic/mental_health/obsess.htmlObsessive-Compulsive Disorder is a anxiety disorder that about one million ... ed to what they fear and are encourage not to carry out their usual compulsive response.Unlike many mental disorders, suffers from obsessive compulsive disorder often know they have a problem. However ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health
This is an essay about the originality of mental health and where it is going from here. How mental health use to be viewed and how far we have come from there.
Mental HealthMental illness seems to be a growing problem in societies all around the world. Until t ... ound the world. Until the mid-twentieth century a large proportion of people who were classified as mentally ill and admitted to mental hospitals who were actually suffering from physical ailments lik ... like epilepsy and brain tumors. Today researchers are learning about the biological origins of many mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, autism and alcoholism. The mental disorders that cause sever ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
"The Effects of Treatment Compliance on Outcome in Congnitive-Behavioral Therapy for Panic Disorder: Quality Versus Quantity"
ment; (c) never attempted suicide; (d) no substance abuse; and (e) no evidence of schizophrenia, or mental disorders. Their treatments consisted of 12 sessions over a 12 week period. At the end of eac ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders
Child Abuse - Is it the right thing to do?
ted. When the public sees child abuse cases being reported in the news, they assume the abusers are mentally ill but fewer than ten percent of these people have mental disorders which is very sad and ... busing a child can lead to more serious matter such as injuring the child physically, injuring them mentally, and even letting the abuse get passed onto future generations.Physical abuse can injure a ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters > Child Abuse
"My First Computer, My First Wife". Assignment: Describe something that you do that causes a problem for somebody else.
o they have TV addiction disorder, book addiction, and work addiction being suggested as legitimate mental disorders in the same category as schizophrenia or depression? Or as a legitimate reason to g ... from is the desire to not want to deal with other problems in their lives. Those problems may be a mental disorder like depression or anxiety, or a serious health problem or disability, or a relation ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
BBP Depicted In Girl Inturrupted: This is a paper that compares the movie Girl Inturrupted to the actual symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder.
There are many movies that depict mental disorders such as schizophrenia, anxiety disorders, personality disorders, and many more. Gir ... nt away in a taxicab, after a session with a psychiatrist. The taxi's destination was Clay Moore, a mental institution. A short period of rest was recommended. Once at the hospital she meets a wide ra ... this disorder in unknown. Others like John Oldham, believe it is caused by a combination of environmental circumstances and genetic influences, and many believe that it always stems from their childh ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
With Reference to the anthology and your own reading, explore the influences on features of the modern novel.
d society on a whole. At the turn of the century Sigmund freud, began to suggest workable cures for mental disorders. Before, this was thought impossible, as many people believed mental illness was du ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Schizophrenia.
SchizophreniaSchizophrenia is a mental disorder that causes a disturbance in the brain. Schizophreniacauses a persons thoughts, perc ... difficult to detect in a person because all of the symptoms ofschizophrenia, can be linked to other mental disorders. There is no single test that can be done tosay if a patient has the disease, but i ... stimated 5% ofits gross national product in missed work, public assistance, and treatment costs(www.mentalhealthchannel.net/schizophrenia). If one parent has the disorder, the child hasaround a 10% ch ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Edgar Allan Poe.
em or not. This is because Poe's narrators are typically unreliable due to their own limitations or mental disorders. Most of the times, the author demonstrate a deep knowledge of the narrators inner ... pen, after all. First, since the beginning of the story, the narrator affirms that he has a kind of mental condition: "I went as a passenger - having no other inducement than a kind of nervous restles ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors
Child Abuse
al abuse, neglect, physical abuse and sexual abuse.Emotional Abuse: Also known as: verbal abuse and mental abuse. Includes acts or the failures to act by parents or caretakers that have caused or coul ... s to act by parents or caretakers that have caused or could cause serious behavioral, emotional, or mental disorders. This can include parents/caretakers using extreme and /or bizarre forms of punishm ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Human Rights
Different areas of the brain are specialised in their functions. Discuss.
he human brain came from subjects who had sustained major head wounds, or who suffered from various mental disorders. By determining the extent of brain damage, and the nature of the loss of function, ... ing trauma, cerebrovascular accidents, tumours and the like have provided parallels to animal experimental data to build up a fairly accurate picture of the functional relationships between anatomy an ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Psychological Abnormality
ion, this also includes being in a disabling state of distress. Problems include the fact that some mental disorders do not cause distress and that sometimes it is normal to be distressed. Withdrawal ... not cause distress and that sometimes it is normal to be distressed. Withdrawal from society may be mental disorder, but not necessarily. Deviation from Ideal Mental Health: The standards for ideal me ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Research Paper that explains child abuse, and the effects of it on the victim
onal abuse, neglect, physical abuse, and sexual abuse.Emotional Abuse (also known as: Verbal abuse, mental abuse, and psychological maltreatment), includes acts or the lack thereof by parents or caret ... by parents or caretakers having caused or could cause, serious behavioral, cognitive, emotional or mental disorders. This may include parents/caretakers using extreme and/or bizarre forms of punishme ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters > Child Abuse
These are notes from Abnormal Psychology Class. The notes and definitions would help anyone taking this or a similar class, or even general psychology. Lots of definitions here.
Chapter 1 Key TermsPsychopathologyThe field concerned with the nature and development of mental disorders.Normal CurveA type of population distribution which depicts the majority of people ... nesisThe belief that something is due to psychological origins.AsylumsPlaces of confinement For the mentally ill.Moral treatmentSympathetic and attentive treatment provided for the mentally ill.Syndro ... a certain group of symptoms that run together within a disorder.General paresisThe deterioration in mental and physical health, characterized by syphilis.Germ theoryDisease is caused by infection of t ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Depression
one regardless of age, sex, person, status or occupation, is one of the "most serious and prevalent mental disorders" and affects approximately 14 million people in North America alone (Tan & Ortb ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health