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Point Of View Family Therapy
1,214 wordsThe Family Crucible: The Intense Experience of Family Therapy In The Family Crucible, the authors provide a unique approach to family therapy that is almost never considered in our society today. Here Augustus Napier and Carl Whitaker have succeeded in writing a serious book that illustrates the different aspects of marriage and family therapy through an emotion packed real life drama. In reading the text, I felt as if I was the "fly-on-the-wall" watching as two caring and skillful therapists wo...
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Studies Have Shown Negative Symptoms
1,132 wordsFor decades, psychologists have devised many treatment regimes for schizophrenia patients, with varying degrees of success and effectiveness. There have been great obstacles in their efforts, mainly due to the fact that patients of schizophrenia lack insight into their impaired conditions. Often patients refuse treatment of any kind because they do not perceive any mental illness associated with their behaviour. In particular, individuals suffering from paranoid schizophrenia regard therapy as i...
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Antisocial Personality Disorder American Psychiatric Association
616 wordsThere is a pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others occurring since age 15 years, as indicated by three (or more) of the following: 1) failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors as indicated by repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest 2) deceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying, use of aliases, or conning others for personal profit or pleasure. 3) impulsivity or failure to plan ahead 4) irritability and aggressiveness, a...
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Anorexia Nervosa Cognitive Behavioral
660 wordsFamily therapy is treatment of more than one member of a family based on the idea hinting at problems with the way the whole family operates. The anorexic will get better if the family system can change (Marx 198). Family therapy is most useful with the young high-school age anorexic who lives at home (Whitaker 74). Treating the entire family is advisable if the patients appear to be strong enough to adopt a nurturing authoritative posture toward the anorexic in therapy sessions (Levenkron 171)....
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Antisocial Personality Disorder American Psychiatric Association
2,566 wordsAntisocial Personality Disorder Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD) is perhaps the most frightening of all personality disorders, as well as one of the most difficult to diagnose. Personality disorders in general are defined as inflexible, maladaptive, personality traits that cause personal distress or an inability to get along with others. APD specifically is characterized by deceitfulness, lack of regret or remorse over actions, impulsiveness, aggression towards others or animals, irresponsi...
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Type Of Therapy Anorexia Nervosa
2,834 wordsEating Disorders At least 2 million female Americans have a clinically relevant eating disorder. Diagnosable eating disorders, such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, are not uncommon, occurring in approximately three percent of the United States female population. Many people with eating disorders do not recognize that they have a problem and never seek help (Segall, 22). In this paper I am going to evaluate the issue from different perspectives and determine how eating disorders influenc...
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