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Electro Convulsive Therapy Family And Friends
1,540 wordsBipolar disorder can best be compared to a mountain range. With high peaks of euphoria and deep valleys of depression, this disorder has periods of high, or manic stages, and periods of low, or depressed stages, with some periods of normal in between. For many people this disorder begins in the adolescent stage of life and continues throughout the persons adult life. Often people suffer needlessly for years or even decades without even recognizing that they have the disorder. As long as people a...
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Electro Convulsive Therapy Severe Depression
1,405 wordsPsychiatrists are well-trained physicians who treat patients suffering from mental, emotional, and behavioral symptoms (Hopke 538). He or she will offer several various approaches of giving different explanations of how the patients symptoms or medical disorders develop and how they intervene with the patients functioning and how or why diagnosis or diagnostic treatment can alter them (Kahn 308). Psychiatry offers a wide variety of employment options for people who enjoy helping others and have ...
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Manic Depressive Illness American Psychiatric Association
1,664 wordsMood disorders such as bipolar disorder or also known as manic-depression have been closely studied and researched for many years. Due to the inability to find one or any specific gene that contributes to this disorder it has been a long and difficult journey into the understanding of manic-depressive illness. With the contributions of many scientist and researchers slowly the understanding and treatment of bipolar disorder is becoming more clear. The use of lithium and other forms of treatment ...
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Electro Convulsive Therapy American Journal Of Psychiatry
1,253 wordsSince its introduction to the world in the mid 1930 s, electro convulsive shock therapy, or ECT, has been one of the most effective and least understood treatments in psychiatry. The technique itself has changed in many ways since its conception and is now considered a safe and effective treatment of patients with major depressive disorder, manic episodes, schizophrenia, and other serious mental disturbances. However, the neurobiological changes critical to the therapeutic success of ECT have no...
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Evaluate Evidence For A Psychological Intervention Schizophrenia
1,788 words... s the chance of replication beyond its own setting, which is vital in being able to justify the use of CBT as a viable intervention for Schizophrenia. In this case experienced psychiatric nurses trained in CBT successfully treated the patients this alone makes CBT a more viable option for intervention as it means more health care professionals fall within the scope of being able to provide treatment. Equally as promising is that therapy could be undertaken in the community as it is less dema...
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Children And Adolescents Child And Adolescent Psychiatry
1,460 words... if you do decide to treat the child with antidepressants, which is by far the easiest mode of treatment, the child could still be at risk for self-harm due to the risk associated with antidepressant drugs and children. As a parent, this scenario is like tossing a one-sided coin, in that with or without treatment your child may be at risk of suicidal tendencies. Another concern is the dosage of antidepressants being given to children and adolescents. Currently, the lowest dosage for an antide...
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Adolescent Depression Affective Disorders
1,664 wordsThe suicide rate for adolescents has increased more than 200 % over the last decade. Recent studies have shown that greater than 20 % of adolescents in the general population have emotional problems and one-third of adolescents attending psychiatric clinics suffer from depression. The majority of teenage depressions can be managed successfully by the primary care physician with the support of the family, says Maurice Blackman MB, FRCPC. Depression has been considered to be the major psychiatric ...
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Vast Majority Negative Symptoms
1,722 wordsPost-schizophrenic Depression In common with the other disorders, brain disorders are often referred to as dynamic formation stipulated by a great diversity of factors. Therefore, the process of so-called general morphological pathologies of schizophrenic disorder is a natural phenomenon. This process may be characterized by decline in gradual progression forms of schizophrenia, general depressive- apathetic shift in clinical findings (Johnson, 1988) as well as by the tendency to phase flow of t...
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Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Psychiatric Disorders
1,666 words... of the article came to the following conclusions: traditional, molecular, and spatial epidemiology combined, may contribute to the understanding of the transmission of tuberculosis. This investigation, I think is intended for the audience of average people as well as for professionals in epidemiology and is a reliable source. The article Genomic Characterization of an Endemic Mycobacterium tuberculosis Strain: Evolutionary and Epidemiologic Implications by Dao Nguyen, Paul Brassard, Dick Men...
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Cultural Studies Third World
2,494 wordsFrantz Fanon Frantz Fanon was born in 1925, to a middle-class family in the French colony of Martinique. He moved out of Martinique and volunteered to fight with the Free French in World War II. He later started writing political essays and plays that remain controversial even today. Fanon's biography can be looked through two different prisms, despite the fact that Frantz Fanon is among the 20 th century's greatest theoreticians on philosophy of liberation emanating from the Third World. Psychi...
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Multiple Personality Disorder American Psychiatric Association
4,312 wordsAbstract The syndrome of multiple personality is associated with a high incidence of physical and / or sexual abuse in childhood. Occasionally those with multiple personality abuse their own children. Multiple personality is difficult to diagnose both because of the nature of the syndrome and because of professional reluctance. Although multiple personality is most difficult to diagnose during childhood because of the subtlety of the syndrome. The much higher morbidity found in adult cases makes...
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American Medical Association American Journal Of Psychiatry
1,329 wordsDepression and Suicide In Adolescents. As a state of extreme grief and all-encompassing sadness, depression, if left untreated, may lead to a deliberate murder of oneself, suicide. Depression effects individuals with out discriminating against race, gender, or age, yet among adolescents, the incidents of depression have increased significantly. Such increase is the potential cause of the rise of suicide rates amidst adolescents. Therefore it is imperative to treat depression before attempts of s...
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Parental Divorce Psychological Bulletin
3,038 wordsThe Affects of Divorce on Children As a child, there are many things that affect a view, memory, opinion, or attitude. Children have many of their own daily struggles to cope with, as peer pressures are an example. As an adult, we sometimes forget what it is like to be a child dealing with some of the childhood pressures. Many parents do not realize how something like divorce could possibly affect their children as much as it does themselves. As the case may be, children are strongly affected by...
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World War Ii 19 Th Century
1,538 wordsTo gain any sort of understanding of how mental healthcare and the care of the mentally ill progressed to the point it has, one must follow psychology s roots to its beginnings in the mental asylum. Providing a definitive history of the care of America s mentally ill, Gerald N. Grob s book, The Mad Among Us, traces the state of mental health care within the United States from colonial America to recent times. In our selected readings, the time period narrows to the late 19 th century through the...
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Dsm Iv Diagnostic Criteria
2,109 wordsAlthough at first sight the DSM-IV classification system appears to provide clinicians with a useful framework of which to view their clients, on closer inspection however, the picture is somewhat less satisfactory. Criticisms of the system range from Wakefield's (1997) analysis that psychological presentation ranges from problems of living to harmful dysfunction; through to Livesley, Schroeder &# 038; Jangs (1994) counter-argument that evidence of discontinuity between different diagnoses and n...
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American Psychiatric Association Sympathetic Nervous System
6,427 wordsMind-Body Therapies The mind and body are so completely connected that physical activities such as yoga and dance have healthful effects not only on the body but also on mental ailments such as depression and anxiety. Conversely, mental approaches such as hypnosis and imagery benefit physical problems such as hypertension and immune deficiency. Having an understanding of the mind-body connection helps us to see why CAM interventions prove helpful in the treatment of depression. For example, acco...
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Mental Health Association American Journal Of Psychiatry
2,440 wordsAt first it Prozac Abstract At first it was the cure all people were looking for. Then it became the drug they were afraid to take. Somewhere between these two extremes lies the truth about the drug Fluoxetine, better known as Prozac, the most widely prescribed drug on the globe. It is mainly prescribed to patients suffering from clinical depression. It was first brought to the market in 1988 by the pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly co. Even though it was originally prescribed for depression, it ha...
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Important To Remember Frontal Lobotomy
2,992 wordsOne Flew OverPshycosurgery Introduction One Flew Over the Cock s Nest presents a flashing array of images and scenes that are impossible to ignore and impossible to forget. One particular scene, where Jack Nicholson is being led to bed with a marring scar on his forehead, is among the most socially disturbing. For, we find it hard to believe that humanity had scrambled the brains of those who could not live within the confines of society. Nicholson s character received a pre-frontal lobotomy. No...
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Thousand Dollars Pension Plan
1,289 wordsImagine Psychiatry Psychiatry Imagine being able to know what makes people tick! Imagine being able to understand why people act the way they do. Imagine being in University thirteen years MORE after High School. Definition of a psychiatry The branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental and emotional disorders. Definition of a psychiatrist A physician who specializes in psychiatry. Becoming a psychiatrist is no easy task that s for sure, but once complet...
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