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Child And Adolescent Psychiatry American Academy Of Child
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1,974 wordsAudience: Those people who are undecided about circumcision Routine neonatal circumcision is the subject of many debates in the United States. The practice has attracted passionate advocates and critics. From a global perspective, most of the world does not practice circumcision; over 80 % of the world's males are intact (not circumcised). Most circumcised men are Muslim or Jewish; the USA is the only country in the world that circumcises most of its male infants for non-religious reasons. This ...
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Attention Deficit Disorder Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
1,286 wordsAttention Deficit Disorder (ADD) is a problem that affects 5 % to 10 % of all children. ADD affect more children than any other childhood problems except asthma. It is estimated to be the largest single cause for first referrals to child guidance clinics throughout the country, making up as many as 40 % of those cases. Many ADD cases are not diagnosed because the problem most often does not show in the doctors office. Current estimates suggest that approximately 50 to 65 % of the children with A...
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Problem Solving Skills American Psychiatric Association
1,653 wordsConduct disorders are a complicated set of behavioral and emotional problems that afflict between nine percent of male boys and two percent of female girls. Persistent aggression, theft, lying, destruction, and vandalism characterize the disorder. Most of all the child or adolescent violates societal norms and the basic rights of others (Appendix). The etiology of the disorder is still in debate. Some theories relate the disorder to inconsistent home lives, a predisposition to the disorder, mode...
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Childhood Onset Bipolar Disorder
1,471 wordsChildhood Onset Bipolar Disorder (COBPD) is one of the most debilitating mental disorders affecting children today. Bipolar Disorder is a mood disorder usually affecting adults that causes sometimes severe changes in mood. Childhood Onset Bipolar disorder is just what it sounds like, a bipolar disorder that occurs during childhood. Persons suffering from a bipolar disorder experience mood swings ranging from depression to mania. During a depressive episode patients can experience feelings of ext...
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Childhood Onset Bipolar Disorder
1,463 words... d with COBPD had this bilinear transmission (Todd et Childhood-Onset Bipolar Disorder is a somewhat of a new concept. The DSM-IV is not scheduled for revision in the near future, but there have been some guidelines set that experts can use to make recognition of COBPD a bit easier. For example, a Washington University team of researchers use a structured diagnostic interview called Wash U KIDDE-SADS, which is more sensitive to the rapid cycling patterns of children with a bipolar disorder (C...
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
1,524 wordsLiving with Tourette syndrome gives a deeper insight to the highly misunderstood and understated disease, Gilles de la Tourette syndrome. The book delves into the origin of the disease, the symptoms, the medications, and the treatments. Then the author gives thoughtful advice, a guide, so to speak, for parents, relatives, loved ones, and sufferers of Tourette. The author Elaine Fate Shimberg, is the mother of three children with Tourette Syndrome and a board member of the Tourette Association. S...
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Dependent Personality Disorder Div Class Sub Title
4,899 wordster> The Clinical Picture and Developmental Roots - Opening RemarksTerminologyCo-dependents People who depend on other people for their emotional gratification and the performance of ego or daily functions. They are needy, demanding, submissive. They fear abandonment, cling and display immature behaviors in their effort to maintain the "relationship" with their companion or mate upon whom they depend. No matter what abuse is inflicted upon them - they r...
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Bulimia Nervosa Dsm Iv
1,995 wordsBackground Bulimia nervosa (BN) is reported to co-occur with childhood abuse and alterations in central serotonin (5 -hydroxytryptamine [ 5 -HT]) and cortisol mechanisms. However, findings also link childhood abuse to anomalous 5 -HT and cortisol function, and this motivated us to explore relationships between childhood abuse and neurobiological variations in BN. Methods Thirty-five bulimic and 25 non bulimic women were assessed for childhood physical and sexual abuse, eating symptoms, and comor...
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Dependent Personality Disorder American Psychiatric Association
1,195 wordsOn October 25, 1994, Susan Smith drowned her two sons, Michael and Alex, in the John D. Long Lake in Union County, South Carolina. For nine days she lied about knowing where the boys were. On November 3, she confessed to the killings and would soon go to trial. Susan's defense team hired a psychiatrist to conduct a psychiatric evaluation of her. She was diagnosed as having dependent personality disorder. He described her as a person who feels she cant do anything on her own. She constantly needs...
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Traumatic Stress Disorder Post Traumatic Stress
3,902 wordsIn a conversation with my girlfriend about battered women, she said, Id never put up with that and then asked, Why would a woman stay in an abusive relationship? As relationships progress, there are more emotional and financial ties which makes it harder to leave. The average woman will leave her abuser seven or eight times before making the final break. Women may be afraid of strangers, but it is a husband, a lover, a boyfriend, or someone they know who is most likely to harm them. According to...
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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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Antisocial Personality Disorder Cooling Off Period
2,256 wordsTed Bundy's Trail of Terror From the Beginning of Taking Life Until The End of His Serial killers tend to be white heterosexual males in their twenties and thirties. While it is impossible to predict who will become a serial killer there are traits that appear to be similar in all killers. These behaviors include cruelty to animals, bedwetting, lying, drug and alcohol abuse, and a history of violence. According to Robert Ressler et al. , serial homicide involves the murder of separate of separat...
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Auditory Hallucinations
1,704 wordsMENTAL DISORDERS The DSM IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) systems which was published in 1994, represents the official classification system used in the United States for diagnosing psychological disorders. It gives specific criteria that are used in diagnosis, along with other information regarding other features that are sometimes seen in people with specific disorders and issues that are considered differential diagnosis (distinguishing between a primary disorder and...
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American Psychiatric Association Narcissistic Personality
364 wordsNarcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) Criteria Essay, Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) Criteria Sam Vaknins Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites Please read CAREFULLY! The text in italics is NOT based on the Diagnostics and Statistics Manual, Fourth Edition (1994). the text in italics IS based on Malignant Self Love Narcissism Revisited (1999) An all-pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behaviour), need for admiration or adulation and lack of empath...
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835 wordsMy presentation is on Nicotine Use Disorder. It falls under substance related disorders in the DSM IV and is defined as, The disorders related to the taking of a drug of abuse (Including Alcohol), to the side effects of a medication and to toxin exposure. Let me first start with a brief introduction of smoking (the number one nicotine related killer) and some statistical data retrieved from the US Centers For Disease Control. Tobacco smoking is the number one cause of reversible mortalities in t...
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Anxiety Disorder Antisocial Personality
523 wordsasd Abnormal Behavior- Patterns of emotion, thought, and action considered pathological for one or more of these reasons: statistical infrequency, disability or dysfunction, personal distress, or violation of norms. Medical Model- Perspective that assumes abnormal behaviors reflect mental or physical illness. Psychiatry- The specialized branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental disorders. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) - A ...
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1,216 wordsEdvard Munch Edvard Munch was born on December 12, 1863, in Love, Norway. When Edvard was only five years old, he helplessly watched his mother die of tuberculosis. Soon there after, Edvard's older sister, Sophie, hemorrhaged to death from the same disease; she was only 15 years old. His father was a stern man who died when Edvard was 27. His younger sister was diagnosed with mental illness, and his brother, Andreas, died when Edvard was 32 years old. Additionally, Edvard was an alcoholic by the...
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3,318 wordsMargaret believed that because she had never been in love with Ray, she had committed a mortal sin by marrying him and bringing children into the world. Now, as punishment, God had made her and her children immortal, so that they would have to suffer in their unhappy home life forever. She had come to this realization one evening while she was washing the dishes. Looking down into the sink, she saw a fork lying across a knife in the shape of a cross; suddenly she knew that she had become immorta...
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