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Child And Adolescent Children And Adolescents
1,546 wordsAdolescent depression continues to be a growing American problem since its discovery in the 1970 s. How exactly to treat this problem, however, is not a clear issue. For years the psychiatric community felt that psychotherapy was the best way to treat this growing epidemic. However, with the development of antidepressants, most famously Prozac, many people feel the problem is nearing a solution. Many psychiatrists believe these pills can be a quick and effective way to treat suffering adolescent...
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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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Health Care Professionals Bipolar Disorder
1,804 wordsBipolar and the Mind (1) The term bipolar disorder refers to the variety of psychological abnormalities that are defined by the irrational swings in patients mood, which sometimes are associated with anti-social behavior. It is only in recent times that this term was being adopted by psychiatric community, as such that has a neutral sounding and does not imply perceptional negativity. In fact, the term bipolar disorder is nothing by politically correct equivalent of the term manic depressive dis...
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy People Who Suffer
2,739 wordsConsider this: ElizabethDepressioo Depression Consider this: Elizabeth Wurtzel has struggled with depression throughout her life. She has a history of suicide attempts, self-mutilations, and serious mood swings. She took numerous antidepressants and medications in an attempt to regulate her irregular behavior. She quit using the medications due to the multiple side effects the drugs had on her. The result was chaos; after Elizabeth quit taking her medication her body experienced episodes of with...
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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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Traumatic Stress Disorder Post Traumatic Stress
1,107 wordsPost-traumatic Stress Disorder or (PTSD) is defined as being caused by exposure to violent events such as rape, domestic violence, child abuse, war, accidents, natural disasters and political torture. PTSD has effected thousands of people and it affects children, adults, men and women. It was thought to be a disorder of war veterans who had been involved in combat, but research studied reveals that PTSD can result in many types of trauma especially those being life-threatening. It s been called ...
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