Psychological Disorders Project Analysis

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychological disorder that can develop after someone has experienced or been exposed to a trauma or life threatening event, such as warfare, a natural disaster, a violent attack or sexual assault, as well as the sudden death of a loved one. Most people who experience these traumas recover from them but someone who continues to experience anxiety and depression may have developed post-traumatic stress disorder.

The major psychological disorders fall under anxiety disorders, mood disorders, schizophrenia and other disorders such as eating, personality or dissociation disorders. By classifying these disorders, scientist can then describe and predict its future course. Mental health workers view psychological disorders as patterns of thoughts, feelings, or actions that are deviant, distressful and dysfunctional. The standard for what is deviant behavior is different in different cultures and in different context.

Provide a tentative diagnosis for each of the following case studies. Write at least one paragraph for each, justifying your answer in terms of the DSM-V criteria for that particular disorder. Remember, writing matters, as you will be judged on the quality of your communication as well as on the justification for the tentative diagnoses.

Pica; a disorder in which an individual craves or ingests items that have no nutritional content and are non edible substances. You often hear of people who decide to try to eat paper to see how it tastes, or who try dirt to see what the consistency is, this is not considered pica disorder. Pica is only labeled once these actions have occurred for over a month and generally at an age or in a mental state where it is considered developmentally inappropriate. Pica is almost always not started at random, it is

For this assignment, I chose the vignette with Jada. “Jada is a sixteen-year-old African American girl enrolled as a junior at the local public high school. She has won numerous honors throughout her educational career for her academic performance; but her greatest joy comes from playing the piano and singing in her church choir. Jada’s vocal instructor raves about her singing voice and about her potential for a career in music. Jada hopes to attend a prestigious music school in New York City upon graduating from high school, but worries about the cost and how much she will miss her family. The pressure of an upcoming audition at school has caused Jada a great deal of stress. She fears she will not be accepted or will not be able to attend for financial reasons. The stress has begun to affect her daily functioning. She is having difficulty sleeping, has lost weight due to decreased appetite, and is beginning to feel hopeless about her future. Jada’s friends describe her as being “irrational” about the situation and “catastrophizing.” Despite their best efforts, they cannot convince her that she has a strong chance. At

The DSM diagnosis that is selected for the client in week four case study is Schizoid Personality Disorder. Schizoid Personality Disorder, also known as SPD; is considered when an individual’s interest in social relationships is absent. Individuals that are affected by this disorder display an unsociable or sheltered existence, secretive, emotionlessness, and somewhat indifferent (Triebwasser, Chemerinski, Roussos & Siever, 2012). Researchers believe that Personality Disorder, also known as PD, should be esteemed qualitatively and quantitatively, from normal personality (Paris, 2015). Diagnostic criteria from the DSM-5 offer that “A pervasive pattern of detachment from social relationships and restricted

I am a sitter for some of the mental patients that are admitted to the hospital. I sit with patients who suffer from alcohol and drug abuse which leads to the problems of schizoform or the symptoms of schizophrenia. The patients that I commonly sit with are the ones where their hallucinations and paranoia has being brought by the drug abuse. Sitting with these patients are every 15 minutes of monitoring their every move, from what utensils they eat with to their bathroom privileges. The onset stage is true, the patients are in the young adults who may already have this underlying condition or the alcohol or drug abuse triggers it.

Throughout chapter fifteen of our psychology text titled, Psychological Disorders, I have learned that psychological disorders are defined as, patterns of thoughts, feelings, or actions that are deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional. A disorder refers to someone’s state of mental/behavioral ill health. Patterns refer to the finding of collections of symptoms that tend to go together. Another term called, deviant refers to differing from the norm. In psychology a behavior or mental status is considered deviant. Understanding psychological disorders can be difficult to diagnose because often times it is based on someone’s feelings and actions. A reason to diagnose people suffering from a disorder is to treat the problem. There are the five

Chapter 17 discussed different kinds of disorders that affect people both mentally and physically. In addition, the chapter reviews how people can cope or overcome their disorder through therapy and medical treatment. The chapter also discusses ways on how to practice good sexual health by communicating with their sexual partner about their sexual disorder and needs. However, the topic that stood out to me the most was the psychological causes of sex disorders. I enjoyed reviewing this section because it provided detail information on how different psychological disorders can interfered with people’s sexual interactions and thoughts. Another thing that I found interesting about this topic was the different psychological causes of sexual disorders

As the years’ progress, or even digress, the beliefs about abnormal behavior changes. It is also dependent on the what is socially acceptable at the time or place the event or behavior is taking place. Who the subject is and what Is expected from the subject are all factors that we need to think about before answering that question.

Regarding what is known as, "mental illness" makes it hard to believe or not to believe that mental illness is real and not a myth. With the ongoing changes that are made to diagnosing patients as well as the symptoms they "must" encounter, it is hard to know exactly what medical abnormalities would fall under this category to be diagnosed with what is known as a mental illness. Do to the various definitions and meanings that fall under "mental illnesses" I would have to say that I agree and disagree with what Thomas Szasz has written. Szasz has some great points but many that I disagree with.

When we think about mental disorders, we think of a variety of conditions dealing with mental health disorders that affect our moods, the way we think and how we act. Some people find it hard to adjust to these illness while others learn to manage and keep the symptoms under control. “Although some people become disabled because of a chronic or severe mental illness, many others are able to live full and productive lives.” (Goldberg, Some examples of mental illness may include such as depression, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, and ADHA (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) just a name of few.

“We take care of our dental health. We don't take care of our mental health...I think the solution to making this world better is if we all just be healthy, mentally” (Howie Mandel). This can never be the reality for some people. When people used to say they don't remember what they were saying. When people used to be in a meeting and then all the sudden say something like “where's mommy?” or “when can I go home?”. These deities would cost people their jobs. This was the reality of someone with either ADD (attention deficit disorder), ADHD (attention deficient hyperactive disorder), MPD (multiple personality disorder) or DID (dissociative identity disorder). This can also affect the minds of these people while they hear

For this paper, I have chosen a real person who has multiple diagnosed mental disorders. To simplify the analysis, I have decided to focus on the most severe disorder the person has. The focus of this paper is on a 22-year-old white female from Harlan, Iowa. She grew up in a primarily lower-middle-class household. For several years in her teens, her household was considered much more on the lower end, and the family received multiple sources of government assistance to pay for things such as food, bills, rent, and even textbook fees for her college-credit high school classes. Her home life consisted of her being an only child with married parents. Although her parents were married, more time was spent fighting and verbally abusing one another

Psychology is a subject like many subjects and ideas that can be and is connected to many things in our life, depending on certain aspects and supporting them is what contributes to the nature of many outcomes and theories of which we are yet to know most or not much off. What we have come to learn of through this class and subject in particular is in a broad sense the overall topic of abnormal psychology. Abnormal psychology is and can be thought of as like any other psychology in a way but more specifically it is a psychology that deals with the understanding of mental and emotional type of disorders. As a psychology major you get to look at psychology through many forms, this is done with an objective which prepares you so to see which focus you find or can connect to most, most often for personal or logical base reasons. A subject or topic that caught my attention and helped me be more interested in the subject of psychology was wanting to know more about mentality or behavior and what exactly the brain or anything for that fact had influence in a different or psychological way. Writing this research paper I hope to look at what has peeked my interested in a different way, by looking at and understanding somewhat more into depth how exactly certain disorders can affect a person’s behavior if any or none, hopefully this will enlighten my path to which I have yet chosen in the field of psychology. Some other focuses on the paper will try to be based on