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    personality disorder is defined in its most simplest sense as being a mental health disorder that generates significant emotional instability. [1] In sufferers it generates a wide range of symptoms typically characterised into three groups; Problems regulating emotions and thoughts; impulsive behaviour without thinking of the consequences of actions; and lastly unstable relationships. Evaluating the most effective treatment(s) for BPD remains a target for mental health services as the disorder is associated

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    The word depression comes from the Latin and means a state of affective disorders. Depression is not common as normal fluctuations in emotional life but represents a disease with a clear outline in contrast to a mental disorder. Depression is one of the mild disease and fundamentally temporary (Aguirre, 2008). The different duration and severity depend on the causes and remedy together. It can be part of a psychoneurotic disorder, psychological-physical overload or biologically explainable. The symptoms

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    Post stroke Neuropsychiatric disorders are common. The complete spectrum of psychiatric illnesses can be observed. Most commons are: Depression, Catastrophic reactions, Anxiety and Emotional incontinence. Table 1: Prevalence of Post stroke Neuropsychiatric disorders NS Disorders Prevalence Depression 30%-50% Anxiety disorder 25% Apathy 20% Pathological effect 20% Catastrophic Reaction 20% Bipolar Syndrome Rare Mania Rare Psychosis Rare Post-stroke Depression (PSD) Depression is quite common problem

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    Influence on behaviors and Psychological Disorders Outline PSY/103 Influence on behaviors and Psychological Disorders Outline I. Introduction “Recent data estimate the overall prevalence of depression at about 11.1% of the American population, or nearly 35 million individuals (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2011). A predictive models suggest that up to 50% of the population will experience at least one episode of depression during their lives” (Life Extension, 2014). Depression

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    Depression affects almost everyone once in their life-time. There is more than one type of depression: ‘major depression, chronic depression, and bipolar disorder/manic depression’ (Carson, 2014). ‘Symptoms can range from relatively minor (but still disabling) through to very severe, so it is beneficial to be aware of the different types of disorders and the symptoms that come with it’ (Beyondblue,

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    Her current diagnosis is Bipolar Disorder Depressed, Cannabis use disorder. With the limited sessions I had with the patient, I am not able to confer the current diagnosis. My initial impression of Sarah is major depressive disorder. Sarah experiences nine of the required five symptoms of major depressive disorder as outline in the DSM V (pg. 156). Sarah reports the following: Sadness, change in sleep, change in appetite

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    instance the National Counselling Society (NCS), who support counselling and related therapies, and are closely linked with the NHS. (Nationalcounsellingsociety.org). The BACP framework can’t inform a counsellor of specific rights or wrongs, but outlines the values, principles and moral qualities that a counsellor should adhere to, which helps with guidance and ethical decision making and safeguarding client and counsellor. (BACP, 2015) Considering the ethical and legal issues within the therapeutic

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    argument is true, it would not be much of a surprise to discover that human psychological health and psychotherapeutic change are also contingent on creativity. Thus, creativity would be a vital part of the psychotherapeutic process. The following paper outlines some of the prevailing research on the study of creativity and psychotherapy with the purpose of suggesting that an exploratory study of creativity in psychotherapy would be an important study for the field of psychology. There have been many definitions

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    co-occurring disorder. Despite its common clinical use, long-term trials that have been conducted to examine the efficacy of CBT are limited and often lack appropriate comparison (Watkins et al., 2012). Though it is evidently an effective treatment for Depression and AD, it reaches only a fraction of those who might benefit. Yet, guidelines endorse psychotherapeutic practices such as CBT, as a first-line treatment for outpatients, and surveys of people with this co-occurring disorder have found that

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    Childhood Depressionn

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    Childhood Depression Abstract Empirical evidence shows that that depression disorder in children is a common condition that affects emotional, physical, and social development. Risk factors include parental conflict, a family history of depression, poor peer relationship, negative thinking, and deficit in coping skills. Treatment criteria of children and adults are the same, with the exception that children may display irritability rather than depressed or sad mood, and loss of weight may be

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