Diagnosis

Research Study This study aims to better understand the prevalence of mental health within the homeless population. In order for this to be achieved, this study will survey a population of homeless people who are at risk of being homeless, have been homeless in the past, or are currently homeless. This is the dependent variable for this study so this criterion must be met in order for them to be part of the sample. Being at risk for homelessness will be determined by their income level being at…

screening tests used to diagnose someone with PTSD. The criteria to be diagnosed with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder is very extensive. In the DSM-V there is eight different sets of criterion which all require a number of symptoms to be met before a diagnosis can be made. “Criterion A” requires that at least one of the following needs are met to be diagnosed: Direct exposure to serious injury or death, witnessing the trauma, learning that a close friend or family member was exposed to a trauma,…

the ability to flip to a diagnosis of any given patient encountered in practicum or internship and read the diagnostic criteria, associated supporting features, development and course, risk and prognostic factors, culture-related issues, suicide risk, functional consequences, differential diagnosis and comorbidity aids in the student’s exposure to the diagnosis from multiple viewpoints (APA, 2013). In addition, the depth…

medicine does not cure, it only keeps the symptoms under control, “But medications don’t cure ADHD; they only control the symptoms on the day they are taken (Pg. 7)”. Let alone prescribed medication for a disorder that is diagnosed subjectively, “. . .diagnosis is based on the subjective opinion of the diagnoser (Pg. 9)”. Behavior rating scales are one of the main forms of evaluating potential ADHD patients. According to Timimi and Radcliffe, this scale is based off of questions using words…

Diagnoses in medicine involving deception are some of the most difficult phenomenon’s to detect: factitious disorder, malingering, Munchausen syndrome, and Munchausen by proxy. As a starting point for diagnosis and treatment, doctors rely on reported symptoms in order to accurately detect the problems with the patients. When patients give misleading information, consciously or unconsciously, doctors and physicians are unable to accurately diagnose the patient (Dyer & Feldman, 2007). This…

et al. (2009) that the ICF is a more comprehensive tool as it focuses on human functioning and provides a system to enable description of the components of functioning that are impacted by a health condition. Rather than a sole focus on giving a diagnosis which is followed by a pharmacological treatment, like the biomedical framework, the ICF framework allows a comprehensive understanding of ones’ capacities and participation which allows an ample description of health, illness and treatment…

brain activity of their patient, which has allowed them to be able to see the effects of the disease in the early stages. Monitoring the brain activity can be done a few ways, but in the end comes down to the doctors making graphs to assemble their diagnosis. They also like to do blood work along with this, just to make sure the symptoms the patients are having are not from another form of…

ADHD is a highly over identified disability and is also overprescribed, since ADHD is highly over medicated health diagnoses should try to find alternative treatments. ADHD affects a lot of young kids and many adults but is mostly diagnosed for children in preschool and elementary. Affecting most kids, ADHD is also over identified in school children. When students are identified as having ADHD they are instantly labeled as having ADHD and get prescribed the drugs they need to help out with it.…

I Promise All around me, men and women of different rankings pass by the ER with varying levels of urgency. Bouncing a tennis ball, I stared through the glass door of my office, labeled “Doug P Mills, M.D., Head of Diagnostic Medicine. The passages of this hospital cried with emotional distress. Patients, doctors, nurses, and visitors all share one thing in common: empathy. The walls reek of tears and hope. For me, I’m amused at the doctors that lose sleep over their patients. Emotion is just a…

WIllem Einthoven is the creator of the electrocardiogram, it is used today everywhere in the health field, in ambulances, hospitals, etc. This is to show how it was first made, and who created it, and first developed it. Along with how it has helped people today in modern times. Understanding how willem einthoven had a compelling achievement in understanding the heart rhythms and how to analyze them. In this essay I will help you understand what is essential to vital human life today, and how it…