Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

There were many things in the client sessions that elicited visceral reactions from members of our group. George, the first client who suffered from Antisocial Personality Disorder, seemed to be almost bragging about his exploits. We would like to think that as counselors we would comport ourselves as professionally as the psychologist conducting the interview. We recognize that we have an ethical obligation to do so. However, as spectators watching George, there was a degree of shock at hearing…

someone is to give them hope. Unsurprisingly, it is very common for victims to develop psychological disorders as a result of their experiences. Fortunately, the majority of these disorders are very treatable through therapy and medication. S Seedat, an author and member of the psychiatry department at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, states that “The main goals of treatment in Social Anxiety Disorder are to treat core symptoms and comorbidities, reduce functional impairment and…

DSM IV Diagnosis Using the DSM IV diagnostic tool, Elizabeth’s substance use would be diagnosed as Alcohol dependence (AD). She has more than the minimum three required criteria to meet the DSM IV diagnosis of alcohol dependence. A study by Pabst, Kraus, Piontek & Baumeister (2012) shows that to be classified as alcohol-dependent, a person has to meet at least three of the seven DSM IV criteria of AD in the previous 12 months. She has tolerance, as she has markedly increased amounts of…

While reading and getting to learn more about Bipolar II disorder I had gained lots of knowledge about the disorder and what the deeper meaning of it is. Bipolar II is a disorder that has shown trace to genetic element and the stress comes as episodes. Many may hear about this disorder and think of mood swings and a big change in how a person is usually acting. It is serious because it could turn to raging moods changed and swings and could be devastating. First there is a Hypomanic Episode…

Personality disorders: Chapter 5 Reflection: Personality disorders are connected with methods for considering oneself as well as other people that essentially and unfavorably influence how an individual functions in numerous parts of life. They fall inside of 10 distinct sorts. It includes, paranoid personality disorders, schizoid personality disorders, schizotypal personality disorders, antisocial personality disorders, borderline personality disorders, histrionic personality disorders,…

Individuals with DID, dissociative identity disorder, may adopt as many as 100 new identities, all simultaneously coexisting, the identities can be either complete or partially independent personalities. The media conditions viewers to view people with this disorder as maniacs and lunatics. Usually, this is not the case because the person isn’t consciously making decisions. Its as if someone else had taken control of their body. As a result of the media’s propaganda, I started to believe that…

Diagnosing Anxiety The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) by the American Psychiatric Association defines fear as “the emotional response to a real or perceived imminent threat,” and defines anxiety as “the anticipation of future threat”. At times, both of these emotions will be present but will be different with fear being regularly related with feelings of immediate danger while anxiety is often related with emotions of watchfulness or avoidant conduct. Anxiety…

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). ADHD is a common behavioral disorder that affects up to 11% of children, with that percentage dropping as those people reach adulthood. However, most ADHD studies and research focus on young children and not their older counterparts. ADHD…

by the following books: “Autism Life Skills” by Chantal Sicile-Kira, “Neurodevelopmental Disabilities” by Dilip R. Patel, Donald E. Greydanus, Hatim A. Omar, and Joav Merrick, “Could it be Autism?” by Nancy D. Wiseman, and “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders Fifth Edition (DSM-5)” by The American Psychiatric Association. Each of these books has a different way of describing Autism and also varies in terms of technicalities; giving this paper a great amount of depth and…

confuse usual behavior, behavior that deviates from the normality with mental disorder; but the two are not the same. Mental Disorder, as known as mental illnesses, is “Any behavior or emotional state that causes an individual great suffering, is self-destructive, seriously impairs the person’s ability to work or get along with others, or endangers others or the community.” (Wade, 2011, p. 554) People also mix up with mental disorder with insanity. Insanity normally prefer to whether a person…