Sigmund Freud was the first to challenge the view that mental disorders were caused by physical illness and proposed that psychological factors were responsible for the illness. The psychodynamic approach highlights the importance of the unconscious mind and early childhood experiences. Psychodynamic psychologist’s attempt to deal with the mental health issues of their patients by incorporating these ideas and creating therapies using these ideas. The basic concept behind psychoanalysis is that a patient that suffers from mental health problems such as depression can address any regressed feelings thus, the patient gains insight of and can learn to work through their emotional baggage. It is a generalised concept that if the cause of the symptoms were tackled it would only be logical that the symptoms would then cease.
Unit 547 Promote good practice in the support of individuals with Autistic Spectrum Conditions. 1.1 Analyse the defining features of Autistic Spectrum Conditions and the impact on practice Autism is a lifelong developmental disability that affects how a person communicates with, and relates to, other people. It also affects how they make sense of the world around them. http://www.autism.org.uk/ As autism is a spectrum disorder (ASD) there can be a vast difference in the difficulties people with the condition can experience. The spectrum ranges from Classic Autism through to High Functioning and Asperger’s.
UNIT 4222-378 (LD 310) Outcome 1 1. People on the autistic spectrum have share certain difficulties, their condition effect them in different ways. Some people with autism are able to live reactively independent lives but others may have accompanying learning disabilties and need a life time of specialist support. Therefore its important that we recognise each person on the spectrum will need different type of support. 2 Triad of impairments is the term that describes the difficulties that people with autism experience in differing degrees.
In somatoform disorders, the physical symptoms cannot be fully explained by any underlying physical disorder. Therefore, when diagnosed with Somatoform disorder, the patient is more than likely demonstrating that the psychological factors are the contributor to the symptoms that they are reporting. Somatoform is known to occur in adolescents or in early
640-642. Print. This book is about who normally first suspects the child of having autism. This book explains the signs of autism and the behaviors associated with it. The book is very detailed it breaks the signs down step by step.
Unfamiliar is not the same as abnormal, distinction between these two is vital to understanding psychopathology and those affected by mental illness. As abnormal psychology evolves and progresses in treatments, therapies, and research the central theme of the six core concepts continues to guide researcher. These six concepts define and provide understanding of abnormality. The concepts also illustrate the range between normal and abnormal behavior of individuals experiencing personality disorders. Another concept is studying cultural and historical relativism in defining and classifying abnormality in relation to environment.
Abstract Inheritance of Marfan syndrome: Age of onset associated with Marfan syndrome, gene locus and mutations, disorders attributed with Marfan syndrome, and the common treatments for those affected with Marfan syndrome. MARFAN SYNDROME 3 Marfan syndrome Marfan syndrome is a familiar heritable disorder that affects the fibrous connective tissue with remarkable pleiotropism and clinical variability. (McKusick, 1991) The cardinal signs of Marfan syndrome are discernible in the eye, causing near sightedness from an increased curve of the retina related to the changes that occur with the connective tissue in the globe of the eye. As a result there is an increased risk for retinal detachment, and early cataract formation. The skeletal and connective tissue system include; bone overgrowth and loose joints this causes the arms and legs to become abnormally long and thin.
In 1968, the American Psychiatric Association defined schizophrenia as: "a psychosis characterized chiefly by a slow and insidious reduction of external attachments and interests and by apathy and indifference leading to impoverishment of interpersonal relations, mental deterioration, and adjustment on a lower level of functionary. In general, the condition is less dramatically psychotic than the hebephrenic, catatonic, and paranoid types of schizophrenia; also, it contrasts with schizoid personality in which there is little or no progression of the disorder. (A.P.A.,
This can cause some restrictions and inflexibility due to the individual in some cases not being able to fully comprehend the transcendence of traditional idea's, rules, pattern's, etc. 2. It is important to recognise that each person on the autistic spectrum condition has their own choices, preference's and individuality. This is important because although they are all on the same spectrum they are still people with their own abilities and strengths, etc and we should help them to express themselves and celebrate their differences otherwise there is a potential of there being a “lumped into the same pot” mentality and of stereotypes and prejudices being made. Autism can be considered a spectrum condition due to the range of functioning on the spectrum.
The criteria for diagnosing DSPD follow the characteristics of the symptoms as well as the inability to follow social norms. Psychopathy is similar to ASPD and DSPD however the traits include deceitful and arrogant tendencies. The trait of deficient affective experience has been shown to be the core deficit of psychopathy (Cooke et al.,2005). It is important; while almost all individuals with a diagnosis of psychopathy would meet the criteria for the diagnosis of ASPD, on about one-third of individuals with a diagnosis of ASPD meet the criteria for psychopathy (Coid, 1998). With this being said, it is estimated that approximately less than one percent of men are diagnosed as psychopaths, but because many people who may have ASPD do not readily volunteer for research there is no real way of estimating the prevalence of