Case Study: Anxiety Answer Sheet Diagnosing Tina Student Name: Marcella Franklin Diagnosing Generalized Anxiety Disorder: 1a. Refer to the DSM-IV checklist for generalized anxiety disorder. Which of Tina's symptoms meet any of the criteria? (Be sure to match specific symptoms with specific criteria.) |Tina symptoms include the sense of something bad about to happen, constant worry that something horrific will happen to her daughters, | |this corresponds with the DSM-IV of at least 6 months of "excessive anxiety and worry" about a variety of events and situations.
CASE STUDY: DEPRESSION ANSWER SHEET Ellen: Depression and Suicidality Student Name: Diagnosing Ellen 1a. Refer to the DSM-IV checklist and list all symptoms that Ellen has that match the criteria for major depressive episode. Which of Ellen's symptoms meet any of the criteria? (Be sure to match specific symptoms with specific criteria.) |Ellen believes she is experiencing a severe case of depression.
| 2b. Does Tina have a specific phobia and if yes, what is the feared object? |Tina has a fear of crossing bridges, but moreso Tina has a greater fear of being and living alone. | Diagnosing Panic Disorder: 3a. Refer to the DSM-IV checklist for panic disorder with agoraphobia and the checklist for panic disorder without agoraphobia.
| Counter-Transference when dealing with ‘Morally Objectionable’ and Hateful patients | | Lior TalPsychological Skills CourseDr. Eve Lischner-FreudIDC Herzeliya | 16/02/2014 | | | Counter-transference is defined by Merriam-Webster as a psychological transference, especially by a psychotherapist, during the course of treatment; the psychotherapist's reactions to the patient's transference, and the complex of feelings of a psychotherapist toward the patient (Merriam-Webster, 2012). The APA defines countertransference as the conscious or unconscious emotional reaction of the therapist to the patient which may interfere with treatment (APA, 2012). The feelings that arise from counter-transference are as real as the feelings that arise from the ‘real-self’. They are genuine feelings based on the self's interactions with the environment and the people in it, at different points in time.
Case Study: Anxiety Answer Sheet Diagnosing Tina Student Name: Floyd Meeks Diagnosing Generalized Anxiety Disorder: 1a. Refer to the DSM-IV checklist for generalized anxiety disorder. Which of Tina's symptoms meet any of the criteria? (Be sure to match specific symptoms with specific criteria.) |Tina symptoms meet the criteria refer from the DSM-IV checklist.
This medication is used in the treatment for patients with a disorder known as mania. Patients with mania experience a frenzied mood, or an abnormally excited mood. The side effects for this medication are as follows, drowsiness, blank facial expression, shuffling walk, agitation, nervousness, difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep, changes in skin color, widening or narrowing of the pupils, difficulty urinating, these are the less harmful side effects according to the National Institute of Mental Health (http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/mental-health-medications). According to this same article the more severe side effects to this medication are as follows, fine worm like tongue movements, flu like symptoms, fast irregular heartbeat, sore throat chills or other signs of infection, neck cramps, difficulty breathing or swallowing,
The Obligation to Endure Rachel Carson challenges the progress that this world has taken and questions if it is truly progress at all. We as humans endanger and harm ourselves in ways that we are often unaware of. Carson persuades her audience, the progressive intellectuals, in her book, “Silent Spring”, that the use of chemicals is causing destruction and should be put to an end. She concentrates her ideas in the chapter “The Obligation to Endure”, where she goes against the horrible consequences of chemical use on pests. She elaborates on the issue of spraying chemicals and if it is increasing or decreasing the progress in the world.
For example in the Thigpen & Cleckley study, the researches examine a woman suffering from multiple personality disorder (MPD) where they used projective and psychometric tests. They aimed to investigate the underlying factors to how the MPD was caused who was experiencing blinding headaches. They found that there was another personality within Eve white called Eve Black which they were tested on IQ, memory and personality. They would not have found these personalities in Eve White if they adopted another approach, such as the cognitive approach. Carrying out the research using the individual differences approach is useful in understanding how individuals with mental health problems can be dealt with.
It is further understood that feelings are held in the unconscious mind that are too difficult to be rationalised, to this end defence responses develop to protect us from the painful feelings, and our perceptions of reality become distorted. Angela may now acting out in the world, the same dilemmas she faced as a child, presented in new contexts. “Practitioners are repeatedly hit between the eyes with the unconsciously determined, remarkably repetitive, persistent interpersonal scripts”. (McWilliams 2004 p30) In this model, depression might be viewed as aggression and anger turned inwards. Angela internalises her feelings of anger and disappointment at
She believed that in childhood we try protect ourselves against basic anxiety in four ways: securing affection and love, being submissive, attaining power and withdrawing. For the purposes of this essay we will apply Karen Horney's theory of neurosis to account for the behaviour of Claireece “Precious” Jones, a movie character from the movie Precious. Horney believed that basic anxiety was the end result of basic hostility and this basic hostility is projected to parents whose children did not have their needs for love and affection satisfied during childhood. In order to establish if these needs where met, it is imperative that a child's perception of events is taken into concern as opposed to the parents intentions (Karen Horney, n.d ). 16-year-old Precious was not given love and affection by her parents.