Numerous theoretical models illustrate the importance of the treatment process for abnormal psychology. The psychosocial model relates to internal conflicts as between the conscious and unconscious mind as the individual responds to environmental stimuli. This aspect model focuses on relationships, social status, memories, and peer group environments (Hansell & Damour, 2008). Contributions of physical and biochemical functions relates to the biological or medical model and how the human body reacts and influences mental illness and dysfunctions. The focus of this model concerns the brain and functions and abnormal behaviors and unobservable deviant thought processes (Hansell & Damour, 2008).
<br> Clinical depression is an illness that effects us psychologically, biologically and socially. It may be brought on by sadness, anger and according to some researchers genetically. Although it is hard to classify clinical depression, at a biological stand point it takes a direct route. <br> Depression is caused by an imbalance of the neurotransmitter serotonin, dopamine and norepinephreine. Neurotransmitters are chemical released by the nerves that deliver messages across a synapsis to another nerve.
The patient will be assets in personality disturbance, such as cognitive eccentricity, socially, isolative behavior, impulsivity, mood dysregulation, or anxiety-driven patterns of behavior and there they can determine if there is a disorder or not. 2. List the disorders contained in each of the three clusters of personality disorders? The first cluster would be odd behavior and it consists of paranoid, schizoid and schizotypal personality disorders. The second cluster is dramatic behavior which consists of antisocial, borderline, histrionic and narcissistic personality disorders.
Therefore, understanding the impact of a person’s mental health developmental problem and its medical features becomes a paramount issue when it comes to diagnosis and medical intervention (Kenrick, 2009). In mental health, being normal or abnormal depends on different conditions or circumstances. Similarly, the term ‘abnormal’ has different explanations biologically and psychologically. In order to analyze practical and theoretical challenges in defining the term ‘abnormal’, three approaches are used. The first approach is the statistical abnormality.
Much like the definition of Schizophrenia; Psychosis is defined by hallucinations and delusions; however the differences are many and begin with the biological causes. (Hickling, Abe, Garner, & Rathbone, 2007) Biological causes of Psychosis are generally the result of tumors, cysts, traumatic brain injury or degenerative brain diseases. Although there are several other biological components to Psychosis the primary concerns center on the physical causes of development. Psychosis can also be associated with other mental disorders such as Bipolar disorder or Depression. (Vorvick, Merrill & Zieve,
For example, one psychologist may use descriptive psychopathology to which will strive to provide answers for symptoms or mental illness. Either way, psychopathology is formally used to study mental illness or the distresses which may be affecting an individual. The issues of the abnormal psychology will assist in the study by the way we would use it in the attempt to capture interest, trigger concerns, and demands our attention. It also brings us to form and ask certain questions pertaining to any study. Psychopathology is not the same as psychopathy, which has to do with antisocial
Abnormal psychology is a portion of Psychology that involves the study of behaviors that “seem” unusual or inappropriate by society's standards. However, in some cases, these unusual and inappropriate behaviors may be certain disorders or dysfunctions. People with these disorders may not necessarily be able to control their “emotions, drives, or desires.” Dissociative disorders, Sexual disorders, and Schizophrenia delusions lie heavily among the long list of abnormal disorders in the study of psychology. In the next few paragraphs, a thorough explanation of the disorders mentioned above will be discussed. When a person has a dissociative disorders, it usually means that their memory has failed.
It has allowed for the development of a science of mental illness complete with measures, causation, classifications, psychological and pharmaceutical treatments, rigorous efficacy of treatments, decline in miserable people, and even the curing of mental diseases. Psychology is not good because afflicted people have been victimized, and others have gone wholly unnoticed. Psychology is working to become good enough via the 11th Reason for
Neurobiological Parallels of Co Occurring Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders Karen M. Bates Walden University Biopsychology-PSYC-8226-2 November, 2010 Dr. Geoffrey Hutchinson Neurobiology of Co Occurring Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders Depression, anxiety, and substance use have psychiatric symptomology overlap and the neurobiological similarities of these disorders are particularly active in neuroscience and neurobiology research (Brady, 2007). Despite the research, the mental illness-substance abuse dichotomy persists. Data indicates that individuals with co occurring disorders are inadequately served in both mental health and substance use treatment settings resulting in over-utilization of resources in the criminal
Researchers have attempted to explain the paraphilias in general to the result of the biological factors (Hazelwood, The Criminal Sexaul Sadist, 2009). These findings come from abnormal findings from neuropsychological and neurological tests of sex offenders (Hazelwood, The Criminal Sexaul Sadist, 2009). People with sexual disorders or symptoms of this paraphilia have other mental/learning disorders (Hazelwood, The Criminal Sexaul Sadist, 2009). This is a type of person, who experiences distress or impaired functioning because of the sadistic behaviors or fantasies; which could be the fact that the partner is not consenting (Hazelwood, The Criminal Sexaul Sadist, 2009). The sadistic sexual fantasies often begin in the person’s childhood with the onset of this active occurs during early adult life (Unknown, Unknown).