Search Our Essay Database

Essay Instructions: needs to focus on dissociative identity disorder as it appears in the DSM-IV- TR in adulthood only
MUST cover
general description
symptoms and diagnostic criteria
treatment approaches
goals of treatment
cross cultural issues
environmental issues
community referrals (in orange and LA County California)
Needs to have a minimum of 7 journal articles and I need to also have copies of the articles.

Essay Instructions: The overall focus of the paper is to address the following: How can Christian Counselors position clients for healing who are dealing with Dissociative Identity Disorder. Take into account any preparatory work that might need to be done to better help the client. Think through the idea of individual versus group counseling. Also how the Christian community as a whole can be of assistance.


A book you may glean from is "Shared Grace: Therapists and Clergy Working Together" by Bilich, Configlio, & Carlson --2000

Essay Instructions: • Conversion disorders ??" for whom are they most common? (i.e. gender, age)
• Malingering
• Munchausen syndrome by proxy
• Dysmorphobia
• Dissociative amnesia
• Who is most likely to suffer from dissociative identity disorder? (i.e. gender, childhood background)
• How does the psychodynamic perspective explain dissociative disorders (i.e. dissociative identity disorder, dissociative fugue, dissociative amnesia)?
• Key emotions in mood disorders
o What is the key emotion associated with depression?
o What is the key emotion associated with mania?
• Psychodynamic techniques to treat depression
• Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
• Cognitive triad (Beck)
• Seligman’s learned helplessness theory
• Difference between bipolar I and bipolar II
• Adjunctive psychotherapy
• Know that the chance of recovery for someone receiving effective therapy for depression is about 60%
• Suicide
o Attempts versus completions
o Do we have a good way of knowing suicide rates?
o Limitations of suicide research
o Long-term stressors that are common among those who attempt suicide
o Increase in sadness is most often linked to suicide
o Death seeker, death initiator, death ignorer, death darer
o Altruistic suicide
o Biological explanation for suicide ??" what neurotransmitter is involved?
o Treatment for suicide attempters (What type of treatment do they use? Is it effective?)
• Characteristics of anorexia nervosa, including peak age for onset
• Physical consequences of anorexia
• Central feature of bulimia nervosa
• Compensatory behavior
• How do binge episodes affect those who suffer from bulimia?
• Know the information about how contestants in the Miss America pageant have changed
• Enmeshed family pattern (Salvador Minuchin)
• What is a drug?
• Tolerance
• Withdrawal
• Synergistic effect
• Blood-alcohol level that typically produces symptoms of relaxation and intoxication
• What neurotransmitter is affected by barbiturates?
• Heroin users have increased risk of HIV due to needle sharing
• Behavioral and emotional effects of cocaine and amphetamines
• Nicotine replacement methods (patch, nasal spray, gum)
• Is substance abuse related to a certain personality profile?
• Dopamine and the “pleasure pathway”
• Paraphilia
• Sexual disorder least likely in men
• Sexual disorder most likely in a man in his 20s
• Vaginismus
• Aversion therapy
• Gender identity disorder
• Treatment for sexual disorders ??" experts recommend getting as much information as you can about sexual functioning

Essay Instructions: Unit 4 Experiment/Lab ??" Psychological Disorders
This paper is slightly different from the others. For this paper you will exam a series of case studies and determine diagnoses for each case study based on your understanding of them.
You will find these case studies in the unit 4 folder
FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT:
1) AFTER READING THE CHAPTERS
2) View the case studies and determine preliminary diagnoses using your text
3) List ALL of the reasons (diagnostic criteria) for your diagnoses for each person
4) Explain any complications are confusion you had in determing the diagnoses
5) Seperate each person into their own subheading for your paper
6) Determine the therapy approach for each person that you feel is most appropriate
6) You will then write up a paper on these case studies identifying in BOLD the terms that apply from reading. Include at least 10 terms and define them in your own words.
7) Your paper should be 2-3 pages of text typed double-spaced in times new roman font with 1-inch margins. DO NOT include a title page name etc. Names are automatic when submitted through ANGEL

Case studies will be provided in zip file I'm sending

Bold terms (use any of these ten)
ADHD
psychological disorder
medical model
DSM-IV-TR
aniexty disorder
general anxiety disorder
panic disorder
phobia
OCD
PTSD
post-traumatic growth
somatoform disorder
conversion disorder
hypochondriasis
dissociative disorder
dissociative identity disorder
mood disorder
major depressive disorder
mania
bipolar disorder
schizophrenia
delusions
personality disorders
antisocial personality disorder

psychotherapy
psychoanalysis
resistance
interpretation
transference
psychodynamic therapy
insight therapies
active listening
unconditional positive regard
behavior therapy
cognitive therapy
family therapy
evidence based practice
lobotomy
antidepressant drugs
anti anxiety drugs
antipsychotic drugs