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Bipolar Disorder Case Study Examples
Case study: Jean – a 34-year-old with dysthymia and depressive episodes. Jean is a 34-year-old woman who has experienced dysthymia, that is, persistent low mood, for most of her adult life. However, over the last five years this has become particularly distressing and her mood has often deepened to include long spells of disabling depression. […]
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Respecting personal space and reserving time to talk
In the busy world of modern health care, and particularly in hospital, nurses may feel under pressure to ‘get results’, and they may also be extremely busy. It is easy to forget that the busy pace of the modern health professional may not be the pace of a person experiencing a mental health problem, particularly […]
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Principles of nursing a person experiencing depression
The main role of the nurse is to build a collaborative relationship with the person experiencing depression. This relationship is the core of working with the depressed person. It is a relationship that must be built on genuine respect and openness in which the nurse is seen as a partner in the depressed person’s recovery. […]
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Causes of sexual dysfunction
Effi cient sexual function requires anatomical integrity, intact vascular and neurological function, and adequate hormonal control. Peripheral genital effi ciency is modulated by excitatory and inhibitory neural connections that mediate psychological infl uences, which, in turn, are affected by environmental factors. Sexual dysfunctions are rarely caused by a single factor, although one may predominate. The […]
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Dissociative Identity Disorder Treatment Methods
Treatment of DID Not surprisingly, protagonists for and against the concept of DID have differing ideas about its treatment. Spanos, for example, contended that the goal of treatment is to help clients accept that their alter identities are real personalities rather than self-generated fantasies. By contrast, Gleaves contended that the opposite is true. He argued […]
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Etiology of Dissociative Identity Disorder
Aetiology of DID The nature and, indeed, existence of ‘true’ DID, have been as hotly debated as the existence of recovered memories, and the arguments are very similar (see, for example, Piper and Merskey 2004). Such is the level of debate that even some studies of this disorder remain neutral about its nature and aetiology. […]
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Information On Dissociative Identity Disorder
A defining characteristic of individuals with a diagnosis of Dissociative identity disorder (DID) is that they behave as if they possess two or more distinct identities or personalities, known as ‘alters’. In contrast to the past, where people with DID (or multiple personality as it was previously known) reported relatively few alter personalities, the average number […]
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Are Repressed Memories Reliable
Since the late 1980s, a number of clinicians have argued that many adults who were traumatized as children had repressed all memories of these events, and that these memories could be recovered only in the course of psychological therapy. In a seminal text, Bass and Davis argued that such repression is not unusual, and advised […]
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Recovered Memory Controversy
The recovered memory phenomenon has engendered considerable controversy and debate. Three differing explanations for this phenomenon have been proposed. Accurate accounts Recovered memories are accurate accounts of previously forgotten events, and should be accepted as such even in the absence of corroborative evidence. Explanations of why these memories are forgotten focus on unconscious mechanisms that […]
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Treatmenting post-traumatic stress disorder
Treatmenting post-traumatic stress disorder:Preventing PTSD by psychological debriefing Psychological debriefi ng is a single-session interview conducted immediately following a traumatic event intended to help those involved cope with their emotional responses to the trauma and prevent the development of PTSD. It involves encouraging the individual to talk through the event and their emotional reactions to […]
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