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Models of mental disorder-The behavioural model
The behavioural model has a scientific basis in Learning Theory. Symptoms are considered to be learned habits arising from the interaction between external events or stressors and an individual’s personality. Persistent, distressing symptoms are considered maladaptive responses rather than being markers for some underlying disease or illness. For the behaviour therapist the symptoms and their […]
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Models of mental disorder-The psychodynamic model
The psychodynamic model is more accurately described as a style of human interaction and understanding that draws on a broad philosophy, which includes clinical, biological and evolutionary theory as well as religion and the arts. Psychodynamic practice may conjure an image of the psychoanalyst listening to their patient’s stream of consciousness as the patient lies […]
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Models of mental disorder-The disease model
Before examining the disease model it is necessary to deal with the general meaning attributed to disease. Kendall has reviewed disease definitions in psychiatry, which range from the purely subjective (for example, personal suffering) to the purely objective (for example, the presence of an identifiable pathogen). This latter interpretation tends to predominate and is defined […]
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What is mental disorder and models of mental disorder
Experiencing ‘mental health’ or having a ‘mental illness’ may appear as two distinct, separate states of being. Such dualistic thought may also appear advantageous. The boundary it represents provides a point of exclusion beyond which we can place our fears of the unknown. ‘Madness’ becomes distinct from ‘sanity’, and for the majority, ‘madness’ is not […]
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Bipolar affective disorder diagnosis
Recognition of a typical Bipolar affective disorder is fairly straightforward . The patient, who may have no previous history of mood disorder, presents with a signifi cant change in mood, activity and thought, which, although it might have been triggered by an identifiable life event, is clearly excessive and disproportionate. Changes may occur abruptly or […]
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Treatment of Depression during Pregnancy
Depressive disorders are common in women of childbearing age, and postpartum depression is a serious complication of childbearing. The possibility of pregnancy should be considered in any pre-menopausal woman for whom antidepressant treatment is contemplated. As many pregnancies are unplanned and unintended, contraceptive advice should be given at the outset of treatment and reviewed often, […]
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Psychological Causes of Bipolar Disorder
Psychoanalysts view mania as an extreme defence mechanism to counter unpleasant emotional states or unacceptable impulses. Katan, for example, suggested that as periods of mania frequently follow states of depression, the conflct in mania may be of a similar nature to that in depression. People who pass from depression into mania maintain their preoccupation with […]
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Genetic Causes of Bipolar Disorder and Biological Causes of Bipolar Disorder
Genetic Causes of Bipolar Disorder An early review of the genetics of bipolar disorder by Allenreported overall concordance rates for MZ twins of 72 per cent, while concordance rates for DZ twins averaged 14 per cent. More recently, these estimates have been reduced to 40 per cent and between 5 and 10 per cent respectively. […]
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Remedies for Seasonal Affective Disorder
The recognized treatment of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is known as ‘bright light’ treatment which lowers levels of melatonin. In this, the individual is typically exposed to high levels of artifi cial light, varying from 2500 lux for a period of 2 hours to 10 000 lux for half an hour each day over a […]
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Cause of Seasonal Affective Disorder
What Cause Seasonal Effective Disorder? Explanations of SAD are almost uniquely biological. Genetic factors There is now increasing evidence of genetic processes in the aetiology of SAD. In one population study, Madden et al. examined the prevalence of SAD in MZ and DZ twins, concluding that about 29 per cent of the variance in the […]
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