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How Pyromania Can Affect Your Life

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RUNNING HEAD: PYROMANIA Pyromania: Its lit!!! Austin Huffstutter Clover Park High-School January 11, 2017 Period 2 Notes: Student produced paper. ABSTRACT This paper is about how pyromania can affect your life. It will explain the diagnostic criteria, the various symptoms involved with pyromania, the treatment options one could pursue, and of course a case study showing how somebody has lived with pyromania. Pyromania is a mental illness that can affect you and people around you. According to an encyclopedia of mental disorders produced by Advameg Inc., pyromania is defined as setting multiple fires on purpose for your own pleasure without regard to others’ safety. The male gender is the most affected by this…show more content…
Pyromania is categorized as an impulse disorder according to the encyclopedia of mental disorders. An impulse disorder is a “class of psychiatric disorder characterized by impulsivity- failure to resist a temptation, urge or impulse that may harm oneself or others” (Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders, 2003). Treatment Treatments for children and adolescents is differs from adult treatments. According to the Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders, “treatment for children and adolescents involved with repeated firesetting appears to be more effective when it follows a case-management approach rather than a medical model, because many young firesetters come from chaotic households.” (Advameg, Inc. 2017). So this means that when you try to treat pyromania in a child, you should use a system that addresses the patients’ problems and solve them in accordance to their specific health needs. That being said, treating pyromania in adults is rather difficult because of the lack of insight and cooperation on the part of most patients diagnosed. Treatment involved with adults is different than adolescents because adult treatment involves medication, according to an encyclopedia of mental disorders produced by Advameg Inc., the one usual medication is selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. Adults will also go through long-term insight-oriented psychotherapy (Advameg Inc., 2017) Case Study In a case study called Response of pyromania to
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