Personality Disorders Case Study

Background Information Tyler is a 15 year old male who is currently living at home with his mother and younger sister. His mother describes Tyler as “always being an odd child” who had significant difficulty relating to his peers. As a child he would spend a great deal of time alone involved in role playing. She said that social situations always provoke great anxiety in Tyler and he is extremely socially inept. Currently Tyler rarely socializes, and when he is not in school he spends most of his time on his computer. Tyler spends several hours a day on the Internet playing on-line games and interacting with others in chat rooms. Tyler reports having one close real-life friend but it is not

Objectives/Progress: Pt. has discontinued her use of opiates according to the last quarter UDS results, Pt. is now eligible to receive phase 1 take home privileges if she maintain her abstinence. Pt. demonstrated a improvement on her commitments to maintain regular dosing attendance. Also P During this upcoming quater, this writer will meet with pt. to establish rapport and trust. This writer will reinforce the importance of remaining in recovery and to resolve her current legal issues by the next month. Pt. identified her children as a motivational factor to change and to . The counselor told Pt. that he needs to be free from drugs (cocaine) in order for his prescribed medications to work and be more effective. Counselor will help patient understand the importance of restitution to self worth and then help in developing a plan to provide restitution.

DOI: 06/23/2011. This is a case of 41-year-old male maintenance worker who sustained injury to the low back while taking off a sliding door of a patio. As per OMNI notes, patient is diagnosed with lumbar disc disorder with myelopathy. MRI of the lumbar spine dated 6/28/15 revealed recurrent left paramedian L4-5 disc herniation with caudal extrusion of a 10 mm fragment into the left L5 lateral recess. As per office notes dated 7/25/16, the patient is status post redo left L5-S1 discectomy performed on 4/20/16. It was also noted that the patient had a prior L5 laminotomy several years ago. He subsequently did well. However, he had recurrence of his pain. Pain is radiating into his left leg worse on the right leg. This was unresponsive to conservative

A review of the records reveals the member to be an adult female with a birth date of 12/31/1952. The member has a diagnosis of increased weakness and decreased conditioning and a history of multiple falls over the past couple of months. The member’s treating provider, Marianne Nikas, MD has recommended that the member be admitted to a skilled inpatient facility from home.

I: CM used open ended questions to inquire about the client’s missed appointments with LAMP VASH. CM questioned client regarding updates with his social security payment. CM discussed a plan with the client that will help the client prioritized all of his housing appointments. CM explained to the client the importance of keeping all of his housing options available by attending all of his appointments and meeting all of the requirements.

According to The Free Dictionary, mental illness is defined as, “Any of various psychiatric conditions, usually characterized by impairment of an individual 's normal cognitive, emotional, or behavioral functioning, and caused by physiological or psychosocial factors “(The Free Dictionary, 2007). Mental illness can certainly be a physical illness, but is not as easily diagnosed like a disease such as diabetes. In a disease like diabetes, physicians can run tests to look for certain indicators of the disease in the blood like the levels of blood glucose and hemoglobin A1C. Sometimes physical conditions can cause mental illnesses. Unlike diseases like diabetes, mental health diagnoses’ often rely more on the patient relaying their symptoms

The following is a case study of a male client, Dexter, suffering from antisocial personality disorder (psychopath), a chronic mental condition in which a person's ways of thinking, perceiving situations and relating to others are dysfunctional — and destructive ("Antisocial personality disorder", 2015). One result of antisocial personality disorder is the person has no regard for right and wrong and they usually disregard the rights and feelings of others. The client was diagnosed and given an assessment with the goal of managing his symptoms. Through a process of discovery, the client's history finally revealed that the disorder was actually a result of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) caused by a past experience. People with PTSD often fear re-experiencing a traumatic event and sometimes are unable to remember certain aspects. However, through psychotherapy and medication, this client illustrates a successful management of his symptoms.

1. - Mental illness: Pety informed the writer that she went to see her Psychologist because recently she is feeling very depressed, anxious and having flashbacks from the abuse she received while she was living with her ex-partner. Pety stated that this happened since she needed to tell her life story once more to Bianca from WAYYS. For that reason, and knowing that the writer will refer her to other organization, Pety requested the writer to talk on her behalf if it is a need to tell her story again.

This research provides an analysis of current social disorder, reviews critical data and connects the relationship of illegal drug/immigration between the Mexican border and the United States (U.S.), domestic terrorism and social unrest which impacts our judicial system of law and order and public policy. Subsequently, this relationship directly affects the deployment and effectiveness of local law enforcement (LLEA) personnel, which accounts for the escalated rise in crimes against an unprotected public by lone wolf individual or a collective bound public demonstrating by protesting against social injustice. The increased public demonstrations, coupled by at least 81 terrorist attempts in the U. S. since 9/11, the introduction by

The objective of the experiment is to identify the individuals who can be beneficial to society from their polygenic risk scores associated with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Previous studies revealed that healthy siblings of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder were over-represented in creative professions, displaying a positive association between creativity and psychological disorders. But whether this association is due to shared genetics or environment still remained uncertain. Thus researchers used polygenic risk scores of psychological disorders generated from overall population of Iceland and the results from two other mega-analyses to test this question.

The patient is a middle-aged white male. He appears to be well kempt, dressed neatly but casually and somewhat dully in jeans and a button-down shirt. He is slightly overweight. He responds to the interviewer in a friendly and cooperative manner, and they seem to have adequate rapport. He mostly maintains good eye contact, although not staring, and he tends to look briefly away when relating incidents that could make him emotional. He tends to respond positively when answering followup questions, for example agreeing that even when not having an anxiety attack, he does worry about when the next might strike, and curtails his activities as a result. His facial expression

A personality disorder is a type of noetic disorder in which you have a rigid and harmful pattern of cerebrating, functioning and deporting. A person with a personality disorder has trouble seeing and relating to situations and to people. This causes major fixes and shyness in relationships, convivial encounters, work and school.

A patient has been in hospital for many years because nobody visits her at the hospital

Abnormal behavior relates to the influence of psychological factors, biological factors as well as the social factors referring to inadequate relationships. In the face of diverse definition, abnormal behavior refers to the deviating from norm, which norm is the typical behavior or characteristic of the population. As such, Jim behavior is abnormal because it violates moral and conventional mores of the society (Violates societal standards), as such causing social discomfort to others. For instance, Jim fails to recognize the social cues in conversation thereby annoying other interlocutors. Jim is this case is behaving in a manner counterproductive to his own well being by

Antisocial Personality Disorder is in the category of Cluster B Personality Disorders. It can also be called sociopathy or psychopathy, depending on severity of symptoms. Sociopathy is thought to be when something is severely wrong with the conscience, as opposed to psychopathy, when this no conscience of the person (Stout, Westermeyer, & Thuras, 2015). Some clinicians believe there is no difference in sociopathy, where other clinicians believe psychopathy is a more severe form of the disorder (Blais, Smallwood, Groves, Rivas-Vazquez, & Berger, 2014). Either way, it is a chronic personality disorder in which the person’s way of thinking, perception, and actions are disturbed, destructive, and dysfunctional. The disorder may lessen as the