The DSM-V Therapeutic Analysis

Therapy is often used. And oftentimes patients are submitted into a psychiatric ward for people suffering with eating disorders.

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is currently the most frequently used way of standardizing and defining psychological disorders. However, the classification systems such as DSM have advantages and disadvantages. The major weakness of DSM is that it judges symptoms superficially and ignores other possible important factors. The major strength of DSM is that it enables categorization of psychological disorders.

Debates regarding personality disorders is considered wildly controversial in the field of psychology. I personally think it is because the subject is still being studied and constantly changing. Researchers still have a lack of knowledge regarding personality disorders, and when the DSM-IV came out a lot of people were not thrilled with the classification system and changes. Many proposals were introduced before the DSM-IV was published but, they were never included in the revision. Since professionals weren't positive in the diagnosis and treatments, stating that they had “too many permutations”, they decided to leave the proposals out of the revision. Another big changed presented in the DSM-IV revision was, eliminating four previous personality

The statistics and facts above have demonstrated that removing Asperger’s Disorder from the DSM-5, as a mental health diagnosis, negatively affects an entire population of people, referred to as Aspies. The underlying issue is the power the DSM-5 manual has on overall mental health to determine identities, diagnosis, treatment health and mental health services, educational services and more. One DSM change has power to affect an entire population of people with developmental disabilities. It is important to understand how this affects our society as a whole by examining how this problem affects family, religion, government, and economy.

Treatments of eating disorders vary in approach. Individual, group, and/or family psychotherapy, medical care and monitoring, nutritional counseling, medications, acceptance and commitment therapy, anti-depressants,

Justification for diagnosis: The client presents with symptoms and behaviors that are consistent with the DSM-5 diagnosis of Antisocial Personality Disorder. Based on the information provided, this client met criteria A, numbers 1, 2, 3, 6 and 7. She also met criteria B and C. Client presents with symptoms and behaviors that are consistent with a DSM-5 diagnosis of Antisocial Personality Disorder as evidenced by her history of symptoms of conduct disorder that began in early adolescence and involves a repetitive and persistent pattern of behavior in which the basic rights of others are violated. These patterns of behavior have continued into adulthood.

As the opioid epidemic takes hold throughout American’s rural counties, public health departments are struggling to mitigate the health threats presented by substance abuse and addiction. While detailed longitudinal data is unavailable, many areas that report increased rates of drug abuse also report increased hospital admissions and accidental deaths. While the relationship between these outcomes is not explicit, it is important to implement interventions that address health issues related to drug related injuries. The first, ACHESS, an employee assistance program, utilizes organizational resources to empower employees to seek recovery assistance. The second, Project DAWN, focuses on harm reduction strategies to assist

One major change on DSM-5 is reorganizing and eliminating some disorders that no longer made sense in the new framework. For example, OCD or obsessive-compulsive disorder now has its own category, instead of being labeled with anxiety disorders. The evidence didn’t support the idea that stress and fear is the main cause of this disorder. Also, PTSD or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, now part of a new category called “Trauma and Stressor-Related Disorders”.

According to the DSM-5 when an infant is exhibiting difficulty in his or her temperament or is difficult to control, this may be an indication that the child is having symptoms of early onset of conduct disorder (p.473). The DSM- 5 also implied that families who shows deviant behaviors in the home where children/adolescence witnesses violence or victims of it are potentially at greater risk of developing a conduct disorder. This is also true for those that lives predominantly high crime neighborhood (p.473). On the other hand, Dr. Cheryl D. Wills (2014) stated that conduct disorder is considered “one of the only” DSM-5 disorders that has no other criteria that are excluded from being “clinically treatable diagnoses”; and as a result, anyone without the proper credential can label an individual with the disorder. For that reason, the DSM-5 conduct disorder diagnosis is questionable. Because how can an infant

In their 2014 study, Kessler, et al analyzed a representative sample of 5,428 Regular Army Soldiers from the April to December 2011 AAS. This specific subset of data, extracted from 327 group sessions, did not include information from those deployed to a combat zone nor did it include any data from activated Army Reserve and National Guard personnel. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the “prevalence of 30 day DSM-IV mental disorders among nondeployed Soldiers and to determine the extent in which role impairments associated with 30-day disorders differ depending on whether the disorders had pre- vs post-enlistment onsets.”42

Using the diagnostic structure of the DSM-V, Lecter displays characteristics of both Post-traumatic Stress Disorder with dissociative symptoms and Anti-Social Personality Disorder. To understand this diagnosis further, we must first examine the psychological history and symptoms throughout Lecter’s life. Post-traumatic Stress Disorder is defined as a clinical syndrome characterized by intrusive memories, emotional avoidance, and heightened psychological arousal following exposure to a traumatic event (APA). In the novel Hannibal Rising, Lecter witnessed and engaged in the death and cannibalization of his sister, Mischa Lecter. Through this experience, Lecter is shown to frequently recall this event throughout the narrative. For example, during Lecter’s time in Florence, Italy, he experienced a traumatic nightmare regarding his involvement of Mischa demise. This dream is peculiar within the story, as it is the only time where Lecter is described as being genuinely fearful for his life. In addition to Lecter’s traumatic memories of Mischa’s demise, is his avoidance of certain stimuli. Specifically, during Lecter’s time in Florence, he attended the Atrocious Torture Instruments show to observe people and to study their mannerisms. It was at this event that Lecter unintentionally discovers a skeleton in a starvation cage. Upon viewing this demonstration, Lecter instantaneously makes an exit. Through this reaction, it is reasonable to assume that Hannibal

When DSM was released, traditional subsections of autism was lumped into one category. One of the benefits of doing this, in my opinion, is because it allowed psychologists the ability to diagnosis clients better. The generalization of diagnosis of autism makes it easier on psychologists to diagnosis. With that in mind, not having the specific categories for autism does not give specified treatments for their symptoms. When there are several categories for autism in the DSM 5, the DSM 5 gives particular treatments for each category. I think when it is more specific oriented the treatments are more likely to succeed in the long term. Then the treatments are more distinct to that particular autism.

There are a few ways to try and treat this disorder. Because it is a mental disorder the first approach a lot of parents take with their child is to get them into some sort of counseling. A counselor can talk to the child or adult suffering from this disease and see if they can try to talk to them and get through to them. They might be able to figure it is deeply rooted from something in their past. They have to try to talk the sick person into trying to want to eat a healthy amount of food and love his or her body again. There are some drugs that can be prescribed to try and help with this which include “Olanzapine (Zyprexa), Citalopram (Celexa), Fluoxetine (Prozac)” ("Overview - Anorexia nervosa - Mayo Clinic", 2016). If a person is refusing help and is getting to a dangerously low weight, they can be hospitalized and force fed from a feeding tube. I did watch a show from the UK that had a program for girls with eating disorders. They were sent away from their parents to live in a home with other girls with eating disorders and were monitored very closely. They were required to eat a certain amount of calories per day and watched extremely closely. They were not allowed to use the restroom until three hours after finishing a meal in fear that they might be hiding food in their mouths and spit it out or some girls would make themselves throw up what they had just eaten. Exercise was limited and any type

The assigned Work Group who were renowned experts on "Personality Disorders," and who additionally were too fully aware of the current, categorical system used in the DSM-IV-TR and now DSM-V, and with it in place having inherent problems needing to be those drastically changed and made more useful in diagnosing, effectively, those patients with personality disorders, or those persons in all that may be of one certain to have those inclinations toward either sorts of the former disorder/s in them demonstrating the possible characteristics of a potential personality disorder, while still, these professional experts attempted in re-designing and those they believed in all efforts to making the new dimensional approach more clinically precise,

While reviewing the article Diagnosing for Status and Money, Summary of the Critique of the DSM, a few things seemed to jump off the page. The DSM-5 while a well written and no longer intimidating to me appears to have a slant towards managed care organizations vice actual counselors. Having a manual that provides simplistic codes universally used between doctors that treat physical ailments and those who treat psychological ailments is critical; however, the focus must always be the patient. The text contains subjective qualifiers which provides the counselor the ability to use multiple diagnosis, either over diagnosing or underdiagnosing. The DSM-5 appears to provide care from a medication management prospective over psychotherapy