Body-focused repetitive behavior

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), one of the most difficult psychiatric illness to be understood. The way of doing certain behaviors, thoughts or routines repeatedly is the essential condition of a person with OCD. In general, it is known and described by someone who is extremely perfectionist and meticulous. Unfortunately, they do realize those habits and be able to stop doing it. Common behaviors are such as checking locks, doors, stove bottoms, and lights, hand washing, counting things, or having recurrent

through reasoning. Compulsions are the repetitive and ritualistic behaviors and actions that associate with the obsessions. These compulsions are to be performed according to specific rules or methods and are thought to prevent or reduce stress and feared situations. Both compulsions and obsessions cause disabling levels of anxiety. The individual affected is often able to recognize the behavior as excessive and irrational, but is unable to control or stop the behaviors without intervention. Like most

Neurobiological Perspectives on Autism Autism is a pervasive developmental disorder characterized by restricted, repetitive, and stereotyped patterns of behavior, along with severe impairments in reciprocal social interaction, verbal and non-verbal communication, and cognitive development (1,2,3). If the brain is responsible for behavior then it should follow that disordered autistic behaviors should be explainable in terms of brain abnormalities and disordered neurobiological processes. While findings

day. In this essay, I will explain eating disorders and their effects on victims of them. Eating disorders are major health risks, and can be life-threatening. Eating disorders are defined as abnormal eating habits and extreme worry about one’s body image. They are mental illnesses that exist in both males and females, but are most commonly seen in females between the ages of 12-25. Eating disorders are not only about losing weight or a person’s insecurities, it could be that food being used

Considerations of Individuality in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Autism There is no standard ‘type’ or ‘typical’ person with autism. Parents may hear more than one label applied to the same child: autistic-like, learning disabled with autistic tendencies, high functioning or low functioning autism. These labels don’t describe differences between children as much as they indicate differences between professionals’ training, vocabulary and exposure to autism (1) In my first web paper I considered

the very things we need to fit in to society. The ability to be able to fit in, communicate and behave in proper ways, allows us to function, work and survive in life. For many children and adults, they live with a disorder that dictates these behaviors and language skills to be very different from the average American. These skills they are challenged with, make it very difficult to live independently. The disorder these individuals live with is called Autism Spectrum Disorder. With early diagnosis

concept of what is going on. There are many symptoms to having autism and they are all similar just in different forms or versions. They can be stereotypy which is a repetitive movement. The person may rock their body back and forth, crossing and uncrossing their legs, march in place, or rolling their head around. Compulsive behavior is having everything a certain way and in a certain place all the time. They could be showing a symptom called sameness, where the child or person will resist change

Tourette Syndrome (TS) is a neurological disorder that involves uncontrollable, repetitive movements and/or sounds. Tourette’s is extremely common, having over 200,000 cases every year in America alone. TS is usually found in children between ages six and eighteen and can last a life time. Tourette’s is a devastating disorder that can lead to other disorders if not treated properly. Tourette’s is usually associated with foul language, random aggression and harsh blinking. Since Tourette’s is usually

therapy was then used and focused on responsibilities, over importance of thought, controlling thoughts, and estimation of threats. Both these approaches were found to be very effective and they combined them creating cognitive-behavioral therapy (Stein, 2002). This therapy involves response prevention and exposure to stimuli. Response prevention is when the individual has OCD stays away from compulsive thoughts and practices. An examples of this include the compulsive behavior of washing your hands

model is psychodynamic model. Psychodynamic deals a lot with emotional and mental development. With down syndrome there are many mental health concerns. Some concerns being the following: General anxiety, repetitive, obsessive, and compulsive behaviors, oppositional, impulsive, and inattentive behaviors, sleep related difficulties, depression, autism spectrum conditions, and neuropsychological problem by progressive loss of cognitive skills. Mental Health with people with down syndrome varies all depending