Factitious disorders

Beverley’s actions and why she acted in this manner can be explained from the psychiatric, sociological and psychological perspective. Psychiatry viewpoints explore the motivation behind an individual’s criminal behaviour. Factitious disorder and multiple personality disorder can explain the reasons behind Beverly’s choice to kill four children under her care, and the reasons behind these horrendous acts. The sociological perceptive looks at factors including level of education, a persons social

the couple asked the community for donations to pay for medical bills. Leslie then brought up her other child who was supposedly raped by a former co-worker when she was 11-years-old. Leslie stated how her children suffered from psychological disorders, yet the children were so well

As a brand-new presentation of two classical types of factitious disorder known to cause individuals to overtly exaggerate or even feign disease, Munchausen syndrome (MS) and Munchausen by Proxy (MBP), the term “Munchausen by Internet,” or MBI for short, is an idiom that was originally proposed by Feldman (2000) in order to accurately depict the type of people prone to glorifying or even fantasizing about chronic illness or disability online – many of which who are willing to go to extremes to maintain

steps. Step one consists of ruling out Malingering and Factitious Disorder. Step two entails ruling out a substance etiology. Step three involves ruling out an etiological medical condition. Step four consists of determining the specific primary disorder(s). Step five comprises differentiating Adjustment Disorder from the residual Other Specified and Unspecified conditions. Step six involves establishing the boundary with no mental disorder. These six steps provide a diagnostic framework for clinicians

Depersonalization Derealization Disorder Is characterized by a persistently or repeatedly feelings of being you are observing yourself from outside your body or have a sense of thing around you are not real or both. This kind of feelings is very disturbing and are similar to living in a dream. It is considered depersonalization/derealiztion disorder when these feelings keep occurring or never completely go away, and accompanied by intact reality testing. The disorder is common after traumatic experiences

many unexplained disorders. Most of these psychiatric disorders occur for no reason and without conscious control. However, in the section of somatic symptom disorders there exists diagnoses of people with factitious disorder whom intentionally pretend illness in order to fulfill their emotional needs. For the FD client, there is a strong urge to assume the role of “patient.” The disorders one witnesses are actually the client feigning symptoms of sickness. Thus the word factitious translates in Latin

cure an illness that infects the mind. Many mental disorders affect a person’s way of performing not only tasks but also thinking and behavior. Medical professionals and experts have developed theories that mental disorders can happen by extreme trauma to the head, brain defects, genetics, and troubled childhood of abuse. One particular mental disorder that often gets overlooked is Munchausen

Choice "A" is the best answer. Conversion disorder, also known as functional neurological symptom disorder, consists of symptoms of altered motor or sensory function that do not correspond to a recognized neurologic pattern or syndrome, with an onset related to a major psychological stressor. In this case, the symptoms of right foot and left hand weakness do not correspond to a myotome, and the patient exhibits contradictory examination findings (e.g. diminished foot dorsiflexion on the exam table

what is construed as a psychological disorder. According to Eric Maisel, DSM-V defines a mental disorder as “a syndrome characterized by clinically significant disturbance in an individual’s cognition, emotion regulation or behavior that reflects a dysfunction in the psychological, biological or developmental process underlying mental functioning” (Maisel, E. R., Ph.D. 2013, July 23. The New Definition of a Mental Disorder). In other words, psychological disorder is one that comprises of one’s beliefs

abuse Denise Eversole Lord Fairfax Community College Abstract Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome (MBPS) is a disorder of which should bring awareness to the medical field. It is not well understood and brings a lot of controversy. This disorder is when a parent, usually the mother, who purposely causes illness to her child rather physically or emotionally. The disorder was named after Baron von Munchausen, from the 18th century who gained fame from his tales. The child only becomes sick