...differentiae this disorder from other disorders by becoming familiar with the DSM and the criteria. Social worker should also talk to the client and see what do they consider normal for sexual behavior. Some people may feel as though if a man is in control then everything is normal, some people may want female o be in control. So the social worker should conduct a unstructured interview so understand the clients point of view on sexual expectations. Because everyone has their one view points on sexual needs and desires it may correlate on how their body will respond to treatment (Dziegielewsi, 2015) Discuss your personal feelings about the likelihood or unlikelihood of misdiagnosing a person with one of this disorder. How could a social worker avoid misdiagnosing? I believe that the likely hood of misdiagnosing someone with this disorder is very likely. Social worker has to be comfortable talking about this subject with their clients. Which can be very hard, especially if the client is of the opposite sex. I feel as though everything is too subjective, when it comes to this topic. Social worker should ensure that their client is not using an illegal substance and should also administer a stress test because that could be the cause of this situation. I would also like to add to that fact that with this topic I have seen a lot people abuse this disorder, meaning that they told the clinician that they were having problems performing in order to receive medication to aid them in...
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...The third aspect considers whether all rational beings, thinking rationally, should accept it regardless of whether they are the agent or the receiver of the action” (DeGeorge 67). While considering a principle or action, we must also consider it from the point of view of the receiver. John Rawls, a deontological philosopher, created a way to apply this categorical imperative by using a veil of ignorance to consider whether a practice is fair to all affected parties. “A fair or just solution is one that all would agree to behind a veil of ignorance” (DeGeorge 78). As a stakeholder in a pharmaceutical company, one believes that direct-to-consumer drug advertising is fair and moral because they want to market their products by informing the...
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...Bipolar Disorder Ashley Lannon Introduction to Psychology Professor Deborah Schlobach Bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness is not just mood swings it is a brain disorder that can cause uncommon shifts in a person’s mood, energy, and ability to function in everyday activities. Bipolar disorder is more than just usual mood swings that you, or I might have from time to time, they are much more than that. Before you can fully understand Bipolar disorder, the two main mood stages must be identified. This is a mental condition in which a person alternates between feelings of mania and feelings of depression, affecting one to two percent of the population. Bipolar disorder is a long term illness that must carefully be managed through out a person’s life. In my opinion, the three domains of psychology relate to bipolar disorder in a way that physically the body is feeling sad or empty at times. Cognitively, because there is no choice to what this person is thinking or feeling at any given time. Which brings me to social emotional for the reason that, there is no control of the feel and show for empathy in others, and are not always able to establish, and maintain positive relationships with others. (psychology.com) Throughout, the different stages of Bipolar disorder a person may experience many stages of mania and depression. Each mood episode represents a drastic change from a person's usual mood and behavior...
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...Everyday, people around the world experiencing seemingly harmless symptoms decide to go online to diagnose their illness. “It can’t hurt, can it?” They ask. Alas, after consulting Dr. WebMD, this unfortunate soul is shocked- their headache and cough may actually be the deadly bubonic plague! Grievously, our protagonist begins to write their will, and several days later, they are found in their house- alive. This scenario is a common example of “armchair doctors” misdiagnosing their symptoms. However, with the Remote Presence Virtual + Independent Telemedicine Assistant, or RP-VITA, patients can visit the hospital for their diagnosis, and have it verified by a medical expert. The RP-VITA, developed by iRobot and InTouch Health,...
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...leverages the wisdom of the crowd to distinguish the good from the great. Insight #3 Why would you self-diagnose a symptom when Curely gives you the opportunity to seek the opinion of a medical doctor for under $10. Insight #4 The average Doctor’s visit is seven minutes or less - why substitute time for your wellbeing when Curely gives you real-time access to a Doctor anytime, anywhere? Insight #5 Those who prioritize wellbeing aggregate their medical records into a central location that they monitor and update regularly. The more accurate the records, the more efficient a resource like Curely will be. Insight #6 Did you know that 82% of overdose deaths are caused by prescription drugs? Why risk misdiagnosing your symptom? Curely gives you live constant care with a real-time physician. Insight #7 Founders who scale focus more on aligning the inevitability of their vision with the personal goals of each of their team members. Insight #8 “….to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.” - Stephen Covey on doing Insight #9 “There’s nothing that...
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...also complain of physical or cognitive decline or an inability to complete tasks. Measuring "tiredness", "decline", or slower performance is very difficult and relative, thus the complexity in diagnosing chronic fatigue. Many researchers have added "qualifiers" to help understand a senior's troubles. Examples are defining the condition as cognitive fatigue, muscular fatigue, or emotional fatigue. Further complicating matters, chronic fatigue syndrome is an ailment in which the symptoms of fatigue have no medical conditions to explain the problems. Yet, the fatigue could be caused by any number of medical problems including hypothyroidism, multiple sclerosis, heart disease, lung disease, or even rheumatoid arthritis or depression. Misdiagnosing the problem could lead to severe complications by missing an underlying condition. Many times seniors will have a hard time explaining the changes the are occurring. Senior services providers are often able to relate what they have seen and heard to help the doctors in their diagnosis. This first-hand, qualitative account of your loved one's issues are often essential in moving forward quickly with a plan of action. Because chronic fatigue is measured in degrees of variance, a running record of compiled data is often necessary to determine if any treatments are working. Senior services providers are able to chart and collect this data for your loved one. There is rarely a quick fix to issues of fatigue, and several treatment options...
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...the future. According to Taylor, the main cause of the financial crisis was monetary excesses brought by a loose-fitting monetary policy. Through the use of several graphs, he explains that the Federal Reserve caused the lending bubble because they did not follow the “Taylor Rule” and its inflation-based policy for interest rates. The Fed needed to raise interest rates sooner to minimize the “boom and bust” in the housing market. Low interest rates and the pressure on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to increase home sales prompted the boom because it spurred the sub-prime mortgage market. The bust followed because the boom was unsustainable. By tracking the LIBOR index during the crisis, Taylor shows how the Fed prolonged the problem by misdiagnosing the reason for the increased spreads. He says they focused on increasing liquidity in the economy when counter-party risk was the real culprit. With his graphs, Taylor is able to discount each of the three actions taken by the Fed, including the Term Auction Facility, the temporary cash infusions, and the initial cuts in interest rates through 2008. Professor Taylor then uses the LIBOR index to explain how government policy made the crisis worse. He shows how the ad hoc support for financial institutions such as Bear Stearns, Lehman...
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...syntax and informative diction to achieve her desired purpose of bringing awareness to the need of diagnosing mental health illnesses in school-aged children. Quindlen utilizes various schemes to get a unique syntax which helps her connect with her desired audience in an eye-catching way. Her sentence structure is lengthier, with little to no fragmented sentences. Drawn-out sentences are used to investigate an idea more thoroughly, give a vivid description, and develop tension. All three of these elements are critical for strengthening her argument, the reason Quindlen incorporates this style of syntax. Quindlen goes into grand detail, telling the personal stories of children that have been directly affected by the ignorance and misdiagnosing...
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...I remember one group member suggesting to other member who do not have a psychiatrist of her own to first seek a primary care providers opinion so she can have diagnostic test first as to distinguish, if the depression and anxiety she was currently feeling is due to hormonal problems – basically eliminating the chance of misdiagnosing somebody. During the start of the meeting, DBSA organizers emphasized the need to be respectful what others are sharing. Therapeutic communication was widely encouraged. Everyone speaking is only allowed to use “I” instead of “you” and never to use the word “should”. Suggestions are welcome but it should only be coming from one’s experience and members are refrained from insisting their own ideas to others. DBSA participated in health promotion by encouraging those who are diagnosed with depression and bipolar disorders to attend their weekly meeting. By doing so, they are helping these people who are struggling with these type of mental illness to open up to others, listens to suggestions and help them feel a little better knowing...
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...psychotropic drugs would not have been such a dire issue, but with medication, it potentially could be fatal to be misdiagnosed. There are some that say the psychologist follow rigid enough criteria that the rate of failure would be very small. Then there are others who believe that doctors over diagnose disorders, such as bipolar or ADHD, and that they aren’t thorough enough in their studies. My topic of psychiatric diagnoses is controversial. Even though there are many who do not believe in the accuracy of psychiatrists, there are many who still do. During the 20th century there have been many medical advances and books written turning something known as a soft science into a legitimate hard science. To keep psychologist from misdiagnosing patients a book called DSM was written. The DSM is updated periodically and we are currently on the fourth edition. The fifth will be released in 2012. In 1954 Thorazine, an antipsychotic drug to treat schizophrenia was developed that lowered the risk...
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...maybe for a better job or for something they may need in their current company. The vacationer mindset person is there to get away from everything not to learn. They want to get away from the office and enjoy their time away. The prisoner feels as if they were forced to be there and they come in mostly with a closed mind about the training they are attending. Rosner also speaks about some problems that people have within their organizations and how some of these problems are misdiagnosed because the proper people are not in the proper positions with the proper training. Rosner quotes from Valerie Oberfie, a former vice president at Disney University that has done business consulting and training for corporations. She says that to avoid misdiagnosing a problem businesses should do their homework (Rosner, 2009)....
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...Medicalization and Psychologisation: The Need for a Specialty in Women’s Health For centuries, women’s health has been compromised by technologies and practices that stem from outdated androcentric philosophies and theories about women’s reproductive systems and women’s “nature”. Let us consider the following; vulva is from the Latin pudere meaning “to be ashamed of”; estrogen is from the Greek oistros “insane desire”; and hysterectomy is from the Greek hysteria meaning “belonging to the womb”. In today’s day and age, women’s health continues to be threatened by a male dominated medical model of health care. Evidence of this can be found in the medicalization and the psychologisation of women’s health. This essay examines both of these practices and how they relate to the need for a specialty in women’s health. It also suggests how these issues can be mitigated. The Need for a Specialty in Women’s Health The more you depend on forces outside of yourself, the more you are dominated by them. Harold Sherman The need for a specialty devoted to women’s health can be attributed to a profound male bias within the medical model of health care that ignores women’s total health needs and therefore threatens their health. Women have often been short changed by medicine when it comes to research, drug trials, the safety of medical products as well as the diagnosing and treatment of their health conditions. Using research as an example, we find that it has traditionally...
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...Eboni Goodrich Research Paper 1 Project 3; (400 hours) February 17th, 2014 Tennessee Academy of Cosmetology Michele Byers didn't have any skin problems. She just wanted to do something nice for herself as she approached her 50th birthday. Byers went to an at-home esthetician for microdermabrasion, a nonsurgical procedure that polishes away dead skin. After a session, bumps started to appear on Byers' face. Her cheeks were covered in indentations. "It looked like a railroad track on my forehead and nose," says Byers of Castro Valley, Calif. "Here I was trying to do something nice for myself and I ended up looking worse than I ever had in my life." Contrary to popular belief, darker skin is not tougher; in fact, while extra melanin does have its benefits - sun protection and slowed signs of aging - it makes the skin more sensitive and vulnerable to injury. The side effects are common for people with darker skin. Most skin care is only marketed to white people (lacking tone), not even Asians, Hispanics and darker-skinned Europeans. Education of the skin is geared to white skin, and it's still not considered to be a prestigious career here in the United States as with beauty advisers in Europe. If the skin is darker it is prone to scarring and hyper-pigmentation, so we have to be more careful with skin of color. Latin, Asian, Indian, Mediterranean or African-American descents skin requires special skin care. Even acne or laser hair removal should be handled differently on...
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...Without question, the internet was the greatest invention of the 21st Century. Linking the world together in a single portal, it offers unlimited possibilities on a global scale. At any given second of any day, billions of people are online utilizing the internet in their daily lives. With every new technological advance, come new problems created by it. The internet is no exception. Numerous articles and studies have examined how the internet, specifically social media sites, such as Facebook, have impacted society and our behaviors. Many of these show, that excessive social media use can have a very negative outcome on various levels. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or D.S.M. recently added “behavioral addiction,” to its classification of addiction. Behavioral addiction includes internet addiction. (Markel, 2012) As more and more uses of the internet become available, users find themselves on the internet more and more, specifically social media sites. Many mindlessly log on to Facebook or Twitter now without even giving it a second thought, it’s just something to do to pass the time. It seems harmless, but how much time is being wasted, and how much can this affect our comprehension and attention spans? Life at 120 characters, and constantly updating status updates takes away from the brains capacity to focus on actual important information. It makes it easier to lose focus and ignore the actual life going on around us. In a recent...
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...Overcrowding in Emergency Departments across the Country Overcrowding in Emergency Departments Abstract: Emergency departments (ED’s) are considered a necessary component in the health care system. Many patients have access to this department 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. There has been an increasingly large volume of emergency room visits by both adult and pediatric patients up to 43% within the last 5 years. The overuse of the ED’s medical services across the nation is commonly referred to as “overcrowding”. One major cause of overcrowding is the misuse of the emergency room. Another cause is the increased volume of illness. The third cause of overcrowding is a shortage of staff. These major issues can delay staff from providing care to those who need it most. Although staff gives priority to patients who have a higher acuity of illness these patients often have to wait long periods of time before a bed becomes available. Overcrowding is serious issue in the ED and most of the contributing factors are beyond the control of the emergency department. The first cause of overcrowding in the ED is the misuse of the emergency room. More than 50% of emergency room visits are for non-urgent concerns and over 46% of these medical complaints could have been solved by a primary care physician (PCP). PCP’s sometimes fail to properly communicate with their patients which can lead to the anxiety that sends the patient to seek assistance in the emergency room...
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