Part A:Can We Control Our Mental Health?
Now that you have examined many different disorders and diagnoses, how much actual control does a person have over their mental health behaviors? Do we have emotional control? Cite different areas from the textbook to support your response. 250 words!
Part B: Define these terms in your own words. Knowledge of these terms will assist you in understanding the material presented in the text and will be a review for the weekly quizzes.
1. Schizophrenia types 2. Brief psychotic disorder 3. Delusion 4. Shared psychotic disorder 5. Hallucination 6. Positive symptoms 7. Negative symptoms 8. Antipsychotics 9. Dopamine 10. Endophenotypes 11. Glutamate 12. Neuroleptic 13. Risk factors of schizophrenia 14. ADHD 15. Treatments for ADHD 16. Down syndrome 17. Phenylketonuria 18. Asperger’s disorder 19. Conduct/oppositional disorder 20. Mental retardation and other disorders of childhood
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mental health disorders because it appears to encompass symptoms of many of the disorders discussed in the text. Describe schizophrenia and list the numerous symptoms of schizophrenia and then relate each of these symptoms to at least two other disorders we have examined (such as bipolar disorder or depression). In conclusion, discuss why schizophrenia may be difficult to diagnose especially in different cultures. Your paper is to be in APA style, at least 500 words citing at least 2 references.
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