Assignment: Diagnosis Controversy
Assignment: Diagnosis Controversy

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Unit 8 discussion 1

Diathesis-Stress, Comorbidity, and Cultural Impact

Respond to the following in your initial post:

· Choose one disorder covered in the readings for this unit, and apply the diathesis-stress model to understanding it.

· Choose two possible categories of substance abuse from the DSM and compare and contrast the interactive impact these substance abuse disorders would likely have on the disorder you are writing about.

· Choose two different ethnic or cultural groups in the United States. Compare and contrast the impact of this diagnosis on members of these two groups.

· Be sure to put the name of the disorder in the subject line of your post.

Note: Your initial post in this discussion needs to address a different disorder than the one you address in the second discussion in this unit (u08d2).

Unit 8 discussion 2

Diagnosis Controversy

Choose one of the disorders covered in the chapters of the DSM-5 that you read for this unit.

· Discover and review sources of information on the disorder from outside of the course materials, and present a description of some current issue or controversy in the diagnosis (not treatment) of this disorder.

· Be careful to analyze cultural influences in this controversy and to compare DSM-5 and ICD-10 terms.

· Put the name of the disorder in the subject line of the post.

Note: Your initial post in this discussion needs to address a different disorder than the one you address in the first discussion in this unit (u08d1).

Unit 8 readings: pick one disorder to talk about

Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders: An Overview Somatic Symptom Disorder Illness Anxiety Disorder Conversion Disorder (Functional Neurological Symptom Disorder) Factitious Disorder Dissociative Disorders: An Overview Depersonalization/ Derealization Disorder Dissociative Amnesia Dissociative Identity Disorder Cultural Factors, Treatments, and Outcomes in Dissociative Disorders

Plagiarism is the use of someone else’s ideas without giving proper acknowledgment. The term “plagiarism” includes, but is not limited to, the use, by paraphrase or direct quotation, of the published or unpublished work of another person without full and clear acknowledgment. It also includes the unacknowledged use of materials prepared by another person or agency engaged in the furnishing or selling of term papers or other academic materials.

The Modern Language Association’s MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers defines plagiarism as follows:

repeating another’s sentences as your own,
adopting a particularly apt phrase as your own,
paraphrasing someone else’s argument as your own,
presenting someone else’s line of thinking in the development of a thesis as though it were your own.

In short, to plagiarize is to give the impression that you have written or thought something that you have in fact borrowed from another.

Appearance

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.

Please number the pages of your essay (except for the title page).

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.