Category: Biology

Review the substance-related and addictive disorders

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Review the Learning Resources this week related to substance-related and addictive disorders and consider specific definitions and conditions for these types of disorders
Post the following:

Define and explain substance-related and addictive disorders based on the DSM-5 and the scholarly articles found in this week’s Learning Resources.
Explain how and why some of the symptoms associated with substance-related and addictive disorders contribute to criminal behavior.
Explain the forensic psychological implications of substance-related and addictive disorders.

Population experience personality disorders

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Between 10% and 20% of the population experience personality disorders. They are difficult to treat as individuals with personality disorders are less likely to seek help than individuals with other mental health disorders. Treatment can be challenging as they do not see their symptoms as painful to themselves or others.

Paraphilic disorders are far more common in men than in women, and generally quite chronic, lasting at least two years. Treatment of these disorders usually involves both psychotherapeutic and pharmacologic treatments.

In this Assignment, you will explore personality and paraphilic disorders in greater detail. You will research potentially controversial elements of the diagnosis and/or treatment and explain ethical and legal considerations when working with these disorders.

Review this week’s Learning Resources and consider the insights they provide on assessing, diagnosing, and treating personality and paraphilic disorders.
Select a specific personality or paraphilic disorder from the DSM-5-TR to use for this Assignment.
Use the Walden Library to investigate your chosen disorder further, including controversial aspects of the disorder, maintaining the therapeutic relationship, and ethical and legal considerations.

In 2–3 pages:

Explain the controversy that surrounds your selected disorder.
Explain your professional beliefs about this disorder, supporting your rationale with at least three scholarly references from the literature.
Explain strategies for maintaining the therapeutic relationship with a patient that may present with this disorder.
Finally, explain ethical and legal considerations related to this disorder that you need to bring to your practice and why they are important.

Colon

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You are about to perform a rectal examination of an older adult.

What are the steps to examine this patient?
Explain your rationale.
What are some findings you can have while assessing the rectal sphincter?
Describe the differences during the rectal examination of acute prostatitis and benign prostatic hypertrophy.
What findings would expect on physical examination of acute prostatitis and benign prostatic hypertrophy?

Barnacles

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In this writing assignment, you will demonstrate your understanding of the organization of scientific research papers. The research paper will focus on your experiments with barnacles, and it will include all standard research paper sections (introduction, methods, results and discussion).
The research paper should have the structure below:
Introduction:
The purpose of an introduction is to prepare the reader for what is to come in the remainder of the paper. This means the introduction should include any background information necessary for a typical reader to understand the experiment and explain the significance of the experiment. Several sentences should also be included to explain specifically what the experiment was investigating, along with the author’s hypothesis.
Methods:
The purpose of this section of the paper would be for someone else to be able to replicate your work. Be sure to include any steps necessary to complete the experiment. This should not be a prepared list of steps. Instead, it should summarize the steps in paragraph form. Your methods should be detailed enough that someone could conduct your experiment from these instructions.
Results:
This section should present the key results that you obtained. Do not include a table showing every number/data point that you collected. Instead, summarize the results in a short paragraph (could be as short as a sentence or two) and illustrate them in a clear graph (computer generated with Excel or comparable program) with appropriate labels and captions. The reader should be able to look at the graph and know what happened during the experiment without really having to read your written results. The results should be clearly separated from the discussion.
Discussion:
In the discussion, the most important thing to remember is that the discussion is NOT just a re-wording of the experimental results. The discussion section usually begins by quickly re-stating the hypothesis and the results, and then it dives deeper into the meaning and interpretation of the results. This section is used to discuss or explain why the results do or don’t fit the initial hypothesis, as well as, any limitations of the experiment. If the results were unexpected, this section may suggest possible reasons why this may occurred. Furthermore, if there are practical applications or improvements that could be made to the experiment, this would be the place to make that known. The discussion is usually the most difficult of all the sections of a lab report because it requires the author to synthesize/process all the aspects of the experiment.
Your submission should be 3-4 pages in length.
You will need to include a minimum of four sources properly cited in APA format.

 

 

Respiratory function tests indicated that Hector had Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

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Scenario/Summary

Hector loved visiting and playing with his grandson, David. Today was David’s birthday and the whole family was at the park to celebrate. They had tons of food and lots of games to enjoy. At one point, they had a three-legged race and David asked his grandfather, Hector, to be his partner. They gave it everything they had and crossed the finish line ahead of everyone else for the win.

Afterward, Hector started wheezing and had trouble catching his breath. He also had a tightness around his chest. Fearing that Hector may be having heart troubles, the family rushed him to the local emergency room. Hector reported to the doctor that he had been having a chronic cough that he couldn’t get rid of and had to clear his throat of mucus every morning.

Respiratory function tests indicated that Hector had Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) as a result of chronic bronchitis. The ER physician sent him home with some medication and advised hector to assume the tripod position to aid in his breathing when he was experiencing shortness of breath.

Deliverables
Answer the following questions and save your responses in a Microsoft Word document. Provide a scholarly resource to support your answers.

How is ventilation different from respiration?
Ventilation is dependent upon a pressure gradient. Describe how this pressure gradient works.
What muscles are involved in ventilation?
What is COPD and how does it affect ventilation?
How does the tripod position help breathing in COPD patients?