Assignment: Hoarding Disorder

Assignment: Hoarding Disorder
Assignment: Hoarding Disorder
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Assignment: Hoarding Disorder
Assignment: Hoarding Disorder Within the Discussion Board area, write 400–600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas:
Select 1 the following disorders:
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Hoarding Disorder
Focus your discussion of the disorder on the following:
What are some of the symptoms? What would this disorder look like in person? Make sure you relate this back to the DSM criteria.
Based on your research, do you think the media has portrayed the disorder you selected in an unbiased manner or is it sensationalized? Support your answer.
In the DSM-IV Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, and Trichotillomania were in separate chapters.
Why do you think the DSM-5 has placed Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, and Trichotillomania into a chapter called Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders? Support your answer with research.
You may also research the psychological disorders, by reviewing an electronic version of the DSM-5 in CTU’s library. For more information on accessing the DSM-5 in the library please review and/or watch .
Hoarding disorder is a persistent difficulty discarding or parting with possessions because of a perceived need to save them. A person with hoarding disorderexperiences distress at the thought of getting rid of the items. Excessive accumulation of items, regardless of actual value, occurs.Feb 3, 2018
Treatments: Cognitive behavioral therapy
Hoarding is a disorder that may be present on its own or as a symptom of anotherdisorder. Those most often associated with hoarding are obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and depression.