Monday, October 18, 2010

Personality Disorder Treatment (Histrionic)

Personality Disorder Treatment
According to the diagnostic manual, someone has Histrionic Personality Disorder if :
They have a pattern of seeking attention and displaying their emotions excessively. The pattern is expressed by having at least five of the following maladaptive traits:
  • Feeling uncomfortable when in situations in which s/he is not the center of attention.
  • Acting in a sexually seductive or provocative way that is inappropriate to the situation
  • Demonstrating emotions which appear to others to be rapidly shifting, shallow, and superficial.
  • Using one’s physical appearance to draw attention to oneself.
  • Talking in an excessively impressionistic way that lacks specific detail.
  • Having a tendency to be overly dramatic and theatrical when expressing oneself or telling a story.
  • Being overly suggestible and easily influenced by others opinions.
  • Viewing relationships as more intimate than they really are.
People with this disorder tend to be enthusiastic, outgoing, and flirtatious, but nonetheless often alienate others because they always need to dominate the spotlight and be the center of attention. They make efforts to win everyone over with charming repartee, a confiding manner, elaborate storytelling, subtle or not so subtle seductiveness, and special attention to clothing, makeup and grooming.

Treatment
With all Personality Disorders, the first step to successful treatment is the recognition that there is a problem with how personality affects one’s life and the lives of others. For most people, increased awareness doesn't lead to a radical personality change but rather a smoothing of the rough edges and a modulation of the most troubling behaviors.

Therapy is often helpful, and necessary, in identifying a personality problem either to make changes or to learn skills to improve functioning. Medication has demonstrated effectiveness in treating secondary diagnosis of depression or anxiety that can be present with a diagnosis of a personality disorder. Good Luck
Personality Disorder Treatment (Histrionic)

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Psychotherapy Anxiety Disorder ( Easy Theraphy)

Psychotherapy Anxiety Disorder Anxiety, fear, panic, anxiety is a common psychological symptoms and can be felt by every individual. Anxiety reaction is usually common among adults, but children can also face anxiety, such as temporarily abandoned by their parents, first day of school or when they want to take an exam.

In the case of the elderly, anxiety reactions often occur when they face the pressure (stress) with the difficulties that can be faced and the difficulties that can not be faced, such as work pressure, pressure at school, the pressure on the issue of romance as well as pressure on health issues. Articles from Accurate Heal Center the articles in Indonesian Language, then i translated to English, pardon me if any bad sentences and wrong grammar.

Psychotherapy Anxiety DisorderAnxiety reactions that are too excessive and continuous in the time period long enough to turn into a disorder, which anxiety disorder. The nature of anxiety disorders can produce physical and psychological response.

Anxiety disorder is a serious mental illness characterized by feelings of great anxiety and excessive, such as feelings of excessive fear, heart pounding harder, rapid breathing, sweating, breathing short, easy to feel dizzy and feeling uneasy.

People who experience anxiety disorders experience these reactions often and more severe, causing them stress and cause them not to do their job everyday. They became very cautious, because it is so afraid of danger, as a result they are difficult to relax and also difficult to feel calm in many situations.

Some types of anxiety disorders are:

Phobias
Rejection based on criteria such as fear of objects or situations encountered that actually is not dangerous and people recognize that fear has no basis, such as the source of animals, heights, enclosed places, blood.

Agoraphobia
A group-centered fear of public places, fear of shopping, fear of crowds and many are asking for help.

Social Phobia
Social anxiety is not rational because of someone else. For example: fear of speaking in public, fear of eating in public places, fear of using public lavatories, rarely ask for help, occur in adolescence, because that time awareness and social interaction with others is important in life.

Panic Disorder
The signs of sudden shortness of breath, loud heartbeat, chest pain, choking feeling, dizziness, sweating, trembling, fear of the very will of terror, fear there will be punishment, there is a feeling outside the body, feel the world is not real, fear of losing control, the fear of being crazy and feared dead.

Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
This disorder involves excessive worry, often unrealistic, although there are no things that provoke fear. The signs are chronic anxiety continuously covering the situation live, somatic complaints, such as sweat, heart beating hard, dry mouth, cold hands and feet, muscle tension and difficult to concentrate.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
People who have OCD usually have a constant thought disorder and specific fears of something excessively so encouraged her to perform certain rituals or routines. For example, people who are excessively afraid of germs often think that there are lots of germs around, so every time he touched something, he should immediately wash their hands or use hand sanitizer.


Anxiety Disorders Post-Traumatic (PTSD)
People with PTSD disorder usually have experienced trauma or event that is horrible as sexual abuse or physical, unexpected death of a loved one, or natural disaster. People with PTSD often have thoughts and memories are timeless and tend frightening the incident. Usually, they tend to be emotionally numb.

Some of the causes of anxiety disorders are:
Traumatized
Prolonged stress / depression
Conflicts
Chemical imbalances in the body
Changes in brain structure
Stress / trauma / phobia environment. etc


How healing is quite diverse. These anxiety disorders can be overcome with the use of psychotherapy, behavior therapy, relaxation therapy, hypnotherapy, etc.. Usually the experts to help patients to talk and find ways to deal with this anxiety disorder. Good Luck.
Psychotherapy Anxiety Disorder ( Easy Theraphy)

Monday, October 4, 2010

Personality Test Prepare (my Ideas)

Personality Testing Preparation
This is just my idea, before you attend the employee selection test . The idea was quite successful (test by me) because 88% of games are quite similar to the module psychotest in employee selection.Well... on the sidelines waiting for testing, why not to try first tests on your mobile phone, its not bad for your test improvisation

I recommend the following games to test your psychology improvisation :
The Brain Challenge Game to give your brain a massive boost. Improve your cerebral agility by working.
On brain challenge you will learn and play similar psychology test module such :
  • Memory Test : [Hocus Focus] Sometimes the test seem so easy but, be careful, you have to focus to get good result. The test shows you a route and asks you to recreate it. On Personality test ► memory test is to test how strong your memory.
  • Logic Test : The games will test your logic test. Logic test challenges you to figure out patterns. Example [click picture 02]
  • Math Test : The test its not familiar, study case just basic mathematics, such Addition, Multiplication, subtraction and division, on the game like calculate the route and much more.its only arithmetic problems. Easy right?! :D Example if your starting position is 60 and the calculation is +40, you should next move to the box that says 100
  • Visual Test : The test is to process information and complete a related task as fast as possible on work.
  • Creativity test : on this section you will play with "color maze". the goal is improve your creativity. on psychology test ►Test your Goal Orientation
Personality test/Psychology testing is "a piece of cake" if you understand about Psychology rule/Pattern. if you want that game just download it or play online personality test. Never give up! always searching many information about test and compare each test and you will find a great answer. Just test it! Good luck!
Personality Test Prepare (my Ideas)

Friday, October 1, 2010

Test Your Psychological Test - Psychology Games

In This Test you will be asked several Questions, think carefully before ansering :D. When the tests is done, you will find out what it all means,

The Questions :
  • You are walking in the woods, but you are not alone. Who are you walking with?
  • You Walk alone and come across the animal. What type of animal is it?
  • What type of action take place between you and the animal?
  • You Enter a clearing and before you is your dream house, describe its size.
  • Is your house surrounded by fence (If so, not just for decoration purpose)
  • You enter your house and dining room, Name an object you see on or around the table.
  • You exit the house through the backdoor, lying in the grass is cup, what it is made of?
  • What do you do with the cup?
  • You walk to the edge of property, what there is a body of water. Describe its size.
  • How wet do you become crossing the water?
..............and The Test Finish..  ►► You might also like other Personality test

Test Your Psychological Test - Psychology Games

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Categories of Psychological Tests - Know the Test Concepts

Categories of Psychological Tests

IQ [achievement tests]
IQ tests are measures of intelligence, while achievement tests are measures of the use and level of development of use of the ability. IQ/cognitive tests and achievement tests are common norm-referenced tests. In these types of tests, a series of tasks is presented to the person being evaluated, and the person's responses are graded according to carefully prescribed guidelines. After the test is completed, the results can be compiled and compared to the responses of a norm group, usually comprised of people at the same age or grade level as the person being evaluated.

IQ tests which contain a series of tasks typically divide the tasks into verbal (relying on the use of language) and performance, or non-verbal (relying on eye-hand types of tasks, or use of symbols or objects). Exp: of verbal IQ test tasks are vocabulary and information such answering general knowledge questions and Non-verbal examples are timed completion of puzzles (object assembly), making designs out of coloured blocks.

Neuropsychological test
These tests consist of specifically designed tasks used to measure a psychological function known to be linked to a particular brain structure or pathway. They are typically used to assess impairment after an injury or illness known to affect neurocognitive functioning, or when used in research, to contrast neuropsychological abilities across experimental groups.


Personality test
Measures of personality are often described as either objective tests or projective tests. Some projective tests are used less often today because they are more time consuming to administer.
  • Objective Test : Have a restricted response format, such as allowing for true or false answers or rating using an ordinal scale. Prominent examples of objective personality tests include the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III, Child Behavior Checklist, and the Beck Depression Inventory. Objective personality tests can be designed for use in business for potential employees and Five Factor Model of normal personality test.
  • Projective Test : allow for a freer type of response. An example of this would be the Rorschach test, in which a person states what each of ten ink blots might be. The terms "objective test" and "projective test" have recently come under criticism in the Journal of Personality Assessment. The more descriptive "rating scale or self-report measures" and "free response measures" are suggested, rather than the terms "objective tests" and "projective tests," respectively. As improved sampling and statistical methods developed, much controversy regarding the utility and validity of projective testing has occurred. The use of clinical judgement rather than norms and statistics to evaluate people's characteristics has convinced many that projetives are deficient and unreliable [the results are too dissimilar each time a test is given to the same person].
Sexological testing
The number of tests specifically meant for the field of sexology is quite limited. The field of sexology provides different psychological evaluation devices in order to examine the various aspects of the discomfort, problem or dysfunction, regardless of whether they are individual or relational ones.

Although most psychological tests are "rating scale" or "free response" measures, psychological assessment may also involve the observation of people as they complete activities. This type of assessment is usually conducted with families in a laboratory, home or with children in a classroom. The purpose may be clinical, such as to establish a pre-intervention baseline of a child's hyperactive or aggressive classroom behaviors or to observe the nature of a parent-child interaction in order to understand a relational disorder. Direct observation procedures are also used in research, for Exp to study the relationship between intrapsychic variables and specific target behaviors, or to explore sequences of behavioral interaction.

Test Administration
Generally tests should be presented in a standard manner laid out in the instructions that come with the measure. In some instances computer assisted testing can help in the process of presenting material and managing timings etc.
Categories of Psychological Tests - Know the Test Concepts

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Clinical Psychology Short Description (video)

Clinical Psychology Short Description
Clinical psychology is an integration of science, theory and clinical knowledge for the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically based distress/dysfunction and to promote subjective well-being and personal development. In many countries, clinical psychology is a regulated "mental health profession" and clinical psychology was focused on psychological assessment, with little attention given to treatment. For complete description about "Clinical Psychology" visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical_psychology

Clinical psychologists considered experts in providing psychotherapy, and generally train within four primary theoretical orientations psychodynamic, humanistic, behavior therapy or cognitive behavioral, and systems/family therapy.

Clinical Psychology Assessment
There exist many literally of various assessment tools, although only a few have been shown to have both high validity (test actually measures what it claims to measure) and reliability (consistency). These measures generally fall within one of several categories, including :

Intelligence and Achievement Tests
These tests are designed to measure certain specific kinds of cognitive functioning in comparison to a norming-group. These tests, such as the WISC-IV, attempt to measure such traits as general knowledge, verbal skill, memory, attention span, logical reasoning, and visual/spatial perception. Several tests have been shown to predict accurately certain kinds of performance, especially scholastic.

Personality tests
Tests of personality aim to describe patterns of behavior, thoughts, and feelings. They generally fall within two categories: objective and projective. Objective measures, such as the MMPI, are based on restricted answers such as yes or no, true/false [play psychology test], or a rating scale which allow for computation of scores that can be compared to a normative group. Projective tests, such as the Rorschach inkblot test, allow for open-ended answers, often based on ambiguous stimuli, presumably revealing non-conscious psychological dynamics.

Neuropsychological tests
Neuropsychological tests consist of specifically designed tasks used to measure psychological functions known to be linked to a particular brain structure or pathway. They are typically used to assess impairment after an injury or illness known to affect neurocognitive functioning, or when used in research, to contrast neuropsychological abilities across experimental groups.

Clinical observation
Clinical psychologists are also trained to gather data by observing behavior. The clinical interview is a vital part of assessment, even when using other formalized tools, which can employ either a structured or unstructured format. Such assessment looks at certain areas, such as general appearance and behavior, mood and affect, perception, comprehension, orientation, insight, memory, and content of communication. One psychiatric example of a formal interview is the mental status examination, which is often used in psychiatry as a screening tool for treatment or further testing.

Clinical Psychologist Video


Clinical Psychology Short Description (video)

Friday, August 20, 2010

Enhance Functioning Supervisor Roles - Tips

Supervisor Roles Tips

"Supervisor responsible for a group must fill. If you're responsible for the performance of a group, and so you're both. No matter what you may have learn in the last 25 years of management leadership, management and supervision are not about what you are. It is about your behavior and your roles."

Fact
The fact is that all of the writing about the differentiations between managers and leaders, about whether one is better than the other, about whether we need both, and about whether organizations need more or less of one or the other entirely over leap the point.

Supervisor Roles
Becoming responsible for the performance of a group, your life changes. When you were an individual contributor, you had pretty much control over what to do in order to achieve better results. Once you become Supervisor for a group of people and their performance, though, that control disappears and is replaced with influence. As a matter of fact, the higher you move up your organization structure, the less power you have and the more influence you have. That means what you do or say has more impact because people pay more attention to it. You are also responsible for other people's performance in three ways. Those ways are your leadership role. Your management role and supervisory role.

Here they are :
Supervision : Supervision is probably the easiest to understand. In supervision, you deal with someones and with tasks. No matter what level you are in your organization, you'll have some supervision work to do. You'll have people directly responsible to you and you'll talk directly about what they are going to do and how they are going to it. That is supervision.

Management Roles : On management role, you'll deal with groups and priorities. You'll handle things like scheduling problems and how to apportion scarce resources to the projects you need to complete. Your planning perspective will be tactical. Strategy is planning to achieve objectives to support overall organizational goals within a defined portion of the organization.

Leadership : Leadership is a term that has taken on almost mystical connotations in the last two decades. Leadership is about purpose and direction. In your leadership role, you deal with strategic issues that affect the whole organization. If you have a chance to be at the top of the organization, that means the whole organization. But if head a smaller sub unit, like a division or unit, strategy is what you do that affects your entire division or sub units.

As you move up the organizational power structure, you will likely have a greater proportion of your time devoted to your leadership role and a little proportion to your supervisory and management roles. But, no matter where you are, if you are responsible for a group, you are responsible for leadership, management and supervision. You don't get a choice about whether you're a leader or not. You are a leader because people who work for you expect you to be. They will look up to you for purpose and direction. They will also expect you to be a manager, and a supervisor. They will expect you to sort out priorities from one of many competing ones. They will expect you to give them direction on how they'll perform their tasks.

The trick is to figure out where the mix of roles is for you, then develop the tools, techniques, and tricks that you are going to need to fill those roles effectively. That's it
Enhance Functioning Supervisor Roles - Tips