Abnormal Psych Thought Excercise

Anna G

a. it seems that Lauren needs some type of motivation to keep up with her work and to do well in it. Since she was born prematurely and is very small for her age, there might be something in the biological sense that is stunting her way of attaining knowledge. Maybe the way she was fed as a child, not eating all the right healthy foods to help with her development was given to her. In a social perspective, maybe she spends too much time alone and not with others and is in constant daydream mode because of this. She probably has a hard time exiting that state when it comes to learning at school. The psychological perspective is maybe that she needs to really just needs to be observed more by her authority figures. I feel that she is left alone.

b. right of the back, I feel that Tim could be diagnosed as Sociopath. He may not be a criminal, but from the way his symptoms are, he could be nice and calm for a second and very unstable the next. Biologically, I feel there might not be anything majorly wrong with his genetic make up but maybe something in his body is very low. Psychologically, growing up there might be have been something fusing in his brain that caused him to act the way he does. If he isn't a sociopath he most likely has a severe bipolar problem. I feel that socially, that is why that way he is. Growing up I feel that he had bad parental guidance, especially by his father. Some assessment tools I would use to learn more about his would be to ask about his childhood and come up with different scenarios, and ask what he would do in each. Those scenarios would help me understand if there was something deeply wrong with him.

c. it is obvious for Johnny that he has a severe cerebral injury since his accident. Biologically, a part of his brain hasn't been able to recover yet and I feel like it never will. Psychologically, I feel that he won't have any bad diagnoses that will make him different but I feel that he simply will be just slower than...