4. Sixteen- year old Vanessa is in a sexual relationship with Mikey who is 42 years old. They are quite happy when they are not at school. However, when Vanessa is at school she is labelled as bad. She could not sit still in class and constantly gets angry at the teachers when they tell her to focus but she could not. She does not obey the teachers and when she is punished she would lay on the floor and scream. She would go in the parking lot and scraped the teachers’ cars. One day she tried to burn the school library down. She eagerly waits for school to dismiss so that she can visit her boyfriend. When she is not with him, she at times feel a hollowness in her chest that makes her just want to hide under the bed. At home she takes pleasure in hunting all the dogs and cats in the neighborhood and kill them. She smiles when she wrung the cats ‘necks. One day she pushed her younger brother down the stairs where he laid unconscious for two weeks. She claimed it was an accident. When she feels sad and empty she would starve herself and then buy large quantities of food and consume them all at once. She hated herself and her parents. She became obese to the point where her boyfriend told her, “You repulse me.” She was devastated but she continues to starve herself and then eats large quantities food until she could hardly pass through her door. Question Analyze the above case study using information concerned with ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY. In your analysis identify the dominant disorder present.
4. Sixteen- year old Vanessa is in a sexual relationship with Mikey who is 42 years old. They are quite happy when they are not at school. However, when Vanessa is at school she is labelled as bad. She could not sit still in class and constantly gets angry at the teachers when they tell her to focus but she could not. She does not obey the teachers and when she is punished she would lay on the floor and scream. She would go in the parking lot and scraped the teachers’ cars. One day she tried to burn the school library down. She eagerly waits for school to dismiss so that she can visit her boyfriend. When she is not with him, she at times feel a hollowness in her chest that makes her just want to hide under the bed.
At home she takes pleasure in hunting all the dogs and cats in the neighborhood and kill them. She smiles when she wrung the cats ‘necks. One day she pushed her younger brother down the stairs where he laid unconscious for two weeks. She claimed it was an accident.
When she feels sad and empty she would starve herself and then buy large quantities of food and consume them all at once. She hated herself and her parents. She became obese to the point where her boyfriend told her, “You repulse me.” She was devastated but she continues to starve herself and then eats large quantities food until she could hardly pass through her door.
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Analyze the above case study using information concerned with ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY. In your analysis identify the dominant disorder present.
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