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Tasks: You are required to have at least 2 references, one can be your course textbook, and the second should be research journal or article from the Reynolds Library Database. Since you have References they are to be used as citations in the body of your response where needed to justify your answers.

In your discussion post please identify what case scenario (i.e. Gary/Bipolar Disorder or Terry/Posttraumatic Stress Disorder) provide short answers. Before providing your answers, please put the numbered item before your response (i.e. Choose and define your major perspective (Medical, Psychanalytic, Behavioral, Cognitive, and Humanistic, Sociocultural) further explained in Chapter 12).

Use full complete sentences and very few bullet points when presenting your answers.

Choose and define your major perspective (Medical, Psychanalytic, Behavioral, Cognitive, and Humanistic, Sociocultural) further explained in Chapter 12.
Explain your perspective's approach to understanding behavior and mental illness. (Support with scholarly research, i.e., journal article and your course text).
Identify limitations to your major perspective (Support with scholarly research, i.e., journal article and your course text).
Choose one of the case scenarios; identify the onset and symptoms reported in this case. (Refer to Chapter 12 to explain your symptoms).
After choosing one of the case scenarios, discuss how your major/theoretical perspective examines and intervenes to treat your chosen mental disorder found in your case study. (Support with scholarly research, i.e., journal article and your course text; Treatment can be found in Chapter 13, also include, therapies, biomedical therapies and your scholarly justification on why you choose these treatments with supportive research).
Case Scenarios

Gary (Bipolar Disorder I)

Gary is a 19-year-old who withdrew from college after experiencing depressed moods for 2 weeks ago, and more recently had wild elated moods during which he was brought to the attention of the Campus Police ("I took the responsibility to pull multiple fire alarms in my dorm to ensure that they worked, given the life-or-death nature of fires"). He had changed his major from engineering to philosophy and increasingly had reduced his sleep, spending long hours engaging his friends in conversations about the nature of reality. He had been convinced about the importance of his ideas, stating frequently that he was more learned and advanced than all his professors. He told others that he was on the verge of revolutionizing his new field, and he grew increasingly irritable and intolerant of any who disagreed with him. He also increased his drinking and engaging in sexual relations in a way that was unlike his previous history. The patient's parents acknowledge that Gary had early problems with anxiety during pre-adolescence, followed by some periods of withdrawal and depression during his adolescence. His parents are eager to be involved in treatment, if appropriate.

Terry (Posttraumatic Stress Disorder)

Terry, a 42-year-old earthquake survivor, had been experiencing traumatic symptoms for more than eight years. Terry consistently avoided thoughts and images related to witnessing the injuries and deaths of others during the earthquake. Throughout the years, he began spending an increasing amount of time at work and filling his days with hobbies and activities. By the time he sought treatment, Terry had managed to fill his entire week with various obligations in order to keep his mind occupied and to minimize the possibility that he would think about the traumatic event. He also worked hard to convince others that the earthquake had not affected him. He did this by avoiding people that knew he had gone through this experience and by quickly changing the topic when it came up. However, he found that whenever he had free time, he would have unwanted intrusive thoughts and images about the earthquake. In addition, he was having increasingly distressing nightmares that were causing him to lose several hours of sleep each night. His repeated violent awakenings throughout the night had also disturbed his wife's sleep, resulting in them no longer sharing a bedroom. Terry found that the harder he worked to avoid these thoughts, the more frequent they would become, and that they were getting stronger each day. He feared that if he thought about the memory, he would lose control of his emotions and would not be able to cope. He was concerned that the fear and panic that occurred when he was reminded of the trauma would last forever. By avoiding thoughts about the memory, he never allowed himself to test out his predictions. Furthermore, through his repeated avoidance of the trauma memory, his fear continued to grow.