The Problem of Kleptomania Among Young Generations.

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The problem of kleptomania among young generations.

Problem solution essay.

Assem Bekbergenova

ID 20142463

Academic Reading and Writing I

Yelena Zhacheva

March 2, 2015

Outline

1. Introduction

Due to the increased number of people with the kleptomania disease among young generations, the patients should take antidepressants, parents of a child collaborate with a doctor and the youngsters get the cognitive behavioral therapy in order to improve the situation.

1. Background

1. Identify the problem

According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual V, “Kleptomania is the recurrent failure to resist impulses to steal items even though the items are not needed for personal use or for their monetary value.”(2013).

b. Describe the problem:

1. What caused it?

Head trauma, a decrease of serotine,

2. Who is affected?

Children, adults, women.

3. What are the effects?

The heritage of disease, depression.

1. Demonstrate that the problem exists (use research, your knowledge and experience, additional information you have collected from other sources)

III. The first solution is the collaboration between parents of the patient and the doctor is very important part of the therapy.

a. The collaboration between parents of the patient and the doctor

b. Its polite way of treatment

c. The financial issue; the long term of treatment.

IV. Furthermore, the second solution is to take medical medicines, which have a medium progress in treating system.

a. To take antidepressants

b. The achievement while using this method

c. Allergic reaction on the ingredients; it may lead into depression.

V. The best solution for health problem, related to psychological disorder is a cognitive- behavioral therapy.

a. The cognitive- behavioral therapy

b. Teaches patients to manage physical reactions to distress

c. Not all patients gained positive results that is why to make a scientific evidence may be difficult.

VI.       Conclusion

Henry Morgan once said, “A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he cannot help himself.” The prevalence of kleptomania in the United States’ general population is unknown, but has been estimated as six per 1000 people, which is about 1.2 million of 200 million American adults (Aboujaoude et al, 2004). From the childhood, children are taught to play nice, to share goods with others, and not to take possessions, which do not belong to them. As youngsters get older, they start to learn how to keep self-control and the ways of protecting their values from others. Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Applications of psychology include mental health treatment, performance enhancement, self-help, ergonomics, and many other areas, affecting health and daily life. It is difficult to capture everything that psychology encompasses in just a brief definition, but topics such as development, personality, thoughts, feelings, emotions, motivations and social behaviors, represent just a portion of what psychology seeks to understand and explain. This discipline has two major directions: academic and applied psychology. Academic psychology concentrates on the learning different sub-topics including personality, social behavior and human development. Psychologists conduct basic research, which is looking for expanding the theoretical knowledge, while other researchers conduct applied survey that seeks to solve everyday problems. A psychological disorder, also known as a mental disorder, consisting of psychological symptoms, which effect various life areas or make stressful situations for the person, experiencing such disease. The kleptomania is one of the psychological disorder. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual V, “Kleptomania is the recurrent failure to resist impulses to steal items even though the items are not needed for personal use or for their monetary value.”(2013). Due to the increased number of people with the kleptomania disease among young generations, the patients should take antidepressants, parents of a child collaborate with a doctor and the youngsters get the cognitive behavioral therapy in order to improve the situation.

The CNN News is constantly broadcasting crimes of shoplifting, burglars, thefts, robberies and kleptomaniacs. These acts are all have reasons, either spontaneous or planned. The action that involves taking something for personal or financial gain. Despite the fact that these crimes are easy understandable and rather common between each other, another kind of stealing is kleptomania, which is totally different side of offence. Some people use the expressions kleptomania and shoplifting as a synonyms. One of the symptoms of kleptomania that differentiates it from shoplifting is the fact that people, suffering from that illness do not hold a jealous against the person from whom they are stealing. They do not steal for personal gain, but because they find it almost impossible to control their urge. People with kleptomania do not target a particular individual or a shop for a specific reason. They steal in order to make easier their anxiety. The National Association of Shoplifting Prevention found that one in every eleven adult has tried to shoplift at least once in his or her life. In addition, more than thirteen billion dollars’ worth of goods are being stolen from retailers in the United States every year (NASP, 2014). Approximately 0-8% of people with a shoplifting disorder have kleptomania (Blanco et al., 2008). Every psychological disorder must have the causes of its existing in people’s minds. According to Freudenrich (2015), who is a freelance science writer and former senior editor at How Stuff Works, the first reason is a head trauma: damage to circuits between the orbital and frontal lobes of the brain, or low blood flow to the temporal lobe. (2015). Secondly, a decrease of availability of neurotransmitter serotonin in brain has been associated with a tendency toward risk of taking behaviors. Serotonin regulates emotions and mood of a person. There may also be an increase in the level of dopamine, which produces feelings of pleasure after the stealing. According to Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders, studies have shown that 0.6% of the general pоpulation may have this disorder and that it is more common in females. (2015). For instance, in patients who have obsessive-compulsive disorder, 7% of them have kleptomania (Bienvenu et al, 2000).  There are several effects of kleptomania disorder. Firstly, first-degree relative, such as a parent or sibling after the person with kleptomania, obsessive-compulsive disorder may increase the risk of the illness. Secondly, people with kleptomania often have another mental illness, such as anxiety disorder, an eating disorder, substance use disorder or a personality disorder. There is a story about ten years old boy, Shantanu. One day he was brought for a psychological consultation in order to understand his behavior. For a long period, he was stealing female’s beauty goods. His addiction has started from the young age. Moreover, because of breaking up all connections with a grandmother, Shantanu experienced a traumatic separation. From that time, he started to steal women’s cosmetic to associate them with her image.