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Assignment 2 - Assessment and Diagnosis of a Celebrity or Historic Individual
This project provides another opportunity to apply the concepts of diagnosis and assessment. With this assignment, choose an individual who is either a well-known celebrity or historical figure. You will need to discuss the individual’s childhood and family circumstances. You should organize the paper - (present problem, etiology, diagnosis and treatment), and cite your resources.
Diagnosis : is to find out the exact problems and symptoms present in an individual in order to find the the actual cause of a disease and the condition a patient is suffering is known as Diagnosis .
Assessment: documenting and using empirical data on the knowledge, skill, attitudes, and beliefs in order to draw a conclusion is known as assessments .
The celebrity i would like to address is Angelina Jolie .
Angelina Jolie born on June 4th1975 in Los Angeles, California , USA , Daughter of actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand.
After her parents' separation in 1976, Jolie and her brother lived with their mother, She was bought up by her mother .She went to The Beverly Hills High School, where she felt isolated and not confident among the children of richer families because her mother had an average income.
She also found life very challenging has she could not take the pressure of inferiority and found it difficult to emotionally connect with other people, for which she started to develop self-harmed and self destructive behaviour She also struggled with insomniaand an eating disorder.
She also starting with drug abuse like Heroin. She also started getting depressed which lead to suicidal tendencies.
In 2013 , Angelina Jolie develpoed breast cancer due to a defective BRCA1gene.