Assessing and Diagnosing Patient With Mood Disorder
To Prepare: (1) Consider the insight this week’s resources provided about assessing and diagnosing mood disorders.
(2) Attached is a Comprehensive Psychiatric Evaluation Template, Which you will use to complete This Assignment. Also, review the ATTACHED COMPREHENSIVE PSYCHIATRIC EVALUATION EXEMPLar to see an example of a completed evaluation document.
(3) Consider what history would be necessary to collect from this patient,
(4) Identify at least three POSSIBLE differential diagnoses for this patient.
ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS ARE:
(A) Complete and submit Your comprehensive Psychiatric Evaluation, including your differential diagnosis and critical- thinking process to formulate a primary diagnosis. (b) Incorporate the following into your responses in the Template:
SUBJECTIVE: (1) What details did the patient provide regarding their chief complaints and symptoms? How are their symptoms impacting their functioning in life?
(2) OBJECTIVE: What observations did you make during the Psychiatric Assessment?
(3) ASSESSMENT: Discuss the patient’s mental status examination results. What was your differential diagnosis? Provide a minimum of three possible diagnoses with supporting evidence, listed in order from highest priority to lowest priority.
(4)Compare the DSM-5-TR diagnostic criteria for each differential diagnosis and explain what DSM-5 criteria rule out the differential diagnosis to find an accurate diagnosis.
(5) Explain the critical- thinking process that led you to the primary diagnosis you selected.
(6) Include pertinent positives and pertinent negatives for the specific patient case.
(7) REFLECTION NOTES: What would you do differently with this client if you could conduct the session over? Also, include in your reflection a discussion related to legal/ethical considerations , health promotion, and disease prevention taking into consideration patient account, PMH, and other risk factors .
(8) Please answer all parts of the Assignment questions with reflective critical analysis and synthesis of knowledge using APA with no grammar or spelling errors.
(9) Please provide at least four references.
(10) Writer #63396, PLEASE NOTE:
CASE SCENARIO/ BACKGROUND:
Name Mrs. Abrianne Tilman, Gender: Female, Age: 27 years old. T-98’6, P-88, R 18, B/P: 154/92, Ht 5′ 1, Wt: 230lbs,
Background: Recently had her first child two months ago. Currently married, stay-at-home mother after working in community library for 5 years. Grew up with her mother after her parents divorced when she was 16; has two sisters in Troy Alabama. Completed education through bachelor’s level, majoring in English literature. No previous suicidal ideation/gestures. The Brother committed suicide via GSW . She denied drugs/alcohol; her brother was addicted to methamphetamines. History of HTN- prescribed Trandate 100mg twice daily, admits to missing doses due to forgetting. No legal history.Allergies: PCN symptom. She is having a problem sleeping well as she used to since the delivery of her first child two months ago. She presents to the clinic for evaluation and treatment for depression.
