Assessing and Diagnosing Patient With Anxiety Disorders, PTSD, and OCD
To prepare: (1) Consider the insight this week’s resources provided about assessing and diagnosing anxiety, obsessive-compulsive, and trauma- and stressor-related disorders.
(2) Use the Comprehensive Psychiatric Evaluation Template, to complete this Assignment. Also, review the 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) Consider what Interview Questions you would need to ask this patient.
(5) Identify at least three Possible Differential diagnoses for this Patient.
ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS ARE: (A) Complete and Submit the Comprehensive Psychiatric Evaluation, Including your Differential diagnosis and critical- thinking process to formulate primary diagnosis.
(2) Incorporate the following into your responses in the template.
(A) SUBJECTIVE: What details did the patient provide regarding their CHIEF COMPLAINT and symptomology to derive Your differential diagnosis? What is the duration and severity of their Symptoms? How are their symptoms impacting their functioning in life?
(B) OBJECTIVE: What observations did you make during the psychiatric assessment?
(C) 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. Compare the DSM-5-TR diagnostic criteria for each differential diagnosis and explain what DSM-5-TR CRITERIA rules out the differential diagnosis to find an accurate diagnosis. Explain the critical-thinking process that led you to the primary diagnosis you selected. Include pertinent positives and pertinent negatives for the specific patient case.
(D) REFLECTION: What would you do differently with this client if you could conduct the session over?
(E) Also include in your reflection a discussion related to legal/ethical considerations( demonstrate critical thinking beyond confidentiality and consent for treatment), health promotion, and disease prevention taking into consideration patient factors ( such as age, ethnic group, etc), Protected health information (PHI), and other risk factors ( e.g, socioeconomic, cultural background, etc). (F) Please answer ALL parts of the assignment questions with reflective critical analysis and synthesis of knowledge using APA format with no grammar or spelling errors. (G) Please provide at least four references.
(H) Writer # 33988, please note I will upload for you the following. (a) The Comprehensive Psychiatric Evaluation Template to use to complete the assignment. (b) The Comprehensive Psychiatric Evaluation Exemplar for you to read carefully and follow. (c) The patient interview transcript. CASE- SCENARIO/BACKGROUND: Ms.Connie Weider, female Age: 53 years old, T-99.0. P-102, R24, B/P 156/86, Ht, 5’4, Wt 173lbs. She lives with her husband in Memphis, TN has one daughter age 25. She has never worked. Raised by her mother, she never knew her father. The mother with a history of generalized anxiety and was verbally abusive, abused benzodiazepines, no substance history for the patient. No previous psychiatric treatment. Has one glass of red wine with dinner. Sleeps 12-13 hrs, appetite decreased. Has overactive bladder, untreated. Allergic to Zofran, complaints of headaches take prn Tylenol, has diarrhea 2-3 times weekly, takes OTC Imodium,
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