Diagnostic Discussion Questions

Diagnostic Discussion Questions

Please answer each question individually using at least one reference per question/answer.

1. Review the vignettes located in the topic five materials (attached) and then diagnose Robin and Becky with a psychotic disorder. What are the justifications for your diagnosis? Include differential diagnoses that were considered and discarded.

2. -Review the vignette of Brett located in the topic five materials (attached), and then provide a DSM diagnosis. Based on your cultural background/worldview, what is your perspective on the nature of psychotic disorders?

Review the biblical narrative in Mark 5: 1-20. How would you help a psychotic individual who presents to your treatment center and insists that the etiology of his disorder is spiritual in nature and not biochemical?

Review Mercer’s article and identify two or three recommendations/practices you find relevant in this source as pertaining to a clinician that considers treating Bret (login info will be provided in DM): http://eds.b.ebscohost.com.lopes.idm.oclc.org/ehos…

3. Obsessive-compulsive and related disorders (e.g., hoarding disorder) have gained popularity in the media in recent years. How do portrayals of these disorders in popular culture differ from the descriptions of them in the DSM? How might the media popularity affect a person’s likelihood to seek treatment?

4. In what ways do people treat their own symptoms of anxiety disorders, and trauma and stress disorders? Review the case study of Rebecca (attached), located under the Topic 6 topic materials. Provide and justify a diagnostic impression for Rebecca.