For this Assignment, you practice assessing and diagnosing patients with anxiety disorders, PTSD, and OCD. Review the DSM-5 criteria for the disorders within these classifications before you get started, as you will be asked to justify your differential diagnosis with DSM-5 criteria.
To Prepare:
Review this week’s Learning Resources and consider the insights they provide about assessing and diagnosing anxiety, obsessive-compulsive, and trauma- and stressor-related disorders.
Download the Comprehensive Psychiatric Assessment Template, which you will use to complete this Assignment. Also review the Comprehensive Psychiatric Assessment Exemplar to see an example of a completed Assessment document.
By Day 1 of this week, select a specific video case study to use for this Assignment from the Video Case Selections choices in the Learning Resources. View your assigned video case and review the additional data for the case in the “Case History Reports” document, keeping the requirements of the Assessment template in mind.
Consider what history would be necessary to collect from this patient.
Consider what interview questions you would need to ask this patient.
Identify at least three possible differential diagnoses for the patient.
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You will practice assessing and diagnosing people with anxiety disorders, PTSD, and OCD in this assignment. Before you begin, review the DSM-5 criteria for the diseases included in these categories, since you will be required to support your differential diagnosis using DSM-5 criteria.
How to Get Ready:
Consider the information in this week’s Learning Resources regarding assessing and diagnosing anxiety, obsessive-compulsive, and trauma- and stressor-related illnesses.
To complete this assignment, you will need to download the Comprehensive Psychiatric Assessment Template. To see an example of a finished Assessment document, look at the Comprehensive Psychiatric Assessment Exemplar.
Choose a specific video case study to use for this Assignment from the Video Case Selections options in the Learning Resources by Day 1 of this week. Look at your options.
