Scenario
https://dsm.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.books.9780890425787.x03_Bipolar_and_Related_Disorders
https://dsm.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.books.9780890425787.x04_Depressive_Disorders
Name: Mrs. Abrianna Tilman
Gender: female
Age: 27 years old
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 herparents divorced when she was 16; has two sisters in Troy, Alabama.
Completed education through bachelor’s level, majoring in English Literature. No previous suicidal gestures. Brother committed suicide via GSW. She denied drugs/alcohol; brother was addicted to methamphetamines. Hx of HTN-prescribed Trandate 100mg twice daily, admits to missing doses due to forgetting. No legal hx. Allergies: PCN
Symptom Media. (Producer). (2016). Training title 8 [Video]. https://video-alexanderstreetcom.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/watch/training-title-8
https://video-alexanderstreet-com.eu1.proxy.openathens.net/watch/training-title-8
Complete and submit your Comprehensive Psychiatric Evaluation, including your differential diagnosis and critical-thinking process to formulate a primary diagnosis.
Incorporate the following into your responses in the template:
- 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?
- What observations did you make during the psychiatric assessment?
- Discuss the patient’s mental status examination results. What were your differential diagnoses?
- 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 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.
- 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 factors , PMH, and other risk factors.
