...Assignment: Clinical Assessment Chaz Hedgspeth Axia College What other information would you like to learn during the interview with the family? What questions would you ask? If I were interviewing the family I would want to know extensive information about the child, including her home life, her life at school, and what types of relationships she has in both environments. Does she interact with the children well at school? Does she get punished for doing bad and rewarded for doing well? I would also want to know when she started behaving this way in the first place. Has she always behaved in this fashion? When did the behavior begin? Knowing if the behavior has affected her everyday living would be essential as well and if they feel like she is a threat to herself. Do her teachers say anything about her in the classroom? Is her attitude affecting her grades? Do you as the parents feel like your child is a threat to herself or anyone else around her? Finding out all of the information about the child’s life is essential to getting a complete outlook on what the possibilities of her behavior are. In addition to the clinical interview, what other types of assessments would you utilize? What would you hope to learn with each type of assessment? Since a patient is able to be assessed from the different psychological perspectives, I would want to assess the child with a combination of each of the perspective theories. First, I would want to assess the...
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...Porche Hamilton BSHS 321 Human Service Scenario Analysis Instructor: Julie Murphy ABSTRACT This analysis gives in detail the background, including age and gender of the patient in the evaluation. The details are that the treatment plan must be a clear and concise method to help the patient cope with her significant events. The underlying treatment and diagnosis for this patient are confirmed and may be requested for further treatment and examination. Diagnosis at this time is Major Depressive Disorder, Axis-IV as so stated in DSM-IV. Jennifer Diggs is a twenty six year old African American female soldier. She was raised in a single parent house hold along with her three siblings. Her parents divorced when she was about twelve years old. Jennifer was always pushed around as a child because she was the youngest daughter. She rarely got to go outside during the summer because she has chronic asthma. Her mother is an LPN at a nursing home and her father is a retired Army Veteran and he now lives in Jacksonville, Florida. She has a younger sister that lives with her father and step mother. She used to spend her summers and holidays with her father and step-mother.Her father would take her to Six Flags during her summer breaks and to Disney Land. She has three children, all whom are school age. Jennifer was married, but she is now divorced and is taking on full responsibility of her three children with the absence of their father. Prior to joining the U.S. Army, she had...
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...September 19, 2012 People’s experiences and mistakes help shape them for what they will become. In life, as you are now, you have a certain view point of things. How you think they should be and what you want, but most times this is not the case. This realization that everything is not what it seems can make you come crashing down into reality, or your own version of it. The things we experience truly change you as a person. My experiences that I overcame motivate me and inspire me to change and succeed in life. Self-injury can be defined as the attempt to purposely cause harm to one's self and the injury is usually severe enough to cause physical damage. Self-harm can be considered a cry for attention by some people, a plea for anyone around to see that you aren’t alright. For me it was, and yet at the same time it wasn’t. I’ve done these things for my own personal reasons like self-hatred, pressure and the loneliness I felt. The feeling that no one understands you or even cares plays a big factor. Self-harm is a broad title and can be categorized into many different things. Cutting, also known as, self-mutilation was the one I fell into. I sometimes felt victimized. I was born into a society where everything I saw, every influence of culture or fashion, made me want to change myself but not for the right reasons. Cutting was something I had been doing for a while, and the issue of it never really hit me until my sophomore year of high school. That was the moment I went...
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...Case Study 2: Suicide or Well-Reasoned End-of –Life Decision? In the case of Jason, the 38 year old gay man with AIDS who is considering a rational suicide, there are several ethical and legal issues that the counselor has to consider in order to effectively continue to treat the client. Jason has disclosed to his counselor that he was considering to stop taking his medications which will ultimately end his life. Upon receiving this information from the client , the counselor has to now consider if he or she has any personal, moral issues, or spiritual belief system about the end -of -life decisions that might conflict with what the client has decided. The counselor should consult with a supervisor or some one who has some experience in the area of end-of – life. If there are any conflicts, the counselor can chose to not work with the client and provide him with an adequate referral to make sure he get the help he needs. (Standard A.9.b). A counselor should never impose his or her beliefs, morals or spirituality on their client. This will impede the client’s ability to achieve autonomy and self –determination. According to the ACA Code of Ethics, the counselor has to protect the client’s right to self-determination, ensure that the client has a quality end of life that satisfies their emotional, physical , social and spiritual needs and to ensure that the client is competent to make the competent decisions via...
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...I am long overdue on a review of this book, which I feel bad about because I really enjoyed it. Maybe I didn’t get to it because I was too busy multitasking… First off, this is written as a business novel. Lately, I have been really weary about business novels. For one, I’m not a novel reader and, since The Goal, the only business novels I’ve liked and gotten through are SHORT ones, including All I Need to Know About Manufacturing I Learned in Joe’s Garage: World Class Manufacturing Made Simple and The Ice Cream Maker: An Inspiring Tale About Making Quality The Key Ingredient in Everything You Do (my review here). This book, written by business coach Dave Crenshaw, tackles the idea of “multitasking” — that we can do two things at once. If you think about multitasking from a Lean perspective, you might think about the practices of Standardized Work. In a factory, standardized work assumes a person can really only do one thing at a time. At most, you might reach for a part with your left hand while simultaneously reaching for a tool with your right. But, this is a relatively simple task that, in a repetitive manufacturing environment, can be done without thinking and through a lot of muscle memory. In professional settings, we often trick ourselves into thinking we can multitask. While on conference calls, people play Minesweeper or surf the web. This works, except for when you realize you haven’t been listening or someone calls on you and you can’t answer — it’s embarrassing...
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...most comorbid psychiatric disorders associated with diabetes, and has an impact on treatment and prognosis. The rigors of managing diabetes can be stressful and can lead to symptoms of depression, at any given time, most people with diabetes do not have depression, but people with diabetes have a greater risk of depression, than people without diabetes. Just like denial, depression can get patients into a vicious cycle, and it can block good diabetes self care if someone is depressed, and has no energy, as most of the diabetes management are not automatic body functions but requires conscious actions (Watkins & Brynes, 2007). People with severe diabetes, can have slow and painful execution, extending over years and decades , and depressive symptoms can develop but it is also still unclear whether type 2 diabetes mellitus, is a risk factor for these elevated depression symptoms (Golden et al.,2008) Diabetes with major depression whether a cause and effect, the combination can be deadly....
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...Psychological Disorder Analysis Telana Graham PSY/270 Chris Shreve Psychological Disorder Analysis Maria is a 42-year old female who has come to the mental health clinic complaining of several symptoms, she believes is causing her distress. The symptoms Maria is experiencing include having trouble sleeping, feeling jumpy all of the time, and an inability to concentrate. She feels that these symptoms are the cause of her inability to concentrate at work. It is obvious that a concern for Maria’s employment has brought her to the mental health clinic to help her with these issues. Maria’s symptoms require further analysis to reach a diagnostic conclusion as her symptoms are apparent in the criteria of a variety of disorders, to include, post traumatic stress disorder, certain panic disorders, and major depression. Maria will be observed, and a complete assessment of her will be concluded. Once the assessment is complete a diagnosis will be made and a complete and effective treatment plan will be administered. What will also be included by the attending therapists is the diagnosis, along with the possible causes, names of treatment, and a copy of the treatment plan. The clinical interview is the beginning point for Maria and how she answers the interview questions applies to the analysis and diagnosis of her issues. The questions asked during Maria’s interview are as follows: 1. Why do you feel the need to seek therapy? 2. What do you expect...
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...Child Behavior Disruptive behavior tends to worsen with time, but it can be treated effectively. Parent-child interaction therapy (PCIT), an evidence-based treatment for preschoolers with disruptive behavior and their parents, focuses on changing ineffective parent-child interaction patterns. The first phase, focusing on child-directed interaction, strengthens the parent-child relationship, builds the child's self-esteem, and reinforces the child's prosocial behaviors. The second phase, focusing on parent-directed interaction, introduces parent management training. Treatment is guided by assessment and continues until parents master interaction skills and child behavior problems fall within the normal range. Emerging evidence suggests that treatment gains are maintained for several years post treatment. (Neary,2002) A younger age of onset is associated with greater severity of disruptive behavior throughout its course, and disruptive behavior can be reliably identified in children as young as age. Evidence also suggests that intervention is more effective at the preschool age than when children are older. Effective treatment of disruptive behavior prior to school entry may prevent the associated problems with academic performance and peer relationships that require multiple interventions only a few years later. (CampbellSB) Primary care physicians are often the only professionals to see young children before...
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...Bipolar Disorder Ray Bradbury once said, “insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.” That statement could very well have been penned specifically for sufferers of bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder is known as a manic-depressive disorder and is a psychiatric diagnosis that covers a plethora of mood disorders. Bipolar is defined by the presence of one or more episodes of abnormally elevated moods, clinically referred to as mania or (if milder) hypomanias. Bipolar disorder affects both men and women. Research has shown that the first episode of bipolar disorder is occurring during adolescence. It must be understood that bipolar disorder is not just a sign of weakness; it is a serious medical condition that requires treatment. History The current term “bipolar disorder” is of a recent origin and refers to the cycling between high and low episodes or poles. A relationship between mania and melancholia has been observed and although the basis of the current conceptualization can be traced back to a French psychiatrist in the 1850’s the term “manic depressive illness” was coined by the German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin in the late nineteenth century. Originally, the term referred to all kinds of mood disorders. German psychiatrist Karl Leonhard finally split the classification again in 1957 using the terms unipolar disorder and bipolar disorder (Dziegielewski, 2002). Bipolar disorder is one of the oldest known illnesses. Bipolar symptoms have been...
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...This article was downloaded by: [Washington University in St Louis] On: 27 October 2013, At: 12:41 Publisher: Routledge Informa Ltd Registered in England and Wales Registered Number: 1072954 Registered office: Mortimer House, 37-41 Mortimer Street, London W1T 3JH, UK Aging & Mental Health Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/camh20 Life-review therapy with computer supplements for depression in the elderly: A randomized controlled trial Barbara Preschl , Andreas Maercker , Birgit Wagner , Simon Forstmeier , Rosa M. Baños a c d a a b a , Mariano Alcañiz , Diana Castilla & Cristina Botella e f d f Department of Psychopathology and Clinical Intervention , University of Zurich , Zurich , Switzerland b Clinic for Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig , Germany c Departamento Personalidad, Evaluación y Tratamientos Psicológicos , Universidad de Valencia , Valencia , Spain d e f CIBER Fisiopatología Obesidad y Nutrición (CB06/03), Instituto Carlos III , Spain LabHuman , Universidad Politécnica de Valencia , Valencia , Spain Departamento de Psicología Básica , Clinica y Psicobiología, Universitat Jaume I , Castellón , Spain Published online: 13 Jul 2012. To cite this article: Barbara Preschl , Andreas Maercker , Birgit Wagner , Simon Forstmeier , Rosa M. Baños , Mariano Alcañiz , Diana Castilla & Cristina Botella (2012) Life-review...
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...Depression Paper Gabrielle Piperno PSY 270 January 12, 2014 Stephanie Sencil-White Depression Paper Depression is defined as a low, sad state in which life seems dark with overwhelming challenges (Comer, 2012). Mania is considered the opposite of depression as it results in feeling of euphoria and frenzied energy; these two definitions combined are classified as bipolar disorder (Comer, 2012). Unipolar depression is when an individual suffers from depression that lacks bouts of mania (Comer, 2012). Depression, and or symptoms of depression, can affect everyone during one or more stages of life. Some individuals experience times in their lives when they consider themselves to be depressed; in actuality this is most likely a normal mood swing due to a temporary unpleasant circumstance. Upon information and belief, nearly 7 percent of the adult population in the United States suffers from a severe form of unipolar depression, with 5 percent of American’s suffering from mild forms of depression (Comer, 2012). Of the percentage of individuals suffering from unipolar depression, at least 50 percent of those individuals recover anywhere from 6 weeks to one year; in certain case treatment was not required (Comer, 2012). There are many cause that can be attributed to depression and unipolar forms of depression; some of these causes are due to biological factors and environmental factors (Comer, 2012). Neurotransmitters, when defective, may lead to depression. It is believed that...
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...NAME: MARY SESHABELA STUDENT NO. : 508 252 16 MODULE: PSYCHOPATHOLOGY CODE: PYC 4802 ASSIGNMENT 2 QUESTION: Discuss problems related to identifying/diagnosing and the assessment of depression in adolescents, taking into account gender and contextual factors. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION 2. MOOD DISORDERS 3.1 Major depressive Disorder (MDD) 3.2 Dysthymic disorder 3.3 Bipolar I 3.4 Bipolar II 3.5 Cyclothymic disorder 3. Clinical description and prevalence of depression in childhood and adolescents 4. Symptoms and diagnosis in childhood and adolescents 4.1 Diagnostic problems 4.2 Developmental problems 4.3 Family factors 5. Treatment of childhood and adolescent depression 6. Conclusion 7. References REFERENCES Barlow, D.H., & Durand, V.M. (2009). Abnormal Psychology: An integrative Approach ( 5th Ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth. Barlow, D.H., & Durand, V.M. (2012). Abnormal Psychology: An integrative Approach ( 6th Ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth. Crowe, M., Ward, N., Dunnachie,B., & Roberts, M. (2006).Characteristics of adolescent depression. International Journal of mental Health Nursing, 15, 10-18. Han, W.J.,& Miller, D.P.(2009). Parental work schedules and adolescent depression. Health sociology Review, 18, 36-49 Kring, A.M,. Johnson, S.L., Davison, G.C. & Neale, J.M.(2013). Abnormal psychology (12th ed.). Singapore: Wiley and Sons. Kronenberger...
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...Compare and Contrast Critique In an effort to research the topic of whether or not Vitamin D deficiencies are linked to depression, two sources of information were reviewed. The first article was found on a popular healthy living website (www.livestrong.com) and the second was an article published in The British Journal of Psychology. Article 1 Vitamin D Deficiency Causing Depression & Fatigue http://www.livestrong.com/article/269325-vitamin-d-deficiency-causing-depression-fatigue/ This article describes the various roles that Vitamin D plays in your body, including support for bone growth, immune health, and proper neuromuscular functions within the body. The article states that vitamin D deficiencies are more common in women and can cause many negative symptoms including excessive fatigue, sleepiness, muscle weakness, and vision problems. The article also states that vitamin D deficiency may also play a role in the development of colon, breast, ovarian, and bladder cancers. It is asserted that blood tests are performed to confirm deficiency, however the article does not give other data or facts to support their assertions that low Vitamin D is a direct causation of depression and fatigue. Based on my analysis of this article, I do not believe the article provides enough justifiable data and research to support their claim that vitamin D causes depression and fatigue. Additional research and data is needed to fully support this claim, therefore I would not use this...
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...EN102 10-19-12 The society that I grew up in when I was young was a culturally diverse neighborhood has shaped knowledgeable individual and me to be a more accepting. Diversity in my neighborhood ranged me from different ethnic backgrounds, income levels, and family infrastructures. Down the street from me there were Hispanic family that lived right next door to us. Within my neighborhood there are low-income apartments as well as newly renovated town homes. Some of my neighbors were single parents, divorced parents or married couples. I was surrounded by peers who whom excelled in academics, athletics, arts, and then were always a couple of them who fell under the influence. As I witness my peer’s struggle to keep up with school because they had family issues and financial problems they tend to violent crimes such as stealing and robbing. I became more appreciative of the life my parents have provided for me as I watched my confused peer’s walk away from life into the shadows and give into drugs; and choosing the wrong path of life. My motivation for success grew increasingly sometimes when I think about it I’m glad I wasn’t born with a golden spoon because now I am more culturally aware and have also gained knowledge of “streets” something that can’t be taught through school. Despite the cultural awareness; growing up around my family I have learned to embrace my own ethnic background, which I am an African-american, male and the morals I came along with it. I grew...
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...Little-Known Causes of Depression There are many well-known depression triggers: Trauma, grief, financial troubles, and unemployment are just a few. But if we are depressed and none of these apply to us, it can be hard to pinpoint a specific cause. In truth, there may not be a concrete reason for depression. But here are some little-known causes to consider. * Poor sleep habits It's no surprise that sleep deprivation can lead to irritability, but it could also increase the risk of depression. A 2007 study found that when healthy participants were deprived of sleep, they had greater brain activity after viewing upsetting images than their well-rested counterparts, which is similar to the reaction that depressed patients have, noted one of the study authors. If we don't sleep, we don't have time to replenish [brain cells], the brain stops functioning well, and one of the many factors that could lead to is depression. * Face book overload Spending too much time in chat rooms and on social-networking sites is a very harmful activity especially for youngsters. A number of studies now suggest that this can be associated with depression, particularly in teens and preteens. Internet addicts may struggle with real-life human interaction and a lack of companionship, and they may have an unrealistic view of the world. Some experts even call it "Face book depression." In a 2010 study, researchers found that about 1.2% of people ages 16 to 51 spent an inordinate amount...
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