Overview
For this assignment, you will practice your diagnostic decision-making skills to prepare you to handle complex, comorbid cases. You will also include multiple diversity factors as you discuss how they ethically inform your approach to the diagnoses, differential diagnoses, and treatment of the person. Lastly, you will learn to be an effective consumer of the research literature as you work to incorporate diversity factors in your diagnoses and treatment.
Use the following resources as you complete your diagnoses:
DSM-5-TRLinks to an external site..
ICD-11 for Mortality and Morbidity StatisticsLinks to an external site..
Instructions
Consider the following case as you write your assignment:
Person E is an adult who works from home for the Department of Defense to analyze geographical patterns in aerial data of other countries. Person E likes working from home to have less sensory overload than working in person. Person E has always liked order and prefers doing activities in a certain sequence. When Person E was a child, they recall having thoughts about needing to turn the lights off and on seven times before going to bed and doing other behaviors and sequences of seven, such as brushing teeth, brushing hair, folding clothes, et cetera. Also as a child, Person E felt different from the other children. Smiling, laughing, and other social exchanges seemed very difficult for Person E. Friendships were and continue to be very challenging for Person E. Sometimes, Person E would take to rocking back and forth to soothe themselves. Person E continues to have unwanted, anxious thoughts about the need to carry out activities in sequences of seven. Person E gives in to the urge to do activities in a series of seven, because that seems to be the only thing that reduces the anxiety from such thoughts.
Provide a diagnostic formulation for Person E and include the following:
Choose a gender for the person in the case.
Identify a name for the person in the case and select diversity factors.
Include at least two diversity factors from the areas of race, socioeconomic status, religion, age, nationality, sexual orientation, disability status, and military status.
Be sure to select two different diversity factors from the ones that you selected in the previous week.
Develop a primary and secondary diagnosis with a rationale for why one diagnosis is primary.
Using a biopsychosocial approach, justify the diagnostic reasoning for both the primary and secondary diagnosis.
If more information is needed for a diagnosis, then state what that information is and why it would be helpful in your diagnostic decision making.
Develop a differential diagnosis for both the primary and secondary diagnoses.
Discuss how the diversity factors ethically inform the diagnosis and treatment for Person E.
Include at least one scholarly source in your discussion of diversity factors for the person in the case.
Additional Requirements
Your assignment should also meet the following requirements:
Written communication:
Apply the standard writing conventions for the discipline, including structure, voice, person, and tone.
Address the appropriate audience, using familiar, discipline-specific language and terminology.
Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and respectful of the diversity, dignity, and integrity of others, consistent with expectations for stakeholders in the psychology profession.
Format: Use the Evidence and APALinks to an external site. section of the Writing Center for information on how to format resources and citations in current APA style.
Length: 3–5 typed, double-spaced pages of content plus title and reference pages.
Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.