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• Review the anxiety disorder cases (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) in Brown and Barlow (2017). In case you do not have your casebook yet, I have attached a document containing these five cases for you. I do not have access to any other cases for the upcoming weeks, so you will need to have your book very soon.
• Review the following videos:
o "Bonnie: PTSD".
o "Phillip: Generalized Anxiety Disorder".
• Discuss the diagnosis presented in one of the videos (Bonnie or Phillip). According to DSM-5 diagnostic criteria, explain whether the individual either meets or does not meet full criteria for the diagnosis in DSM-5, based on the symptoms reported in the video.
• Discuss the differential diagnosis. (i.e., several disorders may have overlapping symptoms. Which other diagnoses have similar symptoms, and why would they not be diagnosed in this particular case?)
Reference
• Clinical Assessment & Diagnosis, Stress, and Anxiety Disorders Butcher, J.N., Mineka, S., & Hooley, J.M. (2017). Abnormal psychology (17th ed.).
o Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.
o Chapter 4: Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis
o Chapter 5: Stress and Physical and Mental Health
o Chapter 6: Panic, Anxiety, Obsessions, and Their Disorders
• Brown, T. A., & Barlow, D. H. (2017). Casebook in abnormal psychology. Belmont, CA: Cengage.
o Case 1: Generalized Anxiety Disorder
o Case 2: Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia
o Case 3: Adolescent Social Anxiety Disorder
o Case 4: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
o Case 5: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
• Casebook: Casebook in Abnormal Psychology
Note that you will need to purchase the casebook for the remaining cases/weeks of readings.
o American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.
o Anxiety Disorders (pp. 189-233)
o Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders (pp. 235-264)
o Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders (pp. 265-290).
The response must include a reference list. Using Times New Roman 12 pnt font, double-space, one-inch margins, and APA style of writing and citations.