Assignment Task: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
To prepare:
- Review this week's Learning Resources and reflects on the insights they provide about diagnosing and treating PTSD.
- View the media Presentation Example: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and assess the client in the case study.
- For guidance on assessing the client, refer to Chapter 3 of the Wheeler text.
Note: To complete this Assignment, you must assess the client, but you are not required to submit a formal comprehensive client assessment.
Assignment: Succinctly, in 1-2 pages, address the following:
- Briefly explain the neurobiological basis for PTSD illness.
- Discuss the DSM-5-TR diagnostic criteria for PTSD and relate these criteria to the symptomology presented in the case study. Does the video case presentation provide sufficient information to derive a PTSD diagnosis? Justify your reasoning. Do you agree with the other diagnoses in the case presentation? Why or why not? Need Assignment Help?
- Discuss one other psychotherapy treatment option for the client in this case study. Explain whether your treatment option is considered a "gold standard treatment" from a clinical practice guideline perspective, and why using gold standard, evidence-based treatments from clinical practice guidelines is important for psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioners.
Support your Assignment with specific examples from this week's media and at least three peer-reviewed, evidence-based sources. Explain why each of your supporting sources is considered scholarly.
- This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome Succinctly, in 1-2 pages, address the following:
- Briefly explain the neurobiological basis for PTSD illness. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Discuss the DSM-5-TR diagnostic criteria for PTSD and relate these criteria to the symptomology presented in the case study. Does the video case presentation provide sufficient information to derive a PTSD diagnosis? Justify your reasoning. Do you agree with the other diagnoses in the case presentation? Why or why not?
- This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome
- Discuss one other psychotherapy treatment option for the client in this case study. Explain whether your treatment option is considered a "gold standard" treatment from a clinical practice guideline perspective, and why using gold standard, evidence-based treatments from clinical practice guidelines is important for psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioners.
- Support your approach with specific examples from this week's media and at least three peer-reviewed, evidence-based sources.
- Written Expression and Formatting - Paragraph Development and Organization: Paragraphs make clear points that support well-developed ideas, flow logically, and demonstrate continuity of ideas. Sentences are carefully focused-neither long and rambling nor short and lacking substance. A clear and comprehensive purpose statement and introduction is provided which delineates all required criteria.
- Written Expression and Formatting - English writing standards: Correct grammar, mechanics, and proper punctuation
- This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome Written Expression and Formatting - The paper follows correct APA format for title page, headings, font, spacing, margins, indentations, page numbers, parenthetical/in-text citations, and reference list.
Video Assigned
- Grande, T. (2019, August 21). Presentation example: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). [Video]. YouTube.
- Gift from Within. (Producer). (2008). PTSD and veterans: A conversation with Dr. Frank Ochberg. [Video].
- Know & Grow with Dr. K. (2021, July 18). Does your child suffer from post traumatic stress disorder? (Strictly Medical-English Version). [Video]. YouTube.