Discussion Post: Assessing & Diagnosing Patients with Anxiety Disorders, PTSD & OCD
For this discussion, you practice assessing and diagnosing patients with anxiety disorders, PTSD, and OCD. Review the DSM-5-TR criteria for the disorders within these classifications before you get started, as you will be asked to justify your differential diagnosis with DSM-5-TR criteria.
To Prepare:
1) Review this Learning Resources and consider the insights they provide about assessing and diagnosing anxiety, obsessive-compulsive, and trauma- and stressor-related disorders.
2) Download the Comprehensive Psychiatric Evaluation Template, which you will use to complete this Assignment. Also review the Comprehensive Psychiatric Evaluation Exemplar to see an example of a completed evaluation document.
3) Select a specific video case study to use for this Assignment from the Video Case Selections choices in the Learning Resources. View your assigned video case and review the additional data for the case in the "Case History Reports" document, keeping the requirements of the evaluation template in mind.
4) Consider what history would be necessary to collect from this patient.
5) Consider what interview questions you would need to ask this patient.
6) Identify at least three possible differential diagnoses for the patient.
The response should include a reference list. Double-space, using Times New Roman 12 pnt font, one-inch margins, and APA style of writing and citations.