RE: SOCW6090: Disccussion: Presenting and Validating Diagnosis (wk7)

Humanities

Your colleagues then review your diagnosis for validity, recommending an evidence-based tool to use in your case.

Such tools help confirm the details and validity of a diagnosis. Measures also help clinicians notice other patterns in a disorder that might otherwise be missed. By confirming an accurate diagnosis through a measurement instrument, a social worker ensures that the appropriate evidence-based treatment is used.

Please be mindful I will make a video from the information provided for the video to not be more than 5 min.

Assignment (Please follow promps, use subheadings and please add subsytance the feedback from instructor we are not applying theory to assignments.

  • Describe your case concisely and clearly.
  • Describe your decision-making process for identifying the key problems in the case and the differential eliminations for your case.
  • Identify the diagnosis chosen by you and your partner for the client in the case. Explain the diagnosis by providing the supporting DSM-5 criteria with specific examples of how your client met those criteria.

Reference

Morrison, J. (2014). Diagnosis made easier (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Guilford Press.

  • Chapter 5, “Coping with Uncertainty” (pp. 43–56)
  • Chapter 13, “Diagnosing Psychosis” (pp. 185–215)

American Psychiatric Association. (2013o). Schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders. In Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). Arlington, VA: Author. doi:10.1176/appi.books.9780890425596.dsm02

American Psychiatric Association. (2013b). Assessment measures. In Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). Arlington, VA: Author. doi:10.1176/appi.books.9780890425596.AssessmentMeasures