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-TR.
ICD-11 for Mortality and Morbidity Statistics.
Instructions
Consider the following case as you write your assignment:
Person J has always considered themselves healthy and active. Person J decided to take a job as a delivery driver while going to school at night. One day while delivering a package, Person J was hit by a car that was going too fast in a residential area. Person J hit their head on the road and after being in the hospital for a few weeks, now has difficulty walking and talking. Person J had to leave school due to not being able to keep up with the fast pace of assignments. Person J also lost their job as a delivery driver due to their injuries. Now Person J feels “down in the dumps” most of the time. Person J sleeps a lot, has low energy, does not take a lot of pleasure in most activities, generally feels hopeless, views the world as a “bad place,” and believes they are worthless.
Provide a diagnostic formulation for Person J 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 J.
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 APA 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.