Making A Diagnosis On Danny At This Point

Addiction can come in many different forms but they all change the environment around the addict. In The Shining, Danny, a five year-old boy has an imaginary friend named Tony. Although both his parents, Wendy (mom) and Jack (dad), have knowledge of this friend, it isn’t until chapter 17 that they realize Danny could seriously be mentally disabled or disoriented. Jack can be described as four things: alcoholic, a playwright, high tempered, and abusive. He has only touched Danny once but that day would change Danny forever, and Danny would never mess around in his office again.

It can be argued that the recent divorce that William has experienced could be the cause for these behaviors. Divorce is a stressful situation and stress full situations can be accompanied by these behaviors. William would most likely be diagnosed with some form of depression. He would then be treated by a therapist and probably prescribed some anti-depressant. In hope that his hormones would become balanced by the drug. Psychologists know far less about mental health than they know about mental illness Baumgardner, Crothers, (2009). In this case the information that would be the most important to a traditional psychologist would be the events that have occurred in his life and the behaviors that he is exhibiting after these particular events happened. The conclusion would be to focus on mental illness and treat the behaviors causing depression, rather than focusing on strengths to make William a healthier person all the way around.

Though the movie centers around Bob Wiley, each and every one of the characters' disorders are shown. Bob's major disorder is his dependent personality disorder. The disorder is a long-term condition in which people depend too much on others to meet their emotional and physical needs. Bob has always been dependent on his therapists. This is shown when he previous therapist refers him to Dr. Marvin. Bob’s attachment to his therapist is very stressful for the therapist. This is scene throughout the film while Dr. Marvin nears breaking down. It is also evident when Bob’s old therapist is leaving his practice. It is obvious that Bob was the cause of that. Bob is dependent on Dr. Marvin. This is seen as he tries to desperately call him after only about a day after Dr. Marvin goes on vacation, and then even fakes his own suicide to find out where the doctor was.

The aforementioned client described problems with low self-esteem, feelings of constant failure whilst belittling the reported achievements in his life; and feeling the need to constantly better himself. When we tried to formulate the problem collaboratively, we were able to establish that his thoughts were: negative, discounting success, black and white and following rigid rules. He experienced feelings of low mood and exhaustion and noted that his behaviours involved constant checking, trying to multi task, being over thorough, making lists that were unrealistic to achieve and tendencies to avoid tasks and

Based on the DSM-V (2013) diagnostic criteria Keisha experiences Persistent Depressive Disorder 300.4 (F34.1), recurrent, moderate, with early onset. The client experiences the following symptoms: depressed mood for most of the day, for more days than not, as indicated by either subjective accounts (e.g., feels sad, worthless and hopeless) or observation by others (e.g. appears sad, cries), for at least one year (she is an adolescent). In addition, while depressed, there is a presence of the following symptoms: the client experiences poor appetite, she is eating one or two meals per day and lost ten pounds in one year. Keisha also experiences hypersomnia nearly every day by sleeping twelve or more hours per night. The client reports low energy/fatigue very often, even though she is sleeping well during the night. During the one year period of disturbance, the individual has never been without the symptoms in criteria A and B for more than two months at a time. In addition, the criteria for a major depressive disorder has been continuously present for one year. There has never been a manic episode or a hypomanic episode, and criteria have never been met for cyclothymic disorder. Furthermore, the disturbance is not better explained by a persistent schizoaffective disorder, schizophrenia, delusional disorder, or other specified or

I had all of the diagnosis. The only thing that I did not have was increasing the medication from 10mg to 20mg. I just decided to go up to 15mg. AAP guidelines state that all criterial of DSM-IV are met and all other causes are ruled out. Information should be collected from parents, teachers and possibly other mental health professionals. If the patient has multiple teachers, then at least 2 teachers should fill out paper work. Evaluation should include possible coexisting conditions. These conditions include anxiety, depressive disorders, tics, and sleep disturbances. This is a chronic condition and patients should receive behavior therapy with medication administration (Hauk, 2013). I would ask about any sleep issues. He could be suffering from insomnia.

Treatment options for Daniel would include cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), relaxation techniques, and exposure treatments. Medications can also be prescribed. Medications most commonly used would be sedatives, minor tranquilizers, anxiolytics, benzodiazepines, and antidepressants. Other common medications are the serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SSRI’s) (Kring, Johnson, Davison, & Neale, 2014).

Present Psychiatric Illness/Symptoms: Client reports episodes of feeling completely depressed to the point of having suicidal thoughts, difficulty focusing on set tasks at work, having emotional breakdowns during lunch breaks at work, and stabilizing moods. Has not attempted suicide in a year, but still thinks about it.

I set up an interview with his parents to discuss his progress and find out some information about David. A translator will be needed due to his parents not speaking English. I’ve asked the parents how David’s behavior is at home and how his attitude is towards his school work. I also asked his parents how he reacts when asked about his classmates and school in general. Is he excited to go to school? Does he like learning? Does he have any friends he talks to? After this, I discussed how David is in class including his behavior. He tries to participate sometimes in school and just sits quietly at times. I have noticed him trying to work harder and understand certain material. He will try to reply when spoken to in his best ability. When he is in a group whether it’s playing or working on a project he will attempt to converse with the others.

As it appears on Disco Di’s document she’s currently diagnosed with two distinct types of psychological disorder, first being major depressive disorder, and second being borderline personality disorder. However, the term major depression is only one part of the disorder Disco Di is facing. The type of the disorder in which Disco Di is suffering from, is called mood disorder, and to further narrow it down she’s specifically experiencing what is known as “Bipolar I” that according to DSM-5, is defined as a disorder in which individuals experience cycling episodes of mania and major depression (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Furthermore major depression also in accordance to DSM-5 is marked by chronically low mood which has certain symptoms such as being fatigue, feelings of guilt, and impaired concentration appearing almost every day. In the case of Disco Di, Even though she goes through some of these symptoms, but they are not all the symptoms that she experiences. As it is stated on her document, Disco Di being a cheerful, outgoing 12 year

Rationale: Jennifer has been presenting with symptoms for unspecified amount of time. Jennifer meets six of the criteria for symptoms being present during the same 2-week period and represents a change from previous functioning. Jennifer is depressed most of the day, nearly every day, has diminished interest in all or almost all activities most of the days, nearly every day, has fatigue or loss of energy nearly every day, feelings of worthlessness, and diminished ability to think or concentrate, is having recurrent thoughts of death, recurrent suicidal ideation without a specific plan. The symptoms have cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, and other functioning areas. There is no know substance or medical condition and occurrence is not better explained by Schizophrenia Spectrum or Psychotic Disorders. Jennifer has never had a manic episode or a hypomanic episode. Possible family history of depression - mother.

Unfortunately none of the above can be diagnosed with one specific hospital test and doctors will usually recommend a series of tests and investigations which can take a long time and can cause the person worry and upset thereby causing a knock on effect of depression and anxiety, these tests are very important however to be able to get the correct diagnosis as all the symptoms described can also be the pre cursor to many other illnesses and to be diagnosed with this terrible disease in error would be awful. I think the saddest part of the disease is that although it will affect almost every part of the person’s everyday life and will stop them eventually performing the most simple of tasks such as personal hygiene and eating it does not affect the mind or intelligence so

Based on the scenario, Danny is a 22-year-old college student, who has been brought into my office by his parents. His mother reports that Danny can be the real life of the party and that most people find him very charismatic, that he once tried to harm himself after a girlfriend cheating on him, that lately he has been staying up late playing video games lately and getting an average of a couple of hours of sleep and that the lack of sleep does not seem to impair his functioning or grades. Danny explained that the whole incident is a big misunderstanding and that he does not want to come to counseling. When he was asked to explain the incident that brought him into my office, he explained

The first person I interviewed was my cousin Chloe. I was very shocked at what I found with her answers. I have always thought she was somewhat immature, but her answers said otherwise. One question I asked her was what the biggest accomplishment she has had was. Her answer, “getting straight A’s through all of elementary school and most of middle

The use of personality and IQ test are not going to be beneficial to help diagnose Phil. The mental status exam is not necessary as well because Phil is aware and able to talk and understand what is going on. A neuropsychological, neuroimaging, psychophysiological assessments would be no use to diagnose Phil. The projective test would not contribute in a diagnosis in Phil’s case either.