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01 Oct

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Care Across the Lifespan I Practicum Practicum Experience Plan (PEP)   As you establish your goals and objectives for this course, you are committing to an organized plan that will frame your practicum experience in a clinical setting, including planned activities, assessment, and achievement of defined outcomes. In...

01 Oct

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Care Across the Lifespan I Practicum Clinical Skills Self-Assessment   Photo Credit: AndreyPopov / iStock / Getty Images Plus / Getty Images   Before embarking on any professional or academic activity, it is important to understand the background, knowledge, and experience you bring to it. You might ask yourself, “What...

01 Oct

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Care Across the Lifespan I Comprehensive Integrated Psychiatric Assessment   Many assessment principles are the same for children and adults; however, unlike with adults/older adults, where consent for participation in the assessment comes from the actual client, with children it is the parents or guardians who must make...

01 Oct

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Care Across the Lifespan I Assessing, Diagnosing, and Treating Adults With Mood Disorders   It is important for the PMHNP to have a comprehensive understanding of mood disorders in order to assess and accurately formulate a diagnosis and treatment plan for patients presenting with these disorders. Mood disorders...

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Care Across the Lifespan I Controversy Associated With Dissociative Disorders   The DSM-5 is a diagnostic tool. It has evolved over the decades, as have the classifications and criteria within its pages. It is used not just for diagnosis, however, but also for billing, access to services, and...

01 Oct

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Care Across the Lifespan I Patient Education for Children and Adolescents   Patient education is an effective tool in supporting compliance and treatment for a diagnosis. It is important to consider effective ways to educate patients and their families about a diagnosis—such as coaching, brochures, or videos—and to...

01 Oct

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Psychopathology and Diagnostic Reasoning Assignment: Assessing and Diagnosing Patients With Schizophrenia, Other Psychotic Disorders, and Medication-Induced Movement Disorders   Photo Credit: [Hero Images]/[Hero Images]/Getty Images   Psychotic disorders and schizophrenia are some of the most complicated and challenging diagnoses in the DSM. The symptoms of psychotic disorders may appear quite...

01 Oct

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Psychopathology and Diagnostic Reasoning Assessing and Diagnosing Patients With Anxiety Disorders, PTSD, and OCD “Fear,” according to the DSM-5, “is the emotional response to real or perceived imminent threat, whereas anxiety is anticipation of future threat” (APA, 2013). All anxiety disorders contain some degree of fear or...

01 Oct

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Psychopathology and Diagnostic Reasoning Assessing and Diagnosing Patients With Mood Disorders   Photo Credit: Getty Images   Accurately diagnosing depressive disorders can be challenging given their periodic and, at times, cyclic nature. Some of these disorders occur in response to stressors and, depending on the cultural history of the client,...

01 Oct

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Psychopathology and Diagnostic Reasoning The Psychiatric Evaluation and Evidence-Based Rating Scales   Assessment tools have two primary purposes: 1) to measure illness and diagnose clients, and 2) to measure a client’s response to treatment. Often, you will find that multiple assessment tools are designed to measure the same...