COURSE  

NRNP-6635 Psychpathology Diag Reasoning

Complete and submit your Comprehensive Psychiatric Evaluation, including your differential diagnosis and critical-thinking process to formulate primary diagnosis.
Incorporate the following into your responses in the template:

• Subjective: What details did the patient provide regarding their chief complaint and symptomology to derive your differential diagnosis? What is the duration and severity of their symptoms? How are their symptoms impacting their functioning in life?
• Objective: What observations did you make during the psychiatric assessment?
• Assessment: Discuss the patient’s mental status examination results. What were your differential diagnoses? Provide a minimum of three possible diagnoses with supporting evidence, listed in order from highest priority to lowest priority. Compare the DSM-5-TR diagnostic criteria for each differential diagnosis and explain what DSM-5-TR criteria rules out the differential diagnosis to find an accurate diagnosis. Explain the critical-thinking process that led you to the primary diagnosis you selected. Include pertinent positives and pertinent negatives for the specific patient case.
• Reflection notes: What would you do differently with this client if you could conduct the session over? Also include in your reflection a discussion related to legal/ethical considerations (demonstrate critical thinking beyond confidentiality and consent for treatment!), health promotion and disease prevention taking into consideration patient factors (such as age, ethnic group, etc.), PMH, and other risk factors (e.g., socioeconomic, cultural background, etc.).

SOLUTION  

Introduction

Neurodevelopmental disorders are disorders that occur due to impairment in cognition, behavior, communication, and motor skills that result from abnormal brain development and growth of the central nervous system. This disorder can be intellectual disability, autism spectrum disorder (ASD), communication disorder, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). This disorder affects memory, learning abilities, self-control, concentration, emotions and focus (Mullin et al., 2013). The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the case study of a 11 year old female having difficulty concentrating and remembering what she was taught in school.…..please click the icon below to access entire solution at $10