Assignment: Assessing and Diagnosing Patients with Mood Disorders To Prepare: Review this week’s Learning Resources. Consider the insights they provide about assessing and diagnosing mood disorders. Download the Comprehensive Psychiatric Evaluation Template, which you will use to complete this Assignment. Also review the Comprehensive Psychiatric Evaluation Exemplar to see an example of a completed evaluation document.

Template

Subjective:

CC (chief complaint):

HPI:

Past Psychiatric History:

  • General Statement:
  • Caregivers (if applicable):
  • Hospitalizations:
  • Medication trials:
  • Psychotherapy or Previous Psychiatric Diagnosis:

Substance Current Use and History:

Family Psychiatric/Substance Use History:

Psychosocial History:

Medical History:

  • Current Medications:
  • Allergies:
  • Reproductive Hx:

ROS:

  • GENERAL:
  • HEENT:
  • SKIN:
  • CARDIOVASCULAR:
  • RESPIRATORY:
  • GASTROINTESTINAL:
  • GENITOURINARY:
  • NEUROLOGICAL:
  • MUSCULOSKELETAL:
  • HEMATOLOGIC:
  • LYMPHATICS:
  • ENDOCRINOLOGIC:

Objective:

Physical exam: if applicable

Diagnostic results:

Assessment:

Mental Status Examination:

Differential Diagnoses:

Reflections:

References

Learning Resources

Required Readings (click to expand/reduce)

 

American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Anxiety disorders. In Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). Arlington, VA: Author. doi:10.1176/appi.books.9780890425596.dsm05

Assignment: Assessing and Diagnosing Patients With Anxiety Disorders, PTSD, and OCD NRNP 6635 American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Obsessive compulsive and related disorders. In Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). Arlington, VA: Author. doi:10.1176/appi.books.9780890425596.dsm06

American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Trauma- and stressor-related disorders. In Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). Arlington, VA: Author. doi:10.1176/appi.books.9780890425596.dsm07

Sadock, B. J., Sadock, V. A., and Ruiz, P. (2015). Kaplan & Sadock’s synopsis of psychiatry (11th ed.). Wolters Kluwer.

  • Chapter 9, Anxiety Disorders
  • Chapter 10, Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
  • Chapter 11, Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders
  • Chapter 31.11 Trauma-Stressor Related Disorders in Children
  • Chapter 31.13 Anxiety Disorders in Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence
  • Chapter 31.14 Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Childhood and Adolescence

Document: Comprehensive Psychiatric Evaluation Template

Document: Comprehensive Psychiatric Evaluation Exemplar

Required Media (click to expand/reduce)

 

Classroom Productions. (Producer). (2015). Anxiety disorders [Video]. Walden University.

Classroom Productions. (Producer). (2012). The neurobiology of anxiety [Video]. Walden University.

Classroom Productions. (Producer). (2015). Obsessive-compulsive disorders [Video]. Walden University.

Classroom Productions. (Producer). (2015). Trauma, PTSD, and Trauma-Informed Care [Video]. Walden University.

MedEasy. (2017). Anxiety, OCD, PTSD and related psychiatric disorders | USMLE & COMLEX [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BwzQF9DTlY

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