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Diagnosis Bipolar II Disorder The client has a history of hypomanic disorders He meets criteria for hypomanic episode with the following symptoms: Having elevated mood/symptoms for sometimes up to a week He engages in goal directed activities (highly productive at work) He reported “racing thoughts” indicating flight of ideas He also reported being “unusually talkative” He denies any distress or impairment however his family and boss have made comment on his unusually pos...

Justification of diagnosis: Heather has a clear fear of vomiting that causes her anxiety. Heather has indicated that vomiting causes fear in many situations sometimes even in situations that are not commonly linked to vomiting. By explaining the intense fear of vomiting in varying situations, Heather meets the criteria for the situation or object always provoking fear. Heather avoids situations here vomiting is likely to occur, as well as enduring every day activities with the fear of...

Heather diagnosis process: Diagnosis- Specific Phobia , type “other”- specification, vomiting Justification of diagnosis: Heather has a clear fear of vomiting that causes her anxiety. Heather has indicated that vomiting causes fear in many situations sometimes even in situations that are not commonly linked to vomiting. By explaining the intense fear of vomiting in varying situations, Heather meets the criteria for the situation or object always provoking fear. Heather avoi...

Appropriate diagnoses Boarderline Personality disorder Trey meets criteria for borderline personality disorder. At the beginning of their session they began by saying they where “madly in love” for the period of their three month relationship indicating alternating idealization and devaluation of other. Once explaining that their relationship had ended they described their partner as “evil” again referencing alternating idealization and devaluation. Trey also admitted to infidelity ...

Selection of the self-report scale The SMPD-A Panic disorder scale does a great job at assessing the diagnosis criteria. The scale includes questions that address the symptoms of panic attacks as well as the fear or anxiety surrounding the impairment of panic attacks on the individual's life. The diagnostic criteria for panic disorder is brief as it predominantly involves the reoccurring unexpected panic attacks and one month of either worry or avoidance so this scale does a great job of enco...

I believe what it means to be mentally healthy is to consciously be taking care of your mental health. Taking care of your mental health can come in many forms whether you reside most with spirituality, self-care, or speaking to a therapist to stay in tune with your mental needs all of these factors contribute to being mentally healthy. Other factors such as spirituality can be linked to mental health this can include meditative practices, mindfulness, and other practices of optimism and having ...

Selection of the self-report scale I have selected to review SMPD-A: Panic Disorder self report scale. 2. The SMPD-A Panic disorder scale does a great job at assessing the diagnosis criteria. The scale includes questions that address the symptoms of panic attacks as well as the fear or anxiety surrounding the impairment of panic attacks on the individual's life. The diagnostic criteria for panic disorder is brief as it predominantly involves the reoccurring unexpected panic attacks and...

In these notes, I will talk about the contrast between the three components of an attitude, Summarize the relationship between attitudes and behavior, compare the major job attitudes, identify the two approaches for measuring job satisfaction, summarize the main cause of job satisfaction, and lastly identify four employee responses to job dissatisfaction

Chapter 4 - Emotions and Moods These notes will talk about differentiating between emotions and moods, identify the sources of emotions and moods, show the impact emotional labor has on employees, describe affective events theory, describe emotional intelligence, identify strategies for emotion regulation, and lastly apply concepts about emotions and moods to specific OB issues.

This document provides the discussion questions that you can print and write for this class. I have given examples of how to answer.