Assessing and Treating Adult and Geriatric Clients With Mood Disorders Essay Assignment Paper Week 3: Adult and Geriatric Antidepressant Therapy The National Institute of Mental Health estimates that approximately 15.7 million adults in the United States have depression (NIMH, 2014), making depression one of the most common disorders you will treat in practice. Although this […]
Assessing and Treating Clients With Psychosis and Schizophrenia Essay Assignment Papers Week 6: Antipsychotic Therapy According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, approximately 100,000 people experience psychosis in the United States each year (NAMI, 2016). In practice, clients may present with delusions, hallucinations, disorganized thinking, disorganized or abnormal motor behavior, as well as other […]
Assessing and Treating Clients With Impulsivity, Compulsivity, and Addiction Essay Assignment Papers Week 8: Therapy for Clients With Impulsivity, Compulsivity, and Addiction Impulsivity and compulsivity have a wide range of clinical presentations and often overlap with many other psychiatric disorders. Some individuals act without forethought and have difficulty saying “no” to certain things such as […]
Therapy / Assessing and Treating Clients With ADHD Discussion Assignment Week 9: Therapy for Clients with ADHD Tyler, a 9-year-old third grader, had always been an energetic child with a short attention span. For years, his mother attributed his behaviors to him being “all boy” and assumed it would improve as he grew older. Instead, […]