History of Suicide Attempts and/or Self-Injurious Behaviors
*/ You can use any patient with a psychiatric issue, this is for a PMHNP clinical class of Psychotherapy.
For this assignment, students will create a written comprehensive psychiatric evaluation of a patient they have seen in the clinic. Each student will use the Graduate Psychotherapy Note Template Download Graduate Psychotherapy Note Template to create a detailed psychiatric evaluation document. SOAP is an acronym that stands for Subjective, Objective, Assessment, and Plan. The comprehensive psychiatric evaluation is to be written using the attached template below.
S Subjective data: Patient’s Chief Complaint (CC); History of the Present Illness (HPI)/ Demographics; History of the Present Illness (HPI) (Links to an external site.) that includes the presenting problem and the 8 dimensions of the problem (OLDCARTS); Review of Systems (ROS).
O Objective data: Medications; Allergies; Past medical history; Family history; Past surgical history; Psychiatric history, Social history; Labs and screening tools; Vital signs; Physical exam, (Focused), and Mental Status Exam.
A Assessment: Primary Diagnosis and two differential diagnoses including ICD-10 and DSM5 codes.
P Plan: Pharmacologic and Nonpharmacologic treatment plan; diagnostic testing/screening tools, patient/family teaching, referral, and follow up.
Other: Incorporate current clinical guidelines NIH Clinical Guidelines (Links to an external site.)or APA Clinical Guidelines (Links to an external site.), research articles, and the role of the PMHNP in your presentation.
Reminder: It is important that you complete this assessment using your critical thinking skills. You are expected to synthesize your clinical assessment, formulate a psychiatric diagnosis, and develop a treatment plan independently. It is not acceptable to document "my preceptor made this diagnosis." An example of the appropriate descriptors of the clinical evaluation is listed below. It is not acceptable to document “within normal limits.”
Submission Instructions:
The paper is to be clear and concise and students will lose points for improper grammar, punctuation and misspelling.
The paper should be formatted per current APA and 8-10 pages in length, excluding the title, abstract and references page. Incorporate a minimum of 5 current (published within last five years) scholarly journal articles or primary legal sources (statutes, court opinions) within your work.
Patient Initials: L.R. Gender: M/F/Transgender Female Age: 25 Race: American Ethnicity: Caucasian
Reason for Seeking Health Care: "I have an intense fear of getting fat, but my family insisted that I looked weak and malnourished, so I had to go here."
HPI: Five months prior to consultation, the patient joined local pageantry, and she was told that she needed to lose weight to have the bikini body requirement. Hence, the patient started to eat only approximately 500 to 1000 kilocalories daily and did not eat carbohydrate- and fat-rich foods. The patient also engaged in extreme workouts that lasted for 5 hours daily and practiced this seven times a week. The patient lost 15 kilograms in three weeks, which was in time for her pageant. She eventually won the crown and was hailed the best swimsuit attire.
Four months prior to consultation, the patient continued her diet and extreme workouts. However, due to her fear of gaining weight, she reduced her calorie intake to 500 to 700 daily. Her friends expressed their concern over her crash diet but did not listen to them because she thought she was still fat, despite her family and friends telling her that her body was significant enough for any competition. She continued this lifestyle until she lost another 10 kilograms in just a month.
Three months prior to consultation, the patient started to eat less than 200 kilocalories during weekdays and only drank water during weekends. She states that she feels hungry most of the time but refuses to eat, even when her mother cooks her favorite food, because she does not want to get fat. She wanted to maintain her body and reduce her weight even more. Her parents expressed their concern over her drastic weight reduction because, according to them, she looked "pale and thin like a corpse." However, the patient did not believe them and told them that the diet was still insufficient.
Two months prior to consultation, the patient almost stopped eating for four consecutive days, only having water to fill her stomach. After the fourth day, the patient was brought to the emergency room for loss of consciousness. The attending physician stated that the patient suffered from non-diabetic hypoglycemia and iron deficiency anemia and opted to hospitalize the patient for total parenteral nutrition due to the patient's refusal to eat and blood transfusion. She was then referred to the psychiatry department, but the patient refused to follow the management. She was then diagnosed with anorexia nervosa, restricting type, moderate, and was provided psychosocial support and psychotherapy, for which the patient did not comply after being discharged. The patient did not think that the condition was severe and claimed that she had seen many models even thinner than her and wanted to achieve such an appearance.
Interim history revealed the persistence of the patient's mindset and lifestyle and the refusal to avail of the outpatient treatment for anorexia.
A few hours prior to consultation, the patient was forcedly brought by her parents to the psychiatry department of our institution due to her persistent lifestyle. The parents claimed that the patient did not believe that her body was already t...
You Might Also Like Other Topics Related to suicide essays:
- Analysis of the Sin of Suicide (Euthanasia)1 page/≈275 words | 3 Sources | APA | Health, Medicine, Nursing | Essay |
- Rate and Signs of Suicide Among the Elderly1 page/≈275 words | 2 Sources | APA | Life Sciences | Other (Not Listed) |
- COVID-19, Mental Health Crisis-Suicide and Addiction10 pages/≈2750 words | 30 Sources | APA | Social Sciences | Essay |
- Veteran Suicide Prevention Activities for American Indians and Alaska Native Tribes 2 pages/≈550 words | 5 Sources | APA | Health, Medicine, Nursing | Essay |
- Articles with Extensive Information on the Causes of Suicide among Adolescents3 pages/≈825 words | APA | Psychology | Essay |
- Marriage and Suicide in China3 pages/≈825 words | APA | Literature & Language | Reaction Paper |
- Evaluation of the Brochure Entitled Suicide Prevention3 pages/≈825 words | APA | Literature & Language | Essay |