Mental disorder

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In 1,000-1,250 words, select a psychotic disorder and discuss biological methods used to treat the disorder. Include the following:


  1. Describe the problems associated with each biological method described.
  2. Suggest psychological methods that could be used to help a person with a psychotic disorder. Consider if the method would be dependent upon the setting – inpatient vs. outpatient.
  3. Explain the long-term outcomes for people with psychotic disorders.

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Running Head: Management Of Psychotic Disorder

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Management of Psychotic Disorder
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Background
The case at hand involves a young Somali woman who is in her early 30’s and moved to
America when she was a teenager. The issue is triggering her problem is that at the moment she is
in a “planned” marriage where her husband was chosen for her while she was still young. She
presents to the hospital following a three weeks period of being hospitalized for brief psychotic
disorder. This diagnosis was made due to the symptoms that have continued for the last three
weeks.
Before she was admitted to the hospital, she was talking of Visions of Allah for a week and
now she believes that she was the prophet Mohammad. She believes she can bring deliverance to
the world. Her husband was worried about her behavior to an extent where he could not leave her
with their four children. There was an instance where she went out of control and forced us to
make a call to the police and she was admitted to an inpatient psych unit.
Her latest assessment has shown that she is a bit calmer and she says that the whole
situation was exaggerated. She even denies that she believed that she was prophet Mohammad and
that the husband was out for her because he did not love her and wanted an American wife. She
says that she knows it because the television tells her that. She has a weight 140lbs and has 5’5’’
Psychotic disorder treatment
The patient has been hospitalized for twenty-one days for suffering from a ...


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