Diagnosis of Anxiety and Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders

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To prepare: Read the case provided by your instructor for this week’s Discussion. Review the decision trees for anxiety and OCD in the Morrison (2014) text and the podcasts on anxiety. Then access the Walden Library and research interventions for anxiety.

Post response in which you address the following:

Provide the full DSM-5 diagnosis for the client. Remember, a full diagnosis should include the name of the disorder, ICD-10-CM code, specifiers, severity, and the Z codes (other conditions that may be a focus of clinical attention).  Keep in mind a diagnosis covers the most recent 12 months.

Explain the diagnosis by matching the symptoms identified in the case to the specific criteria for the diagnosis.

Discuss other disorders you considered for this diagnosis and eliminated (the differential diagnoses).

Describe an evidence-based assessment scale that would assist in ongoing validation of your diagnosis.


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Running head: ANXIETY AND OCD

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Provide the full DSM-5 diagnosis for the client. Remember, a full diagnosis should include
the name of the disorder, ICD-10-CM code, specifiers, severity, and the Z codes.
F42.9 Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, unspecified.
The client is a 29-years-old female living with a boyfriend. Makayla finds that by scrubbing her
home clean is her best therapy to ease her concerns of marriage. Makayla reports that there are
times when she looks at the house and it triggers her and within minutes she has intense
discomfort feeling dizzy, sweating, feels nauseous, and trouble breathing. She has never been to
a therapist and decided to attend now. She drinks socially and tried marijuana in college but
denies other drug uses. She had the usual childhood illnesses but has not had any severe illnesses
in adulthood. She denies any psychiatric history in th...

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