week 4 differential diagnosis

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For this assignment, you will create a differential diagnosis for the patient in your chosen case. This assignment continues the work you started in the Weeks One and Two discussion forums and the Week Three assignment. Be sure to follow the instructions in Chapter 1: Differential Diagnosis Step by Step when creating your differential diagnosis. Your assignment must include the following:

  • Recommend a diagnosis based on the patient’s symptoms, presenting problems, and history.
  • Assess the validity of your diagnosis using a sociocultural perspective.
  • Compare at least one evidence-based and one non-evidence-based treatment option for the diagnosis. Research a minimum of two peer-reviewed sources to support your choices.
  • Propose and provide an explanation for a minimum of two historical perspectives and two theoretical orientations that are inappropriate alternates for the conceptualizations in this case.

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Running head: PREFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS

Preferential Diagnosis
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PREFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS

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Preferential Patient Diagnosis
Signs and symptoms exhibited by the patient
The patient exhibits negative attitude and mood swings whereby the patient lacks the
feeling of satisfaction and love. There is the presence of distressing memories in both college
academic life and body size. The element of self-esteem is tampered with due to the negative
feelings. The patient avoids people who remind her of her current condition and she does not
seem to know how these factors affect her. The patient’s social life and functioning are
affected because even the family does not seem to understand her.
Diagnosis
Acute stress disorder
Diagnostics
The diagnostics are determined by the past experiences of the patient. This includes
the exposures and the fears that she is subjected to. The analysis of the patient incorporates
the physical examination and the body outlook. Acute stress disorder directly affects the
patient’s physical conditions. In this case, the patient looks emaciated in the sense that she
has lost much weight to the extent that even her famil...

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