Mrs. Edwards is a 56 year old female who presented to the ED following an crisis situation at Walmart where she "blacked out". Mrs. Edwards was found with 2 pill bottles on her persons. She denies suicidal ideation, homicidal ideation, and symptoms of psychosis to Hospital staff. At the time of the assessment Mrs. Edwards denies this was an suicidal attempt. Mrs. Edwards states she has blackout before and went to HPR, however the doctors were unable to figure out the cause. She reports 3/15/17 she took her medications as usual around 5 or 6 am when she wakes up and later on that day while in Walmart with her sister blacked out. She denies any mental health history, depressive symptoms, and any past attempts of self harm. Mrs. Edwards has a
Rosa Lee Cunningham is a 52-year old African American female. She is 5-foot-1-inch, 145 pounds. Rosa Lee is married however, is living separately from her husband. She has eight adult children, Bobby, Richard, Ronnie, Donna (Patty), Alvin, Eric, Donald (Ducky) and one child who name she did not disclose. She bore her eldest child at age fourteen and six different men fathered her children. At Rosa Lee’s recent hospital admission to Howard University Hospital emergency room blood test revealed she is still using heroin. Though Rosa Lee recently enrolled in a drug-treatment program it does not appear that she has any intention on ending her drug usage. When asked why she no longer uses heroin she stated she doesn’t always have the resources to support her addiction. Rosa Lee is unemployed and receiving very little in government assistance. She appears to
I carried out this case study on Mrs. Casey (Pseudonym), any 86 year old woman who underwent an elective left total hip replacement (THR). After the OT student studied Mrs. Casey's past medical history in her medical chart, it was noted that she had previously undergone a right THR in 2011, which had been successful and free from complications. Ms. Casey had no other significant past medical history and had been an independent and active woman before the progression of her arthritis. Ms. Casey was required to have total hip replacements carried out on both hip joints as a result of severe Osteoarthritis (OA), which lead to stiffness, pain, and an eventual decrease in mobility, affecting her quality of life and involvement in meaningful occupations.
Ashley Davis is a 14 year-old, brown-skinned, African-American, masculine presenting female. Ashley’s mother reports that patient is defiant, especially toward her and other authority figures. Mother reports that Ashley’s behavior disrupts the family, her ability to achieve in school and has landed her in legal trouble. Mother reports that the Ashley began to exhibit sexually promiscuous behavior starting as early as 9 years old. Her reason for referral and placement on the unit was due to Ashley’s mother, finding her and her twin brother naked together in a sexualized position, all while trying to record this interaction. When the mother questioned both Ashley and her brother, it seemed as though the Ashley was the aggressor.
“You are a liar. I am no more a witch than you are a wizard, and if you take away my life God will give you blood to drink.” Those were Sarah Good’s last words before she was hung on Tuesday July 19, 1692. Sarah was just one of the victims of the Salem Witch trials, but we don’t know if these accusations are true. All we know is that people were hung with some pretty pesare motives.
The primary diagnosis for Amanda Anderson is separation anxiety disorder (SAD) with a co-morbidity of school phobia. Separation anxiety disorder is commonly the precursor to school phobia, which is “one of the two most common anxiety disorders to occur during childhood, and is found in about 4% to 10% of all children” (Mash & Wolfe, 2010, p. 198). Amanda is a seven-year-old girl and her anxiety significantly affects her social life. Based on the case study, Amanda’s father informs the therapist that Amanda is extremely dependent on her mother and she is unenthusiastic when separated from her mother. Amanda was sitting on her mother’s lap when the therapist walked in the room to take Amanda in her office for an interview (Morgan, 1999, p. 1).
Physical Domain: Abigail Tremucha is the 4th daughter of Jessie Tremucha Jr. and Estela Tremucha. Her eye color is brown just like the rest of her family, and is the darkest of the Tremucha children. Hailing from the Philippines, Abigail is a petite young girl, weighing in at a mere 60 lbs at the height of 4’7”. With this information, she is at the 4th percentile in the weight category and at the 25th percentile in the height category for girls her age. Despite her small stature, she is still rather healthy. When the weather is nice, she would go and play outside with her sisters, doing activities such as riding her bike and rollerblading on the sidewalk and spending roughly an hour or two in
This essay I have decided to write about Oprah Winfrey. This is because Oprah had many serious life events. These life events must have implemented her key development stages or the other.
Kathy Nicolo is a White female in her middle thirties living in California. She was recently referred to treatment after finding two people dead after they committed suicide. Kathy called the police and upon their arrival she was visibly distraught and was referred for counseling services. While this event precipitated her connection with services, things were not going well for Kathy for about the past year. She spends a lot of her time sleeping and often does not wake up until the late morning or afternoon. Her affect is typically flat or down and she does not find pleasure in any activities. Kathy has made two recent suicide attempts, one attempt with a gun she thought was loaded and the other with an overdose of pills. She was not hospitalized
Jane had not slept for 72 hours and had poor diet and was observed not to be drinking fluids. Jane has a diagnosis of Bipolar
Capitalizing on more than twelve years of experience educating students in private and public education in South Florida, coupled with eight years of instructional supervision and coaching, Mrs. Hernandez has taken the role as Vice Principal of Academics, ready to make her mark at Archbishop Coleman F. Carroll.
They in turn will consult the ICD-10 and DSM-5, which specify the symptoms of various psychological disorders. I note from your email that Miss Edmunds has been to see her GP regarding her symptoms, and that as a result she has been treated for depression. From my understanding of the condition, I would also suggest Miss Edmunds’ symptoms are consistent with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), given that she has been suffering from recurrent nightmares of the event (PTSD is considered an RPI). I would therefore suggest that you advise Miss Edmunds to speak to her GP again, with a view to receiving a referral to her local Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) team - as medically trained professionals specialising in the treatment of mental health conditions, they will be best placed to confirm or refute such a diagnosis. Furthermore, I believe we should instruct a recognised professional of adult psychiatry to carry out an independent report of Miss Edmunds’ symptoms, as it will be possible to use such a report as evidence should any claim proceed to trial and believe it unlikely that the court would challenge such a statement. As a result, I see no difficulty in proving to the court that Miss Edmunds was indeed suffering from an
In this assignment, I had the opportunity to select one family system from a menu of choices and therefore, I chose Susan’s family. This assignment will provide an opportunity to demonstrate my ability to apply knowledge to understand Susan’s environment, to collect, organize and interpret Susan’s date, and to assess Susan’s strengths and limitations. The index person is Susan and the circumstances which brought her into services was she suffers from chronic headaches and is hoping that counseling will help her improve her well-being. She first sought help for headaches in 1971, but she is continuously getting headaches more often and came in to get help again because she does not want to live like this anymore.
Based on the pre-sentencing report about the offender Jane Doe, not only is she a risk to herself but to other who associated with her from family to friends. Jane Doe has a nasty drug substance abuse that doesn’t get the necessary treatment she would most like overdose herself. Jane Doe believe that she doesn’t have a problem with drug substance therefore she constantly ignored the consequences of her action. She failed to realize that her 5 and 3years old daughters are suffer the most from her drug addiction because they don’t have a mother who supposed to nurture and take care of them. Jane has 3 major problems that she is facing such as substance abuse, behavior /mental issues and financial/parent skill problem. My job as her probation
This is a 57-year-old female who required inpatient hospitalization due to: brought by ambulance to the Emergency Department via gurney from home presented with alteration in her mental status, lethargic and decreased responsiveness due to intentional overdose- polydrug ingestion. Her medical history was significant for bipolar disorder, chronic pain syndrome, hypertension, alcoholism, obesity, CVA, status post abdominal surgery for gunshot wound.
The woman explained to the doctor what was happening to her. The woman also explained that the attack had come out of nowhere with not explanation as to why the attack was triggered. She explained to the doctor that this was the fourth attack in four weeks and the attacks just keep getting worse. The woman proceeded to tell the doctor that she did not know what to do about her symptoms. After examination, the doctor concluded that she was having a panic attack. The doctor asked the patient how long the attacks had been occurring and the patient replied that the attacks had been happening for years but had disappeared for a while and are now resurfacing. The doctor explained to her what he thought may be happening since the doctor found no other explanation for the symptoms that were occurring. The doctor recommended that she go see a psychiatrist or a psychologist. The doctor also prescribed an anti-anxiety medication that was commonly used to treat panic disorder. The woman was later diagnosed with panic disorder after going to a psychiatrist. She is not being treated for the disorder. (Scheutzow & Wiercisiewski 1999; Comer