Mental Health Diagnosis and Assessment Paper

Mental Health Diagnosis and Assessment Paper
Assignment Overview
You will write a research-based paper of at least 5 pages
(not counting the title and reference pages) in current APA format that focuses
on mental health assessment and a mental health diagnosis of your choice. The Mental
Health Diagnosis and Assessment Paper Assignment must include at least 3
scholarly references in addition to the course textbooks and the Bible. The Mental
Health Diagnosis and Assessment Paper Assignment will focus on 1 mental
health disorder, and you will describe the symptoms that would be present for a
client that could come to see you as a social worker.
Create a scenario where a client would present the mental
health symptoms of a mental health diagnosis that you choose to research.
Describe the client’s presenting symptoms and how you have used the appropriate
assessment tools, such as the mental status examination, cultural views, family
history, any substance abuse history, and any physical health problems, to make
the correct diagnosis (as discussed in the textbooks). Then, discuss the
appropriate interventions for that specific diagnosis with research information
about what has been effective for the chosen mental health diagnosis. The Mental
Health Diagnosis and Assessment Paper Assignment must include a description
of the client’s strengths and the utilization of the biblical views for making
both the assessment and treatment interventions. Incorporate at least 1
relevant Bible verse.

Write your Mental Health Diagnosis and Assessment Paper
Assignment in current APA format. The Mental Health Diagnosis and
Assessment Paper Assignment must include:

a.
Title page
b.
Describe the use of the
different assessment tools, such as the mental health status examination and
the other important areas of focus with a client, for making the appropriate
mental health diagnosis with the fictional client who would come in for
services from you as the social worker.
c.
Describe the symptoms
that meet the criteria for the chosen mental health diagnosis with the
fictional client who would come in for services from you as the social worker.
d.
From what you have
learned, prepare at least 2 suggestions for treatment interventions (specific
type of evidence-based therapy that has helped with the chosen diagnosis,
common types of medications prescribed, etc.) for the chosen diagnosis.
e.
Description of the
client’s strengths and how the social worker uses the biblical viewpoints to
assess and treat the client.
f.
Reference page for
resources, including both textbooks, the Bible, and at least 3 scholarly references
published within the past 5 years. LU’s
library includes many resources to meet your needs. Newspaper articles and
blogs do not qualify as professional resources.

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