Case Study due Friday 10.31.2020 at 3PM EST

Use this as a guide and please do not be as brief as the example. I do want you to use the template for the assignment but please remove the bolded text at the top. Do not make up your own. Use the attachment feature. Do not copy and paste your assignment into the assignment blank. Please do not use Chrome when attaching the assignment. Many times it will "blank" the assignment. Do not use the term "case study" or "as information provided" in your assignment. You are to use the notes as if they were your own notes. I will deduct points if you do this (using thge term "case study notes/information provided" - in any iteration). This assignment is to familiarize you with your sessions with your LPC-S. You are just going over your case notes with your supervisor. You would not state "as found in the case study" for any of the items to your LPC-S. The tools and instruments section are those items you may think that you would use to assess the client. There are many different ones to use and it is your choice which one(s) you will use. Try to make this as professional as possible. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Case Study Template PLEASE note – this is an example/template. This exercise is for you to learn how to build your own case files. The information that you get for the case studies is to be placed in the correct spot(s) here. DO NOT use statements like “from the case study”. You would not present that to a review board. You have to assume the information given in the case stud(ies)y is what you learned from your interview with the client. If there are demographic details missing (gender, marital status etc) feel free to use your own assumptions. NAME: Shorty L.D.#: AGE: Unknown SEX: M RACE: ? MARITAL STATUS: Unknown OCCUPATION: Unknown EDUCATION: Unknown DATE OF BIRTH: ? PRESENTING PROBLEM/REASON FOR REFERRAL Voluntary. BACKGROUND INFORMATION Client provided the following information regarding his background: Developmental History: Unknown Medical History: Unknown Educational History: Unknown Family History: Unknown Marital History: Unknown Occupational History: Unknown Legal History: Unknown Psychiatric History: none before this incident. Social/Recreational Activities: Unknown BEHAVIORAL OBSERVATIONS Seems to be normal to the outside observer – inside he is a mess. TECHNIQUES/INSTRUMENTS USED Use this space for things like MMPI, Behavioral assessment tools, Interview techniques – etc – you are building your own case notes. CONCLUSIONS/RECOMMENDATIONS This patient possessed some symptomtology in the direction of the following: 300.81 Somatization Disorder except that he is a man. With no clue to his ethnicity (this occurs in males of Greek and Puerto Rican descent) I can’t be sure because it rarely occurs in males. So, I went with 300.21 Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia. He is worried about escape and rescue – will Ms. Badger be able to save him when his heart explodes. In light of this conclusion his evaluation is as follows: DSM-V Evaluation 300.81 Somatization Disorder 300.21 Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Example of written case study Shorty Seated in the clinician’s waiting room, Shorty should have been relaxed. The lighting was soft and restful; the sofa on which he was sitting was comfortably upholstered. Angel fish swam lazily in their clean glass tank. But Shorty felt anything but calm. Perhaps it was the receptionist—he wondered whether she was competent to handle an emergency with his sort of problem. She looked something like a badger, holed up behind her word processor. For several minutes he had been feeling worse with every heartbeat. His heart was the key. When Shorty first sat down, he had not even noticed it. It was quietly doing its job inside his chest. But then, without any warning, it had begun to demand his attention. At first it had only skipped a beat or two, but after a minute there had begun a ferocious assault on the inside of his chest wall. Every beat had become a painful, bruising thump that made him clutch his chest. He tried to do this under his jacket so as not to attract too much attention. The pounding heart and chest pain could mean only one thing: After two months of attacks every few days, Shorty was beginning to get the message. Then, right on schedule, the shortness of breath began. It seemed to arise from his left chest area, where the heart was doing all its damage. It clawed its way up through his lungs and into his throat, gripping him around the neck so that he could get his breath only in the briefest of gulps. This seemed to occur every two or three days and oftentimes when he was least expecting them. In his mind he knew was dying! Of course the cardiologist Shorty had consulted the week before had assured him that his heart was as sound as a brass bell, but this time he was sure it was about to fail. He did not know why he had not died before—he had feared it with almost every attack. Now it seemed impossible that he would survive this attack. He wondered if he even wanted to. That thought made him suddenly feel the need to throw up. Shorty leaned forward so he could grip both his chest and his abdomen as unobtrusively as possible. He could hardly hold anything at all—the familiar tingling and numbness had started up his fingers, and he could feel his hands shaking as they tried to contain the various miseries that had taken over his body. He glanced across the room to see whether “Miss Badger” had noticed, but she was still pounding away at her keyboard. No help from that quarter; she had not seen a thing. Perhaps, he thought to himself, all the patients behaved this way. ______________________________ From: Morrison, J. (1995). DSM-IV made easy: The clinician’s guide to diagnosis. New York: The Guilford Press