Psychiatric Mental Healthcare I. Unit 5 Diagnostic Assessments. 2 Peer Response. 4 references in APA including course textbook. 800words. Two replies. Due 6-5-24

Psychiatric Mental Healthcare I. Unit 5 Diagnostic Assessments. 2 Peer Response. 4 references in APA including course textbook. 800words. Two replies. Due 6-5-24

Instructions:

Respond to at least two of your peers' initial postings. You may want to consider the following questions in your responses to your peers:

1. Compare and contrast major depressive disorder and bipolar II disorder with particular emphasis on how comprehensive assessment could help us to arrive at the correct diagnosis?

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format. Responses need to address all components of the question, demonstrate critical thinking and analysis and include peer-reviewed journal evidence to support the student’s position.

Resources

Carlat, D. J. (2023). The psychiatric interview (4th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer. ISBN: 9781975212971

American Nurses Association & American Psychiatric Nurse Association. (2015).  Psychiatric–mental health nursing: Scope and standards of practice (2nd ed.). Silver Spring, MD: American Nurses Credentialing. ISBN-13: 978-1558105553 ISBN-10: 1558105557 

American Psychiatric Association. (2022).  Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Text Revision Dsm-5-tr (5th ed.) (DSM-5). Washington DC: APA Press. ISBN: 978-0890425763

Johnson, K., & Vanderhoef, D. (2016).  Psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner review manual (4th ed.). Silver Spring, MD: American Nurses Association. ISBN: 978-1-935213-79-6

Robert Joseph Boland, Verduin, M. L., Ruiz, P., Arya Shah, & Sadock, B. J. (2021).  Kaplan and Sadock’s synopsis of psychiatry: Behavioral sciences/clinical psychiatry (12th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams, and Wilkins. 9781975145569