Assignment 4: Consequences because of accompanying psychosis.
Bipolar disorders are severe disorders of mood that include both depressive episodes and expansive, grandiose, or manic episodes. During these times, the person may engage in activities with little awareness of the consequences because of accompanying psychosis. A diagnosis of bipolar disorder includes periods of mania or hypomania and periods of depression where the mood is down, hopeless, and suicidal. The neurovegetative symptoms of bipolar depression can be incapacitating. It is also important to differentiate the psychosis of bipolar disorder from schizophrenia.
In this Assignment, you will become the “captain of the ship” as you provide treatment recommendations and identify medical management, community support resources, and follow-up plans for a client with a bipolar disorder.
Asssignment:
Select an adult or older adult client with a bipolar disorder that you have seen in your practicum.
In 3-4 pages, write a treatment plan for your client. In which you do the following:
Describe the HPI and clinical impression for the client.
Recommend psychopharmacologic treatments and describe specific and therapeutic end points for your psychopharmacologic agent. (This should relate to HPI and clinical impression.).
Recommend psychotherapy choices (individual, family, and group) and specific therapeutic endpoints for your choices. Tell the client what the HPI and clinical impression are.
Recommend psychopharmacological treatments and describe specific and therapeutic end points for your psychopharmacological agent. (This should have something to do with HPI and clinical impression.)
Individual, family, and group psychotherapy should all be on your list, along with specific therapeutic goals for each.
Find out what this client’s medical management needs are, including their primary care needs.
Find community support resources and community agencies that can help the client with housing, social and economic needs, etc.
Recommend a plan for how often and how often to follow up and how to work with other providers.
Identify medical management needs, including primary care needs, specific to this client.
Identify community support resources (housing, socioeconomic needs, etc.) and community agencies that are available to assist the client.
Recommend a plan for follow-up intensity and frequency and collaboration with other providers.
Rubric: Each point most be followed
Quality of Work Submitted: The extent of which work meets the assignned criteria and work reflects graduate level critical and analytic thinking.–
Quality of Work Submitted: The purpose of the paper is clear.–
Assimilation and Synthesis of Ideas: The extent to which the work reflects the student’s ability to:
Understand and interpret the assignment’s key concepts.–
Assimilation and Synthesis of Ideas: The extent to which the work reflects the student’s ability to:
Apply and integrate material in course rsources (i.e. video, required readings, and textook) and credible outside resources.–
Assimilation and Synthesis of Ideas: The extent to which the work reflects the student’s ability to:
Synthesize (combines various components or different ideas into a new whole) material in course resources (i.e. video, required readings, textbook) and outside, credible resources by comparing different points of view and highlighting similarities, differences, and connection
