STU Psychopathology of Mental Health Patients Case Study
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ST Thomas University
Description
Case Study: C.Z.
Purpose:Analyze and apply critical thinking skills in the psychopathology of mental health patients and provide treatment and health promotion while applying evidence-based research.Scenario:
C.Z. is a 20-year-old Caucasian male who is in his second year of college. He is seeking treatment due to persistent fears that campus security and the local police are tracking and surveilling him. He cites occasional lags in his internet speed as evidence that surveillance devices are interfering with his electronics. His intense anxiety about this has begun getting in the way of his ability to complete schoolwork, and his friends are concerned – he says they have told him, “you’re not making sense.”
C.Z. occasionally laughs abruptly and inappropriately and sometimes stops speaking mid-sentence, looking off in the distance as though he sees or hears something. He expresses concern about electronics in the room (phone, computer) potentially being monitored and asks repeatedly about patient confidentiality, stating that he wants to be sure the police won’t be informed about his treatment. His beliefs are fixed, and if they are challenged, his tone becomes hostile.
Questions:
Remember to answer these questions from your textbooks and NP guidelines. At all times, explain your answers.
Discuss the etiology, course, and the structural/functional abnormalities of schizophrenia.
Discuss the evidence-based pharmacological and nonpharmacological treatment for this patient using the US Clinical Guidelines.
Applying Research Skills Scoring Guide
| Criteria | Non-performance | Basic | Proficient | Distinguished |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apply academic peer reviewed journal articles relevant to the health care problem or issue being researched. | Does not describe academic peer reviewed journal articles related to the health care problem or issue being researched. | Describes academic peer reviewed journal articles related to the health care problem or issue being researched. | Applies academic peer reviewed journal articles relevant to the health care problem or issue being researched. | Applies academic peer reviewed journal articles relevant to the health care problem or issue being researched, including why the chosen articles are relevant to the topic. |
| Assess the credibility of information and explain the relevance of the information sources. | Does not describe origin of information or relevant aspects of the information sources. | Describes a few of the origins of the information and relevant aspects of the information sources. | Assess the credibility of information and explain the relevance of the information sources. | Assesses the credibility of information, explaining the process used for determining the sources’ credibility, and explains the relevance of the information sources, providing the reasons for considering the sources relevant to the topic. |
| Analyze academic peer-reviewed journal articles using the annotated bibliography organizational format. | Does not analyze academic peer-reviewed journal articles using the annotated bibliography organizational format. | Analyzes academic peer-reviewed journal articles but fails to use the annotated bibliography format effectively. | Analyzes academic peer-reviewed journal articles using the annotated bibliography organizational format. | Analyzes academic peer-reviewed journal articles using the annotated bibliography organizational format, and provides rationale for inclusion of each selected article. |
| Summarize what was learned from developing an annotated bibliography. | Does not describe what was learned from developing the annotated bibliography. | Describes a portion of what was learned from developing the annotated bibliography. | Summarizes what was learned from developing an annotated bibliography. | Summarizes what was learned from developing the annotated bibliography, including examples. |
| Produce text with minimal grammatical, usage, spelling, and mechanical errors. | Produces text with significant grammatical, usage, spelling, and mechanical errors, making text difficult to follow. | Produces text with some grammatical, usage, spelling, and mechanical errors, making text difficult to follow at times. | Produces text with minimal grammatical, usage, spelling, and mechanical errors. | Produces text free of grammatical, usage, spelling, and mechanical errors. |
| Integrate into text appropriate use of scholarly sources, evidence, and citation style. | Does not integrate into text appropriate use of scholarly sources, evidence, and citation style. | Integrates into text mostly appropriate use of scholarly sources, evidence, and citation style, but there are lapses in style use. | Integrates into text appropriate use of scholarly sources, evidence, and citation style. | Integrates into text appropriate use of scholarly sources, evidence, and citation style without errors and uses current reference sources. |
