Maria Andrade is 79 years old. She came to America as a Cuban refugee at the age of 20. She was raised by her grandparents in Cuba. She began working at the age of 14. When she arrived in Miami, she was able to obtain part time employment and immediately enrolled herself in ESL classes. Thereafter she attended community college for about two years. She then moved to Los Angeles due to being accepted to UCLA where she obtained a BA in Sociology and a Masters’ in Business Administration. She worked for a private bank for about 24 years where she met her current husband. She now works for the Department of Public Social Services where she has been working for about 25 years and is planning on retiring in the near future. She has been working for the past 49 years non -stop not including the years she worked in Cuba.…
Leukemia is a neoplastic disease that involves the bloodforming tissues of the bone marrow, spleen, and lymph nodes. In…
The client’ affect was consistently dynamic as evidenced by his consistent smile with moments of frowning and expressionlessness. The clients affect was not labile, but remained consistent with the content of the interview. The client has tangential thought occasionally in the interview as evidenced by his gaze shifting and his conversation changing to focus on other items within the room. The client appears to have no issues with sensory perception. The client is oriented to time, place, and person.…
In the space provided, write the name of the person or term identified by each description. Choose your answers from the list below. Some answers will not be used.…
A-Based on this writer's assessment, the patient appeared to be a downer, referring to depressing. The patient has an upcoming appointment with her mental health provider on Thursday with a female counselor, not a male counselor. This writer strongly urges the patient to be honest in her session and learn how to develop new coping skills. Appears to be alert and oriented. No evidence of SI/HI.…
When applying Erikson 's theory and his 8 stages it allowed me to assesess each individual on what stage they are currently in and the stages that there has been issues in achiving. In the case of LaJoe it would seem that she had already achieved stages 1 through 6 during the early part of living in Henry Honer. As the decline of a positive community and family, LaJoe seemed to reverse on the process of developing her identity. Once positive, optimistic and eager to lifes posibilities she has now reverted back to some of the earlier stages of Erikson 's theory. According to LaJoe she blamed her children 's problems on the neighborhood, the neighborhood 's decline to the change of the people, to the influx of drugs and violence (Kotlowitz, 1991).…
FCA1: Student answer reflects accurate knowledge of the sequence of events that construct a nerve signal (message sent from where and going where?).…
The psychosocial therapy helps to relieve social, occupational, social, behavioral and psychological symptoms of the disorder. Through this kind of therapy, the patients can learn early signs of relapse, develop relapse prevention measures and learn how to manage the symptoms of the disorder. Individual psychotherapy can help the person to better understand his or her illness and learn problem solving and coping skills (Brown, Barraclough, & Inskip, 2000). Rehabilitation that is focused in job training and social skills can help people with the disorder t function in the community and live an independent life. Support groups and group therapy can provide mutual support to the victim. Another form of psychosocial therapy is the family therapy that helps families understand the disorder and deal effectively with their loved ones who have the…
the essay will look at the medical treatment and the role of medicine in the biopsychosocial…
Cynthia is a divorced 47 year old mother of two sons, Stanley age 27 and George age19. Both of her sons live at home with her. Stanley, who is trainable mentally impaired, requires a lot of Cynthia’s attention. George attends Oakland Community College with plans on transferring to a four year university in his junior year. Cynthia has a great relationship with both of her children.…
8. What have you done that you feel has significantly touched the life of another person?…
-was not quite able to get an accurate assessment on whether or not he had insight to his disease…
The person I interviewed was Monica Ruffin and she is my mother. Monica’s birthdate is October 29th 1982 and she was born in Cleveland, Ohio. Her parents are Charlotte Ruffin (mom) and Willy James Hurd (dad). The places my mom has lived in are Maryland, Cleveland, and Bowling Green. The school’s Monica has attended are Marion C Seltzer Elementary, Spellacy Middle School, Collingwood, John Hayes High School, Bowling Green State University, and right now she is attending Ball State University to receive her master's degree. A physical description of Monica is 5’5 thick in the thighs with dimples, black hair, and a nose piercing.…
Personality is made up with qualities and beliefs that that we have that make up whom we are. Personality starts at birth and could under go changes as we age. Who we were in high school may not be who we are now in college. Psychologist incorporates ideas and theories to define personality and the changes behind it by using experimental designs to back up their research. Many psychologists have tried to define what personality is through their own theories and what they envisioned it could possibly be, and by analyzing their concept and theories this will help me determine my own personality and the changes that occur as I age.…
It is widely accepted that clinical interviewing is the fundamental diagnostic tool in psychiatry. Indeed, Schreiber states that “the psychiatric interview is the essential vehicle for assessment of the psychiatric patient.” Unlike other areas of medicine, psychiatry lacks external validating criteria, such as lab tests or imaging, to help confirm or exclude diagnoses. With the clinician’s diagnosis and subsequent treatment plan being determined by the clinical data obtained from the interview and physical examination, any strategy that facilitates the systematic collection of clinical information is likely to improve the diagnostic reliability of the assessment.…
