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For 10 years, Mrs. Jones has been very concerned about having a heart attack, although no doctor has found anything wrong with her heart. Whenever she feels the slightest twinge of discomfort in her chest, she calls emergency services. She has called 10 times in the last 6 days. She cannot work anymore and lies in bed most days with debilitating worry that she will have a coronary. And the likely diagnosis is…

For the past three weeks, Donna has felt extremely tired and finds it difficult to concentrate at work. Her coworkers have noticed that “the typical funny, talkative Donna” is more irritable and withdrawn. She has called in sick five times in the last three weeks, which isn’t like her at all. On these days, she didn’t get out of bed all day but either watched TV or slept. Donna’s husband, Ned, has noticed changes as well. She doesn’t call her best friend anymore when she used to talk to her every night. She isn’t eating much these days and has lost 11 pounds, even though she didn’t need to lose weight and wasn’t even trying. He hears her crying, but when he asks her what is wrong, she says, “Nothing. Just leave me alone.” She hasn’t considered suicide but is dissatisfied with her life. She knows she should be “happy” but can’t seem to get rid of her sense of “doom and dread.” “And I feel sad almost all the time these days.” And the likely diagnosis is…

Please define and differentiate between the following terms: mood, emotion, affect, feelings, excessive worry, and anxiety. (i.e. define these terms as they were defined and discussed them in the lecture material) (2 pts each/12 pts)

Jimmy survived a horrible airplane crash three months ago. Four days after the crash, he began having intrusive memories of the event, as well as extreme anxiety and dissociative episodes. He continues to suffer flashbacks, hypervigilance, and avoidance behavior. He also has distressing memories and dreams, can’t concentrate, engages in reckless behavior, feels detached from his family, doesn’t engage in activities he used to enjoy, and is often irritable. And the likely diagnosis is…

Margaret and her young son were driving through an intersection when another car ran through a red traffic light and struck them. The two were trapped in the car until a fire department rescue team freed them. She was bruised but not seriously hurt. Her son had a broken leg. The first few days after the accident, Margaret was preoccupied with arranging care for her son and getting the car repaired. However, it’s now a week after the accident and she is having recurrent distressing thoughts and images of the accident. The memory of her son’s screams after the car was struck is particularly vivid, so she goes out of her way to avoid driving down the street where the accident occurred. She just can’t get the memory of him screaming out of her head. In addition, she still has nightmares about the accident, experiences flashbacks, stays away from the accident site, becomes very “jumpy” whenever she hears a loud sound, can’t sleep, can’t concentrate, is irritable, and no longer her happy self. This caused her to be late to work several times. And the likely diagnosis is…

Part 3: Imagine that Herb came to see you for help in dealing with his challenges. Describe each dimension of the interactive model, and how each dimension would understand/explain the cause(s) of Herb’s presenting problems/symptoms. 

Dr. Aaron Beck proposed that individuals often think negatively in a depressive cognitive triad that includes what 3 things?

Forty-three-year-old Sharon was brought into the emergency room at her local hospital by EMS on account of bizarre behavior. According to restaurant customers, Sharon was at a restaurant eating by herself when she started screaming, being talkative, and stating that she wanted to hurt herself. She was admitted for safety and stabilization. During the inpatient evaluation, Sharon said she was extremely stressed over her daughter’s death from cancer at age 12, three years before her current hospital admission. She says, “My daughter was everything to me. My life is meaningless without her. I am so lonely, all the time. I’ve had friends reach out to me, but I just don’t want to see them or do things with them anymore. I am just trying to make it through each day. I now take life on a day-to-day basis. I don’t plan for the future. What’s the point of doing that?” When asked how long she had been feeling this way, Sharon replied, “Since my precious daughter died.” And the likely diagnosis is…

The physical therapist (PT)  is scheduled to see a patient who underwent a TKR (total knee replacement) the day before. The PT is completing a chart review and reads that the patient had larger than expected blood loss during the procedure. The PT wants to check the patient’s hemoglobin value before seeing the patient. Where in the chart would the PT locate the hemoglobin value?

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