Scenario 1.

In the first scenario, a seven-year boy is tested and has a low level of intelligence quotient. The DSM-5 Diagnosis indicates a below-average intelligence quotient. The guidelines that I would notably apply in the bid to ensure that I measure the patient’s intelligence level include the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for the given mental disorder, which I will use to assess the mental and cognitive health of the boy. Therefore, the DSN-5 Diagnosis would involve the establishment of the appropriate guidelines to assess the mental health of the young boy, who seemingly has a low level of intelligence quotient from his cognitive behaviors. The Diagnosis that I came up with was that the boy had immature social development, and the criterion that I applied to arrive at my decision or point of view about this was the low level of the intelligence quotient as well as the deficient level of keeping up the fellow learners in the classroom context.

The other Diagnosis that I considered in this case included psychological disturbances, having challenges in remembering things, even when they were recently at your disposal, and the ability to grasp and master both concrete and abstract concepts. I might have considered them because they are among the signs and symptoms of people with an intelligent quotient below average. These criteria were applicable in the Diagnosis of the boy’s situation, which made me converge to the decision that the boy had a low level of intelligence. However, the low level of intelligence quotient needed some necessary actions to be boosted, according to Liu et al. (2017). boosting it may not be permanent. It can just be done for a little while. This may not however be much assistive e as it may be expected to be.

The short-term treatment goals that I can formulate in providing the appropriate treatment to this patient may include providing a stable mental functioning, providing therapy to make him solve concrete mathematical ideas, and boosting the entire memory. Long-term treatment plans would include building permanent mental health stability and providing the patient with a positive attitude towards the intelligence quotient test. The plan would also make the patient have better cognitive skills to practically implicate any idea in a real-life situation. The treatment approached mental health as vast as subjective as Hollemans et al. (2019) studied. These most effective treatment options that can be applied in the permanent boosting of the intelligence quotient include playing such challenging computer games as Sudoku, eating food materials that facilitates the develoent of brain’s health, and taking medicines that can boost the level of the intelligence quotient. The treatment approached that I would find most efficient with this client may include psychodynamics, cognitive behavioral theory, and cognitive analytical therapy. They will be centered at improving the cognitive functioning of the patient.

Scenario 2.

In the second scenario, A man by the name of Albert is convicted of having faulted. However, his lawyer resent that Alberts would need to have a therapy session because he has recently been having cases of depression, which is established to be resulting from his impending divorce. From a therapy session on Albert, I can conclude that the DSM-5 guidelines would categorize his position into the psychological disturbance, mainly acute mental illness, resulting from the intense stress from his life experiences. The observable signs and symptoms that were being shown by Albert did not indeed conform to those of any notable physiological illness rather that psychological disturbance. The criteria that I used before coming up with the specific disease’s conclusion included the signs and systems that he was having.

I based on such criteria as depression, which resulted from previous negative experiences. The experiences were divorce, consistent feelings of fatigue, sadness, and all-time loneliness from relatively a long period to come up with a final decision that Albert was suffering from psychological torture, which seemingly appeared to be much acute. As Alonso et al. (2018) studied, the severe mental disorder may have long-term effects on an individual’s well-being. It would naturally take the individual to get out often the situation with a positive resiliency. The other Diagnosis that I considered was a long-term chronic illness like HIV and aids because, in most patients, it results in the stigmatization of the infected patient, which makes them have little or no sense of belonging to the community. They are often depressed, and as a result, they have co stat mental disturbances.

The short term treatment goals that I would have formulated in providing a treatment plan to Albert include the following. Facilitating a positive change in the patient’s behavior, improving his ability to establish and maintaining good relationships with other people, and helping him have a more stringent and purposive process of decision-making so that they may not take such wrong and unlawful decision like suicide. In the client’s treatment plan, the long-term goals of the treatment session would include the following. Ensuring that he maintain positive thoughts when with others, provision of a positive resiliency after the negative past experiences in his life, and providing him with the knowledge that can enable him to make a right and safe decision about his life. The use of psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral theory, and cognitive analytical therapy would also still be the most appropriate treatment approach that I will use to provide effective treatment to the people with some similar conditions to the ne that the client had.

Scenario 3

In the third scenario, the case might differ a little from the other two, considering that a 30-year-old Garry is a renowned storyteller, but with much element of self-boasting. However, he is fond of bragging about the little achievements that he makes in life. Perhaps this may be the work of his ego. Additionally, he brags about those that are real and those achievements that he also well is imaginary. He is an attention seeker because, in most interactive stories, he would love to be the center of the story, if at all, it would put him in a bragging position. His primary concern is his friends’ circle’s ironic expectation to consist of only loyal and trustworthy friends. He is also fearful of growing old, and he lacks empathy at the same time.

From the DSM-5, I can deduce that Gary has Thanatophobia, characterized by much fear of death. Coming up with the Diagnosis could be purely subjective to the kind of experiences that Gary is going through, and this would mean that Gary will have his characters analyzed. He can additionally be noted o a perfectionist because he is too preoccupied with his appearances more than anything else. The criteria that I used before coming up with this Diagnosis of the behavioral characteristics that he exhibits appears much about his all life experiences, specifically how he fears death. The other Diagnosis that o considered includes how Gary probably treats his friends and how empathetic he is because he seems to be much loyal. Bisby and Burgess, N. (2017) describe Gary’s characteristic behaviors to be purely egocentric. Egocentric people insist on being the center of attraction in many things. 

The three short-term goals that I will have in Gary’s treatment options would be instilling a behavioral change, a change in attitude towards death, and alteration of his empathetic thought. The long-term treatment plans that I would be incorporated into his treatment plan will include the following. Instilling a behavioral change and the attitude that he has towards death, how he socializes with people, and alteration of his egocentric characters, which makes him want to be the center of attraction in everything. The treatment approaches that I am likely to use with this client include cognitive behavioral therapy, elastics, and general behavior therapy. I would purely use behavioral-based therapy sessions because they are Gary’s behaviors that need to be changed. A therapy session is needed so that he can have his fear of death reduced. Notably, everyone fears death, but the degree of fear raises already in this case. The behavioral therapy would specifically ensure that Gary is taught how to deal with fear and how he can probably reduce his bragging character for everything he might have. It can be noted that after being subjected tom the suggested therapy approaches, there are high chances that the notions the cist have will change to better ones, and he will be a socially lovable person.

References

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Bisby, J. A., & Burgess, N. (2017). Differential effects of negative emotion on memory for items and associations, and their relationship to intrusive imagery. Current opinion in behavioral sciences, 17, 124-132.

Hollemans, R. A., Bakker, O. J., Boermeester, M. A., Bollen, T. L., Bosscha, K., Bruno, M. J., … & Fockens, P. (2019). Superiority of step-up approach vs open necrosectomy in long-term follow-up of patients with necrotizing pancreatitis. Gastroenterology, 156(4), 1016-1026.

Liu, F., Shi, Y., & Liu, Y. (2017). Intelligence quotient and intelligence grade of artificial intelligence. Annals of Data Science, 4(2), 179-191.

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