Week 9: Therapy for Clients with ADHD Week 9: Therapy for Clients with ADHD Tyler, a 9-year-old third grader, had always been an energetic child with a short attention span. For years, his mother attributed his behaviors to him being “all boy” and assumed it would improve as he grew older. Instead, daily tasks like…
Assessing and Treating Clients With Impulsivity, Compulsivity, and Addiction Assessing and Treating Clients With Impulsivity, Compulsivity, and Addiction Impulsivity, compulsivity, and addiction are challenging disorders for clients across the lifespan. These disorders often manifest as negative behaviors, resulting in adverse outcomes for clients. In your role as the psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, you have…
Therapy for Clients With Impulsivity, Compulsivity, and Addiction Therapy for Clients With Impulsivity, Compulsivity, and Addiction Impulsivity and compulsivity have a wide range of clinical presentations and often overlap with many other psychiatric disorders. Some individuals act without forethought and have difficulty saying “no” to certain things such as using illicit drugs or spending money,…
Assignment: Assessing and Treating Clients With Pain Assignment: Assessing and Treating Clients With Pain Pain can greatly influence an individual’s quality of life, as uncontrolled pain negatively impacts mood, concentration, and the overall physical and mental well-being of clients. Although pain can often be controlled with medications, the process of assessing and treating clients can…