PSY 303 Assignment Taking The Patient’s History Recent

Taking the Patient’s History. Each assignment in this course will help you prepare your Final Paper. For each assignment, you will use the movie character or historical figure you chose in your Week One journal. Remember, after submitting this week’s assignment, you will not be allowed to change your movie character or historical figure.

One of the first steps in any clinical assessment is to gather a thorough history from the patient. This history includes, at minimum, the patient’s identifying information, presenting problem, and relevant personal history relating to their presenting problem.

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For this assignment, you will write the first few sections of your psychological report. View the complete instructions for the Final Paper in the link within Week Five of your online course or the “Components of Course Evaluation” section of this guide. This week, your assignment must cover the following sections of your psychological report and include the headings as listed:

1. Identifying Information

Within this section, you will record basic information on your patient, including the person’s name, sex, gender, sexual orientation, age, race, occupation, and location of residence (country, state, region).

2.Chief Complaint/Presenting Problem

Within this section you will include the patient’s primary complaint verbatim to identify the main source of his or her distress and/or concerns. If there is no verbatim complaint, include observable information to create an overall picture of the presenting problem.

Typically, this section within a psychological report seeks to answer the following question (further elaboration within this section is encouraged where possible):

Review the video, The Anxiety Spectrum, in Chapter 3.1 of your course text. Summarize Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) as described in the video.

Provide an example of a GAD and a phobic disorder based on your reading and the video. Compare and contrast the GAD with the phobic disorder and address how avoidance behaviors are manifested differently in each.