Week 6: Dissociative Disorders and Trauma- and
Stressor-Related Disorders
AA is a 36-year-old woman who presents to the
outpatient clinic for a follow-up.
CC: Insomnia.
HPI: Over the past two months, she
has been the responding police officer for numerous cases of child abuse.
She has distressing memories,
disturbing recurrent dreams and nightmares about the children she has helped.
She feels estranged from her
colleagues and has had difficulty concentrating at work. Recently, she has
started to dread going to work out of fear she will have to respond to another
case of abuse.
The patient is very distressed by
these symptoms and requests medication from you.
PMH: Denies
Current medications: Sertraline 25mg
daily.
OTC Benadryl 50mg PRN for sleep
-last used last night (started taking 2 weeks ago to help her sleep)
Substance Hx: 2-4 glasses of
wine every night -started 2 weeks ago to help her sleep.
What would
you recommend for treatment? Be specific in your answer and support your
choice with a neurobiological rationale. Do not go into detail about the
disorder at the expense of detail regarding the current treatment of the
patient.
Include any
and all considerations that accompany your choice of treatment plan.
What
education must be included by the PMHNP?
Discussion Rubric
Post your initial discussion.
Reply to at least
one classmate (from a different discussion group) The initial discussion
post and discussion response should occur on two different calendar days
of each electronic week.
Posts are a minimum of 275 words, scholarly written, APA formatted,
and a minimum of 3 references (which may include the course textbook).
in-text citations must be formatted with the
appropriate information and in the correct sequence (Author, year),
reference list entries must include all appropriate information following
guidelines for capitalization, italics, and be in the correct sequence.
Refer to the APA Publication Manual 7th ed. for each source type’s
specific requirements. Please let your instructor know if you have any
questions.
These are not the complete instructions for participating
in discussions. See the “Grading Rubric for Online Discussions – 500
level” found in the Course Resources module.
NOTE TEXTBOOK:
1). Stahl, S. M. (2021). Stahl’s essential psychopharmacology:
Neuroscientific basis and practical applications (5th ed.). Cambridge
University Press.
2). Gabbard, G.O. (2014). Gabbard’s treatments of
psychiatric disorders
(5th ed.). American Psychiatric
Publishing
NOTE:
Highly Important: Dear Class, this is a reminder that the use
of AI is not permitted when formatting discussion posts or writing assignments.
We are periodically checking the use of AI in discussions and assignments, and
we do have a new policy that is outlined in the course syllabus on page
6.
You may use editing tools that help you with typos,
spelling errors, and grammatical/sentence structure errors, but may
not use any generative AI tools that generate
text, ideas, or conclusions, in response to prompts you give it. Doing so, is
considered plagiarism, which will result in a grade of zero for this
assignment.
Please make sure you read the AI policy and adhere to it.
