If a clinician is informed that a prospective client, who is seeing things that are not actually there, is African-American and in a lower income bracket, the clinician may be more likely to
a) suggest a diagnosis of mood disorder.
b) suggest a diagnosis of schizophrenia.
c) suggest that there is a good prognosis for treatment.
d) recommend a second opinion.
Question 2
Recent research on diagnosing personality disorders indicates that their reliability is
a) totally inadequate.
b) improved if specialized, structured interviews are used.
c) acceptable for antisocial personality disorder, but inadequate for most others.
d) better than most diagnostic categories.
Weber test: Place the base of the tuning fork on top of the client’s head.
Intervention Model-Response to Client Misconduct
Example of simplified note for one-time client.
Positioning the client
Testing the client’s ability to feel vibrations, the toe
The physician orders pemetrexed (Alimta) 500 mg/m2. The client’s body surface area is 2.14 ...