Day: December 16, 2019

During the units in the course, you have learned about professional presence in your desired field. Now it is time to produce the last assignment based on what you have learned. During this last assignment, you will have the opportunity to compile a Portfolio of information covered during the course. A portfolio gives you the opportunity to have a collection of the different skills, attributes, and knowledge you have acquired and showcases your understanding of these different areas of professionalism.

Assignment Instructions
You will complete the Portfolio template, which will cover the areas listed below. Your information should be supported with research throughout the portfolio (minimally 3 sources to support work throughout the assignment). Be sure to explain each area below in detail:

1. Title page that includes assignment title, your name, course, section number, and date
2. Introduction: In this section, in 2–3 paragraphs, you will explain who you are and your chosen professional field as well as a brief overview of how you perceive yourself professionally.
3. Lifelong professionalism and how you will maintain your image: You will give an overview in 2–3 paragraphs of how you will focus on continuing to maintain your professional image in the future of the career you have chosen to pursue.
4. Short-term goals: 2–3 short-term professional goals (written as SMART statement). Explanation of a plan to meet each goal (1 paragraph per goal) and rationale for why the goal will support your professionalism (1 paragraph per goal).
5. Long-term goals: 2–3 long-term professional goals (written as SMART statement). Explanation of a plan to meet each goal (1 paragraph per goal) and rationale for why the goal will support your professionalism (1 paragraph per goal).
6. Education Plan: At least 3 ways that you can maintain your knowledge throughout your degree. Explain why each way would be important to your career (minimum of 3 paragraphs).
7. Budgeting Plan: Explanation as to how you will budget to ensure all future education (should connect to the education plan) as well as future career marketability needs are met. (minimum of 3 paragraphs).
8. Reference Page: Sources should follow APA formatting guidelines with corresponding in-text citations within the body of the portfolio.

Assignment Format

• Detailed explanations for each part should be included.
• Information should be organized clearly throughout the presentation
• Support from outside source material should be included in the presentation
• Template must be used for assignment

NOTE: Be sure to use the template included at the top of the directions to complete this assignment.

Save the template as a Microsoft Word document and submit it into the Unit 9 Dropbox.

Make sure you save a copy of your Assignment.

Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) is a sequence of queries created to evaluate the depth, severity, and intensity of depression facing patients with psychiatric ailments. The patient answers 21 questions during the assessment that helps to identify particular symptoms common with individuals with depression.

A brief assessment is repeatedly used during the process of treatment to collect data. According to Bringmann, Lemmens, Huibers, Borsboom & Tuerlinckx (2015), the repetition also assists a therapist to improve his sense of differences and similarities among patients. The standard examination of the mental condition of a patient can help to gather data on health symptoms. However, repeated assessment ensures that the counselor gets a complete understanding of the patient’s problem. It also reduces the risk of misdiagnosis and improves the quality of counseling.

Repetition can increase issues of duplication of efforts. The repeating test should ensure that there are strategies that minimize redundancy. The question of duplication reduces the effect of the trial by increasing costs and time while getting similar results. The counselor should consult with the patients to get the most value out of the testing process. There are factors such as employment status, housing needs, criminal justice, health status, and family history that can make a person fall into depression. Therefore, accessing such issues helps to increase value in the process of collecting information.

Regarding insights on redundancy, in the future, how will you mitigate for risks noted? Please provide an example. 50Word or so

Case : 

Three months into Janet’s freshmen year, her parents were summoned by the dean of the small out-of-town college she was attending to come and pick up their daughter. The dean said Janet was behaving strangely. She had begun to wander around the campus at night, barefoot and dressed only in a short nightgown. According to her roommate, Janet had not been herself for the past six weeks.

She had stayed in her room continuously, hoarded food, wrote incessantly, and refused to attend classes except for one taught by Dr. M., an older, married man with whom Janet had become intensely preoccupied. She acted as if she were in her own world. She was unapproachable and irritated by her roommate attempts to converse. During the past few weeks, Janet had talked to herself frequently. It

sounded to her roommate like one-half of a dialogue about what Janet and Dr. M. should do, and whether he was angry with her. Janet’s parents found their daughter in an extremely agitated state. She was dressed in a bizarre way, wearing all kinds of mismatched clothing that was inappropriate to the weather as well as

the setting. She was unkempt and obviously had not bathed. At first, she was unresponsive and barely acknowledged her parents presence. When she did speak, she became overexcited. She explained repeatedly why she had to stay at college. It was because Dr. M. was passionately in love with her. She said he was unable to come to her because his wife kept him imprisoned at home at night. She reported that voices commanded her to unite with Dr. M. at any cost in order to save the world from destruction. Janet also was convinced that Dr. M’s wife was reading her thoughts and now intended to harm her.

When Janet’s parents told her they were taking her home, she became violent. She attacked them and wrecked her dorm room. Her words indicated that she was experiencing her parents efforts as an attack by some dangerous beings, and she argued vehemently but incoherently with these persecutors. The police were called and Janet was taken to the emergency room of the local hospital.

The threatening and acutely alarming nature of her hallucinations led staff psychiatrists to conclude that Janet was a danger to herself and others and immediate hospitalization was advised. Upon admission, Janet was so out of control she had to be put in restraints until the medication she was given began to

take effect. Janet was especially fearful that the hospital staff was collaborating with Dr. M.s wife. She thought they were incarnations of evil forces intent on keeping Janet and Dr. M. apart so that they could not save the world. Janet became more subdued within the next few days as her medication took

effect, but she continued to be uncommunicative around the ward. Although the acute phase of her condition passed, the general prognosis for full recovery was guarded because of indications that this episode was only one part of a long and insidious process of deterioration.

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Case Questions

1. Identify Janet’s diagnosis based on the information of this case. Make certain you identify all signs and symptoms connected to the diagnosis of your choice by naming the diagnostic criteria and the associated behavior from the case. You may also identify a differential but you must choose only one diagnosis.

2. What do you think is the precipitating stressor that probably triggered the onset of Janet’s mental disorder? Identify Janet’s primary delusion. How can we understand this as a way that Janet is trying to make sense of her collapsing world? How do her hallucinations fit together with her delusions?