Hi! Below is the case study and I want to make sure I'm on theright track. I bolded the questions I'm interested in (1-5).Looking for people who are familiar with the DSM-5/abnormalpsychology and able to answer all questions completely. Thankyou!
Questions:
1. Diagnosis; what is the evidence for it?
2. Treatment; typical treatment used for this diagnosisAND most effective treatment. IF the person is in treatment, whatshould we target first in terms of symptoms? How likely are they tostay in treatment and how likely are they to recover? Are medsinvolved and if so, what broad “type” of meds work for thisdisorder,?
3. Differential diagnosis (why is itthis disorder and not this disorder)
4. Does the person have more than one diagnosis, whatwould DSM say about the criteria for diagnosing that
5. What would the primary causal theoriesbe?
CASE STUDY BELOW:
Shane is an 11 year old boy in the sixth grade at a privateCatholic middle school. Shane has a history of being hyper,irritable, and off task at both school and home - he has difficultywith motivation and attention and is quite impulsive and is arisk-taker. He has frequent behavior problems both at school and athome, mostly due to being impulsive and not thinking much aboutrules and consequences. Shane plays sports and is very good at them- he is on the all-star team with soccer and basketball and hiscoaches love him. He is also a very talented musician, but healways forgets to practice, so his music teacher is frequentlyfrustrated with him. Shane gets very poor grades in school also, hetends to fail tests and he often forgets to turn assignments in. Hehas a tutor, but it does not help. He says he just does notunderstand or care about much of the work he is supposed to do.Shane loves video games and this takes up a lot of his free time,it is also a source of frequent arguments with his parents, as theywant him to spend less time on this activity. Shane actually arguesabout lots of things - he even argues when it is clear he willlose! Shane also has a long history of having “friend issues” - hehas a couple of friends, but he often seems to just “not fit in”with many of his peers and he sometimes seems to almost “seektrouble out”. He tends to hang with troublemakers also, so that’san ongoing issue. Shane’s parents have tried everything to helphim, but Shane does not respond to their attempts and he continuesto have the above problems and issues despite their hard work.
