Case Presentation: Disorders of Social Cognition and Executive Functioning Assignment

Tips for Case Presentation 2 Assignment 

• For the case presentation analysis this week, you will be analyzing Case Presentation Case File Archie. To locate the case study, click on the “Case Presentation” Disorders of Learning and Intellectual Functioning Assignment” tab under the Apply subheading in Module 3.  You will see 3 hyperlinks that you can download to support your work in this assessment. The case study is one of those 3 links, and it is entitled “Case Presentation Case File Archie”
• You are strongly encouraged to settle on one final diagnosis instead of more than one. For every diagnosis you give, you need to write a biological and psychosocial treatment and etiology analysis. This is beyond the scope of the project.  Please come up with the best diagnosis given the case study details.
• Please follow the template closely when submitting this assignment. You are not submitting a paper but instead a case conceptualization with all the subheadings and formatting from the template.  I will have you redo your assignment if you don’t follow the template.  The template systematically helps you organize your thinking about this case study and helps you make sure all the important details are included.
• Please submit at least 4 diagnostic impressions before settling on the one diagnosis that you think is applicable to the specific case study. More than 4 is fine, but please propose at least 4 in this section of your analysis.  This helps me see the broad net of possibilities for diagnoses.  When you settle on the diagnosis, you should only give each client 1 diagnosis, not 2 or 3. 
• I encourage you to use the most up to date research to back up the arguments in your case presentation, ideally published within the past 5 years. Being in the field of Psychology which is rapidly changing, it is very important to be up to date on the information you are using to justify your analysis of the case study.
• Please make sure in the etiology and treatment sections that you tie your recommendations not only to scholarly sources but also to specifics that you know about the client’s story.
• When proposing psychosocial and biological treatments, it is very important that they are evidenced based for your chosen diagnosis. If these sections are too vague/not specific, the grade will reflect that.  I want to see that you can locate the most up to date treatments for clients in your write up that have been published recently in the scholarly literature. For these sections, one reference is required but more are encouraged.  Also, please cite journal articles and not the textbook or DSM manual here.  I want to see that you have your hands on direct research that is up to date, that you can explain how that research was done, and describe how the intervention that was studied is relevant for the particular case study.
• In treatment section, please do not talk about treating potential comorbidities, but instead focus on reviewing research that has evidence of effectiveness for your given diagnosis.
• When talking about biological treatments, you can consider nutritional treatments that may have evidence as opposed to only medication treatments. Also, when talking about medications, talk about how long clients should be on medicines, can they taper off, when can that happen, what are short- and long-term side effects etc.