This is a 2 section Report. Section A will likely be 1-3 pages and vary for everyone, depending on their topic and the length of their corresponding DSM section. Section B will be 6-7 pages
Cut and paste the Diagnostic Criteria section on your topic from the DSM 5 chapter on your topic;
Instruction:
1. Go online to the DSM 5 (from a Humber computer or with the Library proxy server to
“PsychiatryOnline”;
2. Click on the entry PsychiatryOnline at psychiatryonline.org;
3. Click on the image of the purple book, then
4. Click on “Section II: Diagnostic Criteria and Codes”;
5. Select a chapter that contains your topic’s diagnosis;
6. Scroll to the chapter’s specific section of your diagnosis of interest and
locate the pink background insert entitled “Diagnostic Features”;
7. Select, cut and paste this entire Diagnostic Criteria section (it usually will be 1-3 pages single spaced / 12 pt. font) into Section A of your report
1. Causes
• Detail all the currently known main causes of the mental health challenge / diagnosis that you have found in your research.
2. Impacts
• Given your Section A – Diagnostic Criteria information and the other information in the Diagnostic Features section of your diagnosis of interest, comment on several specific issues that you believe are likely to arise for a client with the mental health challenge you are discussing.
• Explain why you think these issues are likely to occur; what the research says about them. This information is based on what you have learned through your research, what has been taught in class or through your work in the field. If relating your comments to your experience in the field, you must clearly identify this as the source of your information.
