DSM-IV

Assignment 2

Assignment 2

Introduction

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (of the original English, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) (DSM), published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA), is a manual of reference for classifying and categorizing diagnostic criteria and Statistical research of specific psychiatric disorders. (Bliese and Halverson, 1996). In this report, we will discuss the case of a child patient, who was suffering from a number of mental diseases.

Case discussion

Appearance

The patient looked well groomed and was dressed in neat and clean clothes. We can clearly see that the parents of the patient had worked very closely with the patient, and they were trying their best to work with the patient.

Level of alertness

The patient was not looking very looking and looked a bit subdued. He looked very frightened of the atmosphere at the hospital, and it looked like he will faint anytime. He was not looking alert all and was finding it difficult to adjust in the current atmosphere.

Speech

The patient was not able to communicate and was finding it difficult to make a speech due to lack of coordination of the apparatus of speech. He was suffering from Dysarthria, which is a disorder of speech. Dysarthria is a disorder of speech whose etiology is attributed to a lesion of the central nervous system and peripheral.

Thought processes The patient was finding it difficult to make an association between different ideas in his mind. He was showing a commotion in his thinking pattern by the manner in he was communicating with others. He was shifting his talks from ideas that were either completely irrelevant or had a little connection with what he was talking about just a few seconds ago.

Hallucination

The patient was suffering from a problem of hallucinations. Auditory, olfactory, and gustatory hallucinations, which are sometimes, the initial symptom (“aura”), epileptic seizure, are manifestations of irritation of the analyzer, localized in the temporal lobes. The destruction of these sensitive areas (one-sided) significant disorders of hearing, smell, and taste donot cause (each hemisphere due to their perceiving apparatus in the periphery on both sides and its opposite) (Barrett 1996).

Summary of the patient

The patient looked well groomed and was dressed in neat and clean clothes. The patient was not looking very looking and looked a bit subdued. . He was suffering from Dysarthria, which is a disorder of speech. Dysarthria is a disorder of speech whose etiology is attributed to a lesion of the central nervous system and peripheral. The reason for this problem is that muscles that control the movements necessary for speech spoken are innervated by the facial nerve, wave, hypoglossal, spinal and glossopharyngeal, all of whom, apart from the facial nerve, a fastener at the medulla oblongata. He was shifting his talks from ideas that were either completely irrelevant or had a little connection with what he was talking about just a few seconds ago. The patient was suffering from a problem of hallucinations.

Statement of pediatric client demographics

Demographic data

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