What details did the patient provide regarding their chief complaint and symptomology to derive your differential diagnosis? What is the duration and severity of their symptoms? How are their symptoms impacting their functioning in life?
WK9 Assignment: Assessing and Diagnosing Patients With Personality and Paraphilic Disorders This week’s introduction explained that not all personality patterns represent disorders; it is pervasive patterns that lead to life impairment that meet the criteria for a disorder. Similarly, paraphilic, or sexual, behaviors fall on a spectrum and may or may not meet the criteria […]