Purpose: Analyze and apply critical thinking skills in the psychopathol

Purpose:
Analyze and apply critical thinking
skills in the psychopathology of mental health patients and provide treatment
and health promotion while applying evidence-based research.
Scenario:
C.Z. is a 20-year-old Caucasian
male who is in his second year of college. He is seeking treatment due to
persistent fears that campus security and the local police are tracking and
surveilling him. He cites occasional lags in his internet speed as evidence
that surveillance devices are interfering with his electronics. His intense
anxiety about this has begun getting in the way of his ability to complete
schoolwork, and his friends are concerned – he says they have told him, “you’re
not making sense.”
C.Z. occasionally laughs abruptly
and inappropriately and sometimes stops speaking mid-sentence, looking off in
the distance as though he sees or hears something. He expresses concern about
electronics in the room (phone, computer) potentially being monitored and asks
repeatedly about patient confidentiality, stating that he wants to be sure the
police won’t be informed about his treatment. His beliefs are fixed, and if
they are challenged, his tone becomes hostile.
Questions:
Remember to answer these questions
from your textbooks and NP guidelines. At all times, explain your answers.
Discuss the etiology, course, and
the structural/functional abnormalities of schizophrenia.
Discuss the evidence-based
pharmacological and nonpharmacological treatment for this patient using the US
Clinical Guidelines.
Submission Instructions:
Your initial post should be at least 500
words, formatted and cited in current APA 7 style with support from at
least 5 academic sources.
No
plagiarism. Plagiarism report required.
DSM5
book attached.
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