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Students will develop a fictional client with a mental disorder. When developing this client you will use the DSM-V to provide description and assessment of the client’s mental disorder as with diagnosing. The purpose of this assignment is to get students familiar with how to use the DSM-V. The focus is the diagnosis.

Mental Disorder (include codes)

• Category
• Diagnostic features
• Prevalence
• Age or developmental stage of onset
• Duration and frequency of the symptoms to be diagnosed
• Course
• Risk and prognostic factors and familial patterns. (For example, do genetic or physiological factors put people at risk for this disorder
• Environmental factors that contribute to the development of the disorder
• Culture-related and/or gender-related diagnostic issues related to the disorder
• Differential Diagnosis
• Functional consequences of this disorder (How does the disorder affect the person’s ability to function normally?)
• Comorbidity of the disorder. (other disorders that often occur along with this disorder.)
• Specifiers and/or severity levels
• Diagnostic Criteria