Writing Homework Help

Help me study for my Social Science class. I’m stuck and don’t understand.

1. Analyze the following Case Study and in no more than 1 or 2 refined paragraphs including your diagnosis and two diagnoses you ruled out.

   Please consider following the process you used in other case study assignments to arrive at your end answer:

   • Read the Case Study Vignette carefully, organizing the symptoms and other relevant factors.
   • Review and apply your material.
   • Identify and correctly code the most comprehensive diagnosis that accounts for the unique client presentation.
   • Succinctly and completely justify the diagnosis by linking symptoms with the specific diagnostic criteria they satisfy.
   • Provide two diagnoses you considered but ruled out. Remember to be very succinct on this section. Only identify the main symptom(s)/criterion that helped you rule out these diagnoses.

Case Study: Jenny

Jenny is a 27 year-old married female. She has a very demanding, high stress job as a second-year medical resident in a large hospital. Jenny has always been a high achiever. She graduated with top honors in both college and medical school. She has very high standards for herself and can be very self-critical when she fails to meet them. Lately, she has struggled with significant feelings of worthlessness and shame due to her inability to perform as well as she always has in the past.

For the past few weeks Jenny has felt unusually fatigued and found it increasingly difficult to concentrate at work. Her coworkers have noticed that she is often irritable and withdrawn, which is quite different from her typically upbeat and friendly disposition. She has called in sick on several occasions, which is completely unlike her. On those days she stays in bed all day, watching TV or sleeping.

At home, Jenny’s husband has noticed changes as well. She’s shown little interest in sex and has had difficulties falling asleep at night. Her insomnia has been keeping him awake as she tosses and turns for an hour or two after they go to bed. He’s overheard her having frequent tearful phone conversations with her closest friend, which have him worried. When he tries to get her to open up about what’s bothering her, she pushes him away with an abrupt “everything’s fine”.

Although she hasn’t ever considered suicide, Jenny has found herself increasingly dissatisfied with her life. She’s been having frequent thoughts of wishing she was dead. She gets frustrated with herself because she feels like she has every reason to be happy yet can’t seem to shake the sense of doom and gloom that has been clouding each day as of late.