Assignment: Adjustment Disorder

Assignment

· Explain the difference between an adjustment disorder and anxiety disorder. Provide examples to illustrate your rationale.

· Explain the diagnostic criteria for your assigned anxiety disorder. Which is “Generalized Anxiety Disorder”

· Explain the evidenced-based psychotherapy and psychopharmacologic treatment for your assigned anxiety disorder. Which is “Generalized Anxiety Disorder”

· Compare differential diagnostic features of anxiety disorder

· Support your rationale with recent references (<5yrs) to the Learning Resources or other academic resource.

Learning Resources

Required Readings

Sadock, B. J., Sadock, V. A., & Ruiz, P. (2014). Kaplan & Sadock’s synopsis of psychiatry: Behavioral sciences/clinical psychiatry (11th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer.

· Chapter 9, “Anxiety Disorders” (pp. 387–417)

· Chapter 11, “Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders” (pp. 437–451)

Gabbard, G. O. (2014). Gabbard’s treatment of psychiatric disorders (5th ed.). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publications.

· Chapter 16, “Panic Disorder”

· Chapter 18, “Social Anxiety Disorder (Social Phobia)”

· Chapter 19, “Generalized Anxiety Disorder”

· Chapter 20, “Specific Phobia”.

American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.

· “Anxiety Disorders”

· “Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders”

Stahl, S. M. (2014). Prescriber’s Guide: Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology (5th ed.). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

To access information on specific medications, click on The Prescriber’s Guide, 5th Ed. tab on the Stahl Online website and select the appropriate medication.