Yearly Archives: 2021

NRNP 6635: Psychopathology and Diagnostic Reasoning Discussion: Factors That Influence the Development of Psychopathology Explain?the biological (genetic and neuroscientific); psychological (behavioral and cognitive processes, emotional, developmental); and social, cultural, and interpersonal factors that influence the development of psychopathology. Psychopathology is the study of mental disorder, different approaches can be used in the development of psychopathology […]

Discussion: Factors That Influence the Development of Psychopathology This week?s discussion aims to analyze historically and currently recognized biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors that inform the expression, course, and prevalence of psychopathology.? Historically, psychopathology?s perception is that of behaving outside the norm of what the present culture and society perceive as ?normal.? Exactly who is […]

The Psychiatric Evaluation and Evidence-Based Rating Scales Hamilton Depression Rating Scale According to Carlat (2017) three objectives of a psychiatric interview write-up include thoroughness, time efficiency, and readability. A psychiatric interview should take no longer than 10 to 15 minutes to write, utilize free text space to provide a narrative and be no longer than […]

Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale (AIMS) ? NRNP 6635 Discussion: The Psychiatric Evaluation and Evidence-Based Rating Scales Assessment tools have two primary purposes: 1) to measure illness and diagnose clients, and 2) to measure a client?s response to treatment. Often, you will find that multiple assessment tools are designed to measure the same condition or response. […]

Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale Psychiatric Interview Components One important component of the psychiatric interview is gathering the history of present illness (HPI) (Carlat, 2017). One piece of the HPI is gathering information on the current and premorbid level of functioning (Carlat, 2017). I find this component important because it establishes which symptoms of the illness may […]

Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HAM-A) Week 2 Initial Post ? ? ? ? ? ?The psychiatric interview is the basis upon which all the other work of the PMHNP is based. It is during this assessment that the key data points are collected that are needed for diagnosis and treatment planning. The purpose of this […]

NRNP 6635 The Psychiatric Evaluation and Evidence-Based Rating Scales Discussion The Psychiatric Evaluation and Evidence-Based Rating Scale According to Saddock, Saddock, and Ruiz (2015), the psychiatric interview is the most important element in the evaluation and care of persons with mental illness.? It is how we obtain information that will drive the criteria-based diagnosis and […]

NRNP 6635 The Psychiatric Evaluation and Evidence-Based Rating Scales Discussion Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE) Health care providers alway use the Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE)While gathering subjective and objective data to evaluate the mental health status of the elderly. MMSE is a standardized tool used to assess cognitive function changes over time. The 11 items measuring […]

NURS 6630 week 1 Assignment: Short Answer Assessment Psychopharmacological Approaches to Treatment Introduction The brain, which is the most complex part of the human body, is responsible for the regulation and function of the human body. It is made up of billions of nerves that play critical roles in the human body (). The human […]

NURS 6630 week 2 Discussion: Foundational Neuroscience Agonist-To-Antagonist Spectrum of Action of Psychopharmacologic Agents In medicine, drugs can act either as agonist or antagonist. As an agonist, drugs bind to target receptor, changing its activity to produce a response. Agonist medications activates the full receptor in the brain while a partial agonist produces a sub-maximal […]