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The document outlines a term paper assignment to write a 5-page clinical case study on a real or hypothetical person addressing 5 objectives: 1) Describe symptoms meeting criteria for a DSM diagnosis, 2) Describe historical/cultural perspectives on the diagnosis and recent DSM changes, 3) Explain causes from 2 theoretical perspectives, 4) Describe scientific evidence supporting one explanation/treatment, 5) Describe any legal/ethical issues. The paper must have 5 sections corresponding to the objectives and be written in APA style. It will be graded on a rubric evaluating how well it meets the objectives and on APA format/style.

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The document outlines a term paper assignment to write a 5-page clinical case study on a real or hypothetical person addressing 5 objectives: 1) Describe symptoms meeting criteria for a DSM diagnosis, 2) Describe historical/cultural perspectives on the diagnosis and recent DSM changes, 3) Explain causes from 2 theoretical perspectives, 4) Describe scientific evidence supporting one explanation/treatment, 5) Describe any legal/ethical issues. The paper must have 5 sections corresponding to the objectives and be written in APA style. It will be graded on a rubric evaluating how well it meets the objectives and on APA format/style.

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Your term paper assignment is to write a clinical case study of a real

or hypothetical person. The paper should be five double-spaced pages


(one page per section).

You may submit an initial draft of the paper for comments that you can
use to revise the final draft that you will submit for grading. The
paper should address issues raised in comments on your initial
draft.

Your case study has the following objectives:

1. Describe the symptoms of the case that meet the criteria for a
diagnosis of a disorder using the most recent version of the DSM.
2. Describe how these symptoms would be labeled and treated from a
traditional, historical, or cultural perspective other than that in the
DSM. Also, describe any recent changes in the DSM diagnosis of the
case’s disorder.
3. Explain the causes of the case’s disorder in terms of any two of
the following theoretical perspectives: the psychoanalytic,
cognitive, behavioral, humanistic, socio-cultural, and biological
perspectives.
4. Describe scientific evidence that supports one of the two
explanations above and a treatment based on that explanation.
5. Describe any legal or ethical issues that may arise in the diagnosis
and treatment of this case’s disorder.

Your paper should have five sections, each corresponding with one of
the objectives above, and given the following headings: Case
Diagnosis, Historical Background, Theoretical Explanation, Scientific
Evidence, Ethical Issues.

The term paper assignment is graded based on how well it meets each
of the objectives below using a 10-point rubric (0-5= totally
unresponsive, 6, 7 = partially meets the objective, 8,9 = meets the
objective, 10 = exceeds expectations).

The paper will also be graded on adherence to the American


Psychological Association writing style and format, 10 points.

https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines
Papers that use text taken verbatim from another source with or
without quotes or references will not be accepted, and given a 0. All
papers will be subjected to analysis using Turnitin.

Term papers that do not address the specific objectives of the


assignment, or which are not received by the due date in Canvas will
be given a score of 0.

Document submissions must be in either Word (.doc) or Adobe (.pdf)


formats. Documents in other formats will not be accepted.

Quawnia Charles

Case Study-Final Exam

11/17/22

Kayla is 14 years old and her mother identify her as angry, irritable, argumentative, and

vindictive. Kayla have been getting in a lot of trouble in school. Kayla refuses to listen to her teachers,

she is always disrespectful and throws things at her peers and teachers when she is upset and constantly

gets into fights. Kayla always come home pass her curfew and bluntly tells her mom “I will get home

when I get there”. Kayla have been getting in serious trouble in the last two years. Last year Kayla was

arrested for vandalism and stealing her mother car. She was placed in a Juvenile Detention Center for

five months since it was her first offense. Since than Kayla have getting in trouble with the law. She

claims she doesn’t care, and don’t plan on changing her behavior. Kayla has been describing as one of

the most troubling teens her school had to deal with. They’re fed up with given her chances, and shes on

boarder line for expulsion. Kayla also have tried drugs,


6. Describe how these symptoms would be labeled and treated from
a traditional, historical, or cultural perspective other than that in
the DSM. Also, describe any recent changes in the DSM diagnosis
of the case’s disorder.

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