Problem:
E.G. is a 22-year-old Hispanic male brought into the clinic by his parents due to increasingly erratic behavior, social withdrawal, and impaired occupational functioning. He believes he is being watched and followed and that "the FBI is out to get me" E.G. hears two voices that tell him he is being watched and that people want to lock him up. These auditory hallucinations have been occurring for the past 9 months and have become more frequent. E.G. displays disorganized thoughts, paranoid ideation, and auditory hallucinations. Diagnosis: F20.9 Schizophrenia, unspecified. Need Assignment Help?
Chosen medicine: Risperidone
Include any required diagnostic testing. State the time frame for this testing (testing is before medication initiation or q 3 months, etc.). Includes normal results range for any listed laboratory tests.