Assignment
Select an adult or older adult client with a bipolar disorder that you have seen in your practicum.
In 3 to 4 pages, write a treatment plan for your client. In which you do the following:
1) Describe the HPI and clinical impression for the client.
2) Recommend psychopharmacologic treatments and describe specific and therapeutic end points for your psychopharmacologic agent. (This should relate to HPI and clinical impression.).
3) Recommend psychotherapy choices (individual, family, and group) and specific therapeutic endpoints for your choices.
4) Identify medical management needs, including primary care needs, specific to this client.
5) Identify community support resources (housing, socioeconomic needs, etc.) and community agencies that are available to assist the client.
6) Recommend a plan for follow-up intensity and frequency and collaboration with other providers.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
(1) The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
(2) The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
(3) Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.
References
• American Nurses Association. (2014). Psychiatric-mental health nursing: Scope and standards of practice (2nd ed.). Washington, DC: Author.
• Diagnostic And Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition DSM-5 American Psychiatric Association
• 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.
o Chapter 8, "Mood Disorders" (pp. 347-386)
• Stahl, S. M. (2017). Prescriber's Guide: Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology (6th ed.). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
• Gabbard's Treatments Of Psychiatric Disorders, Fifth Edition Edited By: Glen O. Gabbard, M.D.