CPSY 8781: Final project

Overview

Final Project, Part I: Diagnostic Report

To Prepare:

• Review the Learning Resources and Diagnostic Summary Examples document to understand how a clinician summarizes and presents findings.
• Select one of the six Diagnosis Templates you completed for the Case Conceptualization Assignments in Module 2 through Module 4 of this course.
• Use the information in your selected Diagnosis Template, along with any relevant feedback from your Instructor, to write a 2-paragraph diagnostic summary about the same client in which you justify the diagnosis you assigned. Your summary should be in a separate document.
• Add your diagnostic impressions (ruleouts, differential diagnoses), and include DSM-5-TR and ICD-11.

• Final Project, Part II
• Choose from among the following controversial diagnoses or topics:
  • Validity of the diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder
  • Alternative model for the diagnosis of personality disorders
  • The role of cultural influence in sexual interest disorders
  • How the disease and adaptive models of addiction impact DSM-5-TR diagnoses
  • Gender dysphoria: Should it be eliminated as a DSM-5-TR disorder?
  • Should internet gaming disorder be included in the DSM-5-TR?
  Use the APA template to write a 5-page paper (excluding title and reference pages) following the instructions in the final project document, including a contextual analysis of the evidence. Use at least five scholarly sources in the references of your paper.