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Assignment Instructions:
• Choose one of the three case studies at the end of this document.
• Read the case study carefully.
• Please answer all three of the following questions and number your responses.

Case Study Critical Thinking Questions
1. DIAGNOSIS AND RATIONALE: What is the most appropriate DSM-5 diagnosis and
why? Do not just list DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for your choice. Instead, explain why this
individual’s symptoms best fit your chosen diagnosis.
2. DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS: Please include a discussion of other disorders that would
need to be ruled out in order to make your diagnosis. How do you make your differential
diagnosis?
Differential diagnosis refers to all of the diagnostic categories that you seriously
considered during the diagnostic process. Because the symptoms present in the case
study suggest the possibility of several disorders, a thorough discussion of disorders that
you excluded is warranted. In other words, you should discuss why you assigned the
diagnosis/diagnoses that you did and why you ruled out others.
3. TREATMENT: Based on your diagnosis, what treatment or treatments would you
recommend for this case? Please justify your selection of treatment modality. What
theory of etiology is your treatment recommendation based on?