Provide a response to the below questions according to the assessment completed from your collegue. You may also provide additional information, alternative points of view, research to support treatment, or patient education strategies you might use with the relevant patient.
Three Questions / Discussion Prompts
1.) Given the history provided by the client and the provider’s initial psychiatric evaluation, what diagnosis offers the best explanation for his symptoms? Do you agree with the justifications I provided for the differential diagnosis? If not, why?
2.) If this client was referred to you on a regimen of 1500mg of lithium daily, 150mg of Seroquel each night, 20mg of propranolol three times daily for anxiety, and 1mg clonazepam as needed up to twice daily, but satisfied and stable, would you have altered his medication regimen in any way? If so, what would be your justification? If not, why?
3.) Now that you have agreed to take on this client as one of your own, what would an ideal and comprehensive treatment plan entail? Who else, other than yourself as a psychiatric provider, ought to be included in the plan and how will they contribute to his progress?