Assignment: Assessing and Treating Clients with Anxiety Disorders
\nCommon symptoms of anxiety disorders include chest pains, shortness of breath, and other physical symptoms that may be mistaken for a heart attack or other physical ailment. These manifestations often prompt clients to seek care from their primary care providers or emergency departments. Once it is determined that there is no organic basis for these symptoms, clients are typically referred to a psychiatric mental health practitioner for anxiolytic therapy. For this Assignment, as you examine the client case study in this week\u2019s Learning Resources, consider how you might assess and treat clients presenting with anxiety disorders.
\nLearning Objectives<\/p>\n
Students will:
\n\u2022\tAssess client factors and history to develop personalized plans of anxiolytic therapy for clients
\n\u2022\tAnalyze factors that influence pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic processes in clients requiring anxiolytic therapy
\n\u2022\tEvaluate efficacy of treatment plans
\n\u2022\tAnalyze ethical and legal implications related to prescribing anxiolytic therapy to clients across the lifespan<\/p>\n
To prepare for this Assignment:
\n\u2022\tReview this week\u2019s Learning Resources. Consider how to assess and treat clients requiring anxiolytic therapy.<\/p>\n
The Assignment
\nExamine Case Study: A Middle-Aged Caucasian Man With Anxiety. You will be asked to make three decisions concerning the medication to prescribe to this client. Be sure to consider factors that might impact the client\u2019s pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic processes.
\nAt each decision point stop to complete the following:
\n\u2022\tDecision #1
\no\tWhich decision did you select?
\no\tWhy did you select this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources.
\no\tWhat were you hoping to achieve by making this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources.
\no\tExplain any difference between what you expected to achieve with Decision #1 and the results of the decision. Why were they different?
\n\u2022
\n\u2022\tDecision #2
\no\tWhy did you select this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources.
\no\tWhat were you hoping to achieve by making this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources.
\no\tExplain any difference between what you expected to achieve with Decision #2 and the results of the decision. Why were they different?
\n\u2022\tDecision #3
\no\tWhy did you select this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources.
\no\tWhat were you hoping to achieve by making this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources.
\no\tExplain any difference between what you expected to achieve with Decision #3 and the results of the decision. Why were they different?
\nAlso include how ethical considerations might impact your treatment plan and communication with clients.<\/p>\n
Generalized Anxiety Disorder<\/p>\n
Middle-Aged White Male With Anxiety<\/p>\n
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
\nThe client is a 46-year-old white male who works as a welder at a local steel fabrication factory. He presents today after being referred by his PCP after a trip to the emergency room in which he felt he was having a heart attack. He stated that he felt chest tightness, shortness of breath, and feeling of impending doom. He does have some mild hypertension (which is treated with low sodium diet) and is about 15 lbs. overweight. He had his tonsils removed when he was 8 years old, but his medical history since that time has been unremarkable. Myocardial infarction was ruled out in the ER and his EKG was normal. Remainder of physical exam was WNL.
\nHe admits that he still has problems with tightness in the chest and episodes of shortness of breath- he now terms these \u201canxiety attacks.\u201d He will also report occasional feelings of impending doom, and the need to \u201crun\u201d or \u201cescape\u201d from wherever he is at.
\nIn your office, he confesses to occasional use of ETOH to combat worries about work. He admits to consuming about 3-4 beers\/night. Although he is single, he is attempting to care for aging parents in his home. He reports that the management at his place of employment is harsh, and he fears for his job. You administer the HAM-A, which yields a score of 26.
\nClient has never been on any type of psychotropic medication.<\/p>\n
MENTAL STATUS EXAM
\nThe client is alert, oriented to person, place, time, and event. He is appropriately dressed. Speech is clear, coherent, and goal directed. Client\u2019s self-reported mood is \u201cbleh\u201d and he does endorse feeling \u201cnervous\u201d. Affect is somewhat blunted but does brighten several times throughout the clinical interview. Affect broad. Client denies visual or auditory hallucinations, no overt delusional or paranoid thought processes readily apparent. Judgment is grossly intact, as is insight. He denies suicidal or homicidal ideation.
\nThe PMHNP administers the Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HAM-A) which yields a score of 26.
\nDiagnosis: Generalized anxiety disorder<\/p>\n
RESOURCES
\n\u00a7 Hamilton, M. (1959). Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale. Psyctests, doi:10.1037\/t02824-0
\nDecision Point One
\nSelect what the PMHNP should do:<\/p>\n
Begin Zoloft 50 mg po daily Click to see options it will take you to decision point two and three with increase or decrease or change of medication and results<\/p>\n
Begin Imipramine 25 mg po BID Click to see options it will take you to decision point two and three with increase or decrease or change of medication and results<\/p>\n
Begin Buspirone 10 mg po BID Click to see options it will take you to decision point two and three with increase or decrease or change of medication and results<\/p>\n
Decision Point One This is an example one not to be used word for word. Thank you<\/p>\n
Begin Zoloft 50 mg orally daily
\nRESULTS OF DECISION POINT ONE
\n\u2022\tClient returns to clinic in four weeks
\n\u2022\tClient informs you that he has no tightness in chest, or shortness of breath
\n\u2022\tClient states that he noticed decreased worries about work over the past 4 or 5 days
\n\u2022\tHAM-A score has decreased to 18 (partial response)
\nDecision Point Two<\/p>\n
Increase dose to 75 mg orally daily<\/p>\n
RESULTS OF DECISION POINT TWO
\n\u2022\tClient returns to clinic in four weeks
\n\u2022\tClient reports an even further reduction in his symptoms
\n\u2022\tHAM-A score has now decreased to 10. At this point- continue current dose (61% reduction in symptoms)
\nDecision Point Three<\/p>\n
Maintain current dose<\/p>\n
Guidance to Student
\nAt this point, it may be appropriate to continue client at the current dose. It is clear that the client is having a good response (as evidenced by greater than a 50% reduction in symptoms) and the client is currently not experiencing any side effects, the current dose can be maintained for 12 weeks to evaluate full effect of drug. Increasing drug at this point may yield a further decrease in symptoms but may also increase the risk of side effects. This is a decision that the PMHNP should discuss with the client. Nothing in the client\u2019s case tells us that we should consider adding an augmentation agent at this point as the client is demonstrating response to the drug. Avoid polypharmacy unless symptoms cannot be managed by a single drug.
\nAnxiolytic Therapy and PTSD Treatment Essay Assignment<\/p>\n
All references require creditable sources, nothing less than 5 years. References require doi or http. Please add a conclusion
\nTips:
\n– Always use the choices given
\n– Continuation of psych meds may be needed before switching as they take time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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