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Client strengths

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  1. Cognitive and Appraisal skills
    Common sense, ability to anticipate problems, creativity
  2. Defenses and coping mechanisms
    Self-soothing, flexible
  3. Temperamental and dispositional factors
    Self-worth, optimistic, responsibility
  4. Interpersonal skills and supports
    Ability to develop/maintain relationships, capacity for empathy
  5. Other
    Supportive social institutions, good physical health
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Categories of Disorders in the DSM

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Neurodevelopmental
Schizophrenia Spectrum/Psychotic 
Bipolar and Related Disorders
Depressive Disorders
Anxiety Disorders
Obsessive-Compulsive and Related 
Trauma and Stressor-Related
Dissociative 
Somatic Symptom
Feeding and Eating 
Elimination
Sleep-Wake
Sexual Dysfunction
Gender Dysphoria
Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct
Substance Related and Addictive
Neurocognitive
Personality
Paraphilic
Others
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Personality Disorders - Cluster A

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Odd and Eccentric

  • Schizoid
  • Paranoid
  • Schizotypal
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Personality Disorders - Cluster B

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Dramatic, Emotional, and Erratic

  • Antisocial
  • Borderline
  • Narcissistic
  • Histrionic
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Personality Disorders - Cluster C

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Anxious and Fearful

  • Avoidant
  • Dependent
  • Obsessive-Compulsive
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A crisis is defined as…

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An acute disruption of psychological homeostasis in which usual coping mechanisms fail

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SOAP Format

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Treatment plan format
S: subjective (client’s report)
O: objective (objective indicators of the problem)
A: Assessment (objective + subjective together)
P: Plan (what will be done)