Diagnostic Aggression Case Studies

Diagnostic Impressions My clinical judgment would suggest that Silla is struggling of generalized anxiety disorder with a mild alcohol use disorder. Generalized anxiety disorder has 6 criterion including; excessive worry that has been occurring more days than not for about 6 months, the individual is having difficulty controlling the worry, the anxiety is associated with three or more of the following six symptoms (restlessness or feeling keyed up or on edge, easily fatigued, difficulty concentrating or mind going blank, irritability, muscle tension, sleep disturbance), symptoms are significantly distressing, disturbance is not attributable to the effects of a substance, and the disturbance is not better explained by any other mental disorder.
Silla has expressed that her excessive worrying has been getting worse for about eight months now which completes the first criterion. Silla has stated that she cannot control the worry resulting in completing the second criterion. The Patient meets the third
There is eight basic principles to behavioral therapy which include; behavior is strengthened or weakened by its consequences, behaviors that are punished will decrease and those that are rewarded with increase, behavioral approach is functional more than structural, neutral stimuli (paired with either a negative or positive environmental stimuli) can become conditioned behaviors, behaviorism is anti-mentalist, the therapy is driven and empirically based, the changes that clients make in their therapy must affect their day-to-day lives, and insight alone is not solely beneficial to clients. Behaviorists see to it that their clients are able to adapt to their environment using the central constructs of classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and observational learning (Murdock,