The Diagnosis Of Jeremy Case Summary
Case I: Jeremy
The diagnosis of Jeremy, in this case, is oppositional defiant disorder/ODD in a moderate level due to the symptoms being present in two settings (school and home). On his case, the following symptoms were evident since his preschool years:
Criterion A1: He often loses temper (at school, he is irritable, with a tendency to display age-inappropriate temper tantrums).
Criterion A2: He's often touchy or easily annoyed (The least little thing upsets him, and then he shouts and screams according to his mother, occasionally exchange physical pushing with other children, and is "active" but not restless).
Criterion A4: He argues often with figures of authority such as his teachers and parents (gives many reasons why he should not have …show more content…
Ever since the incident where he crashed into the store, he has not been caught in any more serious offenses. Lastly, his recurrent aggressive outbursts are better explained by ODD despite not being attributable to another medical condition. Also, aggression in oppositional defiant disorder is typically characterized by temper tantrums and verbal arguments with authority figures, whereas impulsive aggressive outbursts in intermittent explosive disorder are in response to a broader array of provocation and include physical …show more content…
Trust vs. Mistrust – ever since her infancy, she has been passed around the care of different people that her parents knew, and many of them were also heavy drug users like her parents. In this stage, instead of having the virtue of hope, she leaned towards more to anxiety considering that the care that she receives during this stage completely varies due to her being passed around, thus making her most likely not to get accustomed to the variety of inconsistent care that she is receiving. The sense of mistrust had more impact in this stage.
2. Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt – considering that her parents and other people who mostly took care of her were mostly heavy drug users, it is safe to assume that they simply let Alicia go on most of her ways. This may have led her to lean more on her feelings of autonomy since she was neither criticized nor assisted on things that she may have done such as her own bodily functions. There were no indicators of abuse or trauma before or after she was placed in foster care, so she may have been developed a sense of will where her intended actions would be within her reason and
The diagnosis of Jeremy, in this case, is oppositional defiant disorder/ODD in a moderate level due to the symptoms being present in two settings (school and home). On his case, the following symptoms were evident since his preschool years:
Criterion A1: He often loses temper (at school, he is irritable, with a tendency to display age-inappropriate temper tantrums).
Criterion A2: He's often touchy or easily annoyed (The least little thing upsets him, and then he shouts and screams according to his mother, occasionally exchange physical pushing with other children, and is "active" but not restless).
Criterion A4: He argues often with figures of authority such as his teachers and parents (gives many reasons why he should not have …show more content…
Ever since the incident where he crashed into the store, he has not been caught in any more serious offenses. Lastly, his recurrent aggressive outbursts are better explained by ODD despite not being attributable to another medical condition. Also, aggression in oppositional defiant disorder is typically characterized by temper tantrums and verbal arguments with authority figures, whereas impulsive aggressive outbursts in intermittent explosive disorder are in response to a broader array of provocation and include physical …show more content…
Trust vs. Mistrust – ever since her infancy, she has been passed around the care of different people that her parents knew, and many of them were also heavy drug users like her parents. In this stage, instead of having the virtue of hope, she leaned towards more to anxiety considering that the care that she receives during this stage completely varies due to her being passed around, thus making her most likely not to get accustomed to the variety of inconsistent care that she is receiving. The sense of mistrust had more impact in this stage.
2. Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt – considering that her parents and other people who mostly took care of her were mostly heavy drug users, it is safe to assume that they simply let Alicia go on most of her ways. This may have led her to lean more on her feelings of autonomy since she was neither criticized nor assisted on things that she may have done such as her own bodily functions. There were no indicators of abuse or trauma before or after she was placed in foster care, so she may have been developed a sense of will where her intended actions would be within her reason and