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Clinical Personality Assessments

Clinical Personality Assessments Assignment: Clinical Personality Assessments Clinical personality assessments can only be completed and interpreted by a licensed psychologist who is trained in testing and assessments. Personality testing is usually done as a part of a larger battery of psychological assessment.  An individual or even several personality tests would not be administered in isolation […]

Discuss the biological, behavioral, environmental, and/or social risk factors associated with the Leading Health Indicator

Running head: HEALTHY PEOPLE 2020 1 HEALTHY PEOPLE 2020 4 Healthy People 2020 Name Institution Healthy people 2020 is the government’s prevention agenda on having a healthy nation (Healthy People, n.d.). Healthy people 2020 is a declaration of national health objectives intended to ascertain the preventable threats to health and institute goals to mitigate the […]

Clinical Assessment

Clinical Assessment If you’re a psychologist and a patient comes to see you, how do you know what is wrong? In this lesson, we’ll look at clinical psychological assessments and how psychologists use them. Clinical Assessment Imagine for a moment that you are a successful psychologist. Cynthia comes to see you because she’s having a […]

Chronic pelvic pain

Topic Chronic pelvic pain can be caused by any number of conditions. In primary care, nurse practitioners should be able to outline the basic approach to initial evaluation of and management of these disorders. As you have learned in this unit, there are many causes of chronic pelvic pain. Select one of the causes of […]

Alzheimer’s disease 

Care Provision and Practice Alzheimer’s disease    Brief In this assignment the learner is required to investigate the topic, Alzheimer’s disease. This is a condition which may affect clients in middle and older age. The qualities and skills which you bring to the workplace and working in the community will directly impact the physical and mental […]

Differential Diagnosis For Skin Conditions

Properly identifying the cause and type of a patient’s skin condition involves a process of elimination known as differential diagnosis. Using this process, a health professional can take a given set of physical abnormalities, vital signs, health assessment findings, and patient descriptions of symptoms, and incrementally narrow them down until one diagnosis is determined as […]

importance of accurate medical record

comprehensive h&p case study Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to understand the importance of accurate medical record documentation to record pertinent facts, findings, and observations about a patient’s health history including past and present illnesses, examinations, tests, treatments, and outcomes. Directions: Review and critique the comprehensive H&P below and thoroughly answer the questions […]

clinical assessment

clinical assessment Instruction This module’s activities will focus on clinical assessment including interviewing, observation, and testing. Carefully read the designated pages in your textbook and review all of the information in the learning module. Post a discussion message addressing the following: Take one of the following online Personality Tests The IPIP-NEO The Big Five Summarize […]