Assessing and Treating Clients With Psychosis and Schizophrenia

Assessing and Treating Clients With Psychosis and Schizophrenia 
To prepare for this Assignment:
Review this week’s Learning Resources. Consider how to assess and treat clients requiring
anxiolytic therapy.
The Assignment
Examine Case Study: Pakistani Woman with Delusional Thought Processes. 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’s pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic processes.
At each decision point stop to complete the following:
Decision #1
Which decision did you select?
Why did you select this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the
Learning Resources.
What were you hoping to achieve by making this decision? Support your response with evidence
and references to the Learning Resources.
Explain any difference between what you expected to achieve with Decision #1 and the results of
the decision. Why were they different?
Decision #2
Why did you select this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the
Learning Resources.
What were you hoping to achieve by making this decision? Support your response with evidence
and references to the Learning Resources.
Explain any difference between what you expected to achieve with Decision #2 and the results of
the decision. Why were they different?
Decision #3
Why did you select this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the
Learning Resources.
What were you hoping to achieve by making this decision? Support your response with evidence
and references to the Learning Resources.
Explain any difference between what you expected to achieve with Decision #3 and the results of
the decision. Why were they different?
Also include how ethical considerations might impact your treatment plan and communication
with clients.
Note: Support your rationale with a minimum of three academic resources. While you may use
the course text to support your rationale, it will not count toward the resource requirement.