Clinical Diagnosis

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Question 1

During the whole process of diagnosis, it is necessary to gather enough information about the client’s emotions, symptoms, behaviors, and even social reactions. These are some of the key indicators to identify at the onset of the diagnosis process. Through evaluating the history of a client and making subsequent actual observations, it is the best way to arrive at the person’s diagnosis in a comprehensive manner, thus managing to offer appropriate treatment and subsequent prognosis. The main focus is to make sure the diagnosis includes all the behavioral aspects affecting an individual, so that once the treatment is administered, the person is likely to improve his or her health condition for personal, family, and societal benefits.

Under the modern perspective, there are various cultural elements included in the diagnosis process, so that the relevant medical practitioner is able to evaluate history of the family with regard to particular conditions, the community, and even cultural concepts such as way of life. The cultural information is significant is developing the structure of the diagnosis and conducting effective outcomes to help in the whole diagnosis process. After identifying the various factors that can aid in the whole diagnosis process, the clinician is responsible for helping the client to understand the various factors promoting his or her condition, and offer guidance on the ideal process of treatment and change.

Within the various deficiencies and imperfections, the process of diagnosis is an important one within psychiatry, and more relevant in other medical fields. The process includes various clinical components such as developing an anamnestic dialogue between the patient and the clinician, assessing any deep and subjective emotions of the patient, and exploring any interpersonal and cultural issues affecting the patient. Diagnosis is commonly characterized as work in progress as it does not stop till the patient has fully recovered.

Question 2

After diagnosing a patient of a dependence substance, it is ideal to advise him or her to undertake abstinence actions to avoid the adverse impacts generated by the substance on the patient’s body. However, there are patients who might find it challenging to abstain from those substances and change their lifestyles. At this point, motivational counseling can play a key role in contemplating and making the client to understand the need for abstinence. To begin with, the client needs to find adequate support and be encouraged to choose programs that can guide him or her towards abstinence during the course of treatment. Even after undergoing successful treatment and discharge, the patient needs support so as to understand the need to maintain the treatment terms to avoid experiencing adverse impacts in the future. Secondly, there are other clients who might enter the diagnosis and treatment stage with some contemplation, which may be accompanied by ambivalence. Such people should be encouraged to continue acting on the process of change and face the reality by stopping the use of substances. While they might think about making a change in their lives, the crucial process is implementing the proposed changes by the clinician.