UP Health & Medical Psychiatry and Mental Health Schizophrenia Essay

Week 9
1.Must have an introduction, body and conclusion
2.References must not be older than 5 years
Assignment: “Captain of the Ship” Project – Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic
Disorders
In earlier weeks, you were introduced to the concept of the “captain of the ship.” In this
Assignment, you become the “captain of the ship” once again as you provide treatment
recommendations and identify medical management, community support resources, and followup plans for a client with a schizophrenia spectrum/other psychotic disorder.
Learning Objectives
Students will:
Recommend psychopharmacologic treatments based on therapeutic endpoints for clients with
schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders
Recommend psychotherapy based on therapeutic endpoints for clients with schizophrenia
spectrum and other psychotic disorders
Identify medical management needs for clients with schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic
disorders
Identify community support resources for clients with schizophrenia spectrum and other
psychotic disorders
Recommend follow-up plans for clients with schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic
disorders
To prepare for this Assignment:
Select an adult or older adult client with a schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic
disorder you have seen in your practicum.
In 3–4 pages, write a treatment plan for your client in which you do the following:
1. Describe the HPI and clinical impression for the client.
2. Recommend psychopharmacologic treatments and describe specific and therapeutic
endpoints for your psychopharmacologic agent. (This should relate to HPI and clinical
impression.)
3. Recommend psychotherapy choices (individual, family, and group) and specific
therapeutic endpoints for your choices.
4. Identify medical management needs, including primary care needs, specific to this client.
5. Identify community support resources (housing, socioeconomic needs, etc.) and
community agencies that are available to assist the client.
6. Recommend a plan for follow-up intensity and frequency and collaboration with other
providers.
REFERENCES
American Nurses Association. (2014). Psychiatric-mental health nursing: Scope and standards of
practice (2nd ed.). Washington, DC: Author.
Standard 15 “Resource Utilization” (pages 82-83)
American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders
(5th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.
“Schizophrenia Spectrum and other Psychotic Disorders”
Ferreira, C. D., de Souza, M. G. D., Fernández-Calvo, B., Machado-de-Sousa, J. P., Cecilio
Hallak, J. E., & Torro-Alves, N. (2016). Neurocognitive functions in schizophrenia: A
systematic review of the effects of typical and atypical antipsychotic drugs. Psychology &
Neuroscience, 9(1), 12–31. doi:10.1037/pne0000045
Gabbard, G. O. (2014). Gabbard’s treatment of psychiatric disorders (5th ed.). Washington, DC:
American Psychiatric Publications.
Chapter 8, “Early-Stage Schizophrenia”
Chapter 9, “Toward a Dimensional Understanding of Psychosis and Its Treatment”
Chapter 10, “Psychosocial Treatments for Chronic Psychosis”
Chapter 11, “Pharmacological Treatment of Psychosis”
Granholm, E., Holden, J., Link, P. C., & McQuaid, J. R. (2014). Randomized clinical trial of
cognitive behavioral social skills training for schizophrenia: Improvement in functioning and
experiential negative symptoms. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 82(6), 1173–
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Sadock, B. J., Sadock, V. A., & Ruiz, P. (2014). Kaplan & Sadock’s synopsis of psychiatry:
Behavioral sciences/clinical psychiatry (11th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer.
Chapter 7, “Schizophrenia Spectrum and other Psychotic Disorders” (pp. 300–346)
Stahl, S. M. (2017). Prescriber’s Guide: Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology (6th ed.). New
York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
To access information on specific medications, click on The Prescriber’s Guide, 6th Ed. tab on
the Stahl Online website and select the appropriate medication.