Diagnosis of Substance Abuse

1. You will review an initial assessment of a substance abuse patient.
2. Read pages 543-665 in the DSM-5-TR. Write your differential diagnosis list and a list of additional questions that you would like for the patient to answer. Submit INITIAL: Diagnostic Reasoning Exercise Assessment Assignment.
3. Write your differential diagnosis list and list of additional questions that you would like for the patient to answer. Submit to your professor by day three of the workshop.
4. For your final submission discuss: a) how the complete progress note answered your questions and thereby added to, eliminated from and/or changed your diagnoses list; b) how the answers from the completed progress note to your questions supports or rules out you final diagnosis/es; c) how the physical examination findings from the completed progress note supports or rules out you final diagnosis/es; d) how the subjective answers from the completed progress note supports or rules out your final diagnosis/es; and e) how the mental status examination from the completed progress note supports or rules out your final diagnosis/es.
5. For your final submission, Give your final/ treating/working diagnosis/es.

• Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder: Fifth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-5-TR), pages: 543-665
• Video: Workshop One Differential DX*
• File: EBP and Diagnostic Reasoning