Description
Use a professional experience, describe a time when you, a family member, a friend, or a patient experienced an extreme anxiety or panic attack. Remember to use pseudonyms as appropriate.
What symptoms did you feel or were reported to you when the anxiety hit?
What coping skills did you use or were recommended? Did they help?
- List the symptoms that you experienced or that were reported and match them up to the most appropriate DSM-5 diagnosis.
- With this diagnosis: “Panic disorder” Using the DSM-5, create a patient scenario around that specific diagnosis. Give enough information so that your classmates can diagnosis the patient, but do not be too overly apparent about what the correct diagnosis is.
