If you’ve ever paid fucking attention when trying to use Google in getting answers you’ll notice there is a list of symptoms and signs of a problem. And while the differences between symptoms and signs apply to every diagnosis, I of course , am referencing them in regard to metal fucking health. As someone new …
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Taking That Mutherfucking Exam
If I started off by telling you how deep the pain in my stomach was every single time I even considered sitting down for this fucking exam , well we would be here forever. Let me sum it up by saying that on the daily, I would feel this pit of despair, anxiety, and stress …
Fucking Treatment Plans
Treatment plans are a fucking mood that are essentially a detailed, individualized plan developed in collaboration with a patient. It outlines the goals, objectives, and strategies for managing a patient’s specific health condition or issue. A treatment plan typically includes: Diagnosis and problem statement, short and long term goals and objectives, interventions & therapies,how …
Why I hate doing an intake
Intakes are par for the course and by the time you begin working in the theraputic process you should be very comfortable with it. But, some of us hate the process For those unfamiliar, a psychiatric assessment and intake are related but distinctly different processes in the field. As discussed last week, an assessment …
Assessments
….ahh, assessments the bane of existence to clinicians and client alike. They are tedious, time consuming where at best the questions feel irrelevant and repetitive and at worst invasive and uncomfortable. The only thing that’s worse than an assessment is having any answer raise the flag for another one. It seems there’s no shortages …