RE: SOCW6090- Assignment – Case Collaboration Meeting (wk4)

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Collaboration is a key part of social work practice. Most MSW professionals engage in these processes during the postgraduate practice years that each state requires before their licensing moves from supervised to independent status. Even beyond those requirements, peer consultation and collaboration are key aspects of most social work practice settings.

For this Assignment, your Instructor has paired you with a consultation colleague. Imagine that you and your colleague are working with the client featured in the case study your Instructor assigned. Your task is to provide a diagnosis and present your findings in the Week 7 Discussion.

Your diagnosis can come from any part of the DSM-5, so frequent communication and research with your colleague may be needed. Your colleague is there to help you think out, consult on, challenge, research, and polish your process before you record and post your own final analysis of this case in Week 7.

The collaboration that begins in this Assignment is intended to provide a safe venue for developing your differential diagnosis and case discussion skills with your colleague. This week you meet with your assigned partner at least once via Collaborate Ultra and begin considering the assigned case. In this Assignment, you describe that meeting and any initial analysis of the case.

To prepare:

  • Review your assigned case study from the list in the Learning Resources.

Submit a 1- to 2-page paper in which you describe your team meeting. In your write-up, make sure to address the following:

  • Describe your case in 100–150 words.
  • Explain which conditions were ruled out easily for your case and why.
  • Identify four disorders you and your partner are investigating as the strongest diagnostic possibilities for your case.

Colleagues Response

Hey, Bonita so I read over the case: J is an 39-year-old white Jewish male, married, with 3 kids. In Late fall J’s mood started to change, he became moody/depressed and started to take emotions out on kids. J was hospitalized at a psychiatric unit and was released prematurely according to J. Once J got back home he continued the same behavior with the kids, J was re-hospitalized. While J was in the ambulance he was performing some psychotic behavior, his wife states that he has been paranoid lately. J mother is deceased, lost 24lbs rapidly, always anxious, and displays repetitive behavior. I would rule out bi-polar disorder because he exemplified more than just a change in moods and behavior. J became delusional, having a hard time concentrating and suffered from anxiety given this symptoms I would diagnosis him as schizophrenia.