Purpose:
Analyze and apply critical thinking
skills in the psychopathology of mental health patients and provide treatment
and health promotion while applying evidence-based research.
Scenario:
A 44-year-old white Australian man who
was not religious was referred to outpatient psychiatric treatment. He had been
playing with an Ouija board for two months when he started to believe that a
spirit had entered his body through his rectum and was controlling him. He
thought the spirit made him move and speak in a certain way.
He sought help from a local church,
where he was told it was a psychiatric problem and that he was not really
possessed. Two exorcisms at a local church failed to achieve any improvement.
Questions:
Remember to answer these questions from
your textbooks and NP guidelines. At all times, explain your answers.
1. Discuss
the relationship between mental illness and religion.
2. Is
this classified as psychopathology?
Support your response using DSM5 criteria.
Your initial post should be at least 500 words, formatted and cited in current APA style 7 with support from at least 5 academic sources.
Zero Plagiarism. Plagiarism report required.
Text book attached.
DSM5 book attached
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