2. How does a case presentation
looks like?
Does it need to be one-on-one
interaction?
3. PURPOSECase Presentation is the process of
communicating the result of the
assessment done by the clinician.
Through this case presentation,
client will be screened if there are
evidences of underlying physical,
mental and psychological
dysfunction of the client to
provide bases for a full clinical
diagnosis and possible therapeutic
interventions that will be
discussed and formulated
4. OBJECTIVES
Objectives of case presentation are:
Discuss a brief information about the client;
Discuss the reason for admission, medical and
developmental history and psychological
assessment of the client
Elaborate the diagnosis of the client using the
DSM V and;
Discuss the possible therapeutic treatment and
approaches for and on the client
5. Who are involved in the case
presentation?
PSYCHOLOGIST
PSYCHIATRIST
PSYCHIATRIC
NURSE
Psychometrician
Social Worker
Client/ immediate
family
Medical Doctor
6. Identifying Information
Name :
Nickname :
Age/Sex/ : 24/M
Birth Date : Feb. 5, 1988
Birth Place: Davao City
Birth Status: Middle Child
Civil Status: Single/Unemployed
Address :
Date of admission:
7. FAMILY COMPOSITION
NAME RELATION AGE STATUS/
OCCUPATION
WHEREABOUTS
Father 59/M Married
/businessman
(Pomelo and
banana plantation)
Mother 50/F Married
/businesswoman
(Pomelo and
banana plantation)
Brother 26/M Single/ currently
reviewing for step 2
Medical Board
Exam
Client 24/M Single/Unemployed
Sister 22/F Single/ Medical
Student 1st
year
DMSF
8. History of Present Illness
Presents how the client get into his current
situation.
It asks when did it started? How did it
started? What are the cause?
10. Presenting Problem
As perceived by the Significant
Others
How the family members see his
situation?
The loved one’s point of view
11. Presenting Problem
As perceived by the Significant Others
After discharge, the client went back into
smoking and using drugs. He manifested
hostility, aggression, verbal abusiveness,
insomnia, hallucinations, and elevated mood
eventually until behavior became
unmanageable. Besides, he attempted to
overdose himself with clonazepam after the
prescription was left by his father under his
responsibility. Family then decided to readmit
the client for re-evaluation and further treatment.
12. As perceived by the Client
How the client sees his
situation?
The client’s point of view
16. DEVELOPMENTAL HISTORY
Attachment
Initiative, Freedom, and Responsibility
Self-Control
Parental Discipline
Coping Skills
Self-Worth/Trust
PEER RELATIONS
AMBITIONS, GOALS, AND WORK
Academic/School History
SEXUALAND MARITAL HISTORY
20. Mental Status Exam (Sept. 12, 2012)
A. GENERAL APPEARANCE
Pt. came wearing dark blue shirt, black shorts, a
pair of slippers, fairly groomed and with haggard
looking face
B. GENERAL MOBILITY
Posture and Gait was normal, with distant facial
expression.
C. BEHAVIOR
Had good eye to eye contact upon interview and was
listening
attentively with the questions.
21. D. DOCTOR-PATIENT INTERACTION
He was cooperative all throughout the interview
and with a warm quality
of responses.
E. STREAM OF TALK
AJ was spontaneous and able to give relevant
responses to the questions although
with flight of ideas at times. Accessibility was
good.
22. F. EMOTIONAL STATE AND REACTION
With euthymic mood, appropriate affect,
depersonalization and homicidal were
not apparent although suicidal potential was present (with
history of OD prior to admission).
G. THOUGHT CONTENT
Hallucination were not apparent upon interview but
according to father patient
was yelling all to himself alone (1 day prior to admission).
Delusions, ideas of
reference, De’javu and jaimais vu were not apparent but
client was pre-occupied
about overdosing 30 tablets of Clonazepam prior to
admission.
23. E. NEUROVEGETATIVE DYSFUNCTION
Reported to have a good sleep (9pm-8am), appetite
decreased, weight decreased.
G. GENERAL SENSORIUM AND INTELLECTUAL STATUS
AJ was oriented to time, place, person, and situation.
Immediate memory was
impaired while recent and remote memory were intact and
calculation ability was
fair. General information, abstract thinking ability, and
judgment and reasoning,
and insight was unimpaired.
F. SUMMARY OF MSE
With disturbances in Presentation, general behavior,
emotional state and
reaction, thought content and neurovegetative dysfunction.
G. DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA
Functional, Psychotic
25. Purpose for Evaluation:
To determine the intellectual capacity,
personality dynamics and
psychological adjustment of the
Subject as part of a comprehensive
case study and clinical diagnosis.
26. Psychological Tests Administered:
Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices
Projective Drawings: Draw-a-Person (DAP) and
House-Tree Person (HTP)
SACHS Sentence Completion Test
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory -2
(MMPI-2)
Millon™ Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III (MCMI-III)
DATE ADMINISTERED:
July 26-31, 2012; September 19, 2012
27. Test Results and Interpretation:
Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices:
Percentile Score: 10
INTERPRETATION:
BELOW AVERAGE
A. Intellectual Functioning
BELOW
AVERAGE
28. B. Personality Functioning
1. Projective Drawings:
• Draw-a-person and house-tree-person test on the
overall communicate an apparent weak personality
functioning and adjustment as the Subject is
burdened with anxiety and tensions that often
leads to depression. Depressed as he is, he can
be passive, regressed, quiet, and may exhibits
unwillingness to deal with his current situation with
tendency to shut down the world…He is
preoccupied with future concerns making him feel
more anxious.
29. • issue towards father: assertive, unexpressive…need to
be understood by his father;
• vivid childhood memory: bond with his father… could fly a
plane with his father as the pilot
• perception towards self: has the ability to understand
other people; yet easily gets overwhelmed when odds are
against him, and feels hatred about it…greatest
weakness: compulsiveness
• sees importance in happiness…always wanted to be
‘normal’; could be perfectly happy if family would be
together; desire for success;
2. SACHS Sentence Completion Test:
Free associations on the SSCT suggest-
2. SACHS Sentence Completion Test:
Free associations on the SSCT suggest-
31. 3. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2:
Measures of Infrequent Responding Scales
Infrequency (F) 15 82 May be Invalid
Infrequency-
Psychopathology (Fp)
2 56 Likely Valid
32. 4. Millon Clinical Multiaxial Clinical Inventory- III (MCMI-III)
1st
Administration
CORRECTIONS
SCALES
RAW
SCORE
BASE RATE
SCORE
INTERPRETATION
Validity Index
Scale V (Invalidity) 0 - Valid
Scale W
(Inconsistency)
6 - Valid
Modifying Indices
X Disclosure 172 97 Valid
Y Desirability 5 25 Valid
Z Debasement 18 73 Valid
33. FACET SCORES FOR HIGHEST PERSONALITY
SCALES BR 65 OR HIGHER
• Highest Personality Scale BR 65 or higher: Scale 3
Dependent
Scale 3 Dependent Raw
Score
BR
Score
Interpretation
3.1 Inept Self-Image
8 100 High
3.2 Interpersonally
Submissive 5 84 High
3.3 Immature
Representations 6 100 High
34. SCALE 3 Dependent
3.1. Inept Self-Image: Views self as weak, fragile and
inadequate. Exhibits lack of self-confidence by belittling own
attitudes and competencies and hence is not capable of
doing things on his own.
3.2 Interpersonally Submissive: Needs excessive advice
and reassurance. Subordinates himself to a stronger,
nurturing figure, without whom he may feel anxiously alone
and helpless. Is compliant, conciliatory, and placating, afraid
of being left to care for himself.
3.3 Immature Representations: Has internalized
representations that are composed infantile impressions of
others, unsophisticated ideas, incomplete recollections,
rudimentary drives, childlike impulses, and minimal
competencies to manage and resolve stressors.
36. 5. Millon Clinical Multiaxial Clinical Inventory-
III (MCMI-III) 1st
Administration
CORRECTIONS
SCALES
RAW
SCORE
BR
SCORE
INTERPRETATION
Validity Index
Scale V (Invalidity) 0 - Valid
Scale W
(Inconsistency)
4 - Valid
Modifying Indices
X Disclosure 150 85 Valid
Y Desirability 2 10
Z Debasement 19 75
37. DIAGNOSTIC IMPRESSIONDIAGNOSTIC IMPRESSION
Significant family problems and other feelings of
dissatisfaction with close relationships are evident.
There are also substance abuse problems on top
of Subject’s intense emotional distress
characterized by depression, anxiety and other
schizoid trends accompanied by bizarre sensory
experiences and suicidal ideation which are
incapacitating and quite alarming, more so, as this
is greatly affecting Subject’s intellectual
functioning as gleaned from a BA score on
Raven’s SPM.
Significant family problems and other feelings of
dissatisfaction with close relationships are evident.
There are also substance abuse problems on top
of Subject’s intense emotional distress
characterized by depression, anxiety and other
schizoid trends accompanied by bizarre sensory
experiences and suicidal ideation which are
incapacitating and quite alarming, more so, as this
is greatly affecting Subject’s intellectual
functioning as gleaned from a BA score on
Raven’s SPM.
38.
39. DIAGNOSTIC IMPRESSION
AXIS I Polysubstance Dependence (304.80)
Provisional Diagnosis: Borderline Personality Disorder
(301.83)
AXIS
III
Psoriasis Scalp,
Post inflammatory hypopigmentation upper
extremity,
Bronchial Asthma,
Elevated Liver Enzyme and Blood Glucose level.
AXIS
IV
Inappropriate discipline
Academic problems and frustrations
AXIS V
65 experience some difficulty in social, occupational, or
school functioning, but generally functioning pretty well,
has some meaningful interpersonal relationships.
40. AXIS I
304.80 Polysubstance Dependence
This diagnosis is reserved for behavior during the
same 12-month period in which the person was
repeatedly using at least three groups of
substances (not including caffeine and nicotine),
but no single substance predominated. Further,
during this period, the Dependence criteria were
met for substances as a group but not for any
specific substance. For example, a diagnosis of
Polysubstance Dependence would apply to an
individual who, during the same 12-month period,
missed. work because of his heavy use of alcohol,
continued to use cocaine despite experiencing
severe depressions after nights of heavy
consumption, and was repeatedly unable to stay
within his self-imposed limits regarding his use of
codeine. -PRESENT
41. AXIS II
Diagnostic criteria for 301.83 Borderline Personality
Disorder
A pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal
relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked
impulsivity beginning by early adulthood and present in
a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of
the following:
(1) frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined
abandonment. Note: Do not include suicidal or self-
mutilating behavior covered in Criterion S.- PRESENT
(2) a pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal
relationships characterized by alternating between
extremes of idealization and devaluation
(3) identity disturbance: markedly and persistently
unstable se lf-image or sense of self
42. TREATMENT PLANNING
Detoxification -done(date)
First week: Complete the
psychological tests - done
(date)
Family System Therapy
Once a month (Two session with
Mother and then father)
CBT-REBT session
Twice a month
43. TREATMENT PLANNING
Attend the sessions of the addiction
program for 6 months
Shall adhere to the 12 steps
Outpatient program after 6months
Attend to NA/AA Meetings every
friday