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1. Provide a diagnosis (make sure that you provide the actual disorder and not a category) 2. What Perspective (Model of Abnormality) do you feel

1. Provide a diagnosis (make sure that you provide the actual disorder and not a category) 2. What Perspective (Model of Abnormality) do you feel best provides an explanation of the cause of the disorder? Provide support from the case study that supports your use of this perspective(s). 3. Provide the treatment strategy for this client. Your treatment strategy should align with your chosen perspective and etiology for the development of the disorder. Provide support for your chosen treatment. QUESTIONS 1. Caroline, a 25-year-old woman was visibly frightened. She was shaking badly and had the look of someone who feared that she would be attacked at any moment. The night before she had been found cowering in the corner of a local bus station, mumbling incoherently to herself, having arrived in town minutes earlier on a bus from Philadelphia. The station manager had called the police, who took her to the hospital. She told the interviewer that she had to escape Philadelphia because the Mafia was closing in on her. She was a schoolteacher, she explained, at least until the voices started bothering her. The voices would tell her she was bad and had to be punished. Sometimes the voices were in her head, sometimes they spoke to her through the electrical wires in her apartment. The voices told her how someone from the Mafia would come to kill her. She felt that one of her neighbors, a shy man who lived down the hall, was in league with the Mafia. She felt the only hope she had was to escape. To go somewhere, anywhere. So she hopped on the first bus leaving town, heading nowhere in particular, except away from home. Caroline had grown up in a small, rural community. She had been a good student and had participated in swimming and track as a teenager. Those around her reported that she was outgoing, friendly, and funny. She had many friends and had gotten an academic scholarship to Brown University where she had studies to become a teacher. Upon graduation she had secured employment at a local middle school where she had worked for the past two years until her symptoms had made it impossible for her to continue. 2. Evan was born to working class parents who had longed for a child for years. After finally conceiving, they were ecstatic to find they were having a boy. "People used to say to me that they hoped they would have a baby just like mine," Sarah said of Evan, 3 years old at the time. As an infant, Evan smiled endearingly, laughed, and hugged. He uttered a dozen words by his first birthday. By 16 months he had memorized the alphabet and could read some signs. "People were very impressed." Sarah said. Gradually, things changed, but it took months for Sarah to realize that Evan had a problem. At the age of 2, other members of Evan's play group bubbled with conversation. Evan had abandoned words completely. Instead, Evan combined letters and numbers in idiosyncratic ways, such as "B-T-2-4-6-Z-3." This type of play had become quite repetitive for Evan. He would also play for hours with his toy cars. When his mother would attempt to remove the cars in an attempt to get Evan to interact with the other children, he would become very angry and hit his head with a car or throw them at the other children. He grew increasingly withdrawn. His diet was essentially self-limited to peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. He often covered his ears and screamed due to the noises around him. This greatly distressed his parents. But the "symptom" that distressed Sarah most was impossible to measure: when she gazes into Evan's eyes, she no longer saw a "sparkle

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