¶ … Native American elder discussed on page 13 in the text is a peculiar one. However, the employment of the five-axis diagnosis provided in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders provides a good deal of information about what sort of issues this elderly man is dealing with. One of the facets of this manual that I would readily utilize is the capacity to use a provisional diagnosis and defer full diagnosis until later, so that I could properly gather more information than that which is provided in the text regarding his ailments.
The first axis is for clinical disorders except those pertaining to personality disorders and mental retardation (APA, 2013, p. 28). Again, based on the information at hand, I would make a provisional diagnosis that the client is suffering from clinical depression, perhaps in some part due to the fact that he was previously an alcoholic. In John Marszalek's video, the doctor declared that facets of substance...
It is key to note that alcoholism is a condition from which one never fully recovers: every day is simply another test for the former alcoholic to remain sober. As such, I would include the fact that the patient is recovering from alcoholism in the first axis, a fact which corroborates the provisional diagnosis that he may very well be clinically depressed.
The second diagnosis is for personality disorders and mental retardation. There was no evidence for either one of these phenomena in the literature, so in this portion of the assessment I would simply state "none indicated."
The third axis of this assessment is for general medical conditions which may adversely affect the patient. In this area I would mention his arthritis, a fact which has made this…
