Week 4 Assignment: Making a Diagnosis

PSY8220 – Jan 12 2026 to Mar 20 2026 – Section 01

Week 4

[u04a1] Week 4 Assignment: Making a Diagnosis

Week 4 Assignment: Making a Diagnosis

[u04a1] Week 4 Assignment: Making a Diagnosis

Due: Sun Feb 8, 2026 11:59pm2/8/2026

Ungraded, 160 Possible Points

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Overview

For this assignment, you will practice your diagnostic decision-making skills to prepare you to handle complex, comorbid cases. You will also include multiple diversity factors as you discuss how they ethically inform your approach to the diagnoses, differential diagnoses, and treatment of the person. Lastly, you will learn to be an effective consumer of the research literature as you work to incorporate diversity factors in your diagnoses and treatment.

Use the following resources as you complete your diagnoses:

DSM-5-TRLinks to an external site..

ICD-11 for Mortality and Morbidity StatisticsLinks to an external site..

Instructions

Consider the following case as you write your assignment:

Person D has been married for several years. In the past few months, Person D has lost interest in having sex. The decrease in sexual activity as a couple has caused significant stress in their marriage. Person D has also recently begun experiencing headaches and stomach aches that do not appear to be related to an actual medical disorder according to doctors. Person D is convinced that their headaches and stomach aches are quite serious and can’t seem to stop worrying about their health.

Provide a diagnostic formulation for Person D and include the following:

Choose a gender for the person in the case.

Identify a name for the person in the case and select diversity factors.

Include at least two diversity factors from the areas of race, socioeconomic status, religion, age, nationality, sexual orientation, disability status, and military status.

Be sure to select two different diversity factors from the ones that you selected in the previous week.

Develop a primary and secondary diagnosis with a rationale for why one diagnosis is primary.

Using a biopsychosocial approach, justify the diagnostic reasoning for both the primary and secondary diagnosis.

If more information is needed for a diagnosis, then state what that information is and why it would be helpful in your diagnostic decision making.

Develop a differential diagnosis for both the primary and secondary diagnoses.

Discuss how the diversity factors ethically inform the diagnosis and treatment for Person D.

Include at least one scholarly source in your discussion of diversity factors for the person in the case.

Additional Requirements

Your assignment should also meet the following requirements:

Written communication:

Apply the standard writing conventions for the discipline, including structure, voice, person, and tone.

Address the appropriate audience, using familiar, discipline-specific language and terminology.

Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and respectful of the diversity, dignity, and integrity of others, consistent with expectations for stakeholders in the psychology profession.

Format: Use the Evidence and APALinks to an external site. section of the Writing Center for information on how to format resources and citations in current APA style.

Length: 35 typed, double-spaced pages of content plus title and reference pages.

Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.

Reference link to be used

https://icd.who.int/en/

https://doi-org.library.capella.edu/10.1176/appi.books.9780890425787

In Section II, “Diagnostic Criteria and Codes,” read:

Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders and Sexual Dysfunctions.