There is interesting data that is available to treat psychiatric disorders using herbals, vitamins or alternative therapies. This assignment includes two parts. Conventional therapy and evidence based therapy that can include alternative methods of treatment.
Please answer the following questions. You will need to do research outside of your book. Please use trusted sources from evidence-based research.
Please know that many articles on alternative therapies may be censored on the internet. As a general rule, I do not use Google as a search engine. There are many other search engines that do not censor data, or medical studies or sell your private browsing data.
Please make sure you are examining the research data to make sure the study was conducted properly, and the statistics were not manipulated. Do not use secondhand sources only primary material.
Please use meta-analysis if possible, or well designed, well powered studies.
Please provide justification of your treatment and why you would pick one treatment over another.
Please use forceful features within the case. This means:
-What details in the case made you reach this conclusion?
-What influenced you to reach this conclusion?
-You need to provide evidence on your conclusion and an explanation of your conclusion.
Case Study
Miranda is a 70-year-old Brazilian female who comes into the practice referred by social service. Miranda has a history of either self-neglect or neglect from family members. The issues are not clear and social service has sent in a referral for further investigation and treatment. She has a past medical history of hypertension, back pain, severe arthritis and diabetes. She has no past psychiatric history. She is a retired florist and has been living with two grandchildren who assist her in her house. She has been prescribed oxycodone in the past for her back pain. Her primary care doctor recently started to decrease the amount of oxycodone that she had been receiving and switched her to gabapentin. This prompted some disagreements in her house with her grandchildren.
Her medications include gabapentin, oxycodone PRN, atenolol, lisinopril, and Metformin.
-Please provide further history that you would need from this patient. Follow what you would ask in an interview. Provide a baseline medical outline of testing such as labs or other testing that you may order
-Please provide a treatment plan for this patient that can include different herbal or vitamin-based therapies. This can include alternative medicines and treatments in any psychotherapy.
-Provide a pharmaceutical based therapy for this patient.
-Please provide any referrals to other agencies you would do and your justification for them.
-Please provide justification of your treatment and why you would pick one treatment over another.
