Deaf client with bipolar illness: a case report

BACKGROUND: This case report highlights the diagnostic and assessment difficulties faced by mental health professionals when dealing with a Deaf client. CASE PRESENTATION: We used mobile phone text facility to monitor and liaise with the client while in the community. We focused on the affect and si...

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Autores principales: Gupta, Maneesh, Caddy, Jenny
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Case report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2082015/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17903259
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-0179-3-19
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description BACKGROUND: This case report highlights the diagnostic and assessment difficulties faced by mental health professionals when dealing with a Deaf client. CASE PRESENTATION: We used mobile phone text facility to monitor and liaise with the client while in the community. We focused on the affect and signing amplitude/intensity of the client to make a diagnosis of bipolar disorder, prescribed valproate semisodium, and noticed an improvement in two months. CONCLUSION: This is an example of some areas of good practice when assessing a Deaf client with mental health problems.
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spelling pubmed-20820152007-11-20 Deaf client with bipolar illness: a case report Gupta, Maneesh Caddy, Jenny Clin Pract Epidemiol Ment Health Case report BACKGROUND: This case report highlights the diagnostic and assessment difficulties faced by mental health professionals when dealing with a Deaf client. CASE PRESENTATION: We used mobile phone text facility to monitor and liaise with the client while in the community. We focused on the affect and signing amplitude/intensity of the client to make a diagnosis of bipolar disorder, prescribed valproate semisodium, and noticed an improvement in two months. CONCLUSION: This is an example of some areas of good practice when assessing a Deaf client with mental health problems. BioMed Central 2007-09-28 /pmc/articles/PMC2082015/ /pubmed/17903259 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-0179-3-19 Text en Copyright ©2007 Gupta and Caddy; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2082015/
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