Use a professional experience, describe a time when you, a family member, a friend, or a patient experienced an extreme anxiety or panic attack. Remember to use pseudonyms as appropriate.
- What symptoms did you feel or were reported to you when the anxiety hit?
- What coping skills did you use or were recommended? Did they help?
- List the symptoms that you experienced or that were reported and match them up to the most appropriate DSM-5 diagnosis.
- With this diagnosis: “Panic disorder” Using the DSM-5, create a patient scenario around that specific diagnosis. Give enough information so that your classmates can diagnosis the patient, but do not be too overly apparent about what the correct diagnosis is.
