Fergie Greer MF4 Brain and Behaviour
Activity
Tutorial
Tutorial
Fergie is a 23-year-old single woman with no children who lives with her parents. She completed university with difficulty, taking time off frequently but eventually completing her degree. She reports having difficulties with relationships since middle school and not knowing who she really is affects her mood, attention and concentration. This had an impact upon her schooling but she managed to finish with a huge effort. However, she has been unable to ever work in any capacity since finishing University a year ago. Fergie was referred by her family physician for a psychiatric consultation because she frequently presented to the family physician or student health with low mood and suicidal ideations. At times her family doctor had to send her to ER for urgent assessment following disclosure of taking an overdose or cutting her arms. She is hoping that some medications like an antidepressants will be prescribed for her and that you will believe she is unwell and needing help. She has a huge hope that you will see her regularly, and provide her with answers as to why she is not feeling happy, why she feels empty, and why she is unable to control her anger. She is also considering bipolar disorder as she heard from student health counsellor that she may have a bipolar disorder because she reported increased spending, increased sexual activity, and reckless driving. And she also informed you that she has an eating disorder when she binge eats at times. She is well read on mental health and has attended many counsellors since middle school including private therapists that her parents took her to see.
Curriculum Block
Brain and Behaviour / Medical Foundation 4 / Part 4 / Week 2
- Indicates most relevant
Objectives
General Objectives
- Anger and violence.
- Recurrent interpersonal problems.
- Early life experiences.
- Suicidality.
- Explain the role of the HPA Axis in stress-related medical conditions with psychiatric sequelae.
- Identify the treatment and side effects of bipolar disorder, mania and depression.
Global Objectives
Assessments
End-Unit Tutorial Assessment
Concept Application Exercise (CAE)
Tags
Basic Sciences
Classification
Diagnosis
Etiology
Cohort Year
2011
Curriculum Block
Brain and Behaviour
Medical Foundation 4
Part 4
Week 2
Curriculum Week
Part 4
Week 10
Discipline
Psychiatry
MCC Presentations
Personality Disorders
McMaster Program Competencies
1.1 Gather essential and accurate information about patients and their health through history-taking, physical examination, and the use of laboratory data, imaging, and other tests.
2.2 Apply biomedical scientific principles fundamental to health care for patients and populations.
4.4 Demonstrate insight and understanding about emotions and human responses to emotions that allow one to develop and manage interpersonal interactions, including the ability to manage one’s own interpersonal responses
8.99 Other personal and professional development
MeSH
Cognitive Therapy [F04.754.137.428]
Narcissism [F02.739.794.582]
Personality Disorders [F03.675]
Psychiatry [F04.096.544]
Psychotherapy [F04.754]