Question

Renee is a social worker in an urban community mental health center. she has just seen a crisis client who expressed suicidal ideation. after doing a thorough assessment to determine that he needed inpatient care, she sent him to the hospital and must now write her notes about the session. although she knows that he is suffering with a severe depression, she still has to look up the exact diagnostic code in the

Answer 1

Renee's client is expressing suicidal ideation which she knows that the person is suffering from severe depression, although she knows about it, she is still in need to look up the exact diagnostic code in the DSM-5, also known as, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The manual has different classifications of disorders where it would help Renee identify the diagnosis of her client.