Question

A 33-year-old male patient has multiple lacerations to his hand. The patient care technician learns during the admission that the patient hit a window with his fist after arguing with his wife. He informs the technician they were arguing over their finances. The technician notices that the patient’s alcohol level was elevated upon admission to the emergency department. Describe where this patient would be placed on the mental health continuum, along with a rationale for this level?

Answer 1

In my opinion this patiet would be placed in the ill category (professional care) in mental health continium model.

Rational:

Here the 33-year-old male patient is facing severe difficulty in managing his emotions and even commiting self-harm in angery outburst. Secondly the patient is facing difficulty in concentrating and making decision related to finance. Evaluating his current findings, it can be speculated that the client must be facing difficulty in sleeping too. But one thing is very clear that the client can not control his alcohal addiction and has got some clinical disorder with severe and persistant functional impairement.