Review the Case Study of Kimberly, Part 1 and submit your responses to these questions as part of your assignment:
What diagnostic possibilities do Kimberly’s case present?
What evidence in the case history presents these possibilities for you?
What kind of questions you might ask to evaluate each diagnostic possibility? You must consider at least two, but no more than three, diagnostic possibilities, and develop a series of questions to interview for each possibility.
What possible answers would incline you toward or away from each of your various possibilities?
What further diagnostic evaluation is needed to clarify Kimberly’s diagnosis?
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