Utilizing a Clinical Framework to Comprehend Psychological Distress in Individuals Affected by Huntington's disease: A Detailed, Evidence-Driven Approach
Received Date: Jan 30, 2024 / Published Date: Feb 29, 2024
Abstract
Huntington's disease (HD) is a hereditary neurodegenerative condition that significantly impacts individuals' lives, leading to cognitive, motor, and emotional changes. Particularly in later stages, individuals with HD may exhibit behaviours that are distressing to both professionals and caregivers, such as aggression, impulsivity, and inappropriate comments. Despite the absence of a specific formulation framework tailored to HD, clinical formulation-a personalized approach utilized by mental health professionals to articulate an individual's challenges-has proven valuable in conceptualizing patients' well-being.
Existing evidence highlights the efficacy of formulation in guiding clinical interventions, enhancing consistency across multidisciplinary teams, refining risk management strategies, and fostering empathy and understanding among staff and caregivers. Consequently, this paper proposes a novel clinical formulation model for comprehensively understanding distress among individuals with HD, grounded in a biopsychosocial framework.
Citation: Kronfol Z (2024) Utilizing a Clinical Framework to ComprehendPsychological Distress in Individuals Affected by Huntington's disease: A Detailed,Evidence-Driven Approach. Psych Clin Ther J 6: 233.
Copyright: © 2024 Kronfol Z. This is an open-access article distributed under theterms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricteduse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author andsource are credited.
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