Possible evidence-based treatment protocols

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Question: Anna had a long history of severe mental illness dating back more than 20 years. During her first depressive episode, she had killed her baby while suffering psychotic symptoms. She also made two serious suicide attempts. Anna has been divorced twice and now lives alone in a council house. She has an adult daughter who is deaf and severly handicapped . prior to her last arrest, her daughter lived at home, and she cared for her with help from local social services. Her daughter was placed in residential care when Anna was incarcerated. In view of the previous infanticide, social services has always monitored the situation with regard to risk factors for her daughters safety;however, this was less of an issue now that she was an adult. Anna's illness history is characterized mainly by depressive episodes with psychotic features. She had experienced episodes of paranoid thoughts when she believed her neighbors knew all about the past and she was reluctant to go out because she felt persecuted. Anna felt extreme guilt at having killed her child. When psychotic, she would shout that she was evil and deserved to be punished. It seemed that the guilt had effected her considerably to manifest in a negative self-concept. Even when well, Anna never spontaneously talked about herself in a positive manner at all.

As your role as an intern with psychological treatment center for a local correctional facility assume your supervisor has asked you to assist in the development of a treatment protocol based on research.

Research and describe at least 2 possible evidence-based treatment protocols for the justice involved individual?

Propose 1 of the treatment protocols researched and provide support for the reasons for this treatment protocol?

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