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Answer each question with 150 words each and use at least one scholarly source for each question.

1. What challenges do counselors face when assessing for spousal or domestic partner abuse? What are some strategies for overcoming these challenges
2. How can knowledge of the abuse cycle assist you as a counselor to detect possible spousal abuse when providing couples counseling?
3. Review the vignettes located in the topic five materials and then diagnose Robin and Becky with a psychotic disorder. What are the justifications for your diagnosis? Include differential diagnoses that were considered and discarded.
4. Review the vignette of Brett located in the topic five materials, and then provide a DSM diagnosis. Based on your cultural background/worldview, what is your perspective on the nature of psychotic disorders? Briefly review the biblical narrative in Mark 5: 1-20. How would you help a psychotic individual who presents to your treatment center and insists that the etiology of his disorder is spiritual in nature and not biochemical? Review Mercer’s article and identify two or three recommendations/practices you find relevant in this source as pertaining to a clinician that considers treating Brett.