Opinion ID: 3013073
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Heading Rank: 8

Heading: The Cavaiola Report

Text: On November 6, 1996, Dr. Alan Cavaiola, a psychologist, performed a psychodiagnositic evaluation on Beasich. Dr. Cavaiola observed that Beasich presented a multitude of psychological distress symptoms which included anxiety, depression, hostility, social and interpersonal sensitivity and obsessive compulsive worries. His diagnostic impression was: (a) mood disorder due to head trauma (predominant mood: depressive and anxious); (b) personality change due to head trauma; (c) avoidant personality disorder with paranoid personality traits; (d) head trauma sequella, e.g., seizures; (e) severe stressors (inability to obtain job and financial and family stress); and 10 (f) current GAF.1 Dr. Cavaiola noted that since the head injury Beasich had been unable either to find or maintain a regular job and continuously had been isolated socially. Dr. Cavaiola recommended that Beasich be referred for a psychiatric evaluation to rule out suicidal potentiality and to assess which medications could alleviate his anger and depressive symptoms. Id.