Maria is a social worker in an urban community mental health center. She has just seen a crisis client who expressed suicidal ideation. After doing a thorough assessment to determine that he needed inpatient care, she sent him to the hospital. Her client's depression would be coded as

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Suicidal ideation is a symptom of a mental disorder, specifically a mood disorder such as depression. Therefore, it would be coded on Axis I, which is reserved for clinical disorders. Axes II and III are reserved for personality disorders and medical conditions, respectively. Axis IV is used to identify psychosocial stressors that may contribute to the onset of symptoms.

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