Assignment: Therapy For Clients With Personality Disorders/NRNP 6645: Psychotherapy With Multiple Modalities

Assignment: Therapy for Clients With Personality Disorders

Individuals with personality disorders often find it difficult to overcome the enduring patterns of thought and behavior that they have thus far experienced and functioned with in daily life. Even when patients are aware that personality-related issues are causing significant distress and functional impairment and are open to counseling, treatment can be challenging for both the patient and the therapist. For this Assignment, you examine specific personality disorders and consider therapeutic approaches you might use with clients.

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To prepare:

• Review this      week’s Learning Resources and reflect on the insights they provide about      treating clients with personality disorders.
• Select one      of the personality disorders from the DSM-5 (e.g.,      paranoid, antisocial, narcissistic). Then, select a therapy modality      (individual, family, or group) that you might use to treat a client with      the disorder you selected.

The Assignment:

Succinctly, in 1–2 pages, address the following:

• Briefly      describe the personality disorder you selected, including the DSM-5 diagnostic      criteria.
• Explain a      therapeutic approach and a modality you might use to treat a client      presenting with this disorder. Explain why you selected the approach and      modality, justifying their appropriateness.
• Next,      briefly explain what a therapeutic relationship is in psychiatry. Explain      how you would share your diagnosis of this disorder with the client in      order to avoid damaging the therapeutic relationship. Compare the      differences in how you would share your diagnosis with an individual, a      family, and in a group session.

Support your response with specific examples from this week’s Learning Resources and at least three peer-reviewed, evidence-based sources. Explain why each of your supporting sources is considered scholarly. Attach the PDFs of your sources.

By Day 7

Submit your Assignment. Also attach and submit PDFs of the sources you used.

USE 5 REFERENCES FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT