The document discusses psychotherapy treatment for individuals with personality disorders. It provides an assignment for selecting one personality disorder from the DSM-5-TR and a therapy modality to treat a client with that disorder. The assignment requires explaining the diagnostic criteria for the selected disorder, justifying the chosen therapeutic approach and modality, discussing the therapeutic relationship and how the diagnosis would be shared with the client individually, in family therapy, or in a group setting. Support from learning resources and at least three peer-reviewed sources is also required.

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THERAPY FOR CLIENTS WITH PERSONALITY DISORDERSIndividuals 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.Review this weeks 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-TR (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.ASSIGNMENT in 12 pages,
address the following:Briefly describe the personality disorder you selected, including the
DSM-5-TR 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 weeks 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.LEARNING RESOURCESAmerican Psychiatric Association. (2022). Diagnostic and
statistical manual of mental disorders Links to an external site. (5th ed., text rev.).
https://go.openathens.net/redirector/waldenu.edu?url=https://dsm.psychiatryonline.org/
doi/book/10.1176/appi.books.9780890425787Culture and Psychiatric DiagnosisParis, J.
(2015). Psychotherapies Links to an external site.. In A concise guide to personality
disorders (pp. 119 135). American Psychological Association.Wheeler, K. (Ed.). (2020).
Psychotherapy for the advanced practice psychiatric nurse: A how-to guide for evidence-
based practice (3rd ed.). Springer Publishing.Chapter 18, Dialectical Behavior Therapy for
Complex TraumaSymptom Media. (2020). Antisocial personality disorder ASPD online CNE
CEU courses for nurses Links to an external site.[Video]. YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewBFri65QuwSymptom Media. (2020). Histrionic
disorder NP mental health continuing education Links to an external site.[Video]. YouTube.

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJVRGofeV-wSymptom Media. (2020). Narcissistic
personality disorder online LPN CE credit CEU unit classes Links to an external site.[Video].
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