Keep in mind that clients with PDs do not often have good insight. For instance, a client with narcissistic PD will not come in saying, I have a high need for admiration from others or I lack empathy. Rather, the diagnostician has to infer these traits from the clients interpersonal style and history.
Each case example should describe behaviors that lead the diagnostician to conclude a PD might be present. Please review Clusters A, B and C Case Examples of Personality Disorders Scoring Guide prior to submission so that you aIDress all required grading criteria.
For this assignment, you are expected to meet the following requirements:
Title page: Include your name, course, date, and instructor.
Abstract: No abstract is required for the assignment.
Reference: No references are required beyond the assigned readings. AIDitional references may be used.
Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to APA sixth edition style and formatting.
Length of paper: Three to six typed, double-spaced pages (One to two pages per case example).
Font and font size: Arial, 11 point
Personality Disorders
What is personality? One definition would be that it is a relatively stable set of traits that characterize an individuals behavior. These traits are behaviors that we reliably display, and that others have come to recognize in us. We may occasionally surprise the people we know well by doing something out of character. But generally, we behave in somewhat predictable patterns. Of course, we all have traits that are maladaptive. We may worry too much about things we cannot control, act possessively toward a loved one, be chronically late, et cetera. Hopefully, however, we have enough insight into these traits that we are able to manage our behavior, as well as compensatory positive traits that make up for our less-than-exemplary conduct. Ideally, a persons typical response patterns will be flexible enough that she or he can respond adequately to unique situations.
Imagine, however, a person with a restricted way of perceiving, a narrow range of intrinsic motivations, or a limited set of coping skills. For instance, this person may see all interpersonal reactions as threatening, or among the many goals inherent in social relationships may only be motivated to achieve a sense of superiority, or might lack the coping skills that allow successful resolution of difficult situations. Rather than displaying a few mildly problematic traits, the person may exhibit a number of traits that are problematic, have limited insight into the existence, nature, and consequences of these behaviors, and fail to develop compensatory mechanisms. A personality disorder (PD) is just such an extremely rigid way of responding to the surrounding environment. PDs are evident across a variety of situations and across the lifespan. Typically, the disorder begins in adolescence or early adulthood, and then persists through much of the persons life. The rigid coping style associated with a PD makes the individual more susceptible to other forms of psychopathology. The disorder may also significantly impact the clients willingness to enter and ability to benefit from treatment.
Recognizing and diagnosing a PD can be difficult. As noted, individuals often have poor insight into their maladaptive traits, and thus cannot report them to an interviewer. Even when there is some recognition of a maladaptive behavioral repertoire, the individual may be unwilling to report this in an attempt to maintain social desirability. Even when the interviewer can identify potentially maladaptive behaviors from a clients presentation in the interview or from anecdotes the client reported, it can still be difficult to establish that these are long-standing and pervasive traits.
Cluster A Paranoid Personality Disorder
The Paranoid Personality Disorder* is characterized by a pervasive distrust and suspiciousness of other people. People with this disorder assume that others are out to harm them, take advantage of them, or humiliate them in some way. They put a lot of effort into protecting themselves and keeping their distance from others. They are known to preemptively attack others whom they feel threatened by. They tend to hold grudges, are litigious, and display pathological jealously. Distorted thinking is evident. Their perception of the environment includes reading malevolent intentions into genuinely harmless, innocuous comments or behavior, and dwelling on past slights. For these reasons, they do not confide in others and do not allow themselves to develop close relationships. Their emotional life tends to be dominated by distrust and hostility.
Cluster B Narcissistic Personality Disorder
People with Narcissistic Personality Disorder* have significant problems with their sense of self-worth stemming from a powerful sense of entitlement. This leads them to believe they deserve special treatment, and to assume they have special powers, are uniquely talented, or that they are especially brilliant or attractive. Their sense of entitlement can lead them to act in ways that fundamentally disregard and disrespect the worth of those around them.
People with Narcissistic Personality Disorder are preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success and power, so much so that they might end up getting lost in their daydreams while they fantasize about their superior intelligence or stunning beauty. These people can get so caught up in their fantasies that they dont put any effort into their daily life and dont direct their energies toward accomplishing their goals. They may believe that they are special and deserve special treatment, and may display an attitude that is arrogant and haughty. This can create a lot of conflict with other people who feel exploited and who dislike being treated in a condescending fashion. People with Narcissistic Personality Disorder often feel devastated when they realize that they have normal, average human limitations; that they are not as special as they think, or that others dont admire them as much as they would like. These realizations are often accompanied by feelings of intense anger or shame that they sometimes take out on other people. Their need to be powerful, and admired, coupled with a lack of empathy for others, makes for conflictual relationships that are often superficial and devoid of real intimacy and caring.
Status is very important to people with Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Associating with famous and special people provides them a sense of importance. These individuals can quickly shift from over-idealizing others to devaluing them. However, the same is true of their self-judgments. They tend to vacillate between feeling like they have unlimited abilities, and then feeling deflated, worthless, and devastated when they encounter their normal, average human limitations. Despite their bravado, people with Narcissistic Personality Disorder require a lot of admiration from other people in order to bolster their own fragile self-esteem. They can be quite manipulative in extracting the necessary attention from those people around them.
Cluster C Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
Persons with Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder* are preoccupied with rules, regulations, and orderliness. This preoccupation with perfectionism and control is at the expense of flexibility, openness, and efficiency. They are great makers of lists and schedules, and are often devoted to work to such an extent that they often neglect social relationships. They have perfectionist tendencies, and are so driven in their work to get it right that they become unable to complete projects or specific tasks because they get lost in the details, and fail to see the forest for the trees. Persons with Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder tend to be rigid and inflexible in their approach to things. It simply isnt an option for them to do a sub-standard job just to get something done. Often, they are unable to delegate tasks for fear that another person will not get it right. Sometimes people with this disorder adopt a miserly style with both themselves and others. Money is regarded as something that must be rigidly controlled in order to ward off future catastrophe. People with this disorder are often experienced as rigid, controlling, and stubborn.
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Research the disorder and locate relevant statistics obtained within the past 7 years regarding overall prevalence, gender and age differences, and treatment options.
/in /by CarlosRead the Numbers Can be Worth a Thousand Pictures: Individual Differences in Understanding Graphical and Numerical Representations of Health-Related Information article prior to answering. Informed decision making in the mental health and medical professions requires the ability to understand and effectively communicate statistical information. aIDress the following:
Select one mental health disorder of your choice based on a valid diagnostic category in the DSM-5.
Research the disorder and locate relevant statistics obtained within the past 7 years regarding overall prevalence, gender and age differences, and treatment options.
Present this information in the discussion forum in two formats: Format 1 for individuals with high graph literacy; Format 2: for individuals with low graphic literacy but high numerical literacy. Information regarding each of these two formats is discussed in the assigned article.
Describing interest in the STEM or other health professions, research, and the summer research program.
/in /by CarlosPlease include your academic goals, some areas of research in STEM that currently interest you, and your future career plans. Describing interest in the STEM or other health professions, research, and the summer research program. Include your prior research experiences, academic plans, as well as short and long term professional goals. Lastly, how can University at buffalo CSTEP Summer research program contribute to your goals and professional aspirations, and what do you hope to gain and accomplish, if selected? Discusses your current educational objectives, career plans, and personal goals
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Discuss the epidemiological health data that suggest toxin from Albert tar sands are responsible for brain tumors and cancer.
/in /by CarlosHaving extracted the less polluting oil, we are now getting to the really dirty sludge. The world needs energy and Canada needs the tar sands, i dont think people realize how big the sacrifice zone will be. Debate the need to develop the oil sands.
For the Allan Adam, Dene Chief, Fort Chipewyan and generations of his people, the land is life, then one day, the land changed. The worlds largest corporation came looking for oil. A sea of sand soaked with bitumen. Describe how the Alberta oil sands changed everything.
In a world running out of conventional oil, this is what is left, and there is a fortune to be made. Identify the skate holders.
The tar sands now supply more oil to the United States than any other foreign source. Describe the CanadianUS Government arrangements.
Describe how the Athabasca river, which feeds the Athabasca Lake, brings the riches of the land, but 120 Km upstream the river also feeds the tar sands and carries with it the toxins.
Discuss the epidemiological health data that suggest toxin from Albert tar sands are responsible for brain tumors and cancer.
Describe how the community of Fort Chipewyan, which relates heavily on traditional foods has been affected by waterer contamination, illustrate your findings with the physical evidence provided including fish which are inedible, deformed, bend over, crooked, partially eaten by acid.
The Fort Chipewyan family physician found diseases directly connected to toxins in the environment. The physician requested a baseline health study from Health Canada. Describe what happened with this request.
Describe what happened at the Press Conference on Fish Deformities held in Edmonton AB.
If you ask an Environment Canada media spokesperson about contamination resulting from tar sands operation, they will not tell you the federal government has failed to adequately monitor the mega-projects effects on water. The tar sends are contaminating hundreds of kilometres of land in nor them Alberta with cancer-causing contaminants and neurotoxins. Review the contributions of University of Alberta scientist Dr. David Schindler in exposing the negative effects of tar sands production on local waterways and aquatic species.
Alberta Government claims that the tar sands development leaves the Athabasca Lake unaffected. Provide your opinion based on what you know.
The tar sand development is now the biggest construction project in the world. Summarize the findings published in National Geographic Magazine March 2009 Vol. 215 No .3. How did the Politicians react to this published investigation?
According to allen Adam, Dene Chief, Fort Chipewyan this development is taking place on private property, if you are going to do anything with the land, you have to ask us. We never sold the land, never gave it up, never surrounded it, but people still think they have the right to come in here and do what they want to do. Discuss why under Canadian law he owns the land and has the right to hunt and fish. However where the development is taking place, the disruption is so extensive , that it is now fair to say that their properly rights, can no longer be meaningfully exercised, Because the habitat has been destroyed.
Use the Research Analysis Job Aid to complete this assignment.
/in /by CarlosSelect one (1) of the eating disorders, the Paraphilias, or neurocognitive disorders.
Example disorders:
Anorexia
Bulimia
Delirium
Dementia
Parkinsons disease
Huntingtons disease
Alzheimers
Pedophilia
Sexual disorders
. Choose a disorder and search for a video that corresponds with that disorder. Use the material on the film to serve as background information about the disorder.
Prepare a 825+ -word paper that discusses research-based interventions to treat psychopathology.
Review and differentiate the characteristics of the selected disorder and discuss the research about intervention strategies for the disorder by completing the following:
Evaluate three peer reviewed research studies using the Research Analysis.
Conceptualize the disorder using the biopsychosocial or diathesis-stress models.
Discuss the treatments or interventions that have been shown to be the most effective for your selected disorder. Why?
Cite at least five peer-reviewed sources.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.
Create a case example depicting a disorder from each of the clusters A, B, and C. You will create three case examples in total.
/in /by CarlosKeep in mind that clients with PDs do not often have good insight. For instance, a client with narcissistic PD will not come in saying, I have a high need for admiration from others or I lack empathy. Rather, the diagnostician has to infer these traits from the clients interpersonal style and history.
Each case example should describe behaviors that lead the diagnostician to conclude a PD might be present. Please review Clusters A, B and C Case Examples of Personality Disorders Scoring Guide prior to submission so that you aIDress all required grading criteria.
For this assignment, you are expected to meet the following requirements:
Title page: Include your name, course, date, and instructor.
Abstract: No abstract is required for the assignment.
Reference: No references are required beyond the assigned readings. AIDitional references may be used.
Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to APA sixth edition style and formatting.
Length of paper: Three to six typed, double-spaced pages (One to two pages per case example).
Font and font size: Arial, 11 point
Personality Disorders
What is personality? One definition would be that it is a relatively stable set of traits that characterize an individuals behavior. These traits are behaviors that we reliably display, and that others have come to recognize in us. We may occasionally surprise the people we know well by doing something out of character. But generally, we behave in somewhat predictable patterns. Of course, we all have traits that are maladaptive. We may worry too much about things we cannot control, act possessively toward a loved one, be chronically late, et cetera. Hopefully, however, we have enough insight into these traits that we are able to manage our behavior, as well as compensatory positive traits that make up for our less-than-exemplary conduct. Ideally, a persons typical response patterns will be flexible enough that she or he can respond adequately to unique situations.
Imagine, however, a person with a restricted way of perceiving, a narrow range of intrinsic motivations, or a limited set of coping skills. For instance, this person may see all interpersonal reactions as threatening, or among the many goals inherent in social relationships may only be motivated to achieve a sense of superiority, or might lack the coping skills that allow successful resolution of difficult situations. Rather than displaying a few mildly problematic traits, the person may exhibit a number of traits that are problematic, have limited insight into the existence, nature, and consequences of these behaviors, and fail to develop compensatory mechanisms. A personality disorder (PD) is just such an extremely rigid way of responding to the surrounding environment. PDs are evident across a variety of situations and across the lifespan. Typically, the disorder begins in adolescence or early adulthood, and then persists through much of the persons life. The rigid coping style associated with a PD makes the individual more susceptible to other forms of psychopathology. The disorder may also significantly impact the clients willingness to enter and ability to benefit from treatment.
Recognizing and diagnosing a PD can be difficult. As noted, individuals often have poor insight into their maladaptive traits, and thus cannot report them to an interviewer. Even when there is some recognition of a maladaptive behavioral repertoire, the individual may be unwilling to report this in an attempt to maintain social desirability. Even when the interviewer can identify potentially maladaptive behaviors from a clients presentation in the interview or from anecdotes the client reported, it can still be difficult to establish that these are long-standing and pervasive traits.
Cluster A Paranoid Personality Disorder
The Paranoid Personality Disorder* is characterized by a pervasive distrust and suspiciousness of other people. People with this disorder assume that others are out to harm them, take advantage of them, or humiliate them in some way. They put a lot of effort into protecting themselves and keeping their distance from others. They are known to preemptively attack others whom they feel threatened by. They tend to hold grudges, are litigious, and display pathological jealously. Distorted thinking is evident. Their perception of the environment includes reading malevolent intentions into genuinely harmless, innocuous comments or behavior, and dwelling on past slights. For these reasons, they do not confide in others and do not allow themselves to develop close relationships. Their emotional life tends to be dominated by distrust and hostility.
Cluster B Narcissistic Personality Disorder
People with Narcissistic Personality Disorder* have significant problems with their sense of self-worth stemming from a powerful sense of entitlement. This leads them to believe they deserve special treatment, and to assume they have special powers, are uniquely talented, or that they are especially brilliant or attractive. Their sense of entitlement can lead them to act in ways that fundamentally disregard and disrespect the worth of those around them.
People with Narcissistic Personality Disorder are preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success and power, so much so that they might end up getting lost in their daydreams while they fantasize about their superior intelligence or stunning beauty. These people can get so caught up in their fantasies that they dont put any effort into their daily life and dont direct their energies toward accomplishing their goals. They may believe that they are special and deserve special treatment, and may display an attitude that is arrogant and haughty. This can create a lot of conflict with other people who feel exploited and who dislike being treated in a condescending fashion. People with Narcissistic Personality Disorder often feel devastated when they realize that they have normal, average human limitations; that they are not as special as they think, or that others dont admire them as much as they would like. These realizations are often accompanied by feelings of intense anger or shame that they sometimes take out on other people. Their need to be powerful, and admired, coupled with a lack of empathy for others, makes for conflictual relationships that are often superficial and devoid of real intimacy and caring.
Status is very important to people with Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Associating with famous and special people provides them a sense of importance. These individuals can quickly shift from over-idealizing others to devaluing them. However, the same is true of their self-judgments. They tend to vacillate between feeling like they have unlimited abilities, and then feeling deflated, worthless, and devastated when they encounter their normal, average human limitations. Despite their bravado, people with Narcissistic Personality Disorder require a lot of admiration from other people in order to bolster their own fragile self-esteem. They can be quite manipulative in extracting the necessary attention from those people around them.
Cluster C Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
Persons with Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder* are preoccupied with rules, regulations, and orderliness. This preoccupation with perfectionism and control is at the expense of flexibility, openness, and efficiency. They are great makers of lists and schedules, and are often devoted to work to such an extent that they often neglect social relationships. They have perfectionist tendencies, and are so driven in their work to get it right that they become unable to complete projects or specific tasks because they get lost in the details, and fail to see the forest for the trees. Persons with Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder tend to be rigid and inflexible in their approach to things. It simply isnt an option for them to do a sub-standard job just to get something done. Often, they are unable to delegate tasks for fear that another person will not get it right. Sometimes people with this disorder adopt a miserly style with both themselves and others. Money is regarded as something that must be rigidly controlled in order to ward off future catastrophe. People with this disorder are often experienced as rigid, controlling, and stubborn.
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