Explain strategies for maintaining the therapeutic relationship with a client that may present with a dissociative disorder.

Dissociative Disorders.
The Assignment (2–3 pages)

Explain the controversy that surrounds dissociative disorders.

Explain your professional beliefs about dissociative disorders, supporting your rationale with at least three scholarly references from the literature.

Explain strategies for maintaining the therapeutic relationship with a client that may present with a dissociative disorder.

Finally, explain ethical and legal considerations related to dissociative disorders that you need to bring to your practice and why they are important.

 

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.

Therapy for Clients With Personality Disorders

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.

What skills were necessary to maintain a professional, caring, therapeutic relationship?How did you best communicate with this client?

Any case of an abusive client to Me

Discussion Topic
intervene in the most appropriate manner.

After watching a segment regarding a violent client at Bellevue Hospital, answer the questions below.

It’s not necessary to critique the staff in the video, just think of how you might respond.

Violent Client at Bellevue Hosptial Video

• Describe a time when a client was rude or verbally abusive to you. How did you react?

• What skills were necessary to maintain a professional, caring, therapeutic relationship?

• How did you best communicate with this client?

• What did you learn from this experience?
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