CONTROVERSY ASSOCIATED WITH PERSONALITY AND PARAPHILIC DISORDERS

TO PREPARE

· Review this week’s Learning Resources and consider the insights they provide on assessing, diagnosing, and treating personality and paraphilic disorders.

· Select a specific personality or paraphilic disorder from the  DSM-5-TR to use for this Assignment.

· Use the Walden Library to investigate your chosen disorder further, including controversial aspects of the disorder, maintaining the therapeutic relationship, and ethical and legal considerations. 

THE ASSIGNMENT

In 2–3 pages:

· Explain the controversy that surrounds your selected disorder.

· Explain your professional beliefs about this disorder, supporting your rationale with at least three scholarly references from the literature.

· Explain strategies for maintaining the therapeutic relationship with a patient that may present with this disorder.

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