CCMH 548 Week 4 Assignment

CCMH 551 Week 4 Assignment: Personality Disorder Presentation and Role-Play

Assignment Content

Choose a personality disorder from the following list, and obtain instructor approval for your selection:

• Paranoid
• Schizoid
• Schizotypal
• Borderline
• Narcissistic
• Histrionic
• Antisocial
• Avoidant
• Dependent
• Obsessive-compulsive

Create a 12- to 15-slide Microsoft^® PowerPoint^® presentation detailing your team’s chosen personality disorder. Include the following:

• Describe the diagnostic criteria of the disorder.
• Explain the challenges for treating clients with this disorder.
• Describe the pros and cons of possible therapeutic interventions for treating clients with this disorder.

Cite a minimum of three sources in your presentation.

Format any citations in your presentation consistent with appropriate course-level APA guidelines.

Submit your presentation.

Conduct a 5- to 10-minute role-play of a treatment session with a client with this disorder in class. Include the following:

• The team member representing the client should do the following:
• Display behavioral symptoms of the personality disorder.
• Present issues that are commonly seen with clients with this disorder.
• The team member representing the counselor should do the following:
• Demonstrate appropriate therapeutic behaviors for working with a client with this disorder.
• Demonstrate treatment strategies that are appropriate for treating a client with this disorder.

Include a brief class discussion after the role-play to help the class identify the symptoms presented in the role-play related to the disorder.

Resources

• Center for Writing Excellence
• Reference and Citation Generator
• Grammar and Writing Guides
• Learning Team Toolkit

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