Psychology Coursework

Personality Disorders
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Question One
Treatment of Personality Disorders
Cognitive Behavioral Treatment
The treatment focuses on the patient’s self-perception and how they view people and the environment in which they reside. Cognitive-behavioral treatment also seeks to comprehend the causes of the condition by prioritizing early childhood lifestyle (Beck, Davis, & Freeman, 2015).
Medication
Different types of medication can be used and they include;
Antidepressants: They are used for control and management of personality disorder (Paton, Crawford, Bhatti, Patel, & Barnes, 2015).
Antipsychotics: They are majorly prescribed on patients suffering from schizophrenia.
Specific Personality Disorders
Paranoia
The patients suffering from this condition do not trust close ones. They are always suspicious of looking for evidence to support their fear (Beck, Davis, & Freeman, 2015).
Schizoid Personality Disorder
Individuals suffering from schizoid personality disorder tend to focus on their inner lives and shut out the outside world. They live in fantasy away from realism (Dammann, 2017).
Question Two
I believe the challenge in counseling comes with the fear of aggression and levels of impulsivity. Psychiatrists fear to avail the medical reports with the BPD patients. They are usually aggressive as they feel abandoned (Ende et al., 2016). Sharing may also initiate a stigma as the patient may feel hopeless.
Question Three
The DSM-5 is a categorical tool that prioritizes Personality functions.

The criterion focuses on self-direction, intimacy, empathy, and identity (Morey, Benson, Busch & Skodol, 2015). I believe it’s an effective model as it considers an individual’s personal and social aspect. Through the model, we can understand the level of connection one has with others, what motivates them, the ability to establish goals and self-awareness. Through the model, we can generate viable treatments that serve the patients personality and enable them to collude with others.
References
Beck, A. T., Davis, D. D., & Freeman, A. (Eds.). (2015). Cognitive therapy of personality disorders. Guilford Publications.
Dammann, G. (2017). Schizoid personality disorder. Psychosomatic Medicine and General Practice, 2(4), e020484-e020484.
Ende, G., Cackowski, S., Van Eijk, J., Sack, M., Demirakca, T., Kleindienst, N., … & Schmahl, C. (2016). Impulsivity and aggression in female BPD and ADHD patients: association with ACC glutamate and GABA concentrations. Neuropsychopharmacology, 41(2), 410.
Morey, L. C., Benson, K. T., Busch, A. J., & Skodol, A. E. (2015). Personality disorders in DSM-5: Emerging research on the alternative model. Current Psychiatry Reports, 17(4), 24.
Paton, C., Crawford, M. J., Bhatti, S. F., Patel, M. X., & Barnes, T. R. (2015). The use of psychotropic medication in patients with emotionally unstable personality disorder under the care of UK mental health services. The Journal of clinical psychiatry, 76(4), 512-518.