This assignment will involve the selection of a current event from the news and applying it to a concept or subject from the readings in your course textbook, Psychopathology: Foundations for a Contemporary Understanding, 4th edition (Maddux & Winstead, 2016). Papers must be a minimum of 5 pages in length. Your submission should be double-spaced with 1-inch margins on all sides of each page and should be free of spelling and grammar errors. It must include source crediting of any materials used in APA format, including source citations in the body of your paper and in a Reference list attached to the end.
Students may select any subject from the textbook as long as they are able to (a) thoroughly describe the selected concept and (b) make a sound case for why it relates to the selected current event.
Students may select any relevant current event from the news, citing the description of the event from an internet news source.
The paper will include three major components:
Selection and description of the current event
Selection and description of the textbook concept
Integration and synthesis of the textbook concept with the selected current event
Category: Psychopathology
Please thoroughly read and follow the instructions that are uploaded. Also follow the template (that was also uploaded) verbatim.
If you need access to the DSM-5 TR please let me know I will find a way to send it you.
Assignment Description: One way of better understanding the nature of mental health diagnoses is
to read a first-person account of an individual’s experience living with a
diagnosis. You will find a list of such memoirs on page 7. Your assignment is
to select a memoir (if you have a selection that is not on the list please
check with the instructor to get an approval) and write an 8-10-page (double
spaced) paper related to that memoir.
Topic name
Personalitiy Disorders: Personality disorders involve enduring patterns of behavior that are frequently ego syntonic even though (in some cases) they can cause significant distress and harm. Considering the research on the factors involved in the development of personality disorders, should children be diagnosed with these disorders?
attaching following documents:
project instructions with Rubric
outline – short response – please extend on this response
DSM 5 diagnostic criteria for personality disorders
Watch (e.g., TV show, Movie), listen (e.g., podcast, audiobook), read (e.g., book, shortstory) something and write a 500 word report on a single character and include thesecomponents:
1. A potential DSM-5 diagnosis by clearly stating how this character fits into a certain diagnosis by listing symptoms and giving examples of how those symptoms manifestin this character (50 pts).
2. Use the integrative model to describe how this character may have developed such acondition. Be sure to include (50 pts): a. Generalized psychological vulnerabilityb. Generalized biological vulnerabilityc. Specific psychological vulnerabilityd. Stressorse. Other relevant processes that contribute to the disorder