Personality Disorder Diagnosis

Instructions: Read current research/ evidence/ literature about Personality Disorder, and write an essay that must include information on models of personality disorder (ie attachment, biopsychosocial etc.). Keep this focused on diagnosis and formulation, no need to regurgitate what each model is or says. You need to think about this in relation to differ  Instructions: Read current research/ evidence/ literature about Personality Disorder, and write an essay that must include information on models of personality disorder (ie attachment, biopsychosocial etc.). Keep this focused on diagnosis and formulation, no need to regurgitate what each model is or says. You need to think about this in relation to differences of the medical model of mental illness A.      Diagnosis (500 words)-  Categorical- ICD, DSM. Discuss differences, their usefulness, reliability, validity. Maybe assessment tools. Comorbidity. Problems with diagnosis. (You don’t have to discuss all of this, just ideas). ICD 11 – changes when compared to ICD-10.  Critique the arguments for each classification system (ie categorical and dimensional) and think about their usefulness to practice  B.      Formulation (1200 words) – More useful/ effective than diagnosis? No? Why? Usefulness to practice? (critique systems, offer alternatives). Impact on staff attitudes/ views/ beliefs? Influences? C.       Impact and Recovery (500).  Provide impact of Diagnosis and Formulation of Personality Disorder to the Recovery of individual (Ethical, political, philosophical, social, cultural). Think about the ethical, political, philosophical, social, cultural perspectives of personality disorder and their impact on practice. This is about thinking deeper at the consequences of the label ‘PD’. For example, impact of DSPD, the Mental Health Act 2007, no longer a diagnosis of exclusion, social exclusion in general etc. D.  Self-awareness (300). Attitudes towards ‘personality disorder’, including own attitudes