This document provides instructions for an assignment on personality and paraphilic disorders. It states that between 10-20% of the population experiences personality disorders, which are difficult to treat as those with these disorders are less likely to seek help. Paraphilic disorders are also chronic issues lasting over two years. The assignment asks students to research a specific personality or paraphilic disorder, explain any controversies surrounding it, discuss maintaining therapeutic relationships with patients having the disorder, and consider important ethical and legal issues related to treating the disorder. Students are advised to follow formatting guidelines and proofread their work carefully.

1. Personality and Paraphilic Disorders Assignment 3
Personality and Paraphilic Disorders Assignment 3Personality and Paraphilic Disorders
Assignment 3Between 10% and 20% of the population experience personality disorders.
They are difficult to treat as individuals with personality disorders are less likely to seek
help than individuals with other mental health disorders. Treatment can be challenging as
they do not see their symptoms as painful to themselves or others. Photo Credit: Joe
Houghton – www.joehoughtonphotography.ie / Moment / Getty ImagesParaphilic disorders
are far more common in men than in women, and generally quite chronic, lasting at least
two years. Treatment of these disorders usually involves both psychotherapeutic and
pharmacologic treatments.In this Assignment, you will explore personality and paraphilic
disorders in greater detail. You will research potentially controversial elements of the
diagnosis and/or treatment and explain ethical and legal considerations when working with
these disorders.To PrepareReview 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 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 AssignmentIn 2–3 pages:Explain the controversy that
surrounds your selected disorder.Explain your professional beliefs about this disorder, ing
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.ORDER NOW FOR CUSTOMIZED,
PLAGIARISM-FREE PAPERSYou must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your
computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on
your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous
misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in
silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is
advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten
corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12
characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins
or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended
number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.Likewise, large type, large
margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines),

2. increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to
increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your
professor.The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on
the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white
paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to
follow your argument.