Chapter 13 (Personality Disorders) in DSM-5

Choose and read any one case study from Chapter 13 (Personality Disorders) in DSM-5 in Action.Research the specific personality disorder from your chosen case study.

Create a 10 slide PowerPoint presentation about your selected case study.

Include the following in your presentation:

A brief description of the selected case study

Explanation and rationale for the Personality Disorder Diagnosis using the latest version of the DSM as a reference.

Information on the course of treatment for the disorder.

Identification of which cluster (A, B, or C) this personality disorder belongs to and an explanation of your rationale.

Information on the prognosis and prevalence of the disorder.

A minimum of five scholarly references including your textbook and the latest version of the DSM. Be sure to only use current and scholarly references for this assignment.

Include detailed speaker notes that represent what you would say if giving the presentation in person.

You 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), 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.