Assignment
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Explain the diagnostic criteria for Narcissistic personality disorder.
Explain the evidenced-based psychotherapy and psychopharmacologic treatment for this disorder.
Describe clinical features from a client that led you to believe this client had this disorder. Align the clinical features with the DSM-5 criteria.
Support your rationale with references to the Learning Resources or other academic resources.
Required Readings ( need 3 references)
American Nurses Association. (2014). Psychiatric-mental health nursing: Scope and standards of practice (2nd ed.). Washington, DC: Author.
· Standard 12 Leadership (pages 76-77)
American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.
· “Personality Disorders”
Gabbard, G. O. (2014). Gabbards treatment of psychiatric disorders (5th ed.). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publications.
· Chapter 68, Paranoid, Schizotypal, and Schizoid Personality Disorders
· Chapter 69, Antisocial Personality Disorder
· Chapter 70, Borderline Personality Disorder
· Chapter 71, Histrionic Personality Disorder
· Chapter 72, Narcissistic Personality Disorder
· Chapter 73, Cluster C Personality Disorders
Perry, J. C., Presniak, M. D., & Olson, T. R. (2013). Defense mechanisms in schizotypal, borderline, antisocial, and narcissistic personality disorders. Psychiatry: Interpersonal & Biological Processes, 76(1), 3252. doi:10.1521/psyc.2013.76.1.32
Rees, C. S., & Pritchard, R. (2015). Brief cognitive therapy for avoidant personality disorder. Psychotherapy, 52(1), 4555. doi:10.1037/a0035158
Sadock, B. J., Sadock, V. A., & Ruiz, P. (2014). Kaplan & Sadocks synopsis of psychiatry: Behavioral sciences/clinical psychiatry (11th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer.
· Chapter 4, Theories of Personality and Psychopathology (pp. 151191)
· Chapter 22, Personality Disorders (pp. 742762)
· Chapter 13, Psychosomatic Medicine (pp. 465503)
Optional Resources
Kernberg, O. (n.d.). Psychoanalytic psychotherapy [Video file]. Mill Valley, CA: Psychotherapy.net.
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