Assignment task: Review 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-TR 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.
In 2-3 pages:
Question 1: Explain the controversy that surrounds your selected disorder.
Question 2: Explain your professional beliefs about this disorder, supporting your rationale with at least three scholarly references from the literature.
Question 3: Explain strategies for maintaining the therapeutic relationship with a patient that may present with this disorder.
Question 4: Finally, explain ethical and legal considerations related to this disorder that you need to bring to your practice and why they are important.