Research
the specific personality disorder from your chosen case study.
Create a 10-15-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.
Detailed speaker notes
that represent what you would say if giving the presentation in person.
Case study
A single man of 40
years of age named Ted cut his carotid artery at home. He had suffered from
chronic schizophrenia, dominated by paranoid symptoms, for 20 years. During his
illness, Ted had spent a total of 12 years in mental hospitals; individual
hospitalizations had varied in duration. While he was hospitalized, his bizarre
delusions of altered body states and his experiences of being controlled by
external, often invisible, agents rapidly disappeared. He had death wishes and
suicidal thoughts since the onset of his schizophrenia. Death wishes also
stopped soon after hospitalization.
Over the years,
opinion about Ted changed and his condition began to be regarded as hopeless.
He was difficult to treat; he accused personnel, was unreliable, acted
pretentiously, and reacted by acting out. Four years before committing suicide,
he had to be transferred to another mental hospital. Two years before his
death, he was transferred to a halfway house belonging to the hospital, because
the staff feared that his dependence on the hospital might become excessive.
After his transfer to outpatient care, his suicidal tendencies increased. Six
months before committing suicide, he lost his long-term nurse. Subsequent
treatment consisted of occasional office visits with a psychologist or
psychiatrist.
Just before committing
suicide, Ted tried to enter the hospital where he had been during the initial
phases of his illness. He had suffered increasingly for a few months from
paranoid fears of being murdered. He threatened to commit suicide unless he was
admitted to the hospital, but the threat was considered demonstrative and
hospitalization was brief.
The day before he
committed suicide, he visited his childhood home and became afraid that a group
of men had surrounded the house. He repeated his wish to enter a mental
hospital. During his final night, his state changed. According to his father,
the Ted was exceptionally calm on the day of his death. The father said,
“He no longer seemed afraid of anything.”
Adapted from:
Saarinen, P. I.,
Lehtonen, J., & Lönnqvist, J. (1999). Suicide risk in schizophrenia: An
analysis of 17 consecutive suicides. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 25, 533-542.
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