Topic: Dissociative Disorder
Instructions:
Research your approved topic by reading several current resources. You are
required to use at minimum, 5 recently published (i.e., since 2013) books or journal
articles, plus the DSM 5 + 1 current and reputable Internet source. They must be
properly cited in text and on the References page using the APA formatting style.
(Do not include any resources on your References page that you have not cited in
text).
It will be helpful for you to refer to the rubric for this assignment as you are writing it.
Report Headings, Sub-headings and Information to Cover:
Use only the following bolded headings to organize your report.
Section A: Diagnostic Features
Section B: Discussion of Topic
1. Causes
2. Impacts
3. Treatments
Citations of Sources: Use citations in appropriate places frequently throughout.
Whenever you are using information or ideas that are not general public knowledge and that originate from sources you have read, you must cite them in text: usually each source will be cited several times in this report.
Failing to cite your sources whenever you refer to information that is not common knowledge may constitute plagiarism and result in a report that is unmarkable.
Detailed Instructions:
This is a 2 section Report. Section A will likely be 1-3 pages and vary for everyone,
depending on their topic and the length of their corresponding DSM section.
Section B will be 6-7 pages
Section A: Diagnostic Criteria
Cut and paste the Diagnostic Criteria section on your topic from the DSM 5 chapter on your topic;
Instruction:
1. Go online to the DSM 5 (from a Humber computer or with the Library proxy
server (contact the library for assistance, not your professor) to
“PsychiatryOnline”;
2. Click on the entry PsychiatryOnline at psychiatryonline.org;
3. Click on the image of the purple book, then
4. Click on “Section II: Diagnostic Criteria and Codes”;
5. Select a chapter that contains your topic’s diagnosis;
6. Scroll to the chapter’s specific section of your diagnosis of interest and
locate the pink background insert entitled “Diagnostic Features”;
7. Select, cut and paste this entire Diagnostic Criteria section (it usually will
be 1-3 pages single spaced / 12 pt. font) into Section A of your report
(single spacing required for this report section only).
(1 mark: but minus 5 marks if you omit this)
Section B: Discussion of Topic
1. Causes
Detail all the currently known main causes of the mental health challenge /diagnosis that you have found in your research. (6 marks)
2. Impacts
Given your Section A – Diagnostic Criteria information and the other information in the Diagnostic Features section of your diagnosis of interest, comment on several specific issues (e.g., stigmatization, family problems,employment issues, challenges to maintaining optimal day to day functioning, etc.) that you believe are likely to arise for a client with the mental health challenge you are discussing.
Explain why you think these issues are likely to occur; what the research says about them.
This information is based on what you have learned through your research, what has been taught in class or through your work in the field.
If relating your comments to your experience in the field, you must clearly identify this as the source of your information. (6 marks)
3. Treatments
From your research, discuss the main treatments commonly used, and why they are used such as medical (e.g., medications / surgeries or other medical treatments), psychological (e.g., the main types of therapies or other interventions), and social, family, alternative treatments.
You must discuss treatments that address at least 3 of the different areas /
issues noted in your Impacts section. (6 marks)
4. Interventions
Provide several specific and detailed examples of how you, as an SSW, might intervene with specific SSW activities / roles that are part of the SSW Standards of Practice with your client(s) who have the mental health challenge you are discussing (e.g., what resources might you provide for them, where would you refer (you must use specific agency names and their specific program names) them if necessary/applicable, etc.)
Be sure to back up your ideas in the above sections with researched information
from RELEVANT literature that you cite.
