NU-646: Week 8 Discussion 1: Personality Disorders and Childhood Trauma

NU-646: Week 8 Discussion 1: Personality Disorders and Childhood Trauma

Value: 100 points

Due: Create your initial post by  Day 5, and reply to at least two of your classmates by  Day 7.

Grading Category: Discussions

Initial Post

Read the following article after reviewing your reading and learning materials for this week’s topics.

Cattane, N., Rossi, R., Lanfredi, M., & Cattaneo, A. (2017). Borderline personality disorder and childhood trauma: Exploring the affected biological systems and mechanisms. BMC psychiatry, 17(1), 221. NU-646: Week 8 Discussion 1: Personality Disorders and Childhood Trauma

For this week’s discussion answer the follow questions related to the learning material for this week.

• What is one thing that stands out to you the most about ACEs research?
• Why is the ACEs assessment instrument/tool so important in psychiatric mental health care?
• What are the barriers to responding to the ACEs research?
• Consider borderline personality as a biological response to trauma; what are the best options for treatment and why?

Reply Posts

Reply to at least two of your classmates. In your reply posts, you should compare and contrast your own viewpoints to your peers’ post.

Your response should include evidence-based research to support your statements, using proper citations and APA format.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

The described expectations meet the passing level of 80%. Students are directed to review the Discussion Grading Rubric for criteria which exceed expectations.

Posting to the Discussion Forum

1. Select the appropriate Thread.
2. Select Reply.
3. Create your post.
4. Select Post to Forum.

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Week 8: Learning Materials

Readings

Required

• Shea, S. C. (2017). Psychiatric interviewing: The art of understanding (3rd ed.). Elsevier.
  • Chapter 13, Personality Disorders: Before the Interview Begins—Core Concepts
  • Chapter 14, Personality Disorders: How to Sensitively Arrive at a DSM-5 Diagnosis
  • Chapter 15, Understanding and Effectively Engaging People with Difficult Personality Disorders: The Psychodynamic Lens. NU-646: Week 8 Discussion 1: Personality Disorders and Childhood Trauma
• Beiser, M., & Edwards, G. (2007). Mental health of immigrants and refugees (PDF). New Directions for Mental Health Services. 1994. 73–86. 10.1002/yd.23319946110.
• Arredondo, P., Toporek, M. S., Brown, S., Jones, J., Locke, D. C., Sanchez, J. and Stadler, H. (1996). Cultural Competence: AMCD Multicultural Counseling Competencies (PDF). Operationalization of the Multicultural Counseling Competencies. AMCD: Alexandria, VA
• Behavioral Tech. (2021). What is Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)?

Recommended

• Silove, D., Ventevogel, P., & Rees, S. (2017). The contemporary refugee crisis: an overview of mental health challenges. World psychiatry: official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA), 16(2), 130–139.
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration. (2020). Resources. National Council for Behavioral Health.

Lecture/Videos

Required

• DBT Therapy.
• Watch the following videos:
  • Individual Therapy
  • What is the D in DBT?
  • What is the B in DBT?
  • The Science Behind DBT
  • Core Assumptions

How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime (16:03 Minutes)

How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime Video Transcript

Recommended

Shea, S. C. (2017). Psychiatric interviewing: The art of understanding (3rd ed.). Elsevier.

• Video Module 14.1: Sensitively Uncovering Criteria for Antisocial Personality Disorder
• Video Module 5.4: Interviewing Techniques for Uncovering Malingering. NU-646: Week 8 Discussion 1: Personality Disorders and Childhood Trauma