Assessment 3: Living the Criteria of the DSM

Write a 5-6 page assignment in which you identify a famous individual who has been diagnosed with a disorder listed in the DSM5, describe the diagnosis, analyze the quality of their life living with the disorder, present evidence-based treatment recommendations for the disorder, and support your recommendations with findings from research.

Introduction

For this assessment, you will be asked to think critically about the current diagnostic system and the medical model of mental illness.

Overview

The DSM diagnoses are applied to individuals. Symptomatic individuals are brought to health care providers and diagnostic labels are applied to them. However, our understanding of the psychological conditions individuals experience is enhanced if we keep in mind that various ages and populations are probably more sensitive to environmental conditions than others. Carefully selecting a diagnoses and ensuring that it is evident in the client will result in the most effective treatment.

The following resource is required to complete the assessment:

• American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.).

Instructions

For this assessment, you are asked to think critically about the current diagnostic system and the medical model of mental illness.

• Select a celebrity or famous individual who has been diagnosed with a disorder listed in the DSM-5. 
• Describe the diagnosis, discussing each criterion the client fits and does not fit for that diagnosis from the DSM-5 (which you should cite).
• Analyze the quality of their life living with this disorder.
  • In what way has the disorder impeded or limited their success?
  • In what way did it enhance their success?
• Find a journal article that discusses this disorder and analyze how the article’s discussion of the diagnosis compares to the behaviors the individual displays?
• Analyze treatments for the diagnosis of the chosen individual and support why they would be recommended (one or both of these treatments should come from a current, peer-reviewed journal article).
• Discern how, as a professional in the field of psychology, you would use the information from the article to inform your professional behavior.