borderline personality disorder 4

Using your practicum experience, choose a client you’ve seen with personality disorder.

• Download the Biopsychosocial Template (Word) to write about that client for this assignment.
• Use the template to create an evidence-based treatment plan using all of the components within the template. Follow HIPAA guidelines to avoid providing information that identifies the patient.

Criteria for this paper:

• Answer these questions succinctly but completely, integrating resources to provide rationale for all decisions.
• Use APA formatting for all components of your paper.
• Your paper should be approximately two to three pages in length not including the reference page.

resources

Required

• Davison, S. E. (2002). Principles of managing patients with personality disorder (PDF). Advances in Psychiatric Treatment, 8(1), 1–9.
• Schultz, H. E., & Hong, V. (2017). How assessment and treatment differs from a psychotic disorder (PDF). Current Psychiatry, 16(4), 25–29.
• Ruggero, C. J., Zimmerman, M., Chelminski, I., & Young, D. (2010). Borderline personality disorder and the misdiagnosis of bipolar disorder (PDF). Journal of Psychiatric Research, 44(6), 405–408.
• Winship, G., & Hardy, S. (2007). Perspectives on the prevalence and treatment of personality disorder (PDF). Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 14(2), 148–154.

Recommended

• Rhodes, J., & Murphy, P. J. M. (Eds.) (2015). Clinical consult to psychiatric nursing for advanced practice. New York, NY: Springer Publishing.
• Tusaie, K. R., & Fitzpatrick, J. J. (Eds.) (2013). Advanced practice psychiatric nursing: Integrating psychotherapy, psychopharmacology, and complementary and alternative approaches. New York, NY: Springer Publishing.

• PsychU. This website contains valuable psychiatric mental health screening tools. Retrieved from: https://www.psychu.org/
  • If you haven’t already done so, please register for access to this resource and search for applicable screening tools relevant to the assignments this week.
• Nursing: Psychiatric Mental Health: Getting Started. Check out this library research guide created for Regis Nursing students specializing in PMH.