Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Role II: Adults and Older Adults
Avoidant Personality Disorder in Adults and Older Adults
- Explain the diagnostic criteria for your assigned personality disorder.
- Explain the evidenced-based psychotherapy and psychopharmacologic treatment for your assigned personality disorder.
- Describe clinical features from a client that led you to believe this client had this disorder. Align the clinical features with the DSM-5 criteria.
- Support your rationale with references to the Learning Resources or other academic resources.
References that must be included
Sadock, B. J., Sadock, V. A., & Ruiz, P. (2014). Kaplan & Sadocks synopsis of psychiatry: Behavioral sciences/clinical psychiatry (11th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer.
- Chapter 4, Theories of Personality and Psychopathology (pp. 151191)
- Chapter 22, Personality Disorders (pp. 742762)
- Chapter 13, Psychosomatic Medicine (pp. 465503)
