COUC 546
DSM Summaries Assignment Instructions
Overview
Throughout your career as a counselor, you will be required to assess and diagnose clients. To engage in this practice in a competent manner, you will need to have a good working knowledge of the DSM-5 including the general categories and the specific disorders that are contained in each category. This assignment will introduce you to the more common categories that you will encounter as a counselor.
Instructions
You will have four sets of summaries to complete, each due during a different Module/Week. Each set will contain a 1-page summary of each of the following disorders:
Summary Set 1, due at the end of Module 1 (3 summaries, one page each):
Bipolar and Related Disorders
Depressive Disorders
Anxiety Disorders
Summary Set 2, due at the end of Module 3 (3 summaries, one page each):
Substance-related and Addictive Disorders
Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders
Obsessive-compulsive and Related Disorders
Summary Set 3, due at the end of Module 5 (your choice of 3, one page each):
Personality Disorders
Somatic Symptoms
Neurodevelopmental
Schizophrenia Spectrum
Summary Set 4, due at the end of Module 7 (your choice of 3, one page each):
Neurocognitive
Disruptive, Impulse Control and Conduct Disorders
Feeding and Eating Disorders
Sexual
Sleep/Wake
Elimination
Gender
Other Conditions That May Be a Focus of Clinical Attention
You will write a one-page summary for EACH category. Summaries must include:
Overview – a brief overview of the general category. Identify the similar symptoms that all the disorders in the category share.
Disorders –List each disorder in the category and highlight at least one symptom that makes this disorder different than all the other disorders in this category (example: in the Depressive disorders all the disorders are characterized by feelings of sadness. Highlight what makes each diagnosis different: time frames, severity, types of symptoms, etc.)
Risk and Prognostic Factors – choose one disorder that you are particularly interested in and provide a brief summary of the risk and prognostic factors. Include what category the risk factors fall into: biological, psychological, social or spiritual.
You will organize each summary by using the current edition of APA headings. Start each summary with the category title using a Level 1 APA heading. Overview, Disorders and Risk /Prognostic factors should be Level 2 headings.
You will include an APA title page and reference page. An abstract is not needed. Remember, the graduate program at Liberty uses the guidelines for “Professional” papers, not the “Student” version.
As this is primarily a summary of the DSM, you may start your paper with the statement “All of the following information was taken from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition (American Psychiatric Association, 2013) unless otherwise noted.” Using other sources is not recommended; however, if you use additional sources, you will need to cite and reference them.
This assignment must be a paraphrase of the information you find in the DSM-5 or your textbook. You may not use any quotations.
Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool.
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