To Prepare Review this week’s Learning Resources and consider the insights they provide on assessing, diagnosing, and treating personality and paraphilic disorders. Select a specific personality or paraphilic disorder from the DSM-5 to use for this Assignment. Use the Walden Library to investigate your chosen disorder further, including controversial aspects of the disorder, maintaining the therapeutic relationship, and ethical and legal considerations. The Assignment In 2–3 pages: Explain the controversy that surrounds your selected disorder. Explain your professional beliefs about this disorder, supporting your rationale with at least three scholarly references from the literature. Explain strategies for maintaining the therapeutic relationship with a patient that may present with this disorder. Finally, explain ethical and legal considerations related to this disorder that you need to bring to your practice and why they are important.

To Prepare Review this week’s Learning Resources and consider the insights they provide on assessing, diagnosing, and treating personality and paraphilic disorders. Select a specific personality or paraphilic disorder from the DSM-5 to use for this Assignment. Use the Walden Library to investigate your chosen disorder further, including controversial aspects of the disorder, maintaining the therapeutic relationship, and ethical and legal considerations. The Assignment In 2–3 pages: Explain the controversy that surrounds your selected disorder. Explain your professional beliefs about this disorder, supporting your rationale with at least three scholarly references from the literature. Explain strategies for maintaining the therapeutic relationship with a patient that may present with this disorder. Finally, explain ethical and legal considerations related to this disorder that you need to bring to your practice and why they are important.

Strategies for Maintaining a Therapeutic Correspondence with Clients with Dissociative Disorders

A solid therapeutic association forms the foundation of clinical intervention and is essential while treating a patient with complex psychological conditions like dissociative disorders. Therefore, one would strive to develop a rapport with the patient during the initial meeting and help them feel welcomed, notwithstanding the unfamiliar environment. It is also appropriate to understand that therapeutic relationships take a long time to develop. It is usually the only guarantee that a strong, close, and trusting relationship can be forged, which is particularly essential for dissociative disorders clients haunted by past traumas (Larsen & Witoszek, 2023). A neutral environment enhances the quality of therapy sessions by enabling the client to express deep-seated thoughts and emotions while hearing. Therapists must also avoid judging the clients and focus on treating them with compassion, avoiding offering advice on sensitive matters like religion. A therapist must always take charge of each session, providing a sense of direction and focusing on managing their emotions. An open patient-therapist dialogue has to be conducted on the primary