Personality Disorder and Social Work Practice
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Personality Disorder and Social Work Practice
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Personality Disorder and Social Work PracticeIntroductionIt estimated that 6.5 % of Australians adults have personality disorder. Personality is an important part of human beings and determines how they behave alone or interact with other human beings and the environment. Personality disorder refers to a mental health problem wherean individual personality causes distress either to themselves or other human beings (Beck, Davis, & Freeman, 2015). Personality disorder include the way an individual feels, thinks and behaves that is different from expectations of culture and cause problems to one’s life and lasts for a prolonged time. Social work practice has an important role in diagnosing and treating personality disorders in the society. The following write-up reviews personality disorder literature and its issues in mental health practice. This will involve discussing the importance of understanding personality disorder for social work practice in mental health care and reviewing six research articles on the topic.Importance of Social Work Practice in Personality DisorderPersonality disorder is an important area for social work practice in delivering mental health wellbeing. Social work practice has a responsibility of maintaining and improving people’s wellbeing. Personality disorder lead as a mental illness deteriorates a person’s wellbeing (Bateman, Gunderson, & Mulder, 2015). A person with personality disorder is vulnerable to self sabotage, dangerous to others and contemplation of suicide. Patient with personality disorders suffer from mood swings, have social isolation, have poor impulse control, have stormy relationship, and are likely to abuse alcohol and drug substance (Lanier et al., 2013). The social work practice needs to understand the symptoms of personality disorders in order to diagnose and offer treatment to parents. This will help and support a person, their family, and groups. Social work practice is then able to engage with an individual at different levels and solve a problem. The social work practice also needs to understand personality disorder to control the environmental factors that are likely to affect an individual personality (Lampe, 2015). Personality disorder is influenced by an individual person’s environment and social work
practice can advocate for favorable policies to help disadvantaged persons’ in the community. Therefore, personality disorder is an important issue in social work practice and help social workers to assist and improve human wellbeing by identifying and addressing the mental illness.Literature reviewPersonality disorder has been widely researched in the past. Academicians have strived to explore and explain personality disorder as a mental illness and how knowledge and improved skills can enhance quality of care. There are different types of personality disorders that have been researched with an objective of improving patients’ wellbeing. The following section contains literature review of personality’s disorders as a mental illness and it importance to socialwork practice. Van der Kolk (2017), defined personality disorder as a mental disorders that has enduring maladaptive behavior and cognitive patterns that deviate from the accepted individual or community culture. He stated that the patterns develop early and are inflexible causing significant disability or distress. Personality disorders cause social, personal, and occupational disruption from the normal human life. Cook et al., (2017) on the side defined personality disorder as an exaggeration or variation of an individual personality attributes. They stated that personality disorders often display antisocial behaviors which can reduce diagnostic and treatment effectiveness. Bailey & Barton ( 2014) study on narcissism and social work response analyzed and discussed the relationship that exist in social work practice knowledge when handling a narcissism oriented patient. The study found that patients with narcissistic personalities have internal claims that are associated to self rational expectation. The study states that it is important for social workers to have great knowledge of narcissism dynamics. The study encourages social workers to critically reflect and develop deeper and social specific understanding of how personalities differ and how to handle different patients for greater practice effectiveness in delivering human wellness. The study concluded that there is a challenge of social work practice has to understand narcissism personalities when treating personality disorders mental disorders. According to Fonagy, Luyten, & Allison (2015), personality disorders are frustrating to an individual, family and care givers. They found that personality disorders are reflections of deep
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