Symptom/diagnosis worksheet: Borderline Personality Disorder

Purposes:

• Help you clarify your understanding of the symptoms and manifestations of these common conditions.
• Develop a basic appreciation of the differential diagnosis process.
• Differentiate maladaptive behaviors, symptoms, and disorders.

Task: Complete and submit this

Type your answers into the boxes provided beneath each question.

Grading criteria:

• Point values are indicated next to each question
• Question 4 – you must use at least 2 different cases (video, written, or guest speaker) for examples associated with each diagnostic symptom
• You can earn up to no more than 70 points total

Suggestions: Providing complete answers will help you.

Help available: Use your readings: the DSM and other sources. You are encouraged to verbally discuss course concepts with a colleague (but not review each other’s answers).

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AI use rules for this assignment: For this assignment, students MAY USE generative artificial intelligence (AI) but ONLY in the following ways:

• Find information sources: Students may use AI as they would Google Scholar or a library database to generate suggestions of information sources that the student can use for research on the subject.
• Compare your ideas to AI: Students first complete the assignment/task independently. They may then prompt an AI tool to develop its own response. Students who do generate an AI response must then compare the two results (their own and the AI response), evaluating the quality of each. Students may then revise their creation incorporating AI-generated ideas but not copying any AI-generated language.
• Information gathering: Students may use AI to generate answers in the same way that they might use Google or books to do so.

Any such use must be appropriately acknowledged and cited, as explained in the program handbook. (Passing off any AI generated content as your own will be treated as plagiarism. Any copy and paste submission is plagiarism. Any use of AI-generated language without it being cited as a quotation is plagiarism. If you have any questions about what constitutes a violation of this requirement, please contact the instructor.) Because AI generated content is not necessarily accurate or appropriate it is each students responsibility to assess the validity and applicability of any generative AI output that is submitted.

Read/watch at least one diagnostic overview:

• DSM-5 Section II on Borderline Personality Disorder, p. 645-649 & 663-666
• NIMH on Borderline Personality Disorder
• The 9 MUST KNOW Symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder (The Rewired Soul, 2018)
• 9 Traits of Borderline Personality Disorder (MedCircle, 2018)

Read/watch at least two 1st person stories:

• My experiences with Borderline Personality Disorder / Varun Joshi / TEDxGeorgiaStateU
• Living with Borderline Personality Disorder Documentary/Interview
• Carls Story: Borderline Personality Disorder #AMIquebec

Commentary and cultural issues:

• Kvanstrom, E. (2015). Gender Matters: Bias in Borderline Personality Disorder Diagnosis.
• Heiter, S., (2014). Gender Bias in Diagnosing Anger: Batterer or Borderline?
• A recorded lecture on gender bias and the diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder: