Describe the differences between borderline personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, and antisocial personality disorder?  Discus the role of comprehensive assessment in the diagnosis of a personality disorder, with emphasis on how you would approach this assessment. Include a discussion of contrast in DSM-5 criteria, and how it can help you to arrive at the correct diagnosis. Be sure to include ethical/legal considerations in your response.

The differences between BPD NPD and APD

A borderline personality disorder is a mental health disorder that affects the way individuals think and feel about themselves and others. This disorder also has serious impacts on people’s ability to regulate their emotions. Symptoms include intense fear of being abandoned, feelings of emptiness and boredom. It is also associated with nability to tolerate being alone, and repeat cases of self-injury. Additionally, the specific cause of borderline personality disorder is not known. However, it is believed that genetic, family, and social factors play a role in its development. Also, it commonly affects those who were abandoned at a tender age, victims of disrupted family life and sexual, physical, and emotional abuse. Individual talk therapy and medications are approved to treat the negative symptoms of borderline personality disorder.

Narcissistic personality disorder

Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is a mental health disorder in which the individuals affected show an unreasonably high sense of self-importance. Other symptoms include a sense of superiority, and self-glorifying fantasies of unlimited success. It is also marked by power, brilliance, attractiveness, and an insatiable need for constant praise and admiration. This disorder affects men more than it does women. NPD involves a pattern of self-centeredness, lack of empathy, arrogant thinking and behavior, patronizing, and celebrity-driven culture. People with NPD are highly resistant to changing behaviors even when the behaviors cause problem. APA