″Choose a DSM-5 disorder that has been applied to you personally by a mental health professional or medical professional. Discuss your experiences of being “diagnosed” and/or “labeled.” Discuss
your experience of discrimination or stigma relative to your experience of being diagnosed and treated for this disorder.
1. Identify or hypothesize the theoretical orientation of the therapist/counselor who treated you for this disorder. Discuss how your therapist/counselor was helpful/not helpful to you and how
their chosen theory/therapeutic approach influenced your treatment and therapeutic process.

2. Explain how your therapist/counselor’s chosen theoretical orientation understands human development, the role of cultural factors, its understanding of the etiology of pathological
symptoms/problem areas, and the role of treatment. Include examples to highlight this therapeutic modality’s understanding of how/why symptoms emerge, and how this theory approaches working with
them.

3. • Integrate your discussion with your understanding of how your DSM-5 diagnosis is understood relative to patterns of disease/disorder, etiologies, symptoms, and effects on health/functioning
of individuals/families/communities, risk factors. Also discuss your understanding of how your symptoms of the DSM-5 disorder developed and affected you and your family/community. Cite a minimum of
3 recent, relevant, peer reviewed readings that support and/or contrast