You will be writing a scholarly movie paper. The paper should be no less than 3 pages and double-spaced. You should be using your textbook for DSM-V criteria and find two supporting, evidence-based research articles to support your position. The criteria for the paper will be as follows:

For this paper, you will select and watch one of the mocies listed below. as you are watching you should choose a character who best meets the DSM-V criteria for mental illness. After you watch the movie, you should look for additional evidence-based research to support or refute Hollywood’s portrayal of the character’s mental illness. You must use APA format to cite and reference. Your paper should contain a cover page and a reference page. Abstracts do not need to be used and writing in the first person is expected. 

1.) In your introduction, summarize the movie’s context and your point of view about the mental illness demonstrated by the character you have chosen. Name your character in your introduction. You do not have to choose a character with a leading role in the movie.

2.) Describe in depth, your character’s behaviors, signs and symptoms, which indicate mental illness. For each behavior, sign and symptom that you notice, provide an example of where you saw this in the movie. 

3.) What mental illness do you suspect your character has? Provide your understanding of DSM-V criteria for the selected mental health disorder as it applies to your character. You must provide examples from the movie. Use one of your articles to support your suspicion. 

4.) Is the Hollywood portrayal of the mental health disorder accurate? Demonstrate why or why not by comparing and contrasting the DSM-V criterion to the Hollywood portrayal of your character. 

5.) Choose and appropiate nursing diagnosis for your character with a realistic outcome and gour applicable interventions including appropiate medications. 

6.) In your conclusion, describe how the movie made you feel when considering a client who has a mental illness. Did the movie provide you with any additonal understanding or ideas on how to care for such clients? 

Movie List:

– Finding Nemo

-A Beautiful Mind

– Split

-Benny & Joon

-Silver Linings 

-One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

-Rain Man

-I Am Sam

-Fatal Attraction

-Ordinary People

-Black Swan

-The Three Faces of Eve

-Slience of the Lamb