You will be writing an APA style research paper on one of the Personality Disorders. The paper will be about 5-7 pages long including the title pages and references, so it should be about 3-5 pages of meat (writing). An abstract is not necessary and subtitles/section headers are not necessary. When I say APA, I mean: in-text citations, references pages, good grammar and punctuation, appropriate formatting and flow, 12 point font, double spaced and a title page.
The PD you are assigned may or may not have extensive research. If you need help formulating a topic based on that PD feel free to email me but keep in mind the majority of the info for this paper has to come from research articles so the quantity and quality of research that you find is paramount! Do not use any articles that were written before 2000 and TBH you should be looking for things written in the last 10 years. DO NOT USE THE NPSP and do not even reference it. This is a research paper where nearly all of your info should come from scientific journals and peer reviewed articles. You CANNOT use website. I would go to the library's site and search for journals through there also the DSM can be used, BUT ONLY MINIMALLY as supplemental material.