PHED-4546EL Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Antisocial Personality Disorder, Personality Disorder, Health Canada
28 Dec 2019
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We usually consider a way of behaving part of a person"s personality only if it occurs in many times and places. If characteristic way of thinking and behaving cause significant distress to self and other . Dsm-iv: enduring patterns of perceiving relating to, and thinking about the environment and oneself that are exhibited in a wide range of social and personal contexts and are inflexible and maladaptive, and cause significant functional impairment or subjective distress . May distress the individual; often others (e. g. antisocial personality disorder) Are chronic do not come and go. Originate in childhood and continue throughput adulthood. Continuum vs category (e. g. male and female) Extreme versions of what most of us experience: dsm uses categories. Prevalence of personality disorders: canadian data on prevalence of personality disorders are general lacking (health. Canada, 2002: about 0. 5% to 2. 5% of the general population (u. s. , rates are higher in inpatient and outpatient settings.
