PSYC 2113 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Personality Disorder, Cluster B Personality Disorders, Interpersonal Psychotherapy
16 Apr 2018
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Treatment of eating disorders: quite difficult, has to be multidisciplinary (physician for medical concerns, someone for therapy, exercise expert, nutritionist), typically some kind of peer support (for modelling of behaviour) 1st need to stabilize health, then correct dangerous eating habits, have to address the broader psychological aspects (trauma, etc. No medical treatment for anorexia the first step is re-feeding (stabilization) Prognosis is poorer for anorexia than for bulimia. All the disorders (cid:449)e"(cid:448)e studied (cid:449)ill (cid:271)e o(cid:374) the fi(cid:374)al. Chapters (cid:1005), (cid:1006), a(cid:374)d (cid:1007) are (cid:374)ot o(cid:374) the final but there are concepts from those chapters that will need to know, there will be more weight on the recent chapters. Personality disorders used to be called axis 2 disorders. A lot of characteristics of personality disorders can be found in other disorders. They have severe symptoms and they are chronic. They deal with our personality and result in emotional distress not only for the affected person but also those around them.
