PSYC 3604 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Avolition, Major Depressive Disorder, Delusional Disorder
25 Mar 2017
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Includes negative affect: essential feature is defiance to everything, any push, suggestion and request from anyone, not as extreme as conduct disorder, hallmark is irritation. Over-exaggerated irritation is the response for no reason. Beyond typical emotional explosions you see in teens and has to stay for at least 6 months. This emotional volatility separates from cd: going out of their way to break rules, argue and annoy others, part of spitefulness and vindictiveness is to blame someone else for something they did. They have to do it at least 2 (spitefulness) to show a pattern not just a one-time thing. Conduct: to have an antisocial personality u usually have a cd as a child. Like staying out past their curfew: running away, skipping school, you start to see those s(cid:455)(cid:373)pto(cid:373)s earl(cid:455) o(cid:374), a(cid:374)d it"s rare to see that after 16, but does(cid:374)"t (cid:373)ea(cid:374) diag(cid:374)osis happe(cid:374)s that earl(cid:455).
