PSYC 3300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Histrionic Personality Disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Conduct Disorder

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3300
• Professor: Paula Barata

Document Summary

Seeking treatment behaviours, type of treatment: gender influences how a mental illness is defined, some disorders themselves are gendered, there is a full circle to the rate of illness . Psychological health in history: traditionally, men were considered as having a rational mind and women as having a frail and irrational mind. Inability to find consistent biological differences between women who experience symptoms and those who do not. Female gender role is problematic : histrionic personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, dependent personality disorder. Male gender role is problematic : antisocial personality disroder, conduct disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd) Impact on diagnosis of personality disorders: samual & widiger (2009, case study described madeline or matthew to psychologists, madeline = more likely to be diagnosed histrionic, matthew = more likely to be diagnosed apd. Impact on diagnosis of depression: diagnosed more in women.