PSYCH257 Lecture Notes - Antisocial Personality Disorder, Paranoid Personality Disorder, Histrionic Personality Disorder
13 Apr 2013
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Personality disorders: enduring maladaptive patterns for relating to the environment and oneself, exhibiting a wide range of contexts that cause significant functional impairment or subjective distress. Personality disorders are chronic (axis 2) and affects every aspect of the person"s life. May distress the person as well as people around them: someone other than the affected must make the judgement whether it is causing significant functional impairment because the affected person cannot make such a judgement. People who have personality disorder and other psychological problems tends to do poorly in treatment. Categorical models of behaviour: pro: convenience, cons: yes or no (no in-betweens) Implementing a dimensional model in the dsm will: retain more information about each individual, be flexible because it would permit categorical and dimensional differentiations, avoid the arbitrary decisions involved in assigning a person to a diagnostic category. Western and shedler model: 12 personality dimensions , some of which not listed by the dsm.
