PSYC 2030U Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Extraversion And Introversion, Personality Disorder, Conscientiousness
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Personality disorders can interfere with relationships, cause distress or disrupt activities. Originate in childhood and continue throughout adulthood. Traits will often come up and interfere with daily functioning. Personality disorder pattern of emotions, cognitions, and behaviour that results in emotional distress: may not feel subjective distress but can be felt by others. Someone other than the person with the pd can indicate that the person is causing significant functional impairment because the affected person cannot make such as judgement oftentimes. Treatment options are poor: cautiously optimistic with cbt. Debated whether pds are extreme versions of normal traits (dimensions) or ways that are different from normal behaviour (categories) Usually are viewed in categories either you have it or you don"t. No in-between is possible with pd: convenient for categorizing personality disorders. Three advantages for dimensional system: retain more information about individual, more flexible, avoid arbitrary decisions involved in assigning a person to a diagnostic category.
