PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Diagnostic And Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders, Personality Disorder, Egosyntonic And Egodystonic
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Chapter 13: personality disorders: personality disorder (pds): a heterogeneous group of disorders that are coded on axis ii of the dsm. Individuals would not be diagnosed as having personality disorders unless the patterns of behaviour were long-standing, pervasive and dysfunctional: often co-morbid with axis i disorders. Clinical multiaxial inventory which is now in its third edition. It"s a 175 true false inventory that was revised for dsm-iv: provides subscale measures of 11 clinical personality scales and 3 severe personality pathology scales, also provides symptom ratings for clinical syndromes located on axis i of the. Includes a validity index and 3 response style indices that correct for such tendencies as denial and random responding. It"s only moderately effective in terms of its ability to detect faking. Personality disorder clusters: when a categorical approach is used the dsm-iv-tr criteria are involved, personality disorders are grouped into 3 clusters.
