PSYD32H3 Lecture Notes - Personality Disorder, World Health Organization, Diagnostic And Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders
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The individual thinks they are going to be humiliated. Might result in panic attacks: patients with avoidant personality disorder, that have more severe symptoms that those with social phobia; they do not differ qualitatively on other important variables that would support them as distinct disorders. In psychotherapy trials, avoidant personality disorder patients benefit as much as do social phobia patients, although they begin and end treatment with more severe symptoms. A proposal for dsm-v: avoidant personality disorder and social phobia (generalized) reflect the same spectrum of psychopathology rather than distinct disorders. Dependent personality disorder: high levels of trait dependency and dpd are associated with elevated risk for the following (bornstein, 2012). Physical illness may lead someone to be dependent. It"s actually hard in practice to find people will full criteria: could be dude to genetics (up to . 66 heritability), but also socio-demongraphic and cultural factors.
