PSYC 2280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Paranoid Personality Disorder, Personality Disorder, Diagnostic And Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2280
• Professor: Langton

Document Summary

Personality traits: enduring paterns of perceiving, relaing to and thinking about the environment and oneself; manifested in a wide range of contexts. Both categorical and dimensional models (cut of or spectrum) Have been arguing for a dimensional model (livesley and widiger) for many reasons: would allow for beter individualizaion, more lexible, would avoid arbitrary decisions involved with diagnosis. Five factor personality model: neuroicism, openness to experience, extraversion, Personality traits begin to make up a disorder when they are: inlexible, maladapive, and cause funcional impairment or subjecive distress. Can remit over ime, paterns can shit or resemble other personality disorders. Tends to be chronic, beginning in childhood and coninuing though adulthood. Dsm-iv used to have personality disorders in a separate axis (axis ii) Dsm-v: 10 pd"s, 3 groups/clusters, based on resemblance** Cluster a: odd or eccentric cluster; it includes paranoid, schizoid, and schizotypal personality disorders.