01:830:340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Personality Disorder, Extraversion And Introversion, Conscientiousness
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Your characteristic of how you handle situations over time in similar patterns. Dsm: enduring patterns of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the environment and oneself that are exhibited in a wide range of social and personal contexts . At risk for having a poor stress response, anxious, sad, and angry. Is considerate and kind to almost anyone. An enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that: Deviates markedly from the expectation of the individual"s culture. Has an onset in adolescence or early adulthood. To be diagnosed with a pd, a person must be 18 years or older. Pattern of inner experience and behavior is manifested in 2 (or more) of the following ways: Range, intensity, and appropriateness of emotional experience. Ability to refrain from acting on impulse. Using same assessment at a different point in time and getting the same result. With test-retest in pds, there is not a lot of stability.
