PSY240H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Psychopathology, Egosyntonic And Egodystonic, Histrionic Personality Disorder
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Personality disorders (pds): a heterogeneous group of disorders that are coded on. Axis ii of the dsm; regarded as long-standing, pervasive and inflexible patterns of behaviour and inner experience. (some cause emotional distress) 13. 1 classifying personality disorders: clusters, categories, and problems. The development of structured interviews specially designed for assessing pds. High inter-rater reliability but low test-retest reliability (only anti-social has high test-retest reliability) Personality disorders can be construed as the extremes of characteristics we all possess. Personality disorder is a failure or inability to come up with adaptive solution to life tasks. A significant challenge is that many disorders are egosyntonic; the clients are not aware of the problems. Another challenge: personality disorder not otherwise specified has a substantial proportion according to structured interviews. Often rely on self-report measures when assessing (mmpi-2) Psy-5: five dimensions, which consist negative emotionality/neuroticism, lack of positive emotionality, aggressiveness, lack of constraint, and psychoticism. Mcmi-iii: the most widely used measure of personality disorder symptoms.
