PSYC 3390 Chapter Notes -Avoidant Personality Disorder, Extraversion And Introversion, Conduct Disorder

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3390
• Professor: Mary Manson

Document Summary

Personality; the set of unique traits and behaviors that characterize the individual. Personality disorder; certain traits that are so inflexible and maladaptive that one is not able to perform adequately at least some of the varied roles expected of them by their society. Personality disorders were formerly known by psychodynamic theorists as character disorders. According to dsm-iv-tr criteria for diagnosing a personality disorder, the person"s enduring pattern of behavior must be pervasive and inflexible, as well as stable and of long duration. It must also cause either clinically significant distress or impairment in functioning and be manifested in at least two of the following areas: cognition, affectivity, interpersonal functioning, or impulse control. Epidemiological studies; designed to establish the prevalence of a particular disorder in a very large sample of people living in the community. Misdiagnoses probably occur here more than in any other category of disorder.