PSYCH257 Study Guide - Final Guide: Schizoid Personality Disorder, Paranoid Personality Disorder, Obsessive–Compulsive Personality Disorder
16 Oct 2011
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Personality disorder: enduring maladaptive patterns for relating to the environment and oneself, exhibited in a wide range of contexts that cause significant functional impairment or subjective distress. Personality characteristics must be inflexible, cause distress or impairment. Personality disorders are chronic, originate in childhood and continue through life. Manifested in two or more of the following areas: cognition, affectivity. Possible that those with personality disorders don"t feel any subjective distress; may instead be felt by others: common with antisocial personality disorder, show disregard for well being of others with no remorse. Those with personality disorders in addition to other psychological problems don"t respond well to treatment: depressed patients have a worse outcome in treatment if they also have a personality disorder. Axis ii disorders; distinct as a group: having personality disorders on a separate axis requires the clinician to consider in each assessment whether the person has a personality disorder.
