01:830:340 Study Guide - Final Guide: Avolition, Anhedonia, Dyssomnia
Document Summary
12/12 personality disorders: an overview nature of personality and personality disorders. Enduring and relatively stable predispositions (i. e ways of relating and thinking) Begin in childhood and run a chronic course. Coded on axis ii of the dsm iv. Poor for personality disorders because its hard to change traits that developed over a lifetime. Effective treatment is available for borderline personality disorder. Three: cluster a: off or eccentric, cluster b: dramatic, emotional, erratic, cluster c: anxious. A pattern of unjustified mistrust, paranoia of other people. Very hard for therapist to develop an alliance with them. Person doesn"t show an interest in interpersonal relationships with other people. Isolated socially, paranoid and have bizarre thoughts and behaviors. Individuals as children"s with cd have apd order. Adults with apd have conduct problems and have cd problems as a child. Neurobiological theories (2) of the development of antisocial pd. Need greater more dangerous acts to achieve same arousal as we get from ex: watching tv.
