PSYB32H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Schizotypal Personality Disorder, Paranoid Personality Disorder, Avoidant Personality Disorder
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Chapter 13: personality disorders: personality disorder (pds) are a heterogeneous group of disorders that are coded on axis ii of the dsm. They are regarded as long-standing, pervasive, and inflexible patterns of behaviour and inner experience that deviate from the expectations of a person"s culture and that impair social and occupational functioning. Some, but not all, can cause emotional distress. Assessing personality disorders: some key points need to be made about the assessment of personality disorders. The mcmi-iii is a 175-item true-false inventory at an eighth grade reading level that was revised to parallel dsm-iv: the update 2009 version of the mcmi-iii has new norms and additional scoring. It now includes therapy-guiding facet scales (e. g. interpersonal style, cognitive style) known as the grossman. Facet scales that further characterize the person who answered the mcmi-iii. These facet scales were added to facilitate milon and grossman"s (2007) new treatment approach known as personalized therapy.