PSYB32H3 Chapter 13: Chapter 13 for FALL 2010 semester
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Chapter 13: personality disorders personality disorders a heterogeneous group of disorders, listed separately on axis ii, regarded as long-lasting, inflexible, and maladaptive personality traits that impair social and occupational functioning. Personality disorders are a heterogeneous group of disorders that are coded on axis ii of the. Dsm; they"re regarded as long-lasting, pervasive, and inflexible patterns of behavior and inner experience that deviate from the expectations of a person"s culture and that impair social and occupational functioning. Some, but not all pds, can cause emotional distress. An actual pd is defined by the extremes of several traits and by the inflexible way these traits are expressed. People with pds are often rigid in their behavior and cannot change it in response to changes in the situations they experience. As with other diagnoses, the publication of dsm-iii began a trend toward improve reliability.
