PSYB32H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Obsessive–Compulsive Personality Disorder, Schizoid Personality Disorder, Paranoid Personality Disorder
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Personality disorders are a heterogeneous group of disorders that are coded on axis ii of the dsm. Reliability of personality disorder diagnoses has improved because of 2 developments: 1. The publication of specific diagnostic criteria: 2. The development of structured interviews specially designed for assessing personality disorders. Anti-social personality disorder has high test-retest ability. Overall age-related decline over time in personality dysfunction as ppl get older. Low test retest reliability; often difficult to diagnose a single, specific personality disorder because many people exhibit a wide range of traits that make several diagnoses applicable. Livesly identified 3 types of life tasks and proposed failure with any one task is enough to warrant a personality disorder diagnosis: 1. To form stable, coherent, representations of self and others: 2. To develop the capacity for intimacy and positive affiliations with others: 3. To function adaptively in society by engaging in prosocial and co-operative behaviours.
