PSYC 335 Chapter 10: Chapter 10 Personality Disorders
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10. 1 describe the general features of personality disorders: clinical features of personality disorders. For a personality disorder to be diagnosed, the person"s enduring pattern of behavior must be pervasive and inflexible, as well as stable and of long duration. It must also cause either clinically significant distress or impairment in functioning and be manifested in at least two of the following areas: (1) cognition (2) affectivity (3) (4) 10. 2 summarize the challenges of doing research on personality disorders: challenges in personality disorders research, difficulties in diagnosing personality disorders. Impulsiveness (6) vulnerability: extraversion (1) warmth (2) gregarious (3) assertiveness (4) activity (5) excitement seeking (6) positive emotions, openness to experience (1) fantasy (2) aesthetics (3) feelings (4) actions (5) (6) values. This substantial comorbidity adds to the difficulty of untangling which causal factors are associated with which personality disorder: another problem in drawing conclusions about causes occurs because researchers have more confidence in prospective studies.
