PS280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Antisocial Personality Disorder, Anti-Social Behaviour, Avoidant Personality Disorder
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Chapter 12 personality disorders (nov. 15th 17th) Personality and personality disorders: enduring and relatively stable predispositions (i. e. , ways of relating and thinking) Vs: predispositions are inflexible and maladaptive, causing distress and/or impairment. Categorical and dimensional models: problems of kind vs. problems of degree, five-factor model of personality. Ocean: openness to experience, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, neuroticism. Cluster a odd or eccentric cluster: paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal. Cluster b dramatic, emotional, erratic cluster: antisocial, conduct disorder, borderline. Cluster c fearful or anxious: avoidant, obsessive-compulsive. Prevalence: candian data general lacking (health canada, 2002, about 0. 5%-2. 5% of general population (u. s. ) Origins and course of personality disorders: thought to begin in childhood, tend to run a chronic course if untreated, treatment is generally not very promising. Gender distribution and gender bias in diagnosis: gender bias exists in diagnosis (more females than males) Overview ad clinical features: pervasive ad unjustified mistrust and suspicion.
