PSY 395 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Personality Disorder, Impulsivity, Conscientiousness
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Clinical features of personality disorders: chronic interpersonal difficulties, problems with identity or sense of self. Enduring behavioral patterns: pervasive, stable, clinically significant distress or impairment in functioning, often cause significant problems in lives of others, manifested in at least two areas, cognition, affect. Prevalence: between 10-12% of people meet criteria for at least 1 personality disorder, cluster c: around 7, cluster a: approximately 4, cluster b: 3. 5-4% Difficulties in diagnosing personality disorders: diagnostic criteria not sharply defined, diagnostic categories not mutually exclusive (particularly cluster b will have another disorder, dimensional personality characteristics. 5 factor model: o: openness to experience (imagination, feelings, actions, ideas, c: conscientiousness (competence, self-discipline, thoughtfulness, goal-driven, e: extroversion (sociability, assertiveness, emotional expression, a: agreeableness (cooperative, trustworthy, good-natured, n: neuroticism (tendency toward unstable emotions) Paranoid personality disorder: suspiciousness and distrustful of others, perceive hidden meaning in remarks, on guard for perceived attacks by others, bear grudges, not usually psychotic; in touch with reality.
