PSY 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Attention Seeking, Egosyntonic And Egodystonic, Histrionic Personality Disorder
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Personality disorder: inlexible and maladapive personality traits, signiicant funcional impairment, distress for the individual. Diiculies in diagnosis: everyone exhibits some of the traits, symptoms overlap other disorders, lack of adherence to diagnosic criteria. Gender diferences and gender bias in diagnosis. Diagnosed on axis ii of dsm-iv-tr: axis i: clinical disorders, axis ii: personality disorders and pervasive condiions, axis iii: acute medical condiions, axis iv: psychosocial and environmental factors, axis v: global assessment of funcioning. Treatment: atempts to build resilience in clients: many do not seek treatment, many funcion in society, diferent responses to therapy, depending on the disorder. The dsm-iv-tr ideniies ten personality disorders and separates these into three categories or. Paranoid, schizoid, and schizotypal personality disorders: dramaic emoional or erraic behavior. Anisocial, borderline, narcissisic, and histrionic personality disorders: anxious or fearful behavior. Paranoid personality disorder: unwarranted suspiciousness, hypersensiivity, and reluctance to conide in others: unfounded beliefs are resistant to change, treatment: usually psychodynamic, but diicult to treat.
