PSYC 241 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Personality Disorder, Dsm-5, Longitudinal Study

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 241
• Professor: Shannon Zaitsoff

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P s yc 241 c hap te r 12 (r eading s ) Passive-aggressive personality disorder: when someone has a personality disorder it can greatly complicate the treatment of other dsm mental disorders, personality disorders can easily disrupt the alliance between a therapies and a client. P r e vale nc e: ages 15 44 years = 78% of those with personality disorders, higher among women than men. Diag no s tic is s ue s: low reliability of diagnosis, poorly understood etiology, and weak treatment efficacy. G ender & c ultural is s ues: clinicians have been reluctant to diagnose males with histrionic personality disorder and are unlikely to consider females as having antisocial pd, antisocial pd. C omorbidity and diag nos tic o verlap. It is also possible that these conditions may not be as chronic as once beleved: not distinct enough and contain significant overlap, ex.