01:830:340 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Eating Disorder, Conduct Disorder, Electrodermal Activity
1 Feb 2014
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Personality disorder- an enduring maladaptive pattern for relating to the environment and self, exhibited in a range of contexts that cause significant functional impairment or subjective distress. Individuals with personality disorders may not feel distressed but it is others who feel distressed. Considered part of axis ii in the dsm because as a group personality disorders are distinct from other psychological disorders categorical and dimensional models. People with personality disorders experience the same problems of healthy people just experience a different degree of the problem (rather than kind) According to the dsm you either have a personality disorder or you don"t there is no in between. Cluster a paranoid personality disorder schizoid personality disorder schizotypal personality disorder. Cluster b antisocial personality disorder borderline personality disorder histrionic personality disorder narcissistic personality disorder. As many as one in ten adults in the us may have a diagnosable personality disorder.
