PSYCH 115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Avoidant Personality Disorder, Developmental Psychopathology
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Schizotypal & avoidant personality disorder: schizotypal pd: anti-psychotics (remember schizotypal is linked with schizophrenia, reduces unusual thinking, avoidant pd: anti-depressants and cbt (lots of overlap in symptoms between social anxiety disorders) Work for change while accepting the person may not change. Helps client build emotional regulation skills, radically accept challenges they have had in life, reduce suicidal behaviors, and learn to work better in relationships. Before diagnosing a childhood disorder, you have to think about what is developmentally. A question came up at the beginning of the semester about a child drawing himself as a superhero. As you may recall, the answer was that it is actually developmentally appropriate at some ages to draw oneself as a superhero. The field of developmental psychopathology focuses on the disorders of childhood distinguishing what is abnormal from normal for any given developmental age.
