PSYC 3140 Study Guide - Final Guide: Chromosome, Socialphobia, Psychopathy
6 Apr 2014
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Classifying personality disorders: clusters, categories, and problems: million (1986) identified three key criteria that help distinguish normal vs. disordered personality, first, disordered personality is indicated by rigid and inflexible behaviour, difficulty altering his or her behaviour according to changes in the situation, second, the person engages in self defeating behaviour that fosters vicious cycles, exacerbate existing conditions, lastly, there is structural instability fragility to the self that cracks under conditions of stress. Cracks under pressure: livesley, schroeder, jackson, and jang (1994) regard personality disorder as a failure or inability to come up with adaptive solutions to life tasks, new dsm 5 definition reflects adaptive failure, there has been a call for a more dimensional approach to personality disorders, low stability of personality disorder diagnoses, difficult to diagnose a single, specific personality disorder because many disordered people exhibit a wide range of traits that make several diagnoses applicable.
