PSYCH257 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Histrionic Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Antisocial Personality Disorder
28 Nov 2015
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When personality characteristics interfere with relationships with others, cause the person distress, or in general disrupt activities of daily living. Originate in childhood and continue through adulthood. Persistent pattern of emotions, cognitions, and behaviour that results in enduring emotional distress for the person affected and/or for others and may cause difficulties with work and relationships. Someone other than the people with pd must decide whether the disorder is causing significant functional impairment (the affected person often cannot make such a judgment) Dimensions (pd as extreme versions of otherwise normal personality variations) Categories (ways of relating that are different from psychologically healthy behaviour) Disadvantage (simplification see disorder as real things ) Dimensional model (rated on a series of dimensions) Be more flexible because it would permit both categorical + dimensional differentiations among individuals. It would avoid the often arbitrary decisions involved in assigning a person to a diagnostic category. People rated on a series of personality dimensions.
