PSYC 3140 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Antisocial Personality Disorder, Schizotypal Personality Disorder, Personality Disorder
29 Nov 2017
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Unlike other disorders, personality disorders are chronic and persistent. The main controversy when diagnosing personality disorders is deciding whether they are categorical [reside in separate headings from normal human behaviour] or dimensional. Big five or five-factor model personality dimensional scale which places each person at a point in the line based on extent of expressing each of five categories: The personality disorder can then be mapped based on the rating of the big five. Diagnosis for a personality disorder may happen in childhood or later in life and one disorder can be replaced by another. Personality disorders" clusters: cluster a odd and eccentric, paranoid: Excessively mistrustful and suspicious of others without any justification. Associated with aggressiveness and high risk of suicide because of loneliness and difficulty in building relationships. May be more common in people who went through experiences of being out of place immigrants. Seeking treatment often occurs after an incident separate form their disorder.
