Lecture 11 - Personality disorders: Clinical Features and Treatment

Question 1

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Describe the DMS criteria for personality disorders (PD).

Answer 1

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Question 2

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Describe cluster A, B and C personality disorders.

Answer 2

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Question 3

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What are some difficulties in doing research on personality disorders?

Answer 3

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- It is difficult to diagnose as everyone is different and how do you assess someone’s personality? Let alone a PD.
- Causal factors - PDs are slow, gradual, genetics, not something we can link back to a causal factor that is explained by one event. We need to talk about the life and history of the client, however life in the past is a problem for the reliability and validity of this memory of experiences.

Question 4

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Why is it difficult to diagnose PDs?

Answer 4

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Question 5

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Question 6

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Question 7

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Describe parental PD as a risk to child development

Answer 7

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Question 8

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Describe some general socio-cultural causal factors to the development of PDs.

Answer 8

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Question 9

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Describe treatments and outcomes of PDs.

Answer 9

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