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| Personality Disorders: their manifestations are often ___________ and appear in an _______________ context. |
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| Allport's definition of personality: |
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| the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his unique adjustment to his environment |
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| a relatively permanent predisposition or tendency to respond in a particular way in a variety of situations or contexts |
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| personality disorder represents a... |
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| long standing exaggeration of personality traits severe enough to cause social and/or occupational and/or family and/or subjective distress and characterized by a lack of flexibility in meeting life's demand. |
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| DSM IV - Personality Disorder Cluster A |
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Odd and Eccentric patient may strike us as strange, maybe a little scary may be quite dysfunctional |
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DSM IV - Personality Disorder Cluster B |
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Dramatic and Emotional These do not recede from the picture - you know they're around often manipulative |
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DSM IV - Personality Disorder Cluster C |
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Anxious and Careful People in this group strike us often as up tight and nervous tend to be emotionally constricted |
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Neuroticism Extraversion Openness to Experience Agreeableness Conscientousness |
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the factor refers to the tendency to experience psychological distress and includes subfactors like: anxiety, impulsivity, depresion, low frustration tolerance, self-conciousness and feelings of vulnerability |
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| this factor refers to the degree of sociability and sensation seeking |
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this factor refers to the tendency to be curious about the world and openness to new experiences and ideas vs. the tendency to prefer predicability and convention. creativity falls into this dimension |
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| this factor refers to the dimension of cooperation vs hostility with extremes being trusting vs cynical |
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| this factor refers to tendencies to be either methodical, controlled and responsible, vs lazy and careless |
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