Personality Disorders

✍ Scribed by Paul M. G. Emmelkamp; Katharina Meyerbröker

• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 281
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The new edition of Personality Disorders continues to provide an in-depth guide to personality disorders, assessment, and treatment, across varied patient groups and settings. Grounded in scholarly review and illustrated with a diversity of case studies, this book covers familiar ground with comprehensive detail, including the description of personality disorders, diagnosis, epidemiology, aetiology, and treatment strategies. Furthermore, this new edition reflects changes in the new ICD-11 and DSM-5, assessment instruments, and state-of-the-art insights from theory-driven research. Part of the popular ‘Clinical Psychology: A Modular Course’ series, Personality Disorders offers excellent coverage on all aspects of personality disorder and will be extremely informative for students and practitioners alike.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
1. Description of personality disorders
Clinical features and relevant aspects
DSM-5 classification
Phenomenology of the personality disorders
ICD-11
DSM-5: research agenda
Future directions
Commentary
Summary
2. Diagnosis and assessment
Validity of the concept of personality disorder
The DSM-5personality disorders
Assessment instruments and construct validity
Personality disorder assessment instruments
Issues pertinent to the clinical assessment of personality disorders
Summary
3. Epidemiology and course
Prevalence of personality disorders
Course
Impairment
Cross-cultural aspects
Effects of gender
Co-occurrence with other disorders
Summary
4. Risk factors for personality disorders
Genetic contribution
Cloninger’s Biosocial Theory of Personality
Neurobiology
Child abuse and maltreatment
Attachment
Summary
5. The anxious/inhibited personality disorders
Is Cluster Ca clinical entity?
Basic beliefs and compensatory strategies
Interpersonal violence
Dependent personality disorder
Avoidant personality disorder
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Summary
6. Borderline personality disorder
General description of borderline personality disorder
Construct validity of borderline personality disorder
Trauma, dysfunctional family, and parental rearing styles
Diathesis-stress models
Summary
7. The narcissistic and histrionic personality disorders
Narcissistic personality disorder
Histrionic personality disorder
Cluster Band interpersonal violence
Summary
8. Antisocial personality disorder and psychopathy
Aggressive behaviour
Antisocial personality disorder versus psychopathy
Precursors of antisocial personality disorder
Interpersonal violence
Summary
9. Schizotypal, schizoid, and paranoid personality disorder
Schizophrenia spectrum disorders
Schizotypal personality disorder
Schizoid personality disorder
Paranoid personality disorder
Summary
10. Treatment of personality disorders
Evidence-based treatment for Cluster Cpersonality disorders
Psychotherapy for borderline PD
Treatment outcome in adults with borderline PD
Therapeutic interventions in adolescents with borderline PD traits
Pharmacotherapy in borderline PD
Treatment issues for histrionic PD and narcissistic PD
Treatment for antisocial personality disorder
Treatment of Cluster Apersonality disorders
Inpatient treatment versus outpatient treatment
Summary
References
Author index
Subject index