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Co-morbidity of personality disorders
The co-morbidity of mental illness with personality disorder is a controversial topic, made difficult by disagreement over diagnosis and the fundamentals of personality structure. However, there would appear to be four possible points of view: 1Personality disorder and mental illness cannot exist simultaneously. This position perhaps provides the weakest argument, with little empirical evidence. However, […]
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Course of personality disorders
By definition a personality disorder is stable over time. As such once the features of a personality disorder have become recognized during adolescence or early adulthood it can be expected that the observed pattern of thinking, behaving and feeling will be relatively stable and unchanging. However, it has been found that particularly anti-social and borderline […]
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Prevalence of personality disorders
Measuring the prevalence of personality disorders is difficult. There is no consensus on the definition, diagnosis or classification of the specific disorders. There is also much debate on operational definitions of psychological traits inherent in personality disorder, but little agreement. As such varied estimates of the prevalence are published due to the variation in definition […]
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Diagnosis and classification of personality disorders
Currently personality disorders are diagnosed by the recognition of a set of diagnostic criteria. Within both DSM-IV and ICD-10 personality disorders are described as a mixture of both psychological traits and overt behaviours. Each diagnostic system describes the concept of personality disorder upon which subsequent specific diagnoses should be based. DSM-IV describes a personality disorder […]
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developmental disorders in children
Developmental disorders Level of intelligence is one of the strongest predictors of the presence or absence of child psychiatric disorders, with highly intelligent children being most resilient to psychiatric morbidity in the face of adversity and those with learning disability being at greatest risk. Up to 30–50% of children with a global learning disability also […]
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behavioral disorders in children defined
Behavioural disorders are probably most likely to come to the attention of adults because the symptoms are easily observable and have a direct impact on others. Oppositional defiant and conduct disorders refer to a constellation of symptoms in which children display angry, destructive, aggressive and antisocial behaviour. The distinction between the two relates to the […]
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Classification of mental disorders of childhood and adolescence
Psychiatric disorders have been estimated to occur in about 20% of children, but only about half of these experience psychosocial impairment, which is commonly used as the threshold by which to defi ne the need for treatment. ‘Psychosocial impairment’ refers to a signifi cant effect of symptoms on functioning in one of the areas in […]
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Prevention of child psychiatric disorders
The Department of Health publication Saving Lives, emphasized disease prevention and health promotion as one of its objectives. Specific mention was made of the reduction of suicide as a mental health target. The paper also acknowledged the importance of the mental health of children and adolescents and their vulnerability to physical, intellectual and emotional behaviour […]
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Disorders: Mental or Medical?
A widespread controversy involves the medical model of mental illness as a ‘‘disease.’’ Interestingly, definitions of disease or illness have the same conceptual difficulties in disentangling a scientific or neutral definition from value statements as definitions of abnormal behavior. All disorders are usually undesirable and harmful according to social values, but disorders are more than […]
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Early Childhood Emotional Behavioral Disorders
Emotional disorders of childhood The Isle of Wight studies diagnosed anxiety disorders in 2 per cent of 10- and 11-year-olds. The most common anxiety disorders are separation anxiety, disorders of childhood, generalized anxiety disorder, specific phobias and social anxiety disorders of childhood. Separation anxiety disorders Anxiety arises in response to separation from parents and other […]
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