Chapter 14.16, Problem 3PQ

Summary Introduction

Introduction:

A personality disorder does not influence a person’s life, and however, it affects adjustment of the entire life of a person. In personality disorder, a person adopts rigid, persistent and maladaptive patterns of behaviors which interfere with general social interactions.  According to the DSM-5 lists, there are 10 primary types of these disorders come under three categories: people in the first category are seen as eccentric or odd with others, people in the second category behave very dramatically, emotional or erratically and people in the third category have anxiety or fearfulness is present as the main emotion. All three categories can be labeled as Cluster A, Cluster B, and Cluster C.