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Learning Objectives

  1. List the clinical features of the personality disorders and problems associated with diagnosis.

  2. Compare and contrast the different types of personality disorders and identify the three clusters into which most personality disorders are grouped.

  3. Summarize what is known about the biological, psychological, and sociocultural causal factors of personality disorders.

  4. Discuss the difficulties of treating individuals with personality disorders and describe the approaches to treatment that have been tried.

  5. Compare and contrast the DSM-IV concept of antisocial personality and Cleckley’s concept of psychopathy.

  6. List the clinical features of psychopathy and antisocial personality.

  7. Summarize the biological, psychosocial, and sociocultural causal factors in psychopathy and antisocial personality and the integrated developmental perspective.

  8. Explain why it is difficult to treat psychopathy and antisocial personality and describe the most promising of the as yet unproven approaches to treatment.





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