NRNP 6645 Assignment - Personality Disorders
Personality disorders refer to a heterogeneous group of disorders characterized by deeply rooted, egosyntonic behavioral traits that significantly diverge from the accepted and expected norms of one’s culture (Ekselius, 2018). Traits are repetitive and distinguish an individual in an array of personal and social contexts. Personality is mapped according to five dimensions, namely agreeableness, neuroticism, extraversion, conscientiousness, and openness to experience (Widiger et al., 2018). The age of onset of personality disorder is ordinarily during late adulthood or adolescence. The etiology is multifactorial. The DSM-5 categorizes personality disorders into three clusters, namely A, B, and C. In the subsequent sections of this paper, paranoid personality .disorder, its treatment options, and the importance of therapeutic relationships shall be discussed
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