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Week 8: Schizoid Personality Disorder (F60.1)
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Week 8: Schizoid Personality Disorder (F60.1)
This week we explored a personality disorder, the schizoid personality disorder.
DMS-V-TR diagnosis of Schizoid Personality Disorder
Detachment-often wanting to be alone, and do things alone
Difficulties working in positions that require a lot of social interaction or people
skills.
Anhedonic, and not easy to please. They have few (if any) sources of pleasure.
Having no interest in sexual relationships and minimal interpersonal closeness.
Exhibiting observable difficulties expressing personal feelings, and may deny having
any emotional attachment with people.
Being guarded in company of others and appearing tactless and expressing a range of
emotional responses.
Indifference to common social norms and societal expectations around socialization
Irresponsiveness to praise or criticisms from others.
Etiologies
There’s a somewhat narrow constellation of determinants for schizoid personality
disorder. Nonetheless, research links the onset of the disorder to two major factors, as
discussed below.
Environmental factors-persons with schizoid personality disorder typically report
having experienced good childhood, which entailed having achieved desired physical
and educational needs. However, they may have lacked adequate social nurturing,
such as warmth, social skills and emotional interaction skills as children. () observes
that they may have grown up in anti-social environments, around adults (parents,
teachers etc.) at school, home or neighborhoods, who exhibited aloofness, withdrawal,
fantansy, coldness, reproach and other anti-social behaviors which they nurtured or
modelled to the child.
Genetics- genetic predisposition is another probable determinant of schizoid
personality disorder, with research identifying heredity as a significant contributor to
its diathesis. A study by Reichborn-Kjennerud (2010) estimated heritability as
causative of up to 30% cases of schizoid personality disorder.
Week 8: Schizoid Personality Disorder (F60.1)
By (Student Name)
Institutional Affiliation (School)
Course Title (Class)
Instructor (Tutor)
Date
, 2
Week 8: Schizoid Personality Disorder (F60.1)
This week we explored a personality disorder, the schizoid personality disorder.
DMS-V-TR diagnosis of Schizoid Personality Disorder
Detachment-often wanting to be alone, and do things alone
Difficulties working in positions that require a lot of social interaction or people
skills.
Anhedonic, and not easy to please. They have few (if any) sources of pleasure.
Having no interest in sexual relationships and minimal interpersonal closeness.
Exhibiting observable difficulties expressing personal feelings, and may deny having
any emotional attachment with people.
Being guarded in company of others and appearing tactless and expressing a range of
emotional responses.
Indifference to common social norms and societal expectations around socialization
Irresponsiveness to praise or criticisms from others.
Etiologies
There’s a somewhat narrow constellation of determinants for schizoid personality
disorder. Nonetheless, research links the onset of the disorder to two major factors, as
discussed below.
Environmental factors-persons with schizoid personality disorder typically report
having experienced good childhood, which entailed having achieved desired physical
and educational needs. However, they may have lacked adequate social nurturing,
such as warmth, social skills and emotional interaction skills as children. () observes
that they may have grown up in anti-social environments, around adults (parents,
teachers etc.) at school, home or neighborhoods, who exhibited aloofness, withdrawal,
fantansy, coldness, reproach and other anti-social behaviors which they nurtured or
modelled to the child.
Genetics- genetic predisposition is another probable determinant of schizoid
personality disorder, with research identifying heredity as a significant contributor to
its diathesis. A study by Reichborn-Kjennerud (2010) estimated heritability as
causative of up to 30% cases of schizoid personality disorder.
