Personality Disorders with the Focal Point on Assessing and Classifying Borderline Personality Disorder in 16 - 20 Year Olds.

Aldo Scheun 42146186 1 PYC4802 Assignment 03

Title: Personality Disorders with the focal point on assessing and classifying Borderline Personality Disorder in 16 - 20 year olds. Author: Aldo Scheun 4214-618-6

Aldo Scheun 42146186 2 PYC4802 Assignment 03

Table of contents:

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Introduction .............................................................................................3

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Classification of Personality Disorders ...................................................3

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Diagnostic criteria of Personality Disorders ...........................................4

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Assessing and classifying 16 - 20 year olds ...........................................5

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Borderline Personality Disorder relating to 16 - 20 year olds ..................5 5.1 Definition ........................................................................................5 5.2 Historical perspective .....................................................................6 5.3 Diagnostic criteria...........................................................................7 5.4 Etiology .........................................................................................7 5.5 Present state ..................................................................................8 5.6 Treatment .......................................................................................8

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Conclusion ..............................................................................................9 References ...........................................................................................10

Aldo Scheun 42146186 3 PYC4802 Assignment 03

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Introduction:

“In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.” - Carl Jung (1968, p. 66). In this paper Personality Disorder (PD) will be discussed in general terms relating to their classification and diagnostic criteria. More particularly problems relating to assessing and classifying or...