Describe the characteristics of a healthy self and why it is important to understand the concept of the healthy self when considering personality disorders.
State the five dimensions that describe normal personality traits in the FFM proposed by McCrae and Costa. Examine the evidence that supports this model.
Identify the evolutionary advantage of different personality characteristics.
Summarize the primary defining characteristics of paranoid personality disorder and how they create a self-fulfilling prophecy in maintaining the disorder.
Examine what is it about the characteristics o Schizoid personality that make it one of the least studied disorders with very little empirical research.
Compare the behaviors, thoughts, and affects in an individual with schizotypal personality disorder to those of an individual with schizophrenia.
Discuss the differences and similarities between antisocial personality and psychopathy.
Compare and contrast the differing models of psycholopathy.
Cite evidence to support the idea that psychopathy is the result of neurodevelopmental abnormalities.
State three factors that characterize borderline personality disorder (BPD).
Describe the role that self-mutilating behaviors and suicide attempts play in individuals with BPD, as well as the prevalence of these behaviors.
Discuss the role of environmental, as well as physiological and social, factors in BDP.
Summarize the defining characteristic of histrionic personality disorder and state the eight facets the DSM–5 uses to describe the disorder.
Analyze the paradox that individuals with narcissistic personality disorder need other people while having no empathy for others themselves.
Compare and contrast obsessive-compulsive personality disorder with OCD.
Assess what it is about personality disorders that makes them difficult to treat. Examine which factors effective treatments have in common to address those difficulties.
