Personality Disorders In Adolescents

Adolescents diagnosed with a personality disorder are more likely to be diagnosed with another mental disorder, such as anxiety or oppositional defiant disorder. This can manifest at the same time as the original disorder, or later on in life. Personality disorders usually appears during adolescence or early adulthood, and multiple disorders fall under this category. Personality disorders are identified by extreme patterns of behaviors and are separated by clusters; Odd, Dramatic, and Anxious (Comer, R., 2016, 421-452). There are ten personality disorders; paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal, antisocial, borderline, histrionic, narcissistic, avoidant, dependent, and obsessive compulsive (Comer, R., 2016, 421-452). An individual can be diagnosed

Twenty male participants were used and they were separated into two groups; ten participants for the MDT treatment and ten participants for the TAU sessions. The TAU group included; “4 African Americans, 3 European Americans, 1 Hispanic American and 1 Asian American with an average age of 15.3 and Axis I diagnoses for this group included Conduct Disorder (4), Oppositional Defiant Disorder (3), and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (7) and Axis II diagnoses for the group included Mixed Personality Disorder (3), Borderline Personality Disorder (3), Narcissistic Personality Disorder (1) and Dependent Personality Disorder (1)” (Apsche, J., Bass, C., Siv, A., 2006, 216). The second group consisted of “5 African Americans, 3 European Americans and 2 Hispanic Americans with an average age of 15.7 and a principal Axis I diagnoses for this group included Conduct Disorder (5), Oppositional Defiant Disorder (3), Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (7), and Major Depressive Disorder, primary or secondary (2) and axis II diagnoses for the group included Mixed Personality Disorder (6), Borderline Personality Traits (3), and Narcissistic Personality

It also discusses various questionnaires used such as; Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory, Third Edition (MCMI-III), Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI), Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Second Edition (MMPI-2), and other various questionnaires that are used to help aid in diagnosing personality disorders (Nelson-Gray, R. O., Lootens, C. M., Mitchell, J. T., Robertson, C. D., Hundt, N. E., & Kimbrel, N. A. 2009, 17). The article Assessment and treatment of personality disorders: A behavioral perspective addresses the assessment and treatment of personality disorders through a behavioral standpoint. This is important because those with multiple disorders will exhibit different behaviors. Individuals with personality disorders are said to display extreme behaviors, these individuals would benefit from this kind of approach. The article aims at finding a successful assessment method to find specific target behaviors to address and treat. The idea behind this is that with better assessment measures, better more specific treatments can be