The Avoidant Personality Disorder
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Abstract
This research report discusses the Avoidant Personality Disorder. It states the criteria that diagnoses the individual. In addition, the report tells of the outward, as well as, inward characteristics of a person displayed in the Avoidant Personality. I have included possible environmental factors on how a person may develop the disorder. Other areas, such as self-image, view of others, and relationships are addressed. The final section of the report states the different types of treatments that have been used to help treat the Avoidant Personality. You will find a treatment provider guideline that can help the counselor realistically access the progress of treatment for the Avoidant Personality.
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The Avoidant Personality Disorder
In Mellon and Every’s study (as cited in Jones, n.d, p.1), the avoidant personality (AvPD) is considered to an active-detached personality pattern, meaning that avoidants purposefully avoid people due to fears of embarrassment, humiliation, and rejection. It is thought to be a pathological extension of the “normal inhibited” personality which is characterized by a watchful behavioral appearance, shy interpersonal conduct, a preoccupied cognitive style, uneasy affective expression, a lonely self-perception. This statement is saying that the avoidant personality disorder can exhibit symptoms that can go from mild, e.g., a normally shy person to the extreme, e.g., a person who has no close friends or confidants (Jones, n.d, p.1).
According to the Avoidant Personality Disorder Homepage (http://www.geocities.com), “it should be noted that many more people have avoidant styles as opposed to having the personality disorder. The major difference has to do with how seriously an individual’s functioning in everyday life is affected. The avoidant personality can be thought of as spanning a...
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