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- Social Factors in the Personality Disorders
- Social Factors in the Personality Disorders
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Introduction
- Part I General Principles
- Part II Social Mechanisms
- Part III Specific Patterns of Disorder
- Part IV Models and Clinical Applications
- Chapter 9 A Biopsychosocial Model of Personality Disorders
- Chapter 10 Finding a Niche
- References
- Index
Chapter 9 - A Biopsychosocial Model of Personality Disorders
from Part IV - Models and Clinical Applications
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 August 2020
- Social Factors in the Personality Disorders
- Social Factors in the Personality Disorders
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Introduction
- Part I General Principles
- Part II Social Mechanisms
- Part III Specific Patterns of Disorder
- Part IV Models and Clinical Applications
- Chapter 9 A Biopsychosocial Model of Personality Disorders
- Chapter 10 Finding a Niche
- References
- Index
Summary
A personality disorder is a complex condition, and no single factor accounts for its development. In a biopsychosocial (BPS) model, psychopathology emerges from multiple interactions between risk and protective factors (Engel, 1980). Personality disorder provides an excellent example. Biological, psychological, and social risk factors affect the development of personality, but none are sufficient to explain how traits become amplified to disorders. Thus only the cumulative and interactive effects of all these risk factors can explain how PDs develop.
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- Social Factors in the Personality DisordersFinding a Niche, pp. 73 - 82Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020