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conversations.value: Provide a description for a book titled Clinical Guide to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Mental Disorders about E-STREAMS, September with the genre: New, Used & Rental Textbooks, Medicine & Health Sciences.
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conversations.value: "This book is recommended for psychiatrists, psychologists, primary care physicians, psychiatric and primary care nurse practitioners, clinical social workers, medical students, and residents." ( E-STREAMS , September 2007)
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conversations.value: Provide the first paragraph for the book.
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conversations.value: Clinical Guide to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Mental Disorders
  Persons with AVPD will seek treatment for their avoidant personality traits, although many will initially seek treatment for symptoms of anxiety, particularly Social Phobia. It is important in such cases to recognize that the shyness is not due simply to a dysregulation or dyscontrol of anxiousness. There is instead a more pervasive and fundamental psychopathology, involving feelings of interpersonal insecurity, low selfesteem, and inadequacy.
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conversations.value: Provide four more paragraphs.
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conversations.value: Many persons with DPD will also meet the criteria for Histrionic And Borderline Personality Disorders. Persons with DPD and HPD may both display strong needs for reassurance, attention, and approval. However, persons with DPD tend to be more self-effacing, docile, and altruistic, whereas persons with HPD tend to be more flamboyant, assertive, and self-centered, and persons with BPD will tend to be much more dysfunctional and emotionally dysregulated.
  Persons with DPD are likely to have been excessively submissive as children and adolescents, and some may have had a chronic physical illness or Separation Anxiety Disorder during childhood, but there is actually little systematic research on the etiology of DPD. To the extent that independent responsibility and initiative are required, job functioning will be impaired or unsatisfactory. Individuals with DPD are prone to mood disorders throughout life, particularly Major Depressive Disorder, and Dysthymic Disorder, and to anxiety disorders, particularly Agoraphobia, Social Phobia, and Panic Disorder. However, the severity of the symptomatology may tend to lessen with age, particularly if the person has obtained a reliable, empathic partner.
  The self-esteem of a person with DPD is said to depend substantially on the maintenance of a supportive and nurturing relationship, yet these intense needs for reassurance can have the paradoxical effect of driving the needed person away. The dependent person's worst fears are then realized (i.e. he or she is abandoned and alone), and his or her sense of self-worth, meaning, or value is then furthered injured, perhaps even crushed by the rejection. The person might then indiscriminately select a readily available but unreliable, undependable, and perhaps even abusive person simply to be with someone. This partner would again reaffirm the worst fears through the abuse, derogation, and denigration (i.e. conveying to the person that he or she is indeed undesirable and unlovable, and that the relationship is again tenuous). In other words, a combination of evocative, reactive, and then proactive transactions with the environment are the means by which a dependent personality style can lead to depression.
  There are no empirically validated treatments for DPD. Treatment recommendations are based essentially on anecdotal clinical experience. Persons with DPD will often be in treatment for one or more Axis I disorders, particularly a mood (depressive) or an anxiety disorder. These individuals will tend to be very agreeable, compliant, and grateful, at times to excess. Many individuals with DPD will find that the therapeutic relationship itself satisfies their need for support and concern and may then desist from seeking a partner. The therapist can be perceived as the caring partner who will always be there. The dependent client might then even fear successful treatment, because termination may shortly follow. Thus, the client may remain excessively compliant and agreeable, in order to be a patient that the therapist would continue to treat. Therapists should be careful not to unwittingly encourage this submissiveness, nor to reject the client in order to be rid of their clinging dependency.
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conversations.value: Delete the first sentence.
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conversations.value: Persons with DPD and HPD may both display strong needs for reassurance, attention, and approval. However, persons with DPD tend to be more self-effacing, docile, and altruistic, whereas persons with HPD tend to be more flamboyant, assertive, and self-centered, and persons with BPD will tend to be much more dysfunctional and emotionally dysregulated.
  Persons with DPD are likely to have been excessively submissive as children and adolescents, and some may have had a chronic physical illness or Separation Anxiety Disorder during childhood, but there is actually little systematic research on the etiology of DPD. To the extent that independent responsibility and initiative are required, job functioning will be impaired or unsatisfactory. Individuals with DPD are prone to mood disorders throughout life, particularly Major Depressive Disorder, and Dysthymic Disorder, and to anxiety disorders, particularly Agoraphobia, Social Phobia, and Panic Disorder. However, the severity of the symptomatology may tend to lessen with age, particularly if the person has obtained a reliable, empathic partner.
  The self-esteem of a person with DPD is said to depend substantially on the maintenance of a supportive and nurturing relationship, yet these intense needs for reassurance can have the paradoxical effect of driving the needed person away. The dependent person's worst fears are then realized (i.e. he or she is abandoned and alone), and his or her sense of self-worth, meaning, or value is then furthered injured, perhaps even crushed by the rejection. The person might then indiscriminately select a readily available but unreliable, undependable, and perhaps even abusive person simply to be with someone. This partner would again reaffirm the worst fears through the abuse, derogation, and denigration (i.e. conveying to the person that he or she is indeed undesirable and unlovable, and that the relationship is again tenuous). In other words, a combination of evocative, reactive, and then proactive transactions with the environment are the means by which a dependent personality style can lead to depression.
  There are no empirically validated treatments for DPD. Treatment recommendations are based essentially on anecdotal clinical experience. Persons with DPD will often be in treatment for one or more Axis I disorders, particularly a mood (depressive) or an anxiety disorder. These individuals will tend to be very agreeable, compliant, and grateful, at times to excess. Many individuals with DPD will find that the therapeutic relationship itself satisfies their need for support and concern and may then desist from seeking a partner. The therapist can be perceived as the caring partner who will always be there. The dependent client might then even fear successful treatment, because termination may shortly follow. Thus, the client may remain excessively compliant and agreeable, in order to be a patient that the therapist would continue to treat. Therapists should be careful not to unwittingly encourage this submissiveness, nor to reject the client in order to be rid of their clinging dependency.
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conversations.value: Provide the last three paragraphs.. End with the sentence ' "provisional criteria for selected disorders").'.
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conversations.value: As indicated earlier, DSM-IV-TR includes a diagnostic category of Personality Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (PDNOS), for persons with a personality disorder who do not meet the diagnostic criteria for any one of the 10 officially recognized diagnoses. PDNOS is one of the more commonly used personality disorder diagnoses in clinical practice. One usage of PDNOS is for the two personality disorders presented in the appendix to DSM-IV-TR for criterion sets provided for further study, the passive-aggressive personality disorder and the depressive personality disorder.
  The items sets for paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal, antisocial, histrionic, avoidant, dependent, and obsessive– compulsive personality disorders in the ICD-10 Diagnostic Criteria for Research and the DSM-IV-TR criteria differ but define essentially the same condition. Furthermore, ICD-10 does not consider schizotypal to be a personality disorder and instead includes this condition in the section containing Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. ICD-10 also refers to several of the DSM-IV-TR disorders by different names: antisocial is called "dissocial," borderline is called "emotionally unstable personality disorder, borderline type," and obsessive–compulsive is called "anankastic."
  ICD-10 includes an "emotionally unstable personality disorder" with two subtypes: impulsive type and borderline type; criteria are provided for each subtype but not for emotionally unstable personality disorder. Neither of these subtypes by itself corresponds to the DSM-IV-TR BPD, which includes some items from each of these subtypes. Narcissistic personality disorder in DSM-IV-TR is not included in ICD-10 as a specific personality disorder, although the DSM-IV-TR criteria set is included in Annex I of ICD-10 (i.e. "provisional criteria for selected disorders").