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	Avoidant personality disorder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Avoidant personality disorder (sometimes abbreviated APD or AvPD), or anxious personality disorder, is a personality disorder characterised by a pervasive pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and extreme sensitivity to negative evaluation.
		People with avoidant personality disorder often consider themselves to be socially inept or personally unappealing, and avoid social interaction for fear of being ridiculed or humiliated.
		Avoidant personality disorder usually is first noticed in early adulthood, and is associated with perceived or actual rejection by parent or peers during childhood.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Avoidant_personality_disorder (852 words)

	Avoidant personality disorder Information on Healthline
		The cause of avoidant personality disorder is not clearly defined, and may be influenced by a combination of social, genetic, and biological factors.
		Avoidant personality disorder appears to be as frequent in males as in females.
		Avoidant characteristics are regarded as meeting the diagnostic criteria for a personality disorder only when they: begin to have a long-term negative impact on the affected person; lead to functional impairment by significantly altering occupational choice or lifestyle, or otherwise impacting quality of life; and cause significant emotional distress.
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	PTypes - Avoidant Personality Disorder Criteria
		Avoidant personality disorder is a type of "solution" to the problem of anxiety; that is, it is a strategy to alleviate anxiety.
		Avoidant Personality Disorder - Lorri Baier-Barth and Amanda Crawford: Psych 463B.
		Avoidant personality disorder (APD) is considered to be an active-detached personality pattern, meaning that avoidants purposefully avoid people due to fears of humiliation and rejection.
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	Avoidant Personality Disorder: Too Shy to Function
		Avoidant personality disorder is an example of clinically significant shyness.
		A personality disorder characterized by extreme social shyness, fear or rejection, and feelings of inadequacy, avoidant personality disorder affects between 2.1 and 2.6 percent of the American adult population, making it one of the most common personality disorders in the US.
		Avoidant personality disorder progressively erodes social interaction until those affected by it live in almost complete social isolation.
	www.psychiatric-disorders.com /personality/avoidant.php (667 words)

	BPhoenix: Information on Avoidant Personality Disorder
		Avoidant personality disorder is similar to social phobia, and the two disorders often coexist.
		It is estimated that between 0.5 and 1.0 percent of adults have avoidant personality disorder - men suffering the disorder as frequently as women.
		It is not uncommon for individuals with avoidant personality disorder to enter therapy, but keeping them in treatment can often be a challenge as many of them soon begin distrust the therapist's sincerity and start to fear his or her rejection.
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	Avoidant personality disorder - Definition, Description, Causes and symptoms, Demographics, Diagnosis, Treatments, ...
		Avoidant personality disorder is one of several personality disorders listed in the newest edition of the standard reference guide to mental disorders Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, also known as the DSM-IV-TR.
		Therapy usually moves slowly at first because persons with avoidant personality disorder are mistrustful of others; treatment that probes into their emotional state too quickly may result in a more protective withdrawal by the patient.
		Since avoidant personality disorder usually originates in the patient's family of origin, the only known preventive measure is a nurturing, emotionally stimulating and expressive family environment.
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		A personality disorder is a severe disturbance in the characterological constitution and behavioural tendencies of the individual, usually involving several areas of the personality, and nearly always associated with considerable personal and social disruption.
		Personality disorder tends to appear in late childhood or adolescence and continues to be manifest into adulthood.
		Avoidant personality disorder (APD) ís considered to be an active-detached personality pattern, meaning that avoidants purposefully avoid people due to fears of humiliation and rejection.
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	Anxiety Zone - Avoidant personality disorder
		Avoidant personality disorder (sometimes abbreviated APD or AvPD) is a personality disorder characterised by a pervasive pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and extreme sensitivity to negative evaluation.
		Avoidant personality disorder usually is first noticed in early adulthood, and is associated with rejection during childhood by parents and peers.
		Treatment of avoidant personality disorder can employ various techniques, such as social skills training, cognitive therapy, exposure treatment to gradually increase social contacts, group therapy for practicing social skills, and sometimes drug therapy (Comer,1996).
	www.anxietyzone.com /conditions/avoidant_personality_disorder.html (683 words)

	Dr. Koop - Avoidant personality disorder
		Avoidant personality disorder is a psychiatric condition characterized by a lifelong pattern of extreme shyness, feelings of inadequacy, and sensitivity to rejection.
		Personality disorders are lifelong patterns of behavior that cause problems with work and relationships.
		The cause of avoidant personality disorder is unknown.
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	Avoidant Personality Disorder - New Treatments, April 30, 2000
		Preoccupied with being criticized or rejected avoidant personality disorder in social situations.
		Although adults with avoidant personality disorder were frequently shy as children, childhood shyness is not a predisposing factor.
		Individual psychotherapy, group psychotherapy Avoidant Personality Disorder and behavioral techniques may all be useful.
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	eMedicine - Personality Disorders : Article by David Bienenfeld, MD
		Because the criteria for diagnosis of personality disorders are closely related to behaviors of young and middle adulthood, DSM-IV diagnoses of personality disorders are notoriously unreliable in the elderly population.
		Borderline personality disorder: Psychosocial formulations point to the high prevalence of early abuse (sexual, physical, and emotional) in these patients, and the borderline syndrome is often formulated as a variant of posttraumatic stress disorder.
		Avoidant personality disorder: This personality disorder appears to be an expression of extreme traits of introversion and neuroticism.
	www.emedicine.com /med/topic3472.htm (4604 words)

	Psychology Today's Diagnosis Dictionary: Avoidant Personality Disorder
		Personality disorders are long-lived patterns of behavior that cause problems with work and relationships.
		People with avoidant personality disorder form relationships with others only if they believe they will not be rejected.
		Without treatment, a person with avoidant personality disorder may become resigned to a life of near or total isolation.
	www.psychologytoday.com /conditions/avoidant.html (285 words)

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		Personality disorders form a class of mental disorders that are characterized by long-lasting rigid patterns of thought and behaviour.
		Because of the inflexibility and pervasiveness of these patterns, they can cause serious problems and impairment of functioning for the persons who are afflicted with these disorders.
		Personality disorders are seen by the American Psychiatric Association as an enduring pattern of inner experience and behaviour that deviates markedly from the expectations of the culture of the individual who exhibits it.
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	Avoidant personality
		Persons with this personality disorder are hypersensitive to rejection
		This personality disorder is a spectrum variant of generalized social phobia (see Ch.
		Persons with an avoidant personality disorder tend to have an incomplete or a weak response to anxiolytic drugs.
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	Cluster C Avoidant Personality Disorder (In Depth)
		The essential feature of the avoidant personality disorder is a pervasive pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and hypersensitivity to negative evaluation (DSM-IV, 1994, p.
		222) believe that the avoidant personality is essentially a problem of relating to people while social phobia is largely a problem of performing in situations.
		One psychiatrist in a major community mental health system stated emphatically that it was so painful to be avoidant that he would prefer to allow an addiction to benzodiazepines to develop than to ask these individuals to tolerate their psychological discomfort.
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	Avoidant Personality Disorder - Treatment
		It is now believed that avoidant personality disorder patients are excellent candidates for treatment (as opposed to some of the other personality disorders - this is probably due to the healthy desire and longing for close relationships).
		Unlike the other personality disorders in which denial, minimization, and externalization bring an illusory comfort and sense of personal justification, individuals with AvPD may well be motivated to seek change because the dynamics of their personality disorder are genuinely difficult to tolerate.
		As with other personality disorder, the individual is not likely to present him or herself to therapy unless something has gone wrong in their life with which their dysfunctional personality style cannot adequately cope.
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	Personality Disorder Information
		Paranoid personality disorder is characterized by a distrust of others and a constant suspicion that people around you have sinister motives.
		Borderline personality disorder is characterized by mood instability and poor self-image.
		Avoidant personality disorder is characterized by extreme social anxiety.
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	Theology Today - Vol 49, No.2 - July 1992 - ARTICLE - Spirituality and The Avoidant Personality
		When our avoidant personality admitted that she had the assumption that it was always easier to avoid pain, I gently asked her whether Jesus had that assumption.
		When discussing an avoidant personality's needy feelings of loneliness and emptiness, it is important to acknowledge that these feelings are realistic, but perhaps one's thoughts about these feelings ought to be examined.
		Typically, the avoidant personality firmly believes that negative feelings are bad, and, therefore, he or she is unhealthy.
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	Avoidant Personality Disorder Home ( AvPD )
		Our avoidant personalities cause others to wonder or to judge, but likely it is that as people with this disorder we are particularly sensitive to what our environment contains.
		We are a group of men and women whose lives have been deeply affected by Avoidant Personality Disorder.
		APD is not to be confused with Anti-social Personality Disorder).
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	Avoidant Personality Disorder - General
		Personality is the qualities and traits of being a specific and unique individual.
		Having a personality disorder means you are not the kind of person who can adapt smoothly to the normal give-and-take of everyday life.
		The avoidant style is at the healthy end, while the avoidant personality disorder lies at the unhealthy end.
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	eMedicine - Personality Disorder: Avoidant Personality : Article by David C Rettew, MD
		Similar to other personality disorders, the condition becomes a major component of a person's overall character and a central theme in an individual's pattern of relating to others.
		Like other personality disorders, the diagnosis is rarely made in individuals younger than 18 years, even if the criteria are met.
		Avoidant personality disorder is a clinical diagnosis based on history provided by the child and caretakers combined with direct behavioral observation and mental status examination.
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		What you may have noticed or experienced could be the struggles of someone with an avoidant personality style.
		Some people struggling with an avoidant personality style clearly display their social anxiety and emotional anguish and simply withdraw.
		Other avoidant personalities try to cope with painful feelings of rejection by clinging rigidly to some belief or ideal.
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	Personality
		This pattern is fixed and affects many personal and social situations.
		If the personality disorder is the only diagnosis or the main reason the patient has come for evaluation, "(Principal Diagnosis)" should be appended to the Axis II diagnosis.
		Beginning by early adult life, a need to be taken care of leads to clinging, submissive behavior and fears of separation that are present in a variety of situations and shown by at least 5 of:
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	Avoidant Personality Disorder
		Although it is not mentioned in the DSM-IV, earlier theorists have proposed a personality disorder which has a combination of features from borderline personality disorder and avoidant personality disorder, called "avoidant-borderline mixed personality".
		People with avoidant personality disorder often experience vicious cycles of withdrawal in which the avoidant helps to create the anticipated rejection.
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	Dual Diagnosis and the Avoidant Personality Disorder
		Their habits and attitudes are pervasive and ingrained, as with all the personality disorder patterns.
		Individuals with personality disorders, due to their frequent failures in self-regulation, have an increased inclination to use drugs and alcohol as alternative solutions to life problems.
		However, the treatment of personality disorders can lead to profound change in the personality disordered individuals' experience of self and the world, which, in turn, can positively affect recovery from addiction.
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