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	Avoidant personality disorder - Definition, Description, Causes and symptoms, Demographics, Diagnosis, Treatments, ...
		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.
	www.minddisorders.com /A-Br/Avoidant-personality-disorder.html (1755 words)

	BPhoenix: Information on Avoidant Personality Disorder
		Avoidant personality disorder is similar to social phobia, and the two disorders often coexist.
		Both disorders cause a fear of humiliation and low confidence, but a key difference between the two is that people with a social phobia primarily fear social circumstances, while people with the personality disorder tend to fear close social relationships.
		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.
	www.angelfire.com /home/bphoenix1/avoid.html (684 words)

	Avoidant personality disorder - The Doctors Lounge(TM)
		Avoidant personality disorder is a pervasive pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and extreme sensitivity to negative evaluation.
		People with avoidant personality disorder 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 rejection during childhood by parents and peers.
	www.thedoctorslounge.net /psychiatry/diseases/avoidant_personality.htm (207 words)

	Avoidant Personality Disorder
		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.
		Research suggests that people with avoidant personality disorder, in common with social phobics, excessively monitor their own internal reactions when they are involved in social interaction.
	cognitive-therapist.co.uk /avoidant_personality_disorder.htm (844 words)

	Avoidant Personality Disorder - Advice, Books, Info and Help (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Avoidant personality disorder is characterized by extreme social anxiety.
		Avoidants are fearful of being rejected and worry about embarassing themselves in front of others.
		Unlike schizoid personality disorder, avoidants yearn for social relations yet feel they are unable to obtain them.
	www.4degreez.com /disorder/avoidant.html (258 words)

	Personality Disorders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		With the knowledge that personality reflects a genetically based biological temperament as well as a constellation of internalized object relations, defenses, and self-constructs based on experiences with the environment, a rationale can be made for a more sophisticated combination of treatments.
		When personality disorders surfaced as topics for psychiatric classification, the overriding descriptor of "psychopathy" was used to describe people with stable and severe, but not clearly symptomatic, forms of personal inadequacies or moral degeneracy.
		At that time, Kernberg (1967, 1968) popularized the concept of "borderline personality organization" (a construct encompassing most forms of major personality disorder) and suggested that patients with this personality organization were understandable and modifiable by long-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
	www.health.am /psy/personality-disorders-pro (1194 words)

	Avoidant Personality Disorder: avoidant personality disorder Treatment, Medication
		In DSM-IV the term avoident is used to denote avoidant personality disorder, whilst in ICD-10 the term anxious personality is preferred, with 'avoidant' as an accepted alternative.
		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.
		People with avoidant personality disorder may have no close relationships outside of their family circle, although they would like to, and are upset at their inability to relate well to others.
	www.depression-guide.com /avoidant-disorder-personality.htm (749 words)

	Personality disorder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Personality disorders form a class of mental disorders that are characterized by long-lasting rigid patterns of thought and actions.
		Personality disorders are seen by the American Psychiatric Association as an enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations of the culture of the individual who exhibits it.
		Personality disorders are represented on Axis II of the diagnostic manual of the American Psychiatric Association, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM, or DSM-IV as it is currently in its fourth edition).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Personality_disorder (1618 words)

	Avoidant Personality Disorder - New Treatments, May 2, 2006
		In terms of differential diagnosis, you’ve already heard that it is important to differentiate the avoidant personality disorder from schizoid personality disorder, although that differential may be difficult.
		Another important differential is between avoidant personality disorder and phobias of all kinds, because as you know people who are agoraphobic, people who have simple phobias, social phobias, will have the same avoidant mechanisms.
		Also by essentially giving the child the sense that his or her judgment is not valid and that the only person who knows what’s right for the child is the parent.
	www.ccspublishing.com /journals3a/avoidant_personality_disorder.htm (842 words)

	Avoidant Personality Disorder Counselling
		Avoidants often minimise the value of themselves and their abilities, thus criticism is inevitable.
		This disorder is often accompanied by other personality disorders, such as dependent, borderline, paranoid, schizoid and schizotypal personality disorders.
		Although this disorder is similar to social phobia, it's more about fear of social relationships and intimacy than of social situations.
	www.counselling-directory.org.uk /avoidant.html (453 words)

	Personality Disorder Information
		Paranoid personality disorder is characterized by a distrust of others and a constant suspicion that people around you have sinister motives.
		The disorder is characterized by odd forms of thinking and perceiving, and individuals with this disorder often seek isolation from others.
		Borderline personality disorder is characterized by mood instability and poor self-image.
	www.4degreez.com /misc/disorder_information2.html (930 words)

	Avoidant Personality Disorder (Anxious Personality Disorder): ICD Critera for Avoidant Personality Disorder
		The formal diagnosis of avoidant personality disorder, or anxious personality disorder, rests on these symptoms, which can be evaluated by psychiatrists and other mental health professionals.
		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.
	counsellingresource.com /distress/personality-disorders/avoidant.html (729 words)

	Healthinmind/PersonalityDisorders/Avoidant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Avoidant personality disorder (APD) is one of the three personality disorders in which fear and anxiety are prominent symptoms.
		The person with APD views himself or herself as inept and unappealing, so criticism brings about shame and embarrassment, rather than anger and counterattack.
		The beginnings of APD are usually visible early in life in the form of shyness, but relatively few shy people develop APD.
	healthinmind.com /english/avoidant.htm (168 words)

	Oppressed Group: Schizoid A Personality Not a Disorder
		There is further point to be made at the outset...schizoid personality traits may be biologically advantageous for the population in general because of their possible association with originality and giftedness (Wolff, 1995, p.
		A personal account will better illustrate how living a life as a schizoid can be rewarding due to its foundation of independence and honesty, however, extremely difficult because it is a life of oppression.
		A childhood disorder marked by a lack of ability to form friendships with peers, a lack of interest in doing so and a decided lack of pleasure derived from such interactions when encouraged or arranged by others.
	www.pipeline.com /~dada3zen/schizoid_a_personality_not_a_disorder.htm (6344 words)

	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.
	www.ccspublishing.com /J_Psych/Avoidant.htm (237 words)

	Avoidant Personality Disorder
		Avoidant personality disorder is reported to be especially prevalent in people with anxiety disorders, although estimates of comorbidity vary widely due to differences in (among others) diagnostic instruments.
		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.
	www.girlshrink.com /articles/article/2326297/31614.htm (713 words)

	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.
		People with the anxious personality disorder have a tendency to avoid activities by a habitual exaggeration of the potential dangers or risks involved.
		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.
	ivy_league0.tripod.com /rhyme_of_the_ancient_wanderer/id45.html (2454 words)

	avoidant personality disorder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Avoidants feel inhibited, fearful, and may be extremely shy, that is when it comes to getting involved in a relationship.
		As for treatment of people with this disorder, besides the anti-depressants and/or drugs, I believe that it is not an easy personality disorder to treat -- the avoidant seems to maintain his or her lifelong pattern of reclusiveness.
		The entire problem with avoidants is this issue of the self, and everything believed to be related to the self, which can almost seem narcissistic -- for the patient often goes through life as in an incubator.
	www.holysmoke.org /pd000/034.htm (451 words)

	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.
		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" (APD/BPD) (Kantor, 1993, p.4).
		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 (696 words)

	eMedicine - Personality Disorder: Avoidant Personality : Article Excerpt by: David C Rettew, MD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		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.
		In the US: The frequency of APD in children is not known because current psychiatric practice is to avoid labeling children and adolescents with personality disorders and to describe their traits instead.
		Age: APD is not usually diagnosed in individuals younger than 18 years; however, most patients report an onset in childhood or adolescence, and many report continued social anxiety throughout their lives.
	www.emedicine.com /ped/byname/personality-disorder--avoidant-personality.htm (561 words)

	Avoidant Personality Disorder
		In Avoidant Personality Disorder, the person maintains a systematic avoidance of social contacts and any situation which might result in embarrassment or anxiety.
		Avoidant Personality Disorder – In Avoidant Personality Disorder, besides the behaviors and attitudes described, we can see that the person has given up altogether on facing situations that generate fear and does not undergo anxiety attacks simply because she avoids any anxiety-generating situation that is possible.
		In my clinical observation, Avoidant Personality Disorder is preceded by anxiety attacks and even some panic attacks, which become occasional atacks or even stop due to the avoidance mechanisms that are developed.
	www.social-anxiety-shyness-info.com /art/sad/a-11-avoidant-personality.htm (927 words)

	Depression/SI/Anxiety
		Avoidant Personality Disorder is an active-detached personality pattern which means that avoidants purposely avoid other people due to fears of humiliation and rejection.
		The usual onset for APD is early adulthood with an equal prevalence rate among women and men with a variety of contexts.
		APD is the more severe disorder, with people who meet the criteria for GSP not neccesarily meeting the conditions for APD, but people meeting the conditions for APD do meet the criteria for GSA.
	groups.msn.com /DepressionSIAnxiety/apd.msnw (470 words)

	Mental Help Net - Personality Disorders
		Personality disorders are pervasive chronic psychological disorders, which can greatly affect a person's life.
		Personality disorders exists on a continuum so they can be mild to more severe in terms of how pervasive and to what extent a person exhibits the features of a particular personality disorder.
		While most people can live pretty normal lives with mild personality disorders (or more simply, personality traits), during times of increased stress or external pressures (work, family, a new relationship, etc.), the symptoms of the personality disorder will gain strength and begin to seriously interfere with their emotional and psychological functioning.
	personalitydisorders.mentalhelp.net (305 words)

	Avoidant :: Personality
		Avoidant personality disorder usually is first noticed in early adulthood, and is associated with perceived or actual rejection by parent or peers during childhood.
		Avoidant Personality Disorder - Covers a wide range of topics including co-morbidity, substance abuse, etiology, psychodynamics, and treatment.
		Avoidant Personality Group - MSN discussion for sufferers who feel uncomfortable in social settings.
	www.gourt.com /Health/Mental-Health/Disorders/Personality/Avoidant.html (360 words)

	Avoidant Personality: Social Phobia and Shyness
		Avoidance is a self-perpetuating vicious cycle: the Avoidant's stilted mannerisms, fears for her personal safety and security, and stifled conduct elicit the very ridicule and derision that he or she so fears!
		Avoidants ceaselessly fantasize about ideal relationships and how they would outshine everyone else in social interactions but are unable to do anything to realize their Walter Mitty fantasies.
		It is often comorbid with certain Mood and Anxiety Disorders, with the Dependent and Borderline Personality Disorders, and with the Cluster A personality disorder (Paranoid, Schizoid, and Schizotypal).
	personalitydisorders.suite101.com /article.cfm/avoidant_personality (399 words)

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