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Avoidant Personality Disorder: a Current Review

Overview of attention for article published in Current Psychiatry Reports, February 2016
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Title
Avoidant Personality Disorder: a Current Review
Published in
Current Psychiatry Reports, February 2016
DOI 10.1007/s11920-016-0665-6
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Anna Weinbrecht, Lars Schulze, Johanna Boettcher, Babette Renneberg

Abstract

This review focuses on recent research on diagnostic aspects, etiology, and treatment of avoidant personality disorder (AVPD). Current studies stress the close relation between AVPD and social anxiety disorder, the influence of genetic factors in the development of AVPD, and the relative stability of symptoms. Treatment approaches should target the pervasive patterns of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and hypersensitivity to negative evaluation. Empirical evidence for cognitive-behavior and schema therapy is promising. Few other therapeutic approaches have been developed, but until now, these have only been investigated in case studies. We conclude that AVPD qualifies as a neglected disorder and that more research specifically on avoidant personality disorder symptoms and its treatment is needed.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Denmark 1 <1%
Unknown 263 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 40 15%
Student > Master 26 10%
Researcher 25 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 24 9%
Student > Postgraduate 19 7%
Other 29 11%
Unknown 101 38%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 98 37%
Medicine and Dentistry 32 12%
Social Sciences 5 2%
Neuroscience 5 2%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 2%
Other 11 4%
Unknown 109 41%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 October 2022.
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#3,204,601
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#371
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#52,609
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#16
of 41 outputs
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